at this time on al jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. iraqi forces move into the town of singe are a day off for taking control of turku from where kurdish forces have withdrawn.

their watching all jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you know also ahead the philippine president rodriguez the territory declares the city of mirali has been liberated from an ice a ling group despite fighting still continuing. leaving no stone unturned so mali rescuers look for a survivors two days off to the worst suicide attack killed over three hundred in the capital. we struggle. to piece the life without my father. a daughter's plea for freedom for an al-jazeera journalist who's been jailed in egypt for three hundred days. hello we begin with the latest developments out of a. iraq that's where kurdish forces have lost even more territory so

a group affiliated with the iraqi militias has taken over the city of sin giada that's in the northwest and that's after the withdrawal of kurdish peshmerga fighters earlier government troops took control of the contested city of quetta kook so tensions been mounting in the oil rich region since the kurds held a referendum on secession last month well shortly we'll get the latest from charles stratford who is in erbil but first here's his reports. the kurdish flag no longer flies in the center of kirkuk. the city now officially back in the hands of the iraqi government its forces but made a rapid advance launched in the middle of the night fifteen hours later the industrial area airports military base and critical all fields were under the control of iraqi forces. soon after they marched into the center of the city. iraqi officials were quick to declare victory. the joint military operation was

launched at dawn and progress significantly as the troops approached the area to crete and the north oil company were confronted by some rebels who tried to hinder the progress of the advancing units turned five in style and fourth thank god today we have achieved all our goals according to our plan. the u.s. military which are trained both sides in this dispute trying to downplay the escalation in a statement blaming the firefight on the darkness calling it a misunderstanding. but kurdish fighters painted a different picture of what was happening on the ground who are learning of them now the moment i don't know what is happening exactly because we have been in the fight since four in the morning in the areas of tasa we have suffered casualties including martyrs and now we have withdrawn into this position and some of the other forces have pulled that they didn't fire a single shots and that so but we are seventh brigade holding up a system here. thousands fled the city as the forces approached mixed in among

them kurdish fighters now as the u.s. urges dialogue and calm the question is what's next will iraqi forces and their militias pursue the kurdish people and fight is that answer will have an impact here and around the globe oil prices are climbing with the news the possibility. of a civil war perhaps in iraq with kurdish forces fighting both iraqi army and possibly iranian militias. does not play well with the with the well so traders and so the perception is that prices will rise. until that's what we vent risk is completely characterize she was saying on the state most world powers that will the kurdish regional government and not to go ahead with a non-binding referendum where the majority of people who voted for the session from iraq now the people of this region and their government finding out there is

a very real price to be paid in this search for independence so troels filed that report we'll speak to him now he's joining us live from erbil in northern iraq to first start with the developments that we're hearing about since are and what's going on there are trials. well yes we've had it confirmed to us that the shia militia groups headed offensive into sin john have taken control of the city they were supported by federal government forces we believe they would have come from the area around mosul intel off which is quite close and both under their control both fulla eisel strongholds the city of sydney was taken control of by kurdish forces in late twenty fifteen after the federal government forces withdrew in the face of that isolate fancy but it's important to recognize that is not a disputed territory it comes under according to the iraqi map federal government

control so it is an indication of a pattern starting to to of course kill a cook is disputed but we're starting now to see what seems to be evidence of a push by iraqi federal government forces and the shia militias to take back control of all the areas whether they be be disputed it's all knowledge that the peshmerga have controlled since full swing eisel back and that is a substantial area that includes large towns like. on my whole so it would not be inconceivable told to envisage further movement by the iraqi military and the shia and the militias towards the kurdish region of northern iraq ok charles stratford we thank you for an update from our bureau. the philippine military president rather says his military has liberated the southern city of we

are a five month battle against eisel linked fighters president or the territory says the city has been freed from what he calls terrorists but his military says fighting is still continuing so the announcement came a day after two senior commanders of the isolating group were killed more than a thousand people have been killed in the conflict which has displaced at least four hundred thousand people well speak to richard he's a professor of political silence science at the university he's joining us from the for the capital manila via skype thanks for speaking to us so there seems to be some conflicting information coming through because the president is saying that the city has been liberated from pro eisel fighters the military spokesman is saying that some thirty militants and twenty hostages remain in the zone what's the real story here that you're hearing well the proverbial truth is somewhere in the middle right i think the president is correct to say that effectively the battle is

over so it's now in the mucking out operations stage also there is still militants in the area there still hostages to be freed. just to go and logistical support and to breach between isis command and amal two brothers is yet to be found so i think the military is not triumphalist here because they still want to find some of the foreign elements were behind the siege and where are we but i think the president is going to say what impact do you want to give the lady of the two senior commanders have on the group. right the amount of brothers who are essentially the military brain of the whole siege on the morrow we see teeth are now confirmed to be dead so is this ignorant to me or all i see is in mindanao and possibly even broader saudis don't have to learn so the leadership

