and are those that are alive endangered psychos in distress find out more in our interactive internet documentary at d w dot com site gus. this is deja vu news coming to you live from burning the de facto capital of the islamic states capital city in syria forced to u.s. supported forces. goodish midsole just celebrated in one of the last may just strongholds of the said star caliphate commander say the

city of raka is liberated but cleanup operations are still under way also coming up bogged down pushes ahead with an offensive to retake the disputed kurdish areas in northern iraq as the u.n. and the u.s. the p.t. for calm. and a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e.u. says it's hard to find at the death of duffy sia the son accuses the government of complicity. plus in sport the champions league hits the pitch on tuesday and it's crunch time for monday's the gun team's live says face portal one door twenty eight gone and it was both clubs need a win to get their respective campion's back on track.

hello and welcome i'm under touchy about thank you very much for joining us. u.s. bank find is in syria had retaken rock on the city the so-called islamic state considered its de facto capital a commander of the troops fighting isis operations are underway to clear the city of landmines and militant sleep a cell's dozens of jihad this had made their last stand in the city stadium but it's still unclear if they remained holed up there meanwhile the sunni just celebrated iraq as liberation as the full month battle and. joining me now is a bendish as she is a middle east security expert linked with a german think tank mentor to reports on the de facto capital of the so-called islamic state has been liberated if this is confirmed what that means the back of the islamic state has been broken. well at least that written and how the end of

this territoriality i mean the special thing about isis as opposed to other terrorists or extremist critics were that they claimed her territory and they established this informal capital there with syria and that their presence in the article chris this deal a blow to their operations to be perceived as a state like entity now they are is apparently still controlled spots of iraq and syria so does the group still remain a security threat do you think. well i think we really have to calculate that the kids also if you remember before i suspect are other similar groups from which is the end isis then you're right the ideology is what remains of it even though the territory stops being its state and we've seen this problem mostly in the recent score it's become a life which is like the situation in iraq worse and they are describe a ledge

a lack of access a lack of justice for like most of the population and their frothing we don't have many of the reasons there why isis came into being in the press case the military strategy has not been backed up by a political strategy so to say no the islamic system in the sunni radicals how support does this group have from looking for places and as you talked about other splinter terrorist groups i mean the support was always an issue where we really couldn't figure out how big it in the end what because isis struck a teacher role with virtual force france oppressed everybody and every different opinion has made it possible in its status to express opposition which seems that many people really choice one i think the government they are happy with any other kind of ruling now it's the kurds may be retaken bucca people are happy about that even though kurds might not be the population of the location doesn't really

support is a low that as i mentioned there are reasons for some people to still remain weak were that they perceive as presenting some interest now when you're talking going to be looking at bitches off you know troops celebrating the full of just got cleanup operations apparently still going on because you suspected to be man mines in the city but finally can you sum up what is the significance of the four lavaca which islamic state considered its de facto capital off of a caliphate. it is a crucial point because that that we really see. that however we should not be too happy about it because we really need to see how to get through this together how to avoid any circumstances that can allow them to come back and talk of it that the services and the capital of america i think it would turn the willingness and questions we really could look i would work competently. a security expert on middle east politics thank you very much for your assessment thank you

turning now to iraq where government forces say they've taken control of all major oil fields in the disputed northern province of coke they're also pushing into other areas that are outside the kurdish autonomous area in what vanguard operations to defend iraq's integrity after kurds voted for independence in a referendum last month now that vote was held in the autonomy region of iraqi kurdistan you can see that at the top there and also in some disputed areas outside of its official borders like in critical going that you seek south of it bill now the iraqi army is retaliating and retaking what it considers its last sean here in grade nine the occupied those areas so-called islamic state advanced across the country goodish forces have been be drawing voluntarily in some areas but other reports say they have been clashes we have this report.

