Driving into rucka isnt here. And breathtaking destruction as far as the eye can see is. A once thriving city of two hundred sixty thousand people reduced to rubble by you he slid a stroke. Its hard to imagine he could never return to what it once was. The first stop is the most notorious location in the city not behaving the same way. It was once the vibrant heart of rock. We meet a truck driver khalid swain who shows this round. I dont want to die thats heaven squared it was called square of heaven but now its square of elm we used to love wandering around this place but because of the killings we started eating. More toward. Khalid was among many forced to witness the beheadings that became the defining symbol of the ice here in the uk. Here in the square i asked what shop the ads often stick heads on t. V. All around us. This is where they would execute people have a lot of whatever you have to be punished to the shop and they would terrorize people with. You know i was shocked to hear. The propaganda videos of those killings horrified many around the world. This is where rockers children were forced to watch it all happen they had big plasma t. V. s children could watch the punishment death and executions the t. V. s were everywhere i was going to see the seats. Or so until i was mandatory had to apply. The children used to be afraid if they saw a chicken killed. As a god but after a while they would never in a care of humans were executed thats our life and it was helped. A lot out of. Place. As we go deeper into the city the other woman scale of the destruction becomes clear. We see signs that mother is returned. To. Iraq is east bulldozers are at work clearing the rug. The wrist seems like an enormous even impossible times. Amid the rubble and it was not. She and her brother a painstakingly salvaging whats left of the family home and grocery store. Where the one. I wont be able to return to even one percent of the way things were before. But i will live and continue building again i will open a new grocery shop and live out the rest of our life back. Across the road this silly new bridge but was no kind of food. Shes a widow who have six children. During the war that made her an easy target for Islamic State but they picked on the wrong woman. That they would come to me and tell me to leave the house but i wouldnt. They occupied our neighbors house and made it their headquarters. I believe they killed the house and yes he was killed they said he was a regime thug and killed him but we didnt leave our house we refused. I aspired his told was not to shut down his shop and remarry all live off islamic charity. And that they were me and after i refused to have a three times they threatened to take me to the religious police. And i told them if i leave the shop i will break the stick on your head id rather fire a bullet into my head than leave my shop. When she stood her ground and i aspire to hit her. What. They came to the shop and told me to go with them to the religious police. I asked them why because i refused to close my shop when i told them that if you were a real man you wouldnt hit a woman why did you slap me. Was bravery is remarkable and she still struggles with what she endured. And also platinum has more can i say. They mistreated us what can i say. Only god can help us when they came here they brought any chaos and destruction with them. We were waiting for the day to get our freedom back in rocca we were waiting for our freedom we were hoping one day and night. We were waiting for the day of freedom to come and have you in the pub remember. The terrible irony is that after was not fought so hard and with so much it was a u. S. Military strike that destroyed the family business. The walk the bottle when the airstrike hit i was suddenly thrown across the bridge and. I couldnt hear anymore i was hit by the shrapnel i took off my chin next so that it wouldnt hurt me by being back after the smoke cleared we all went to the streets or. Maybe there were a lot of allah i thought ill bet there and ill bet under Islamic State rule whose biggest fear was for her children especially her eldest daughter and. I think that i as would see her shes pretty i wouldnt let her now sit in. Even when i had to take my daughters to the answer uncles they would be in full sharia outfits and i wouldnt let anyone see their faces. Sadly branston. Them they send women to our house to ask if we had girls for marriage any bathroom i do not agree in one we said no and thats been a we had not said we were here says that man never led to his mom nor for that and i think. The children to shield her in a village outside the city with a father whos desperately ill shirley. Despite all her problems this extraordinary woman is looking forward to a new era. No salons in it only people are afraid it is women and men. Still afraid if i. Let honest take a look at me face to face. If there is still one of them still living on it let him say it was ok let him see me you clearly know im not afraid of him so every here. Even if hes going to come from underground let him come over let i as ross and the ones who brought i asked rod with that. One back im not afraid of anyone i asked or anyone else when i made that. Reveal looking good its a disaster. And explosives are everywhere. We find a mood to drive home made bombs just lying around. Mines and booby traps litter the city. Claiming new casualties every day. As we drive through the pickup truck races ahead of scaring them like big. Dog. With bullets through. Looted me from the goodies dominated militia that liberated the city with the help of usa struck. Again our four soldiers had a mind flipped over one of the rescue two of them. If. You. Can under skippy an eye on everything. You know there could be a fresh one. In this rubble as it was. In the midst of all this we find in australia want to relive it soon. Or clean the surface of the. Jamie williams is among a group of foreigners in the Kurdish Forces now the fightings finished they helping with the cleanup. Now the man. Who. They were good at that was them out. They find an unexploded shill in the rubble by the rug. Ive got looks like an artillery rounds thats partially covered in rubble on the path we just walked on and i thought he just walked on yes so were going to hook up with a rope and sykes our position is get a. Rocket strike but. You