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the capital rucka. about i've been watching our jazeera live from london also coming up. more territory in northern iraq leaving their dream of independence there in titus . after saturday's massive truck bombing the president has been. and is calling for more international help. and a refugee crisis that showing no signs of easing more than ten thousand range across from miramar into bangladesh in just forty eight hours. first to syria where u.s. forces have driven out from itself the capital of iraq and syria after a tough four month battle the kurdish led siri. and democratic forces have raised

their flag inside the city stadium which i thought had turned into a huge prison for anyone who oppose their role begins our coverage. kurdish fighters triumphantly into iraq they're celebrating the capture of the city which was a main stronghold in syria but. it wasn't easy for. the syrian democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the us began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling but. we control rocket but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters fighting we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that

iraq is under their control fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria. and it burns that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two have recently been competing to expand their military gains in iraq and dealers or on his cross live to hashem he's an attack in turkey has had high profits for us than to hashem this is a hugely significant moment isn't it for syria. i so has no longer any access whatsoever to the part of the country particularly talking about iraq a problem they were hoping to use rock as a platform to further expand towards places like. here and.

now they are pulling out for the words. we've been told that. which is the s.d.s. police unit is going to take control of the city of tomorrow but the armed forces are going to continue their journey towards. the oil which province where they hoping to gain more territory and victor ice in from syria and that is one of the key questions isn't it who will now control rocket and will people who used to live there who fled when they now return and what will they find. well the post i still iraq is definitely going to pose many challenges for not only the the but also for the international community we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people fled the fighting in. fact by the fighting. over the last few months of basically

you won't be able to send them back home because the area is not safe there are concerns about booby traps buildings or mines in the area and some entire neighborhoods were completely destroyed this is rehab elicitation and rebuilding iraq is something that requires a huge amount of effort but also a lot of money and only the international community can afford to help with that but to do that you need also to find a political solution to the crisis in syria i think this is going to be the top priority now facing everyone in iraq the sikkens make biggest problem is now that the as the earth is moving to world from the door of the syrian military it's all for also moving towards the us or for the the south they're both on a collision course and this is going to pose also many many challenges for everyone hoping to see i still defeated in syria by caution with a history forcing from antakya thank you.

the iraqi government and its allies have captured more territory from kurdish forces in the country's north the kurdish peshmerga are still in control and a hook and slim and near the three provinces that make up the semi autonomous kurdish region they have withdrawn from singe are mark kirk and kind of kin all of which they took over during the fight against i saw these areas were included in the kurdish referendum on secession last month a vote that infuriated baghdad and ultimately triggered its move on the disputed territories well our serious child that is on the outskirts of erbil in northern iraq and i gather that in the last couple of minutes sir charles we've been hearing from the president of the kurdistan region. that's right along this long way to full statement issued by the president more suit barzani fairly brief read out some of the things that he say that the most salient things. suspects to the

various conspiracies that have been batted around as to why this withdrawal of pressure from these areas these disputed areas happened so quickly and mr barzani said that what happened in quetta cook was as a result of what he described as a unilateral decisions made by some officials now this is as i say perfectly consistent with some of the allegations that have been made by other members of his party the k t p against senior figures in the p u k policy the general come on earlier today described what he said was historical treason by certain members of the p u k and that's why the peshmerga withdrew so quickly from kirkuk an interesting lee a former senior aide to the p k party is demanding that a transitional government be set up and that what he describes as more effective channels of dialogue

a stablished between the k r g and baghdad i mean all indications are off to this last quite incredible two days of this sudden superfast withdrawal of these troops from areas that the k r g had that vision which would play an intake will paulton a future independent state that president barzani could well be described as facing one of the biggest political challenges of his career. concerning those key installations that we've been talking about in the last couple of days that the iraqi troops be needing towards then taking where we are. you're breaking up there but with respect to what i believe you said was something to do with the oil ministry the the ministry of made a statement saying that they intend on increasing the amount of oil output from kirkuk the oil fields that they retook today and yesterday from the estimated six

hundred barrels a day that the kurds were pumping out of that area to one million barrels they also said that if the k r g the kurdish regional government in any way inhibited that outflow of oil they would face legal issues and the government also saying that it was going to involve foreign firms contractors to come in and improve the infrastructure of all of those oil fields we also know that in the immediate aftermath and immediate wake of that controversial referendum the iraqi government said that it was going to restart a pipeline that had been damaged by isis that basically circumvented the kurdish regional government territory in order to get the oil out to turkey and it's an indication just how quickly the iraqi government wants to see benefit from the vast oil wealth in and around kirkuk all right. thanks.