has been decapitated in neutralized already so really we are not going to mocking up operations and the implication of this is that first of all of these shows the growing experience of the philippine military in twenty first century orban war for second this is also a reflection of the assistance that has come from american special forces and from survey lands and intelligence support com and also from australia and other quotas including china and russia too so a lot of countries have been helping the philippines to end these five months about the field and then lastly i think the philippines can cautiously say that the threat of the we. in the philippines is now more or less under control it's more or less contained so the concern right now is that the isis sympathizers in the philippines and elements we now shift of spectacular terrorist attack as i said in the middle east when they were defeated on the ground it cannot be with this because they're going to file a terribly is that the solution when it comes to the philippines when you look at the area off i mean they're now where morrow he is situated i mean i think the

government has grappled for many years with insurgencies there so how do you get rid of the quote unquote extremist ideology that may exist. well the war in morocco you may be over but the bad so we're fighting extremism and terrorism is definitely not over if you see it the food we eat has been reduced to rubble very much is reminiscent of. still you have to reconstruct that the as soon as you can actually go up to six hundred thousand people out of the space and if these people cannot go back to their home disenchantment is going to sink in so there's going to be still ground for mobilization by extremist groups not to mention their three four other groups while also pledged and allegiance to the i.c.c. who are active in other parts of mean the no that is represented there are they still keeping the entire island of mindanao under martial law and also they're also very carefully guarding manila because in two weeks' time president donald trump and world leaders will be visiting manila for the east asia summit ok we thank you

richard hidari on for speaking to us from the from the legends the taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in afghanistan's paktia province so a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound a gun battle between a forty's on the attackers is still ongoing it's not known if anyone has been killed civilians are fleeing i souls proclaimed capital in syria that's as the final assault to push out the remaining fighters and gathers pace a u.s. backed syrian forces u.s. backed syrian forces rather say victory is near despite fierce resistance it's not clear how many eisel fighters remain inside the city. now israel is expected to announce plans to build almost two and a half thousand new settlements housing units forty percent are earmarked to be

built east of the separation wall in the occupied west bank and the expected approval follows a monday decision to allow the new settlements housing in hebron perry fossa joining us from. in the occupied west bank to just give us more context on the announcement that's expected to be made today on the new settlements housing and why it's so important. well this has been trailed for some time now by the government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu and it is as you say a large number two thousand four hundred more than that in terms of the the plan and the approvals for plans for housing units were expecting several hundred more to be given final tenders there is a gap still to the headline figure that they released a few days ago of more than three thousand seven hundred so we are waiting for all

the full details of this and it is a complicated process the approval process for these housing units goes through various stages can take a long time it may be that final approvals for new construction will be in the hundreds but this announcement alone is more than the total for last year and they have these announcements four times a year so you can see that the settlement construction business is accelerating at the moment under the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and not just that but these are just expansions of the major settlement blocks along the green line than the one hundred sixty seven border between israel and the occupied palestinian territories a significant proportion of these new units will be built in more isolated settlements deep inside palestinian territory making the prospects of those settlements at some stage in the future being evacuated all the more difficult in

any two state solution that might be in the offing it doesn't look very promising at the moment and benjamin netanyahu has already said several times in the last few weeks that no israeli settlement will ever be uprooted in the future ok gary foster thank you. for the heads on al-jazeera escaping persecution the u.n. releases video. of the rebel refugee crisis that's coming up. so clear lovely weather across central and eastern parts of europe and you've got a big area of high pressure keeping things settled but we are still feeling the effects of what remains of hurrican a fairly high just around the far northwest of the continents possible and scotland as we go on through tuesday feeding that very disturbed weather little hook of

cloud that will make its way just to the far north of northern ireland running across the northern half of scotland as we go through tuesday temperatures back where they should be so no more twenty three celsius for london that we reserve for paris sixteen degrees there for london just noticed some useful right there will come into spain and western parts of portugal pushing right across spain actually i say useful because we have had wildfires here so that is good news cooler air coming in to madrid as well as around eighteen degrees celsius central parts of europe still on the quiet side still in the settle side but a bit about the morning mist and fog into those central areas but twenty one in vienna still too bad beginning to the mo twenty's to across northern parts of africa maybe a thirty four cairo we see a little bit of cloud just skirting with the far north of libya rather more cloud also making its way just across the far north of morocco as we go on through choose day and push into northern areas of algeria by wednesday.

