issue from the perspective of the people becoming not bashing islam but not islamic p.r. either. because we can't allow the right wing populists to be the only voices criticizing islam i don't think it's bad to doubt and criticize on the contrary. how muslims react to hunted in these tense times he's considered germany's toughest critic of islam. i only know him had from the media in two thousand and thirteen his murder was called for on egyptian television he's been under police protection ever since. it's hard for me to imagine what it means to live such a restricted life. how the how come it it's nice to meet you again i see you're not alone. thank you but. do you always have a security detail and. yes. would you say your need for bodyguards is directly due to the hotline that was issued against you all of the cult because. it's due to several things that was the starting point people know the term because of selman rushdie. he was a fatwa is a religious opinion that justifies killing an up of states that's when it started with me people were calling for my murder and

but not islamic p.r. either we can't allow right wing populists to be the only voices criticizing islam . i don't think it's bad to doubt and criticize on the contrary that. muslims were acting on it in these tense times he's considered germany's toughest critic of islam. our journey takes us to belgium i'm curious to know whether hamad will be confronted with less reputation than in germany. i lived in brussels for a year ten years ago it was. even then the city was really diverse. but there are more women wearing head scarves now than back then as i said you know so what does that mean islam more established in belgium than in germany. is the islamization more progressed good question. in the debate about islam belgium was a blind spot until the attacks in paris and brussels today it's in a state of emergency the modern day can scare big districts have been referred to as a breeding ground for chair the fact that the attackers were able to stay hidden and scare bake for weeks in the middle of the capita

and that's what's missing in the islamic world today. does islam belong to europe. it's a historical fact that islam was deeply rooted in this part of spain for centuries . how do muslims with spanish roots live. during my research i read that spaniards and granada in particular have adopted the muslim faith how are they different to muslims who grew up outside of europe. what i noticed right away was the manner in which the women wear their headscarves the muslim women were predominantly young and fashion conscious almost stylish. the community which is celebrating the highest islamic festival the sacrifice feast is part of the mood of the tune world movement and islamic movement founded by a scottish actor in the one nine hundred seventy s. how do they manage to reconcile the divine order with european values. by meeting basheer cast an adage of find out. he's an e-mail and director of the granada mosque foundation. thing you know last year right yes now i looked in the eyes of my dear nice to meet you welcome to another thank you it was not hard to find the mosqu

>> islam. >> really? >> yes. >> islam. >> what specifically in islam? >> structure is one. >> yeah. that structure of prayer. [ chanting ] you're bringing your family together in prayer and god consciousness. >> allahu akbar thank you for what i gained. wait a minute. slow down. slow down. remember me. let's give god his glory. [ chanting ] >> clearly having a shared faith has helped bind this family together. now, back at home, kareem is trying to rebuild his own bonds with his mother, a christian who may never accept his commitment to islam. >> that's when you took me to the christmas party. >> i remember that. >> do you feel disappointed at all? i mean, you say that jesus is your rock. >> yeah. >> yet your son has chosen someone else as his rock. >> well, what parent wants their child to convert to anything other than but what they've been taught? >> you love your mother and you love your family, but without god they don't exist. i can't put mama over god. i won't compromise my beliefs for her, but i love her unconditionally. >> did you know he speaks arabic? >> uh-uh. >> yeah, i

if they're not muslim and he says he learned about islam from b.b.c. documentary and went to pedia and from the news of over a decade and he also mentions the movie the message which is from the one nine hundred seventy s. what do you hope someone like anthony in new zealand gets from this book what is the overall effect that you're hoping for that exactly the point you are making the point to we can't now deal with to realistic society or live within pluralistic society having very superficial knowledge so what we have as a responsibility what responsibility i have as a muslim scholar is also to provide a better understanding by talking to my fellow citizens the language again understand so translating concepts and notions from arabic to english trying to get a sense of what are the common values that we have and the differences that we may face in our daily life but also to get a sense of islam is not an alien religion it's not me it's a western religion and you have to get it you're going to deal with your fellow citizens and in fact we have to buil