and i'm joined by out is there a senior political analyst now bashar assad take a wider look at these the wealth even if it can developments in both syria and iraq one is still with iraq first of all and specifically the iraqi kurds what next for them and how does this all play into the wider issues of both iraq and syria were clearly there is and there's a deal of some sort is complicity. the kurds that expanded towards kerk on other cities that they would withdraw from them so now that we or that the iraqis and the syrians have taken on the i saw challenge and basically defeating defeated i so there's a new challenge coming up on the horizon and it is bigger in iraq than it is in syria which is the kurdish challenge the unity of the country it seems for this city that over the last decade or decade and a half certainly since the arab spring the legitimacy of the regimes on those countries and in the global middle east just as the territorial unity and integrity

of those countries that we've seen since the second world war since the colonial era is all being put in question how do we draw the map of the region do you maintain the iraqi unity or not or is it ok for kurdistan to secede and become independent clearly the regional powers are and iraq like iran syria are opposed to any kurdish attempts at three of secession independence and hence we might see as the kurds would draw to their strongholds and another part of iraq that we might be preparing for the next confrontation they thought they had a setback they specifically in iraq i mean was it mistake to call that the session referendum. of course you know like it's in catalonia apparently nowadays the questions of a referendum if it is not part and parcel of whatever the constitutional legitimacy is and if it's not in consensus with

a majority of votes. countries in iraq with the rest of the iraqis in spain it's where the rest of spanish people then those who are from the becomes becomes a session ists and becomes hostile to the majority so while the minority has digital rights kurds have legitimate rights but within the nation states or within the modern state that say they need to work it out somehow with the majorities or with the region or with international law and so on and so forth so yes clearly they have overstepped what is possible and what is rational at this point in time and that's why they're attracting all the countries all the major powers with the exception of israel that talks but doesn't walk when it comes to kurdistan now the turks and the iranians the regime itself in iraq as well as saudi arabia are all saying we need national unity we cannot deal with breakup of a country like iraq quick look at what's happening in syria then the future of life

in syria but perhaps even more importantly how does the liberation if you like of rocca how does that affect the one to six year civil war in this country this is what's so interesting is that there's a lot of differences and there are similarities with two in iraq and syria both were ruled by a bath both have legitimacy issues both the regimes are in you know in in major challenge with the rest of the population and in both situations we have regional international powers intervening and we have a kurdish questions emerging so in turkey i mean turkey and iran are major forces in syria and iraq and i think turkey is making it clear it will not allow for a kurdish expanded tone of mr. can thought of sort to emerge in northern syria just like it will not allow for one to emerge in northern iraq the syrian regime and the iraqi regime agree with that just like iran does interestingly the united states of

supports both the iraqi regime and the kurds but does not support the assad regime but supports that be why id is staying on the sidelines so really so many variables so many actors and such a lack of clarity about the way moving forward but clearly that the forces in the region with the most leverage turkey and iran are hostile both to i saw and to the emergence of independent kurdish homeland of sort in northern syria or another terribly complex that marketeer now says thank you thank you afghanistan's deputy interior minister says at least seventy one people have been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban forty one people died in a suicide bombing and gun battle at a police training center in paktia province over one hundred fifty were injured in that attack and at least thirty others were killed in car bombings in neighboring gosney province. catalans president colors praised them or has walked out of

a cabinet meeting in protest against the arrest of two separatists leaders the leaders of the catalan national assembly and all me i'm a group dedicated to promoting the catalan culture and language were arrested on monday and are being investigated for and there to sedition they're being held without bail is the first attention off senior process session figures since catalans controversial independence referendum. with us on the program because still ahead. the death of a high profile journalist whose research into corruption had attracted powerful enemies join us for more in a minute. how the remains of tropical depressions tropical storms are always around the south china sea the end of the season and we still got plenty of motion to come on to the