the top stories on al-jazeera kurdish forces have lost more territory that's

a day after iraqi government troops took over the northern city of kirkuk elsewhere in the shows are now in control of some jar that's in the northwest after kurdish peshmerga withdrew from the town the philippine president says his military has liberated the southern city of mirali oster a five month battle against isolated fighters president rodrigue of the tears he says the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says fighting is still continuing rescue crews in somalia are working to find survivors three days after the worst suicide attack in the country's history more than three hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured after a truck bomb explosion ripped through the heart of the capital. on reports. it's a search to recover bodies and perhaps to find survivors rescue workers hope there's still life under these piles of rubble. twenty four hours after the

explosion we found a young man who was alive the first thing i asked for was a phone so he could call his family he will continue to look for survivors for as long as it takes. more than three hundred people died in saturday's bombing attack in mogadishu scores are still missing. and his family were nearby when the car exploded he hasn't seen his brother since then. my brother and his wife very near the blast that he's still. out or if they survived we've gone to the sea and all the hospitals but still nothing. many families are left with only questions not knowing whether to grieve or hang on to hope. remarkable my son had a pharmacy. where the tragedy happened we still don't know where he is dead or a life he had she wipes and twelve children he was a sole breadwinner. for survivors international help has arrived military planes

take these victims to turkey where they'll receive specialized treatment with limited resources and medical supplies local hospitals are struggling. in my career as a doctor i've never seen anything like this they were burned bodies all over the place hundreds of fatalities were registered at medina hospital countless are injured. countries like kenya ethiopia and qatar are offering logistical help locals are also doing what they can retrieving bodies from the rubble providing food and water for emergency workers. but they are also angry hundred six of the streets to protest the attack they blame the armed groups fighting the government and. union peacekeepers inside somalia. it was a message i've never seen anything like it in the last twenty seven years i saw a little boy's head lying on the ground it was shocking. no one has yet claimed

responsibility but speaking to al-jazeera and al shabaab spokesman refused to confirm or deny responsibility the president who visited the scene blames what he calls terrorists targeting innocent civilians. the shock has now turned to anger pain and frustration as somalis deal with the deadly aftermath and all rising death toll. now. philips a professor of journalism at the university of southern california he says western media have often fail to cover attacks in africa. the coverage in the united states today was pretty substantial but i think by tomorrow it will evaporate whether it's somalia or yemen the fact is that the west particularly the united states is very slow to cover things that don't directly affect the on the news audience here just

as part of the america first attitude that has been so prominent in u.s. politics well i think there's some racial connotations and i think there's always a feeling among a lot of people in the united states and well it's just africa again and there's always a war there's always an attack there's always a famine and people but i don't think most americans could even find some multiple on a map and that's that's a real problem that the the consciousness about suffering in the rest of the world is not where it should be the news media have to have to work harder or part of the responsibility of news organizations is not just to report the news but to educate the public and when things like this are going on. the public needs to be taught about it the other thing is that there is quite likely an al qaida connection to this to this attack in somalia and that might stir the american interest it is

a unified world and when there is an attack in somalia it is not unrelated to the to the safety of americans. so the un has released drone video to highlight the scale of the mass exodus of refugees from me and maher there it is more than half a million have crossed the border to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in rakhine state most people have made the journey on foot and the number increases daily the un has described the crackdown in rakhine state as quote ethnic cleansing. is in called bizarre for us that's near the bangladeshi border with me and my worst sewing that drone footage time of year that the u.n. has released i mean these shots are simply staggering. absolutely absent that drone video as well this corroborates with the stories we are getting from our sources as well as bangladesh broader god battalion thirty

four would come up acting commander say that at least ten to fifteen thousand people on monday crossed over to bangladesh this inflow is continuous action on an average two thousand people cross into bangladesh every day some time it's low some time it's high but the fact remains that what the drone showed is that thousands of people actually gather on the other side of me and my body they wait for the optimum time to cross into bangladesh to abide by me on my army and water police and also to find the bullets to come into bangladesh because the boatman chides a lot of money and they don't plow around on the day time most of the time it's late late night and the bad weather is a very unpredictable weather was sunshine it's raining here makes them to be very dreaded to go into the bay of bengal area because they have seen a lot of rain just drawn within the last one month trying to cross into bangladesh so every a very active situation still on the other side of the broader talking to some of their own judge who recently crossed like today three days ago said in western iraq

and state food shops are closed there is no aid agency giving them any aid they're very fearful the boat this. hostile mob that's telling them to get out many of them just take for the optimum time to cross into an area so they can eventually come to bangladesh their relatives and friends are sending them a message on the other side that at least you will be saved here to some degree of food and shelter a very liberal to come over here they don't want to be a real genuine accent on the whole thing whether they don't are prepared for his new influx of people rather this continuous influx of people. well one thing that disaster and minister disaster and relief minister rather he said that the planning to build a one of the largest camp of refugee in the wall at eight hundred thousand people i don't know which any other going to build it but if that it's going to be in the border area and in the. about that it would be a staggering challenging bit to set up