dont want the rubble. Its a painstaking least slow business. After several attempts to move who is pulling through it can now be dumped elsewhere. Between the minds and the unexploded ordinances that we were working on this place for years and. Now youre talking Jamie Williams came here in april last year to find oh yes. I was wanted to be in the military and growing up watching war movies playing with toy guns or sort of stuff i always admired the papal soldiers that put themselves in difficult situations you know willing to put their life on the line for the betterment of others. You know what. They have here maybe we could say yeah. Oh yeah now all of a just so you just take the shoes off so this is home yeah. This takes a. This is said directional antipersonnel mine hes staying here with a handful of other wished and fought his this was just hidden under a piece of material its got ball bearings in it one of these ball bearings can drop straight through they do a lot of damage. We have lost one person a member of our team that was with us for doing mining bad. Yeah he wasnt actually. Trying to save them on himself. Yeah this is unfortunate. Pay one hundred one that was in the area yeah. What was it that was on the twenty fifth of this one so. All these. Decimate the syrian population every day those explosions you can hear from syrians going home trying to reclaim their house trying to you know pick up the pieces of whats left of the house. Australian counterterrorism authorities have been monitoring Johnny Williams for a long time. When he first tried to come to syria in light twenty fourteen he was stopped at mill been a port then charged with crimes that could have seen him seem to unstick to life in prison. Without offering an explanation the federal government dropped the prosecution good to get. Your show your position where we were fighting he made it here for the final battle for iraq. Is pretty fucked up the whole fight rocka bush block by block the lines for a constantly changing it was hard for me yet again s. D. S. Costs are. To keep track of where the lots were. In twenty eleven Jamie Williams tried to join the Australian Army but was knocked back because of a drink driving conviction for it so he joined the French Foreign legion in stayed trying to move through i got combat training i wanted to explain this is i was trained as a squad boxman so as a starter off of training i gave me confidence in what i was doing here. Were going through here if you guys are ok with it was full of mice and steps pretty much in iraq and he says kurdish commanders kept foreign fighters away from the frontline it was a bit worrying he takes us to the scene of their only real battle with ice which is known in arabic is dutch rock with all the dust just up where that that is ok. This is where his team was ordered to move through the block of flats and control the street beyond. I soon got to this position and they pointed and said this whole yeah thats a dash. Go for so you have to go through that home yeah not knowing when there was no you know. The mission didnt go to play. Were going to ambush. Within five meters we took fire from the back of the tent fifty meters across the road one of our guys right here in that exchange. The colleague was killed. The team was forced to hole up here trying to work out how to get his body. And those who are here will get in the Radio Communication saying that theyre coming from beasts from here from the front from everywhere so on that level all of us were there at that stage thinking how do we defend this place. And we took fire from that hole in the wall there into this this room here when these guys were pushed up. But as soon as they took fire from there they opened up with big cia case everything pretty sure i gave them good for. Hifi they get him. Propped up here with pain straightens i was stuck here all not saying anytime i heard any movement any scuffing anything underneath me pick up a grenade get it ready stick the rifle over shoot down the stairs couple rounds for five rounds pull the pin trading idea and these are the pings that we had left before yeah they were on the stairs here. Chris to hear the should be a few more and somewhere. I think i threw maybe half a dozen grenades from the staircase. Us lead instruction save the lines there was a c one thirty gun fire which was providing the whole area one big half circle as if youre around us there was a lot of fire for quite a while which is comforting because you know you know theyre got their back but at the same time as worrying because they only see targets that they can see so knowing that theyre shooting that much that just says that there was that many targets in the area for them to. Under australian law jamie would use could be jailed for entering the bandy area and being a foreign fighter. But he argues fighting for the kurds he is not a crime because they are in effect the government in this part of syria. I dont think ive done anything wrong he supported the good guys in this fight i would say you know dashes the enemy of the world and kurds are going to be a good because system the going to be good for this region they need the kurds here they need a system they need to mark received so i think i dont think ive done anything. They were other australians on the battlefield they were fighting for i. Was part of the reason i tank yeah its to find skill any a straining dash that i could unfortunately that hasnt happened but i know i would have lots of call on of those of us. The most notorious was college. A convicted terrorist who shot to global infamy for posting photos of his son holding a severed hed. Sharif and his family lived in russia and i want to find out more about their lives he. Worked out where how it was living back in two thousand and fifteen when some u. C. B. Girls had been keeping as domestic flights a skype i knew them and i showed me some of all fun pictures theyd taken of the outside of his house which allowed me to pinpoint a location on google what kind of feet whats become of the life but to get there. We have to cross for you fridays river. With the bridges blowing this is the only way to get it from. Jamie williams and his team come along. We have no idea if i use sympathises are still hanging around in that Syrian Government forces are about fifteen kilometers away on foot. So we need