of jurisprudence and texts we read about islam but this brings up the myth of some pure islam that existed in some past and that we're trying to retrieve isn't really accurate to think of islam is something pure and from the past or is islam a dynamic evolving and relevant religion and faith that has meaning in any time and in any space so professor around and you see islam as a dynamic religion and if so yes and i think what she's saying is going to be right and i think that yes we have immutable principles we have immutable rituals we are not going to change this we are fasting we are praying this is not going to change but the way we have to deal with the surrounding culture and the way we have to deal was the new status and the new challenges means that there is no face fullness without evolution and i keep on repeating islam does not reform but the muslim minds need and she was talking about gender she was talking about equality and she is even i would add to this tragedy we need to have you know arts artistic aesthetics all of this is so important and we have to move on so the schola

oh oh oh he let let's talk about islam and friends of holes is there a french islam falls. over not really this new french's long book that will come. it's almost obligatory it's because islam doesn't exist in a bubble you always have to see it within the context of the culture within which it exists because given control why is islam compatible with europe. there are people who claim the opposite. when impact as well you don't have a choice it doesn't matter whether you're a citizen or whether you're just living here of course everyone has signed the contract of secularism in france because i'm concerned that extremists are using secularism as a trojan horse to benefit from it as a minority it's secularism gives them the same standing as the catholicism that fundamentally shaped france's history yet it's a big band in muslim countries and those countries minorities such as christians jews and those without a religion aren't given the same rights as muslims so those who are ideologically opposed to secularism might and even know what it means when if there was no secularism

this is d w news live from berlin a blow has been struck against the so-called islamic state with the capture of its headquarters the suppose it caliphate the city of raka in syria the months long fight has left the city in rowan's but how much damage has been done to the militant group itself. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appeal for call. and a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e.u. says that it is horrified at the death of deftly gallito her son accuses the maltese government of complicity. plus the champions league hits the pitch on tuesday and it is crunch time for this to get teams the life stage facing porto while door open to take on the go sia both clubs need a win to get their respective campaigns back on track. i'm sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us. u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocka the city that the so-called islamic state considers its capital now troops fighting i-s. say that they have captured

islam in indonesia is a tolerant islam, a pluralistic islam, a modern islam, a moderate islam. haslinda: there have been suggestions that perhaps the religious schools may be producing some of those people who end up going to syria, for instance, to join the islamic state. if you take a look at the data, the statistics, there are about 1000 of them, and 500 have gone to syria to fight for the islamic state. what are your views on that? president widodo: the muslim population in indonesia is a -- approximately 220 million. if some 400 people to syria, that is how many percent? out of the 220 million muslims in indonesia, it is fractional. haslinda: it only takes one person to cause devastation. president widodo: even though it is only one or two people, it is still important for us to do what we call a de-radicalization program. we give a good understanding of true religious value. we give them a good understanding of the national values. our approach is hard power with legal enforcement and law. we also have soft power with a religious, sociocultural approach. we will continue

continualad to be specter of radical islamic terrorism. president trump could not have been more blunt, direct and spoken more plainly to the american people what he wanted to accomplish and from the first that he won, i remember to general flynn at the time, what he wanted to do at the national security council, devolved the power back to the commanders, the pentagon, the cia. he would set overall strategy, but they would take a more active and aggressive role in the destruction of isis. in addition, he was going to review the iran nuclear deal. during the campaign, he said i would try to make the deal better and if we can't, i will decertify it. the one thing i will do is their aggression throughout the middle east and the rest of the world and their behavior to that deal. he says we have to figure out how to take care of radical islamic terrorism that is not isis related. it -- office,ff one of the top things he had -- jared kushner and myself, secretary tillerson work on was a summit, he wanted to bring the arab world together and to r