a camp like that and how you're going to manage the family tayshaun the water i mean this is more than the population of the city of washington d.c. and also the aid agencies are saying look the aid flow is pretty stable right now by. january this is going to stagger down and there needs to be more plenty of aid and water and food coming into bangladesh the country alone cannot cope with the number of people the health care issue of the foundation the breaking breaking down of disease infection of these all those are a major challenge in coming years as well got it thank you for giving us updates. and meanwhile funerals have been held for twelve. of them were children they drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in the bay of bengal near bangladeshi fishing village. where hundreds of people have taken to the streets in barcelona to demonstrate against the jailing of two cattle on independence campaigners jordi sanchez and jordi couche are being investigated for sedition against spain they're

accused of organizing rallies in support of a controversial secession referendum that was held earlier this month catalonia as workers are being told to strike on tuesday in protest. experts from all over the world are gathering to investigate the mysterious death of the chilean poet problems. sixteen forensic scientists from canada denmark the u.s. spain and chile all meeting in santiago to share their analysis of his death in one thousand nine hundred seventy three his family believes he was murdered by agents of the military dictator augusto pinochet the forensic experts will present their conclusions on friday a russian man has accused chechnyan security forces of jailing and beating him as part of a crackdown against homosexuals maxim is the first person to file an official complaints but there were several accusations against people linked to chechen

forty's earlier this year human rights groups say more than one hundred men were arrested beaten and tortured. as spring chechen authorities began an organized sanction from the very top a very comfortable excuse for not investigating allegations from victims of this situation watch while many official people used to sixty's now allegations have come forward. yet the twelve days i spent imprisoned in the basement slept on cardboard on the floor cements covered with bullets under the current board a giant pool. would be eaten by the time i left chechnya i could barely cruel. wildfires have killed at least thirty six people in portugal and three in spain firefighters in portugal are struggling to put out about fifty blazes the

government has declared a state of emergency in the northern part of the country and asked for international help fires follow an unusually hot summer and were made for spice strong winds from hurricane ophelia the spanish prime minister my honor a hallway has blamed the fires on in his country on arsonists well storm ophelia has killed three people in ireland and left about three hundred sixty thousand properties without electricity schools have closed in the irish government says the boy the army to bolster flood defenses ophelia has now started hitting southern scotland northern england bringing winds of more than one hundred kilometers an hour. al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein has now been in prison in egypt for three hundred days human rights and media organizations have joined the network in denouncing his incarceration and are calling for his release natasha of the name spoke to his family about how he's coping. in the three hundred days

mahmoud hussein has been in prison his family says he's grown depressed he's accusing the egyptian authorities of denying him legal rights and medical treatment and providing inadequate food and clothing he is father to nine children my sisters and brother face social stigma every day in their schools everyone calls them that they are sons and daughters of petitioners. and they are not tool or flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is not safe young woman. hussein is an egyptian journalists who was based in qatar working for al-jazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state al-jazeera has denied all allegations

while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father. it's a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being officially imprisoned. he was unjustly labeled as a terrorist by egyptian media. hussein is the latest al-jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt last year a former editor of al-jazeera arabic website was sentenced to death in absentia in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohammed fahmy and baher mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to al-jazeera.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera kurdish forces have lost more territory a day after iraqi government troops took over the northern city of kirkuk so they're now in control of singe are in the northwest after kurdish peshmerga withdrew from the town charles stratford has more from erbil. to recognize that is not a disputed territory it comes. according to the iraqi map federal government controls. it is an indication of a pattern starting to. of course kill a cook is disputed but we're starting now to see what seems to be evidence of a push by iraqi federal government forces and the shia militias to take back control of all the areas whether they be disputed it's all milch the philippine president says his military has liberated the southern city of merari after

a five month battle against isolating fighters president rodrigo to territories says the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says fighting is still going on the taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in afghanistan's paktia province a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound a gun battle between authorities and the attackers is still going on. israel is expected to announce plans to build almost two and a half thousand new settlements housing units forty percent are earmarked to be built east of the separation wall in the occupied west bank rescuers are searching for people who are still missing after the worst suicide bombing in somalia as history more than thirty people three hundred rather people were killed in a truck blast on saturday thirty five seriously injured victims have been flown to turkey for treatment and the u.n.

has released drone footage to highlight the scale of the mass exodus for refugees from me and maher more than half a million have now crossed the border to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in rakhine state those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next day with us. china is holding what appears to be its most significant communist party congress in decades with president xi jinping keen to consolidate his power what does that mean for this country and indeed the rest of the world join me adrian brown live coverage and analysis here on out. sebastian kurtz declares victory in austria as national election feels a swing to the right so where will the so-called take. what this is ryan's mean for europe this is inside story.