Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,1 min

'Don't scream too much, try and keep the children calm'

Today

Available for over a year

Iraqi forces are "ahead of schedule", the Pentagon says, as they begin the second day of the battle to retake Mosul from so-called IS fighters. Emma Sky is a former British diplomat in Iraq. She says the Iraqi Army has been airdropping information pamphlets to prepare the residents for what is happening.

Programme Website
More episodes