Last shop of its kind is sadly classical music, the last shop of its kind is sadly closing. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television here in america and also around the globe. There is something senseless and depressing about the wanton destruction of ancient artifacts. Reports from iraq that extremists of the socalled Islamic State have bulldozed a city described by the white house as incomprehensible. The battle against i. S. From iraq has been slow, as our correspondent James Robbins reports. The battle is intense. The bbc, too, films mile after mile of devastation. Bbc correspondent has been with the troops. He has been telling them this effort to reverse this has been grueling. We are on the outskirts. This was earlier cleared by the progovernment militias a few days ago and the fighting is still raging. They are trying to recapture the area. Amid the fighting, the black flags of i. S. Are being gradually replaced by the yellow of the shia muslim militia backed by iran, and tak