coast of vietnam but it's a fading feature so yes it still will be wet and there are still floods around but if anything is going to be drawing of the next day or so the same is true in the west china we get to the higher ground that cloud breaks. that is still spotty showers tough around in sichuan but the line breaks for you get to shanghai it's dry and sunny from shanghai down to hong kong and right runs of it means coast and the monsoon trough is still heading south through india did pulse back last week when up to good you're right at the moment it's showing itself near chennai but there's a possibility of a development in the by a bangor is in the forecast a slow circulation and is drifting north was towards bangladesh or suffered so badly of course with this monsoon season but this whole area in the northeast of india by this suffered badly there's more rain on the its way takes away most impresses further west it looks dry for chennai then going to ruin and new delhi thirty four degrees in the sunshine here still quite warm for this time of the year

in the arabian peninsula it's all dry and free of planet is a bit of a breeze flowing down the gulf so thirty seven still seems quite how high for doha but with low humidity. in the final part of a six part series filmed of a five year olds. still fight for their land. and ground the film because of the saga. crackdown the concluding. democracy experiment at this time.

and again and reminder at the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. backed forces have driven out for itself declared capital of right in syria the battle to take the city from myself began. kurdish forces have suffered more territorial losses in iraq a day after government troops. and the afghan government says at least seventy one people have been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban one of the attacks was at a police training center impact and. rescue operations are continuing in somalia's capital for those still missing after the bomb attack in the country's history or the three hundred people were killed by a suicide truck explosion on saturday thirty five seriously injured victims have been flown to turkey for treatment. has the latest from.

that at least one suspect in connection with that a bombing in the cup. of the of the truck laden with explosives and was used for cutting out bombing in one of the busiest streets in mogadishu. emerging about the final moments before the car. driver of the truck was hauled out a checkpoint versus security of. the vehicle. killing. injuring hundreds of others now the president has appealed what international support the government is. all al-shabaab you third that the international community allowed all. to succeed here and also about

will. come people violence abroad. the united nations refugee agency is urging bangladesh to speed up vetting of nearly fifteen thousand refugees said to be stranded near the border with me and more on monday the u.n. a.c.r. released this drone footage showing the scale of the crisis the agency wants people move further inland to safer and better conditions for half a million ringette now known to have fled since one is broke out in mammals western rakhine state in august time a child really has more for us from cox's bizarre near the bangladeshi border with me and mark. the units here aerial footage shows a large number of refugees on the other side of bother trying to cross into bangladesh now this is corroborated by our soldiers on the other side as well as bangladesh border god on monday

a ten to fifteen thousand refugees crossed over into bangladesh and shop where they bury and along their land boundary area the influx is continuous maybe not in staggering numbers sometimes but on average two to four thousand people crosses into bangladesh the fifth ration on the other side in myanmar is still very active and volatile what we hear from the refugees talking to them families and other members is that they are very scared to get out of the house that is no food all the food shops are closed there's no aid agency distributing any kind of food specially in western russia there are all kinds state rather and they're trying to cross into buying that there's this take shelter in forest area our filtered island in the not very bad and wait for the optimum moment to cross into bangladesh on the other side the bank of this government is not planning to set up a huge refugee camp which is supposed to accommodate up to eight hundred thousand people that is a staggering number of people in one refugee camp how they're going to manage this is a question yet to be seen this is a larger than the population of washington d.c.

city one reason the government is trying to do that is that on one the royal refugees to scattered across bangor that they want to confine them in one area so they can have a better planning of distribution of relate aid and other emergency aid into one particular camp but most of this camp around the ruler shanty town to accommodate that many people in one concentrated area is a clear danger of spreading of infectious disease and also a very uncomfortable and i have been in a small concentrated area in one particular place this situation remains volatile and active in both side of the border as up now. in malta the son of a journalist killed in a car bomb on monday has called the country a matter of state run by what he described as critics daphne cairo on a glitzy a run a blog highlighting cases of alleged corruption among politicians on the island protesters of how demonstration demanding answers about her death or insley reports . deftly carolina had said multi was being run by crooks those mourning her murder

agree there's a lot they gathered outside the law court in the capital the letter the center of the investigation the journalist family has already succeeded in getting the head of that investigation changed she had herself been a target of glaziers work was it is our obligation to ask the state to defend as the state did not defend definitely the state did not do anything. whose car was blown to pieces had alleged widespread corruption and links between state actors the betting industry and the math here in malta on twitter journalists and others expressed their outrage so to do it in a sandwich the founder of wiki leaks he put a twenty thousand euro reward up for information there was a tribute to from the european commission in brussels president young and the european commission condemned this attack in the strongest terms possible. their