to get across the river and back as quickly as possible. On the way our van tanks are wrong turn. Using the coordinates not track our path as we close each other and soon a key landmark a little town comes into view. Thats it. Thank you but how secure if is living the life of men. A neighbor emerges and confirms we were in the right plants. Several times with shovels but nothing. I thought. He was a bit like me big like me the same but i dont want to know that because we had a scuffle he forced his way into that im scared out of what i started getting in. Abdulaziz been killing remembers your roof is a grand standing thug. He was playing a big being and i asked commander state and so why did you even hear that neighbor he got into his house and humiliated i dont even want to execute him. Abilities office an unprecedented insight into sharifs life he thought of running sure roof and i never liked each other whenever hed come outside as soon as hed seen me want to carry his weapons and fire into the air like yours trying to make a point. I was like im here and ive got weapons. And yeah. Sure ruth lived in the house with his wife Tara Middleton and the five children. Children were very tough. Or a real problem although we had a shooting range. Going to the guns and lots of ammunition. They set the targets up here. In the shot that draws people take a look at me. While years have passed the house still feels hooted by the tragedy of this familys life. How hard it was along too sure if children. Just a little kid. There were traces of children everywhere from. All the above thats what sure those children used to wear thats a very small size small one ignore that and that too was for the little one while it was. Well the willed story midges of them willing whitmans been neighbors saw children who seemed terribly isolated in the new land. Hardly understood arabic it was hard for them sometimes we got a feeling that they didnt understand this and. I did ask a lot of questions about the purpose of everything what i try to learn but i didnt know how to engage and if you asked them about something that said i wouldnt answer. Abdulaziz confirms this is wishy ruth kept the z. T. Girls whod been kidnapped from northern iraq. He took them from their parents and that was extremely wrong. I mean a left a lot of time chris and i mean he wouldnt even let them out here in the courtyard. Wed see them from a distance they were frightened. They rebel surely afraid but its spot them. Over no one very good argument. I tracked down the easy to girls three years ago we northern iraq. One of them told me how she roofs one of tara heighted life in russia. His wife said she regretted going there and that she didnt know what it has been it was doing before she arrived she said its a miserable place this religion is so bad if id known i would never have come here his wife credible day for her husband to be mounted so that they could return home. They also told me it was tara who helped them escape by giving them a mobile fund to cool their families as. She couldnt show her kindness towards us in front of her husband it was secrets. She prayed for us to be released and advised us to escape in sequence she said if my husband knew anything about what im doing for you he would punish me. Is remembers what happened when the girls a skype wash of them of the highest religious police came and asked about them said they are using the girls risque prick here and they accused us of hiding them i said we didnt know anything about it and just see that girls wouldnt come to us via the mother you know that ive been a serious knight is often complained to ah its a ban on his behavior and eventually i use moved against team job or. Posted and i have a supervisor i keep an eye on it though even i sign shes a staff member not just two am two cars came i. Called them security cars they took him at two am smart screaming at one or two am not out of loud but he argued a lot here in the building i mean youve got a judge oh yeah. Sure oops life in the house did come to any. And i did the very last time i saw him i was at the eye doctor. The thought i had when he saw me i was giving my name to the nurse she told me to wait my turn was like. He came up to me and he was surprised and he started like. He was afraid of it because i asked was losing ground cover and then we took the boat a lot for. A roof was reportedly killed along with two of the son of a u. S. Coalition instructor in iraq or in august last year. Tara newtons believed to have died off to surgery for appendicitis in september twenty fifth during the fight of the other children is unclear. Of this. But really was surreal being in a house where so many tories think its ever. Going to mean block the Islamic State group itself. Its all come to nothing. And were only going to i we had advance the stadium which was one of the last i point out but for the surrender. Her. The football stadium in the heart of russia is where i am simply terrible punishment so much prison. I spent most of the time and i got to this good so were going to check it out smooth tunnels and what not to have the sandbags are all pretty good for us for gets. Down the sandbags. Pariahs he served as a sort of underground vice thats here. What was this this is a shooting sitting right yeah you can see that if. Not holes in the walls all the way down. And theyve got. Use of paper. Is rubble holes. The boards. Shouldve been set up. Even though they were pretty much secluded underground that was to have been through training and become more effective at killing people right there. Its even equipped with secret tunnels so one of the tunnels they use less ten meters that you have ten meters and then theres a hole at the end that shoots off in that direction i havent been down there personally all these tunnels most definitely be mined a tunnel like this would mean that maybe they could get in behind wherever you were and yeah thats why whenever we had a line and that was the forward main threat position your eyes had to be watching your ear as well. As yeah they could pop up anywhere at any time. Most of these rooms we used as a prison and torture chamber its been explained to me that this was a form of punishment in the prison its here is a form of punishment its a code in arabic. Yeah pretty unpleasant things like down there for who knows how long the