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want you know just zero life from a headquarters and i'm dreading obligated to also a heads curtis flags are coming down several towns in northern iraq are now back in control of iraqi government forces. the philippine president roderigo the territory says the city of morocco we has been liberated from an ice a link group despite fighting still continuing. and take a look at this year looking at the mass exodus of for a hinge of refugees fleeing persecution in me in march new numbers just released almost six hundred thousand have crossed into bangladesh. hello in the last hour u.s. backed syrian forces have retaken the city of from eisel fighters aig. kurdish flag

has been raised inside the stadium after the last remaining islip fighters were forced out was one of the last holdouts for eisel and its former capital has some had about a life for us in an attack on your turkey's border with syria what are your sources telling you about the exact situation right now. there are hundreds of flights a waving of the yellow lines of the y.p. g.m. the. are now entering the city of rock they have managed to control the remaining neighborhoods and they control of i said earlier in the day killing dozens of i still fly to the deploying more troops into the city to try to clear the area has grown my buildings and they are saying that they are concerned there might be some quiet the hiding in tunnels but the thing is the confidence of the city is now completely and controlled this is

a fire that started in june with the attack by the united states of america launched a major offensive to take out of the car but i still why it is managed to hold the ground then are set away evil massive strikes by the americans the fighters the fence line started to collapse this is quite a significant moment now for the fighters. who are going to be involved and by the new couple of the city of russia and for isolette self i mean one can only imagine how big a blow this is to the group that iraq was itself the car capital. indeed in two thousand and fourteen where they swept through he used ways of land in iraq and syria they were hoping two years places like syria and iraq are starting points to spread their so-called islamic caliphate so i was involved and the arab world to the point where the self-proclaimed capital they were hoping to move from iraq now

towards places like it's live. and so that's not even being with those prices again made by the by the. i have also to say that at the same time there's a push by the syrian military from the southwest of the country to come to the elves or which is the oil which they're. i still stronghold in syria the syrian military is now making some significant gains on the ground to the point where i say now is a very desperate situation its fighters are withdrawing to worse areas in the south of the border with iraq so it is a major setback for syria ok thank you. takes a look back at myself fights for. the capture of rockabye i saw in two thousand and fourteen was held by the armed group as a major achievement back then i said it demonstrated its strength as it continued

to expand across syria and iraq it declared its capital in syria setting up courts prisons and other institutions but all of this was against the will of the people i saw as emergency a huge blow to the syrian opposition and the free syrian army who had previously controlled the area their fighters were forced to retreat and president bashar assad was able to validate his claim that his troops were fighting what you call terrorists and not legitimate opposition in turn an international coalition was formed to fight the group led by the united states and in coordination with russia whose forces had been sent into syria to help prop up the flailing regime. the coalition and russia launched hundreds of air strikes in a bid to defeat eisel but many civilians were killed in the process on the ground the offensive to expel eisel from iraq i was being led by the y p g a kurdish faction supported and armed by washington while they managed to make large advances

that true was at the expense of the syrian opposition who accuse the group of expelling the indigenous arab residents in order to pave the way for future kurdish states why p.g. has links with the kurdistan workers party or p k k an armed group in truckee which i care considers to be a terrorist organization some analysts believe that despite the y.p. g.'s success in expelling eisel from iraq the group will not be able to achieve its goal of autonomy we can see that the kurds and the y p g definitely are overstretched they could buy an area that they constitute a minority twenty five to thirty percent compared to seventy percent now that i saw has been pushed out from the many will declare this the end of the armed groups but others disagree we are witnessing the fall of the. but that doesn't mean. will be destroyed isis will remain.

cells in syria and lebanon i saw is not an ordinary group its methods are both horrifying and unconventional it doesn't have a membership process for example anybody who wants to kill or maim can do so and then attribute those attacks to the group and that's what makes defeating ice all seem so impossible now whilst expanding its members from iraq is significant the region need to deal with the root cause is the push young men to join such a group. let's speak tomorrow he's the director of policy analysis at the doha institute join us and joining us here for your initial reaction first of all. news now confirmed in fact saying that. has been liberated from myself yeah so why do you expect it to the bottom almost. because over the last few days actually we've been hearing about. some sort of

talks between. city and democratic forces in fact which is of course brigades the backbone of these forces have been in direct talks with some of the elements in order to leave that quarter of the city. let's talk about i suppose an army right now how big a blow is this search for the group i think it's a blow but the biggest blow actually has already taken place when they lost most of mosul was in iraq was the de facto capital of ice and it was the city which will be going to be the leader of isis devout he's famous for i did see him on and enjoy in two thousand and fourteen when he declared the islamic. actually is just. to defeat. as an idea i think has become an idea has become like a concept and i think defeating an idea is and needs much more

