Driving into russia is an eerie calm and breathtaking destruction as far as the eye can see. A once thriving city of two hundred sixty thousand people reduced to rubble by you its leading. To a mention if you could have a return to what it once was. The first stop was the most notorious location in the city not behaving this way. It was once the vibrant heart of rock. We meet a truck driver khalid swale a who shows this round. I dont want to die thats heaven squared it was called square of heaven but now its where a fellow we used to love wandering around this place but because of the killings we started meeting. More toward. Khaled was among many fools to witness the beheadings that became the defining symbol of the ice here. Here in the square i asked what shot of the ants off and stick heads on to the ants all around the square of the wall this is where they would execute people have a lot look up whatever you have to be punished a shot but they would terrorize people with. Their i was shot via. The propaganda videos of those killings horrified many around the world. This is where iraq has children with fools to watch it all happen to have big plasma t. V. s up so the children could watch the punishments death and executions the t. V. s were everywhere see the scene. Betty. And were told that i was a mandatory. The children used to jeffrey if they saw a chicken killed. As a after a while they would never in a care of humans were executed and our life and it was helpless. Out of. Place. As we go deeper into the city the overwhelming scale of the destruction becomes clear. We see signs that life is returning home from. Iraq is east bulldozers are at work clearing the rugs. 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. Well when. What 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 british 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 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 it was a regime fac 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 obey three times they threatened to take me to the religious police. And i told them if i leave the shop door and 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 aspired to hit her. 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 and i told him that if you were a real man you wouldnt hit a woman why did you slap me. Was his bravery is remarkable and she still struggles with what she endured. If you go through platinum has your more what more can i say. We will follow they mistreated us what can i say. As me alone only god can help us move when they came here they brought only chaos and destruction with them. We were waiting for the day to get our freedom back in rocca we were waiting for a 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 us ladies strike that destroyed the family business. Walk the but 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 x. So that it wouldnt hurt me but then back after the smoke cleared we all went to the streets. Where are. Our floors of allah i thought and ill bet that one ill bet under Islamic State rule her biggest fear was for her children especially her eldest daughter so. 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 outrageous and i wouldnt let anyone see their faces. They send women to our house to ask if we had girls for marriage any bathroom i do not read in one we said no and this we had nothing we were here. For that and i think that. The children to shield her in a village outside the city with a father who is desperately ill shirk. 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 of ah yes lets take a look at me face to face. If there is still one of them still living on it let him say well let me see me you clearly know im not afraid of him whether he. Even if hes going to come from underground let him come over that let i as ross and the ones who brought i is right with that. One back im not afraid of anyone i has or anyone else what ive had that. Will reveal looking good its a disaster. And explosives everywhere. We find a mood to drive home made bombs just lying around. Mines and booby traps litter the city. Claiming new casualties every. As we drive through the pickup truck races a good scaring them like a big. Dog. With a bullet through. To me from the good dome and i did militia that liberated the city with the help of us is from. Our words for soldiers that are mine it flipped over weve rescued two of them you know what. If. You. Mean. Ok im just keeping an eye on everything. Yeah there could be a fresh one. In this rubble lasers. In the midst of all this we find an australian want to relive it soon. Or clean this rap up with. Jamie williamss among a group of foreigners in the Kurdish Forces now the fightings finished they helping with the cleanup. They were good at that was the most. They find an unexploded shill in the rubble by the rush. Of got the Second Artillery rounds thats partially covered in rubble of a puff 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 give it a thought. Struck him but. You want remarkable. Its a painstaking least slow business. After several attempts the mortar is pulled free it can now be dumped elsewhere. Between the minds and the unexpired no one insists that we work in this place for years and. Now youre talking jamie we came here in april last year to find out i use. My eyes want to be in the military and growing up watching war movies playing with toy guns are sort of stuff i always admired the people the 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. We have here maybe we could say yeah. Oh yeah well of a tissue so you just take the shoes off so this is home yeah finale. They say. This is said directional antipersonnel mine hes staying here with a handful of other western fatahs this was just hidden under a piece of material scott the 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 apologizing mining that. Yeah he wasnt actually. Trying to save them on himself. Yeah this is unfortunately. A one hundred one that was in the area yeah. What was it that was on the twenty fifth of this month so. All these. Decimate the syrian population every day theres explosions you can hear from syrians going hi im trying to rape im the house trying to you know pick up the pieces of whats left of the house. Australian counterterrorism authorities have been monitoring Jimmy Williams for a long time. When he first tried to come to syria in light twenty fourteen he was stopped at mill been important 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 could. Initially a position where we were fighting he made it here for the final battle for iraq and. It was pretty fond of the whole fight rucka bush block by block the lines were constantly changing it was hard for me yet again s. D. S. Forced. To keep track of where the lines 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 says i was trained as a squad boxman says stop or offer training gave me confidence in what i was doing here were going through here if you guys are ok with it was full of mice footsteps 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 ah yes which is known in arabic is done off with all the dust just up where that is ok. This is where his team was ordered to move through the block of flats and control the street beyond. I circled his position in the pointer and said this whole yeah thats a dash. Go