it was. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today and moscow's empire our series starting november fifth on jane doe. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin fears grew up a new conflict in iraq as government forces from baghdad push ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish areas both the u.n. and the u.s. up pealing for com also coming up a prominent investigative journalist is killed in

a com bomb attack in malta the e.u. says its heart of fire at the death of deafening gutted sia hassan accuses the government of complicity. and in soccer the champions league hits the pitch on tuesday and it's crunch time for bundesliga team are being leipzig they face support though in a must win match that could kick stop a european hopes. i know i'm under touchy about good to have you with us. iraqi government forces say they've taken control of all major oil fields in the disputed northern province of kirkuk they're also pushing into other areas that are outside of the kurdish autonomy area and would want bank that calls operations to defend iraq's integrity after kurds voted for independence in a referendum last month and that vote was held in the autonomy's region of iraqi

kurdistan and also in some disputed areas outside of its official borders like in kirkuk the iraqi army's retaliating and retaking what it considers its last air dream the kurds had occupied those areas when so-called islamic state advanced across the country kurdish forces have been redrawn voluntarily in some areas but other reports say they have been clashes we have this report. celebrations in. iraqi forces role in. supporters of the iraqi central government could contain their joy. oh as olea thousands of kurdish residents fled the city ahead of the advance. of the world you were heading to irbil because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops have entered and there's no way we could stay. on the line our children are terrified we were afraid

that there would be clashes and mortar rounds would have told us that's what i'm worried about. can't cook an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and the iraqi government had been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled when the slimy state militants swept through the region in twenty fourteen now it's back into the control of the iraqi government the advance comes three weeks after residents in the kurdistan region and also here in kirkuk voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a controversial referendum kurdish peshmerga leaders see the seizure of kirkuk amounts to a declaration of war. now with me i have florian oil journalist who has reported extensively from iraq including kid cook welcome for a foreigner you will often embedded with iraqi forces it seems they've taken control of many of the disputed regions what is the latest you're hearing about the

offensive well after taking a cook quite easily yesterday that is there now also have moved troops interesting close to the syrian border and areas closer to the iranian border and also moved on to that was pretty controlled by the kurds around the city of mosul and it seems to me that the peshmerga are retreating without a fight today after that where some trash yesterday now give us some context why is this certain area off northern iraq considered disputed regions and this was territory that was not part of they did not become part of the autonomous. the coach autonomous zone after the second gulf war which the kurds very much see as part of a. to kurdistan why is that because goods on a majority of it know these areas are ethnically mixed and it's there's no real certainty as to who provides an majority there where there's arabs were not kurds because there haven't been any census done for generations for decades so there's

no real clarity there but it is technically iraqi territory not kurdish apart the kurdish zone now this iraqi army offensive comes shortly after the kids had a referendum where they overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence on the concerns that the iraqi army might now push into what is considered autonomy goodish areas. there will be concerns personally i don't really share those i think the strain of the kurdish regional government is so dire in any case that the measures that the iraqi governors take and nonmilitary measures are strong enough to bring a bill to its heels over time and how does this see this conflict evolving florin for example iraq is a largely shia country do you see this conflict between the shia led government and the tilts and the codes i beg your pardon escalating. i think they have a lated as as much as they possibly can again i don't think there will be iraqi

units moving into the autonomous zone itself. and you have to remember that these areas that the iraqis have moved into are part of the iraqi territory and i think once they have reclaimed those i think they will hold their advance but that's not accepted by the code as you've said the bush medica have redrawn for for now but is that going to stay would that be a state or would they try to retake these activities which they consider as a part of the economist region. given that they have drawn large without a fight be surprised if they now suddenly change their attack and start attacking the iraqi army i think they advance by the iraqis or will not the contest as florian nor hope for genesis was extensively covered in the iraqi conflict thank you very much for joining us. let's have a look at some of the stories making news around the world u.s. backed finds in syria have retaken. the city the so-called islamic state considered

its de facto capital troops don's on the streets says the full month battle nears an end they've been no official declaration of the city has been recaptured lookee military leaders say a few dozen extremist fighters remain. in afghanistan at least fifteen people have been killed in a suicide attack in a gun attack at a police academy in the eastern province of the taliban says it's carried out the attack militants earlier killed fourteen people in nearby gus the province after setting off a bomb outside a police headquarters and then storming the building. spain's defense ministry says a military plane has crashed at an airfield outside madrid a spokesman says the f. eighteen jet crashed during takeoff killing the pilot no one else was in board the cause of the accident is not yet clear. one of mottos mortars best known investigative journalist has been killed by