we just declare, for example, that islam does not belong to germany. we are in favour of the religious freedom, of course, but islam is claiming political power, and this is what we deny. and we do not want to do compromises with the religion claiming political power, because in oui’ claiming political power, because in our constitution, and with our values, it is not comfortable to have a religion claiming political power. this is what islam is doing very clearly, because sharia is a pa rt very clearly, because sharia is a part of islam, and sharia was not only organising that personal belief ofa only organising that personal belief of a person, but it is also regulating the civil law, and a punishing law, and the public law, and it is not only about religion. punishing law, and the public law, and it is not only about religionlj wa nt and it is not only about religion.” wa nt to and it is not only about religion.” want to get onto those policies in a moment, and you immediately reach fort islam, and we will come back to that. but it is partly b

this is d w news live from barlett islamic states defacto capital the city of raka in syria has fallen. u.s. backed forces say that they have overcome the final pockets of resistance from the extremists it marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for i us. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appealed for calm. and a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e.u. says that it is horrified at the death of death eagle you see her son accuses the maltese government of complicity. plus from great hope to break misery south sudan is one of the world's newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one woman's struggle to survive and feed her family. i'm sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us. u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocket the city that the so-called islamic state considers its capital troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the mili

the saudis are said to sponsor a multi-million dollar effort to export wahhabi islam across the islamic world including to muslim communities in the west wahhabi islam is a strict and a virtually conservative interpretation of the faith and in the u.k. that saudi money has built mosques and islamic schools which in turn have played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. none of this would be a surprise to the british government downing street has been sitting on its own report for more than six months which details the foreign funding of terrorism and extremism its publication is deemed too sensitive for a government relying on the sale of billions of dollars worth of arms to its saudi ally. so what does this mean in reality if you've not the time to start claiming victim hood this is the time to be reflective and say we need to take them ownership and actually collectively as a society we need to stand up and address this problem i mean alone is a politician on the local council she runs a think tank and she's a muslim. she's prepared to say want few

this is what islam is doing, very clearly, because sharia is a part of islam. and sharia is not only organising the personal beliefs of a person, but is also regulating the civil law, and the punishing law, and the public law, and it's not only about religion. i want to get onto those policies in a moment, and you immediately reach for islam, and we will come back to that. but it is partly because of your policies that people are saying that — questioning what the party stands for. because, of course, the afd started off as an anti—greek bailout. that is what the "alternative" was. and now, people are suggesting that it has been captured by the far—right. 0skar niedermayer, who is germany's leading academic expert on political parties, said that you have increasing connections to right—wing extremism. yeah, there are all kinds of experts, and all those experts said that the euro rescue policy would work out. all those experts predicted that there will never be a brexit, and all those experts predicted that there will never be a president trump. so all t

this was the carmelo anthony of the islam -- this was the capital of islamic state. they are losing everywhere. they are losing in iraq they ave some pocks in western iraq near the borders of iraq, syria and jordan. we can see the end of isis on the horizon. now the challenge is what to do in syria, and what to do in iraq so that the circumstances that produced al qaeda in iraq a few years ago and then isis in more recent time doesn't repeat itself with yet another group with a different name but not being that different in content. >> president trump is claiming victory and credit for the fact that islamic state is on the back foot because of changes he made to the military, but do you think this is actually a vehicle there for both presidents, president trump and his predecessor, president obama? >> sure, i think president obama deserves credit, but he takes part of the blame because of the withdrawal of forces from iraq that produced the circumstances which produced isis. so i think president trump needs to lunch from that as well, which is you need to cus on the