celebrations in can't cook as iraqi forces roll 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 we were heading to irbil because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops have entered and there's no way we could stay. on. our children are terrified we were afraid that there would be clashes and mortar rounds would have 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 kids have voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in

a controversial referendum kurdish peshmerga leaders say 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 authority you will often embedded with iraqi forces it seems they have 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 is yesterday and 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. as part of a greater kurdistan why is that because goods on a majority that 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 held a referendum where the 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 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 kurds i beg your pardon escalating. i think they have pesky 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 with that be a state or would they try to retake this which they consider as

a part of the autonomous region. given that they have drawn largely without a fight the surprise is there now suddenly change their talk and start attacking the iraqi army i think they advanced by the iraqis for well not the contest as florian noyo for genesis was extensively covered in the iraqi conflict thank you very much for joining us hopes were high for south sudan when it became the once youngest nation six years ago but today the country is in a disastrous state more than four million people have been forced to flee their homes because of an ongoing civil war when six million people need food aid to survive we follow the struggle of one woman trying to put food on the table for her family. honey has been waiting for this moment for six weeks. she's walked four hours from her village to the refugee camp inventive to get food

to feed her family. i'm very grateful now i've got some beans next comes the children's food and the grain and oil to. the ngo that hunger hits from germany together with the u.n. world food program provides food for more than two hundred thousand people here every month one of the most difficult circumstances. there are frequent attacks which require u.n. soldiers to protect the camp. but hanna doesn't live in the camp for the mother of four the most dangerous part of her journey is just about to begin. transporting the food to the village is very difficult but i have no choice my family has starving who are women but if i take everything at once armed men will

take it all away from me so i have to make several trips. if i have only a little bit on me then they can only take part of the food away with the. government troops and rebels have been fighting here for years but what started as a political conflict between the president and his vice president quickly took on ethnic dimensions pitting the two largest ethnic groups the dinka and the new or against each other. the minister for humanitarian affairs is seen as one of the few balanced voices inside the government but he admits mistakes have been made. people into their own hands even within the government that i'm some. individuals what i'm truly and that's why i don't know whether you heard that some people were arrested and being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to

where home village kind of visits her mother in the camp. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. the challenges facing south sudan you're watching the news coming up ahead it's crunch time in the champions league for bundesliga side and life and dortmund well both searching for their for continental wins of the season. but first tonight joins me from the business desk and germany's biggest airline just cons on a buying spree had in the case it is and rita is going to very long shopping list of course it did just parts of a now it's setting its sights on a tally of germany's largest airline lift answer of course putting in a bid for

a leading flag carrier and tons of british budget easyjet just two of the seven companies that handed in sealed envelopes yesterday in the hope of scoring parts of the italian annulment. the battle to carver is heating up the ailing airline has only made a profit a few times in its seventy year history. among the big names interested germany's last times its reportedly offering half a billion euros for parts of the airline the air giant is only interested in aviation business and not its grand operations if that deal goes ahead half of the employees of italy's largest airline could lose their jobs that's around six thousand people another bidder is british budget carrier easy just put it to only once a slice of the pie europe's largest budget airline ryanair has already withdrawn its bid for the airline office for parts of alitalia may not find favor in rome

which wants to sell the whole airline. and joining us now from frankfurt is van back he's the head of the monopolies commission that's an independent group which advises the german government on competition questions thank you very much for being with us today now look cancer has put in for parts of other tell us some say it's already been allowed to simply pick the best bits or do you agree with that assessment. taken part of. the largest company buying second largest so there are a lot of competition issues arising so when you mention some best parts they have to take as it only takes all parts when the competition issues come up or what advice did your panel give to the german government regarding the case and do you feel that they took your advice on board that it was a fair that it's acting in a fair manner. yes that section issues the soul says the procedure worked ok so

that belin went insolvent then the creator's committee took over and they decided to sell parts to the tons and other parts still in negotiation so that's ok but at an early stage the german government already expressed its interest that looked under should take at least part of it in and i think that's a private companies they are negotiating with each other and so it's not so drop of the government having said that it's a use of or is a good company so it's a there's no harm in this that lufthansa buy some parts if it's not for competition issues so what we've seen now is said to groups in commission to investigate this merger and if there are complaints so if they're really brought into competition issues then i guess you drew a conclusion we'll step in well what will it mean for us the passenger. so i think we have to wait until the decision of the group commission will be made and it's you know they have to investigate blind by lying because you know if you