for so you have to go through that whole yeah not knowing there was no you know. The mission didnt go to play. We got ambushed. Within five meters we took fire from the back of the tent fifty meters across the road one of our guys who are here in that exchange. They call it was killed. The team was forced to hole up here trying to work out how to get his body. And it was well were here were getting 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 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 gave him. Propped up here with pain straightens i was stuck here all night so any time i heard any movement any scuffling or anything underneath me pick up the grenade get it ready sic the rifle over shoot down the stairs kaplans for five rounds pull the pin through the internet and these are the pictures that you had left behind yeah they were on the stairs here. This through here should be a few more and somewhere. I think i threw maybe half a dozen grenades from the staircase. U. S. Lead instruction saved their lives there was i c one thirty gun fire which was providing the whole area one big circle west of here around us there was a lot of fire for quite a while which is comforting because you know you know theyre theyve got their back but at the same time is worrying because bam hit 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 hit. Under australian law Jamie Williams could be jailed for entering the pain barrier and being a foreign fighter. But he argues fighting for the kurds 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 dash is the enemy of the world and kurds are going to be a good a good system for going to be good for this region they need the kurds here they need this system they need to mark receive and i think of that and. They were other australians on the battlefield they were fighting for i. Was part of the reason i came here to find any a strange dash that i could unfortunately that hasnt happened but i know i would have lots of court one of those of us. The most notorious with college sure roof a convicted terrorist who shot to global infamy for posting photos of his son holding a seven haid. Sharif and his family lived in russia and i want to find out more about their lives here. I 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 to skype i knew them and i showed me some of all fun pictures theyd taken to be outside of his house which allowed me to pinpoint a location on google earth and came to see whats become of the life but to get there. We have to cross the euphrates river. To go in with the bridges glumly this is the only way to get across. But Jamie Williams and his team come along. We have no idea if i use sympathizers are still hanging around in the Syrian Government forces are about fifteen kilometers a one month. So we need to get across the river and back as quickly as possible. On the way and ventilate so wrong turn. Using the coordinates electrical power as we close each other sooner killing a little town comes into view. Thats it. Deflates a house or if its living in one. Of men. A neighbor emerges and confirms we are in the right plants. Switch off but nothing. Sought. He was a bit like me big like me and the same one i know yeah i know that because we had a scuffle so he forced his way out im sure got out i started getting in. Abdulaziz been telephoning. Remembers your roof as a grandstanding thug. He was playing a big being and i asked commander a Islamic State and so i didnt 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 got a job 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 he was trying to make a point. I was like im here and ive got weapons. And yeah. She ruth lived in the house with his wife Tara Nettleton and their five children. Children were very tough. I mean a real problem although we had a shooting range here and. Im not going to guns and lots of ammunition. He said targets appear. In the shot that draws people to take a look at me. While years have passed the house still feels hooted by the tragedy of this familys lunch. How hard it was along too sure if children. Just a little kid. There were traces of children everywhere from. Other local thats what sure those children used to wear thats a very small size small one ignore that and that too is for the little one while they can. While the world story midges of them willing whippings the night is so 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 wish the roof 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. That we could see them from a distance and they were frightened. They were the surely afraid but it spot them. For no one very good. I tracked down easy to girls three years ago we northern iraq. One of them told me how she roots one of tara hated 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 militant so that they could return. 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. Abilities remembers what happened when the girls a skype washer then i believe i asked religious police came and asked about them said they are using the girls who escaped right here and they accused us of hiding them i said we didnt know anything about it and just seen a girls one come to us via the mother you know ive been a sheriffs neighbors often complained to i its about his behavior and eventually i use moved against team job. Posted and i have a supervisor to keep an eye on all of the even i signed shes a staff member not just two i am two cars came i. Called them security cars they took in at two am some are just screaming at one or two am not going to look. At a argued a lot here in the building yeah i mean the judge oh yeah. Sure oops life in the house did come to any. Of that 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 this legend here you dont want to he was afraid of it because i asked was losing ground cover and then we took the dont allow for. College she refused reportedly killed along with two of his son in the u. S. Coalition instructor in iraq or in august last week. Tara newtons believed to have died off to see the jury for appendicitis in september twenty fifth during the fight of the other children is unclear. Of the trigger. But really was surreal being in a house where so many natori a thing happened. To me like the Islamic State group itself. Its all come to nothing. And were going to i had advance the stadium which was one of the last opulence out for the surrender. Her the football stadium in the heart of russia is where are you simply terrible punishment so much prison. They spent most of the time in the guts this good so were going to check it out smooth tunnels more not to have the sandbags and all pretty Good Progress for thats what was this this is a shooting range shooting right yeah you can see that if. Lots of holes in the walls all the way down. And ive got. Use of paper. These robo holes. Even though they were pretty much secluded underground that was to have been through training and become more effective at killing people. Its even equipped with secret tunnels so one of the tunnels they use less ten minutes to. 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 that was the forward main threat position your eyes had to be washing your hair as well. As you know 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 sewer prison is here is a form of punishment its called in arabic. Yeah shows