a car bomb definitely not glitzy i was known for her reports accusing the government of corruption she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret bank accounts in panama morty's prime minister jews of god called the murder a barbaric act he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics definite corona. exploded just after she had driven away from her home and master the town outside. the force of the blast flung her vehicle over a wall into a field the journalist had filed a report with the police two weeks ago but she was receiving threats some three thousand people gathered for a vigil on monday evening to mourn her. she was an anti corruption crusader on multiverse best known investigative journalist the case in stone the small matter crying in ireland which is home to some four hundred parents and people family

friend luke friend oh told the crowd her death would not be in vain. i think definitely was not only a journalist and an absolutely fearless human being but. a fourth pillar of our democracy and that today's heinous crime was was not only against a human being against a journalist but against a pillar of everyone's democracy and i i hope that's why i know that her life is is it was definitely not for nothing and i'm sure though the torch will be carried by somebody else. sees prime minister joseph miscount who wanted to leave here accused of wrongdoing earlier this year called her killing a barbaric attack on press freedom the journalist had revealed that the panama papers allegedly showed the prime minister's wife owned a company in panama and that large sums of money had been moved between the company

and bank accounts in azerbaijan muscat called early elections in june as a vote of confidence to counter the allegations he was reelected after he and his wife denied the accusations politico magazine had named. as one of twenty eight europeans who are shaping shaking and stirring europe. i spoke earlier to hammond grace the digital editor of the times of he knew definitely to see a well i asked him what went through his mind when he called about the calm attack and her death. no i mean look definitely going to get it is. quite possibly the most controversial journalists ever lived and lot of ok she was a no holds barred kind of writer she used to. call a spade a spade she used to go overboard sometimes which proclaims she used to dig in to

put people's personal lives and there were. certain ethical john standards that's i think she went overboard sometimes but in reality she was a very very good journalist she was still one of the ones who were dark and deeply into and to the crime scene the crime criminals drug gangs and. money launderers she was the first to also break the papers scandal which had been doing its tool of more. government officials to the pentagon papers so she was always in the line fire line of fire and he was smart and probably resented it will measure and she would take on everybody she even took on any describe you as a friend i am not really a friend of hers but i mean she i respect we're expected to each other as connie but in reality she just decided that nobody is untouchable but of course in the line of fire was always the ruling labor governments now what was it that she was

investigating which would put her in the line of fire and make somebody so angry that they would want to take a life. take your pick periodicity. she wrote about drug barons she wrote about money launderers and. she spoke about the pandemic papers in detail sure to call on everybody that's she felt didn't apply the rule of law or the what people who went astray from from what she called the norms of society should show it's more just rife with corruption she felt it was just about money and nothing else so trust me it's going to be really difficult for any investigators to try to get to the bottom of it and the problem is the way she was killed the accident was not some random shooting you know she was blown up into smithereens. this is

a kind of mafia killing style and you know her car was blown up right outside her residence. so this is not just some random killer here this distrust must be more organized than that henman dash a digital editor of the times of moore to thank you very much for talking to did. your work turning out to sports and r.v. lapses in action in the champions league group later today last season they finished second in the bundesliga but they have struggled to replicate that form in europe the a bottom of their group heading to tonight's home game against f.c. partho. so far the red bulls haven't really had their head in europe and are bottom of their group after two games playing multiple matches a week requires squad depth and coach guy pozen hurdle is confident he can get the best out of his team and you this is the coaching staff have to ensure we have the fittest players in the starting eleven and those players play the leipzig way if we

manage that with them or an uncomfortable opponent for every team in one shift in the game to be. on the back of an impressive win against dortmund lights are in good nick even better star striker team a van a could return after a prolonged spell on the sidelines. for his marshall plan for number one i haven't yet decided whether he'll starts will be on the bench. the important thing is he's injury free. but he needs some time to get back to his best after such a long break from training. opponents porto are top of the portuguese league but just two points ahead of light sic in the group a first european win could see the german side overtake porto and claim second spot . and we have to wait and see if that happens coming up ahead last week of tons of purchase pots of air berlin now it's one in a bid for parts of italy's and italia could germany's number one ally and be said

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