the islamic state's foreign fighters here vanished. some may be hiding in these ruins. their leadership have already fled. the islamic state group may have abandoned their capital, but they haven't abandoned their cause, so the fight against is goes on. quentin sommerville, bbc news, beirut. the president of the philippines has declared the city of marawi to be liberated from pro—islamic state militants. 00v) rodrigo duterte said he accepted that a handful of rebels —— rodrigo duterte said he accepted that a handful of rebels were still in the southern city and admitted that the victory over the separatist rebels had come at a cost. but he insisted that it was safe to return to the city. the son of an investigative journalist killed in a car bomb attack in malta has denounced what he called the country's "mafia state". daphne caruana galizia, 53, died when her car exploded shortly after she left her home on monday. she was known for her blog accusing top politicians of corruption. 0ur correspondent daniel sandford reports. the twisted burnt—out chassis of daphne

after a bloody campaign, the fromppines, reading a city pro-islamic state militants. as pain moves to impose home rule on -- as spain moves to impose home on catalonia, next moves across the region. ♪ >> we begin in japan with prime minister shinzo abe set to win after exit polls showing a decisive victory. promised to deal fairly with north korea, local media reporting his ruling coalition hass r retained two thirds majoy in parliament paving the way for him to amend the nations postwar pacifist constitution. [applause] >> japan's prime minister has won his bet. the liberal democratic party acquiring a landslide victory in the parliamentary election. despite pre-election opinion polls which showed lackluster support for his policies. he called sunday's elections a year in advance in hopes of gaining the super majority needed to revise the country's pacifist constitution removing any doubt about legitimacy of the country's armed forces. while the move has not sat well with the country's opposition, shinzo abe says he is hoping to change that. >> the constitutional r

belonging to same tribe and losing love one to islamic state. "earthquake" was at university studying to be a human rights lawyer when he enlisted to restore human rights to victims of i.s. his demonstration with a meat cleaver was to explain how a friends fingers were cut off by i.s. when they caught him smoking. downstairs, "earthquake" told us about the entrance to a tunnel dug by islamic state and now covered over with furniture and debris because two days after he took this building, i.s. emerged from the tunnel to mount a counter-attack. this man is wielding a sword taking from a dead is fighter. the balaclava is to protect his identity which not even his comrades know because often he crosses the front line to pose as an islamic state fighter and collect intelligence. this is a y.p.g. spying operation inside raqqa last year. the bulb inside a motor bike headlight has been replaced by a camera. this an i.s. checkpoint. here, i.s. fighters leave a mosque. the streets are largely deserted, however, because people want to avoid the man questi

islamic state's power the long fight for iraq has left this city in ruins. a five month battle is over for the syrian kurdish and arab fighters backed by the united states they killed dozens of i asked militants in their final push rocka is now a shell of a city. there's nothing left where near the end we haven't seen any i asked militants we haven't seen any of them near the stadium either i think the city will be fully clear of them in the next two days which once all of the i asked militants are gone from syria i'll go home. i asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the capital of its self-styled caliph that. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who oppose the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by us leader baghdadi to migrate to the syrian city however in recent months the so-called islamic state has steadily lost territory in syria and iraq. the fall of raka is a major blow to the militant gr

she converted to islam back in 2011. between august 2013 and april 2015, she made three trips to syria to join her son, not in the hopes of dissuading him, but supporting him ideologically and financially. she was arrested in july 2014 and has been in the custody of french authorities ever since. her son tyler, who traveled to tunisia before he went to syria, was arrested in 2014 on the suspicion he was trying to get back from syria through turkey into france, and possibly commit an attack on french soil. genie: tell us more about this .oman, christine riviere she was radicalized via her son? she denies the charges, it must be said. if you look into one -- into authorities are saying, and look at the skype between her and her son, that points to the contrary. her messages are chilling. when her son first decided to leave for syria, she's -- she expressed approval and sympathy. she expressed her pride and admiration at what she considered a promotion for her .on back in september 2014 in front of a judge, she said she acc