of the security underneath the approach which has been it was so far less important point you raise we'll talk about it in a moment but just first what's happening on the ground i mean now you have the fall of. but then you when you look at places for example like. where i saw a still very much president and also areas are all along the border with syria and iraq you have. you have what happens there what happens next. last remaining strongholds actually. now in the east of the contrary i so lost most of its territories in the north of syria and also in the. so now the mean strong actually. located right now india is or and i still have already lost our mayor dean a very important city. to the syrian regime but. i still has

a very limited chance actually to sort of honor because in iraq and other he used brush it lost most of his cities in syria to the but you have been diminished off i saw what you know some say is the word for the extremists that are joining us to an extent but unless we actually give you answers which have led actually in the first place to the emergence of arson in syria then iraq the sixty million policies . of the age of syrian and iraqi societies especially in iraq after the fall of the what iraqi regime and in syria because of the. i thought cities which had been committed during dark syrian civil war i think without dealing with these experiences i think i said cannot be defeated. altogether i just said i said has become an idea is a concept and many actually still believe in the cause of but as

a military force i think to a great extent it has been defeated in syria and in iraq and we thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. well kurdish forces in northern iraq have suffered major territorial losses they've pulled out of several towns in the face of an advance by iraqi troops so the territory include singe ottoman. the towns were seized by kurdish peshmerga in recent years after defeating iceland are now under the control of iraqi militias and government troops have also taken over all the oil fields near kerchoonz iraqi forces moved into the contestant city on monday what's part of an operation ordered by the prime minister to take back kurdish held areas which lie outside the kurdish autonomous region for a joining us from erbil in northern iraq monitoring all the fast moving developments to tell us what is happening around since you are as well as other areas. we understand now according to the iraqi military.

forces have withdrawn from all the main towns in those disputed areas towns that they have controlled from basic two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and sixty we understand the full season of withdrawal to basically a line that was established after the full of saddam hussein in two thousand and three in alignment that he's noticed the green line that was basically sixteen stone you know one of the two thousand and five constitution what is so surprising though is this with which this has happened nobody expected the iraqi military to achieve their aims as quickly as this and there is very much a lot of finger pointing and blaming going on to awards the kurdish regional government and specifically the president will suit both zani and self ok charles stratford thank you. well the taliban says it's responsible for

a suicide bomb attack that's killed at least thirty two people at a police training center in afghanistan's paktika province a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound it was followed by a gun battle between forty's and the attackers at least one hundred more were injured in the of sold as. israel set to announce plans to build almost two and a half thousand new settlement housing units forty percent of that will be built east of the separation wall in the occupied west bank harry fawcett joining us from that's in the occupied west bank itself harry just give us a sense of where you are and what more you're hearing about these new announcements for settlements that are going to be billed. indeed we're just outside ramallah just neighboring here the illegal israeli settlement of beit il where we understand just under three hundred tenders for new constructions will

be granted or approved in this round of approvals which is due to take place today and tomorrow wednesday as you say some two thousand four hundred just over that number that we have a fair idea about potentially several hundred more on top of that and as you say it's not just the numbers which are much larger than in the last couple of years for instance this one announcement there are four such meetings every year there's one announcement already looks like it's going to be more than the entirety of approvals from last year it's not just the numbers it's also where they're being built these new housing units not just on the main settlement blocs along the nine hundred sixty seven border areas but also well into palestinian territory in the more isolated israeli settlements inside the occupied west bank some forty percent as you say east of the separation wall so that is what palestinians are concerned about is what the palestinian or the p.l.o. and the p.a.

have been complaining about as far as the israelis well benjamin netanyahu presumably feels a little bit more liberated under the presidency of donald trump to build than under the presidency of barack obama but at the same time he's being criticized by groups for inflating these numbers for real announcing things for not really doing enough from their perspective because he says he has to worry about exactly what the u.s. administration even under president trump will say about this project which of course for anyone who wants to see a two state solution in the future makes that all the more difficult ok harry foster thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera. when i said i'm into. going to what am i doing. regaining their confidence how one company is inspiring and developing women to get back into the workplace after having children also. bring you the latest from china's ruling communist party congress where delegates

are deciding who to run the country. hello it's been raining again in the long strung out frontal system still goes through japan just such as a korean place and comes back through china now the heaviest i've seen a significant hundred ninety arbil beaches just off the coast near tokyo just the south and small island and that's more or less where the rain is heading slowly southward so behind it it's fine with reagan in the high teens but the cloud is streaming ahead through the korean peninsula bringing rain potentially to beijing at fifty degrees which is quite substantially the sun should return all day the rains on its way slowly east was but the cold that was there were only a couple days ago and mongolia is gone that all of that house forecast max is eight