right to free journalist to investigate ask him for an uncomfortable questions and report effectively is at the heart of our values and needs to be guaranteed that all the times. reported extensively on the panama papers the giant leak of information about how the global rich cover up their wealth in offshore shell companies in the biggest indication of how far her allegations went attribute came into from the maltese prime minister joseph muscat his wife had been accused by galicia of running a company out of. muscat and bill as you hated each other it's when i work. i condemn without reservation the barbaric attack on the person and against the freedom of speech in our country everyone knows carolina galicia was a harsh critic of mine both politically and personally but nobody can justify this barbaric attack in any way glaziers workmate or countless powerful enemies it is

a fact that some of them now have to investigate a murder and do it properly gloriously al-jazeera israel has advanced plans for more than a thousand useta homes in the occupied west bank and others are likely to follow the government has promised to push ahead with more illegal construction schemes with u.s. president donald trump far less critical of excitement expansion than his predecessor barack obama i foresee it has more from ramallah. well at the end of the first day of a two day meeting of the committee which deals with these planning approvals we have some initial numbers one thousand two hundred and ninety two housing units approved plans for those housing units approved at some stage what on what is a fairly lengthy series of approvals on top of that two hundred and ninety six tenders for construction approved the illegal israeli settlement of beit il behind me here in the occupied west bank this does represent

a real excel aeration of the settlements business under the prime ministership of benjamin netanyahu this is one of four. planning meetings that take place during the year and this announcement alone what's expected to come over the next couple of days rivals or even exceeds what happened in the whole of the last year now we have a new president of course in the white house many on the process lament lobby in israel were expecting and hoping for the brakes to be released and its construction to be accelerated still further benjamin netanyahu saying that no single israeli settlement will ever be uprooted in the future trying to shore up his credentials in his coalition however there are those among the processor lobby that say this even this isn't enough that construction isn't moving ahead at fast enough a pace of course for the palestinians is more bad news for anyone hoping for a two state solution it really does cement the key problem they say which is israeli settlements three days that national mourning have begun in portugal after

thirty seven people died in wildfires emergency teams fighting the blazes have been helped by rain and lower temperatures on tuesday many people accusing the government of not being prepared for these latest fire sixty four people were killed in places in central portugal engine. china's ruling communist party says its five year lee congress will ensure president xi jinping thinking is imbedded in its constitution president xi is expected to map out his ambitions to china and further tighten his grip on power at the congress which opens on wednesday adrian brown has more from beijing. she 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 unprecedented overhaul 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 quick comes in because. people fear him much more than people respect or love him and all 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's what she. really was and she has a chance to extend a piece terms longer than a kind of fifteen years we have like of. germany so i think if we find a good candidate i could be a 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 day disturbed at the v.a. are very satisfied as long as she's beneficial to the motherland we should be

selected for several terms. in my life has improved in the my fan base economy conditions better so we can show more president she 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. on your mind of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. back forces have driven out i saw from itself the cloud capital of raka in syria syrian democratic forces have raised their flag inside the city stadium which also had turned into a huge prison to hold anyone who oppose their rule the battle to take the city for myself again in june civilians have been fleeing for weeks as the fighting intensified i shall bring has more from attacking. we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people who fled the fighting who were affected by the fighting. in

iraq over the last few months of basically you will be able to send them back home because the into the areas that are safe about booby trapped buildings or mines in the area and some entire neighborhoods in iraq were completely destroyed this is going we hardly dacian and rebuilding iraq is something broke wising amount of. a lot of money. kurdish forces have lost more territory in northern iraq a day after government troops seized the northern city of kirkuk they withdrawn from the towns of sin jar mamu kirkuk and hundred qin as well as giving up control of several oil fields tension has been mounting in the oil rich region since the kurds held a referendum on secession last month. afghanistan's deputy interior minister says at least seventy one people have been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban forty one died in a suicide bombing and a gun battle at a police training center impactive province more than one hundred fifty were

injured in that attack at least thirty others were killed in car bombings in neighboring province. the un's refugee agency is urging bangladesh to speed up vetting of around fifteen thousand refugees said to be stranded near the border with me and mark new drone footage showing the scale of the crisis has been released the agency wants the people moved further inland to safer and better conditions. catalans president carter's push for more has walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest against the arrest of two separatists leaders leaders of the catalan national assembly and a minium a group dedicated to promoting the cattle and culture and language were arrested on monday and are being investigated for alleged sedition and those were his headlines on al-jazeera stay with us were cam is coming next by.

tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each year driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one village defied the odds.