so might islam as a system of values also be emancipated. one movement known as muslim feminism thing so. it first took root in majority muslim malaysia but it also has arab proponents . moroccan as muslim or bad is one of the most active she believes women have the right to interpret the. qur'an. well when you go to indonesia malaysia or pakistan whether you're in deepest egypt or deepest algeria or morocco the same islamic rhetoric about women prevails. so rereading the holy books from a feminist and female viewpoint is very important and hope and because at least it restores value to the female perception and. secondly it will open up a field that until now has been completely closed to women the interpretation of the text how can you accept readings that are fifteen hundred years old but bear no imprint of women yet they don't claim to the san. marco gained independence in one nine hundred fifty six during the rule of king mohammed the fifth he was a member of a dynasty still in power today it claims descent from the prophet muhammad con

what a cow if it collapsing looks like the ruins of the syrian city of iraq the capital of so-called islamic state well today the city failed to us back to forces and into three years of hell on earth you know tonight after the atrocities of rocket will anyone ever want to go home again i'm brant gulf and berlin this is the day. it was two thousand and fourteen when isis forces at the height of their power world into iraq stolen tanks spinning through the city's paradise square which isis would soon turn into with showcase of sabbath. today the same square aptly renamed paradise to hell square with no capital and little territory isis is broken is a total defeat now imminent. also coming up they have fought together to push back islamic states now iraqi and kurdish forces may be turning on each other the u.s. refusing to take sides claiming it's really not that bad. aside from the incident from early morning hours on sixteen october south of kirkuk that we assessed as a miscommunication there have been no further reports of armed conflict or contact between the two groups. and we begin the d

senator coons, islamic state islamic state has clearly lost an important symbol in the fall of raqqa. what happens to the organisation now, do you think? well, isis still controls some of the euphrates river valley so there is more fighting to be done before they've lost control of all territory in syria. and we now face a criticaljuncture because we have to have a path forward where syria has a political process that can lead to the departure of assad and some reunification and resolution of its grinding civil war. 0k, all of this depends to some extent on american leadership because those militia were american backed in the fall of raqqa. let me turn to another issue, comments made by senatorjohn mccain last night when he was receiving the liberty medal at a dinner you attended in philadelphia. senator mccain, as we heard earlier, said "half baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solving problems." tough language, he was referring to president club, i imagine. senatorjohn mccain got a standing ovation for his moving speech last night, i

therefore he made his bed with islamic state that it's really that simple the notion that the u.k. should have any obligation to any such individual is bizarre and to furthermore to the point it's just been made you know we have these individuals leaving the u.k. to fight abroad none of them want to join the british show.

to export the islamic revolution ever since the islamic revolution took place and therefore they say that that continues to destabilize all these places whether it's iraq whether it's iran whether it's lebanon on. what's the way out again let's look at the fact iran is not spending billions upon billions of dollars exporting the harveys and throughout the world it's saudi arabia look at every mask look at every incident of terrorism in the region and in the world who are behind these acts of terrorism they're all financed both ideologically and. financially supported ideologically and financially by saudi arabia this is unfortunate iran has an idea that idea is available we have a democracy people participate in determining their fate my friend we derives our legitimacy and our security from our own people that is something that people like we are not like some who need a foreign arm bella for their security we're not like some who have to purchase their security by buying four hundred billion dollars worth of beautiful military equipment what makes iran secure what makes your own pr

also coming up they have fought together to push back islamic states now iraqi and kurdish forces may be turning on each other the u.s. refusing to take sides claiming it's really not that bad. aside from the incident from early morning hours on sixteen october south of kirkuk that we assessed as a miscommunication there have been no further reports of armed conflict or contact between the two groups. and we begin the day with the biggest military victory so far in the battle against so-called islamic state for the past four months u.s. backed forces have waged a campaign to retake the syrian city of raka from isis today a general of the syrian democratic forces announced that the fighting is over in two thousand and fourteen isis fighters took control of rocket making it the capital of a new caliphate but rocket quickly morphed into a capital of cruelty isis rulers showed it showed off to the world one atrocity after another women accused of adultery beaten before an audience of men inside a sports stadium public beheadings of western hostages and men accused of being gay thrown to t