degrees in the sunshine now if you drop down you'd expect to see that linking frontal system and there is rain through the middle of china back to the west and north vietnam but you'll notice no spin the tropical storm or worse as it was has dissipated has disintegrated but still plenty of rain there to come for vietnam is just not quite as intense as originally thought behind it all things have gone quiet so all of southern china should be enjoying low humidity blue skies and still quite high temperatures a ton kong were thirty shanghai rather better twenty one. a family business handed down from generation to generation but when this funeral director retires will his son continue the tradition but i don't think he was that he before just like i don't feel like i was argued over a difficult choice for an al-jazeera producer caught between two worlds well it's

really fight tending to the dead with a living get better an intimate portrait of an industry most and counter only fleetingly al-jazeera correspondent death in the family at this time. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour kurdish forces are suffering huge territorial losses in iraq a day after government troops seized the northern city of cancun they've now withdrawn from the towns of mood. as well as giving up control of several oil fields. the taliban says it's responsible for

a suicide bomb attack that's killed at least thirty two people at a police training center in afghanistan's paktika province a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound it was followed by a gun battle between all forty's and the attackers at least a hundred more were injured in the assault. the syrian city of philadelphia has been retaken for myself fighters by u.s. backed syrian forces civilians have been fleeing eisold self declared capital for weeks as fighting for the city intensified over recent weeks. so it was the epicenter of all that i still stood for and sought to project to the world a place where the group could carry out their worst atrocities unchallenged and inflict their brand of terror on an entire city what was the first city to fall to i saw back in twenty fourteen and the group violently installed its own government taking control of all aspects of life new strict dress codes were imposed on men

and women and i so would punish anyone who wouldn't conform then came the public executions something became notorious for anyone who resisted their ruler or ideology was rounded up and killed in city squares women accused of sex outside marriage were dragged into the streets and publicly stoned to death videos were posted by the group online showing men who were accused of being gay thrown from the top of bill. and the viciousness didn't end there i sold hung the bodies on lampposts fences and on roundabout signs for days a message to anyone who would dare cross them well many women from minority groups and abroad were taken to the city to become eisel brides sex slaves for the fighters children to brainwash their schools shut down and they were forced from a very young age to become the next generation of fighters that speak to their he's a syrian activist and c.e.o. of sound and picture that's an organization that documents violations in eastern

syria and western iraq he's joining us now via skype however for safety reasons we're not going to be revealing his location so you certainly documented the atrocities and the violations committed by i so we've seen some of the videos that have been put out you just heard me reading a list of the violations just tell us your reaction initially to the news of the self declared capitol hill has now been liberated from the group. to be honest we don't believe as people that's right the city has been the great we believe that it's maybe and you'll like it because of course as we're trying to see. this is good enjoy yourself but as the brazier for the city they killed a lot of civilians by their strikes and by observation those last few months there's thousands of civilians have been killed by these you know since i saw there

were many guys in and around so this is why we see the forces were trying to capture or should be must be careful about this would be unusual are in this city now there are thousands of mortars and rockets thousands of this in place. and i regions of the destruction hearing them talk about so many more clarity since you seem to be speaking to people that are on the ground what are you hearing about the situation for civilians right now. it's very bad situation in the city there are strikes and so he shows up and it's in all the neighborhoods. destruction in the city it's morning and he said persons are just because of the airstrikes and the landmines of isis because enough for me shows there's a media in the city cannot go outside because i've. been to them all going outside and it's the it and what we're going. to save growing outsiders to cincy and he said even if you want to go outside of this it's just because like

a. traitor for them to going outside because mines all over the city there is a sign there are snipers for all i says and for is there so if anyone going to go outside you know this is a night of course and he will be. by and by many ways just going out of sight that's why for now he said there's some way now is that now that the democratic forces are saying that they have liberated the city from one assumes that perhaps that is not the situation that is happening on the ground right now but can you tell us whether you're hearing about any safe passengers that have been provided to is a fairly hands to be able to get out no no there is no there is no and you say it doesn't go outside of the city and also in this is you know it's just this is most of the civilians could leave the city being killed by their strikes and now maybe it's less than a thousand. in the city because they couldn't go out of sight maybe because of the

conditions of their strikes and then crashed into the city so we presume that the civilians are still and this incident now being counted as the. maybe they can go outside find many months of between one thousand and it's ok we thank you very much for speaking to us on. that thank you. well the u.n. says the number of refugees who fled violence in me in mar has risen to five hundred eighty two thousand and the global body releases drone video to highlight the scale of the mass exodus of for him to bangladesh their risque think and military crackdown in rakhine states the un has described that crackdown as ethnic cleansing and funerals have been held for twelve refugees half of them children

they drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in the bay of bengal near a bangladeshi fishing village where china is ruling communist party says it will not drive global market reforms instead choosing to focus on business at home the comments were made a day ahead of the nineteen party congress more than two thousand party delegates are set to decide who will run the country president xi jinping is expected to map out his ambitions for china and further tighten its his grip on power adrian brown has more from beijing. xi jinping is a confident leader confident enough to be carrying out the biggest of a shake up of the communist party that has ruled china for almost seven decades. the president did over the whole includes the people's liberation army until now untouchable three hundred thousand troops have been dismissed and top generals ousted with many accused of corruption combating graft in the military is part of

a wider cleanup. more than one point four million high and low ranking officials have been brought down including some regarded as political rivals she's also taken a hard line against dissent with a string of labor rights lawyers and social activist jailed many people have compared him to mao tse-tung but i think he simply doesn't mesh measure up to the to the great chemistry and because. people fear him much more than people respect or love him are not of his power has the right from the fact that he has been very effective in using the anticorruption operators according to precedent she should now be starting his second and final term in office but that seems unlikely heating things supremacies at this congress appears assured he already holds more titles than any of his predecessors president party secretary head of the military and

call leader and he could be in line for a new title chairman. lucia chin is a commentator who reflects government thinking he says she offers continuity in an uncertain world i think that she is still available and she has a chance to extend official terms longer term of fifteen i can hear three of us like a. german and so i think if we find a good candidate a good leader while we should not keep did i say life is possible. in the streets people we spoke to echoed that view. of course i hope she would be reappointed she is to very best the disturbed and the b. are very satisfied as long as she's beneficial to the motherland he should be selected for several terms. in my life has improved and the my family's economy

condition is better so we can show more. president xi has said he wants to make china stronger and more prosperous his message appears to be this i need more time to make that happen. adrian brown al-jazeera beijing for women who quit their jobs to have children or look after elderly relatives often find it difficult to get back into the workplace but a new model in london is helping women regain their professional identity just baldwin explains. constructing a super sewer to meet the demands of a growing with us tideway is building the twenty four kilometer tunnel it's also building up its workforce of women with internships designed for women who've taken career breaks henry had to give her to time off to raise three children she wanted to go back but with a gaping hole in her c.v. companies weren't interested so she applied for

a high level paid internship i felt quite confident but when i said i'm. going to what am i doing i do. these questions so i think that's a natural way to feel probably when you're suddenly back in that situation the internship now a full time job was organized by women return or they found many women needed support to get out of the house and into the office there is an erosion of self confidence and self belief that happens when you lose that professional identity and also just as importantly it's very challenging to get in through the door and i say sure because if you send your c.v. in through traditional grades you tend to be dismissed as a risky candidate you go to the bottom of the pile the majority of internships become full time jobs but two thirds of them could be working below their potential even so it is creating a pipeline of experienced women is a game changer because we will never stop having people who take breaks for me this

is something that should happen in every organization every year across the country and it makes economic sense the impact on the u.k. economy of women being out of the workforce is estimated at more than two billion dollars a year. return programs come at a perfect time careers are getting longer so it makes sense to go back to work for companies it could be the solution to it problem for twenty years we've talked about diversity getting women into management positions and nothing seems to happen companies now have access to a resource that hasn't been tapped qualified returning women with experience could it finally be the elusive crack through the glass ceiling jessica baldwin al-jazeera london.

the headlines on al-jazeera the syrian city of has been retaken from eisel fighters by u.s. backed syrian forces civilians have been fleeing eisel self declared capital for weeks as fighting for the city intensified over recent weeks. kurdish forces are suffering huge territorial losses in iraq a day after government troops seized the northern city of kirkuk they've now withdrawn from the town. as well as giving up control of several oil fields charles stratford has more from erbil. it is a huge constellation here the government. is going all of them and some very big questions being made by the good regional government as to how this is happened and interestingly enough the conspiracy theories running rife was somebody old was

there at the to kill a policy that was responsible for making this happen with in the k. all g the philippine president says his military has liberated the southern city of mirali after a five month battle against isolating fighters president rodrigo the territory says the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his ministry says fighting is still continuing and the announcements came a day after two senior commanders of the group were killed more than a thousand people have been killed in the conflict it's displaced at least four hundred thousand as well the taliban says it's responsible for a suicide bomb attack that's killed at least thirty two people at a police training center in afghanistan's paktia province a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound that was followed by a gun battle between authorities and the attackers israel is expected to announce plans to build almost two and a half thousand new settlements units forty percent are earmarked to be built of the separation wall in the occupied west bank. the u.n.

says the number for refugees who fled violence in me in mar has risen to five hundred eighty two thousand global body released drone video to highlight the scale of the mass exodus. to bangladesh. those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next stay with us. sébastien kurtz declares victory in austria's national election which will feels a swing to the right so where will the so-called one that kids take austria what this is ryan's mean for europe this is inside story.