fly from i know from from from frankfurt to london it's no eternity if to fly it or to paris instead so so they have to investigate on every line what is it is what is the competition situation there and you know is that ok is that the sense of bias evident in that line or not and otherwise they have to give up slots so the right to start and then i guess they have to give up some of the slots if you know him as a general remark you know it's a large the largest one in germany is buying the second largest that's not good for competition him than bought head of the monopolies commission here in germany thank you very much for your insights spain has lowered its growth forecast for twenty eighteen as it continues to grapple with its worst political crisis in decades the region of catalonia and the controversial referendum in the region as well as the heavy handed police response from the trade of plunge the country into a political crisis which is already happening and dramatic economic impact. this

was the scene outside the headquarters of the catalan government on monday nice protesters expressing their outrage over the rest of two pro separatist leaders it's only the latest twist in a battle of wills between madrid and barcelona and the political turmoil is swiftly translating into economic uncertainty the crisis over catalonia as quest for independence has prompted the spanish government to lower its growth forecast for next year from two point six percent to two point three percent the move comes after economists raise concern over the potential fallout of the crisis last week in the us that we're seeing agencies have warned that the uncertain political and economic situation could affect the catalan economy companies continue to leave the result could be a recession that would undoubtedly affect the growth of g.d.p. . there for thirty or. thirty min though the vote in the. pro separatists have long maintained that catalonia would prosper without financial

obligation to spain but since the crisis broke companies have been leaving the region in their droves the two biggest banks have already moved their headquarters elsewhere and hundreds of smaller companies have packed their bags to accounting for over a fifth of the national g.d.p. what happens to catalonia as economy happens to spain as a whole. business throughout the day. now rita is looking at a deeply troubling attack on a journalist and a press freedom as well that's right and one of more to us best known investigative journalist has been killed by a car bomb daphne khurana was known for her reports exposing corruption in many areas she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret bank accounts in panama morty's from messages of course the murder a barbaric act he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics.

definitely kyra one hundred years car exploded just after she had driven away from her home in moscow a town outside boxes kept of the latter 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 death she was an anti corruption crusader on multiple best known investigative journalist the case and stone the small matter crimean island which is home to some four hundred paris and people 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 kind of 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 by john 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 hama he's

a digital editor of the times of malta he told me more about it definitely and to look no i mean look down and we are going to get it is. quite possibly the most controversial genesis ever lived and she was a no holds barred kind of writer she used to. call a spade a spade she used to go overboard sometimes with her claims she used to dig into people's personal lives. i think she went overboard sometimes but in reality she was a very very good journalist she was still one of the ones who don't mean to and to the crime scene the crime criminals the drug gangs. money launderers she was the first to also break the paper scandal which had links to awful lot of

government officials to the pentagon papers so she was always in the line of fire line of fire he was. probably resented. 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 her life. take your pick in reality. she wrote about drug barons she wrote about money launderers and. she spoke about the pandemic papers in detail sure to call on everybody 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 investigator to try to get to the bottom of it and the problem is

the way she was killed yes it 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 does this must be more organized than that henman dash a digital editor of the times of mortar thank you very much for talking to. turning now to sport later today blend in action in the champions league with board dortmund and elapses facing do or die fixture as i don't want travel to cyprus having lost the opening two champions league games they must claim three points against to have any hope of progressing to the knockout stage and are be toast f.c. forethought and group g. now they ousted awaiting their first ever win in the champions league setting bottom in their group a win would propel them into second place. 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 dr harlan hurdle is confident he can get the best out of his team and you're 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 they were uncomfortable opponent for every team in one shift on a 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 months of financial numbering 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 side of the obstacles from the. opponents 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 . here's a recap of the top stories if you're funding for you u.s. backed syrian forces have retaken. the city. had considered the de facto capitan local military leaders say an operation is underway to clear out dozens of i is fighters who refuse to surrender. and you don't he forces ascended bidding that capture of the northern city of quetta go from the guns but this thousands of civilians flee both the u.n. and the u.s. have expressed fears the tensions between the two sides could escalate into a full blown conflict. that's it for me i'm such a mind the news team i'll be back with you in a half an hour with an update a foster it's a do join me then if you can. do

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