he was freed from islamic state torture chambers after two hundred eighty days. now my suit has escaped to germany and he's hunting down terrorists. on his own doing something against us is a good thing. mustn't inist from victim to terrorist hunter. close up in forty five minutes on d w. climate change. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good news to go out africa people and projects that are changing our environment for the better it's up to us to make a difference become a. magazine d w. y e r forty million people in east africa threatened by starvation what are the causes of the situation. we focus on five specific problem areas. this huge journalistic project tries to find the answers white africa goes green our topic this week on w online. i one walk into drive at the motor magazine today's topics piloted driving in an audi eight with traffic jam assist it.

news the live from berlin islamic states defacto capital the city of brotha in syria has fallen. u.s. backed forces say that they have overcome the final pockets of resistance from the extremists if marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for the so-called islamic state. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appealed for calm. and a dangerous journey to escape persecution thousands of new rope him to refugees pour into bangladesh from myanmar not all of them are making it alive. i'm sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocka the city that the so-called islamic state considers its capital a commander of the troops fighting i-s. says that operations are under way to clear this. city of landmines and militant sleeper cells dozens of jihad it had made their last stand in the city stadium but it is unclear if they remain holed up there meanwhile still to celebrate its processes aeration as the four month

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized. it's like a prison i was present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was a national diety prison then came on so tara my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank think. they tortured those who're. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was the pending on how much prison guard is happy that they or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember their eyes so i want to forget the vitamin but them all the time i want for that and. the business of the world your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing are mostly from iraq and syria. is a puzzle in

fight for somebody like islamic state? well, one of the issues is whether or not we focus on trying to deradicalise individuals. the problem with that is there is no single profile, there is no signature, there is no single marker that defines someone as more vulnerable or more at risk than anyone else. so actually one of the best ways we can do that is preventing radicalisation generally is to look at society as a whole and to look at what it is that makes society less resilient to these ideas and in order to do that we need to think about the ways in which young people are educated, the way they're given skills to challenge propaganda when they see it, that means challenging you, challenging me, it means having difficult conversations with teachers about things. those are some of the key ways we can do that, instigating critical thinking. the other thing to bear in mind is that radicalisation is notjust about belief, it is about belonging and behaviours. so rather than always asking why does someone join, perhaps we also

the de facto capital of the islamic state has fallen. is has been driven out by a us—backed, kurdish—led group fighting to return the city to its people. clearly all the residents, in fact probably all the residents, in fact probably all the residents, have now fled the city and many are in refugee camps. it is and many are in refugee camps. it is a terrible irony that in order to reta ke a terrible irony that in order to retake raqqa, they've had to destroy the city. in iraq, government forces have taken oil fields from kurdish fighters. we'll also have reaction to the murder of an investigative journalist in malta. her son says the country's a mafia state. i'm rebecca jones at london's historic guildhall, where the six authors short listed for one of the world's most important literary prizes, the man booker, are waiting nervously to find out if they've won. we'll bring you the announcement of the winner live here on bbc news in the next hour. raqqa has fallen. the islamic state group has been driven from its de fa cto group has be

of islamic state group held land to civilian populations since twenty fourteen. liberating more than six million syrians and iraqis from the extremist groups grant. for more on this as now bring in our correspondent in beirut adam flats and adam thank you so much for joining us. how much of a blow is the follow roccoco to the islamc statate group? becacause it's her heavy blw to his eyeyes state group bt one let's look say inevitable for quite awhile. ththat now and that ththe cy was one of the first had taken by islamic state grou. alerts nowhere near the size of mosel it was of course said that smsm self declare. that a capital of the so called counterfeits. and but i s say that it'ss n inevitable for sometime because the syrian democratic forces. have been making ground against the islamic state group hat for a while this offensive was really. that announced back in november twenty sixteen even before that they'd been taking territories ms i state group. at the fighting reach the town itself in june of this year event net roughly four months the street to stre