just. the most traditional find it all at any time. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state on g.w. dot com. this is d w news live from barlett islamic states defacto capital the city of raka in syria has fallen.

u.s. backed forces say that they have overcome the final pockets of resistance from the extremists it marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for i us. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appealed for calm. and a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e.u. says that it is horrified at the death of death eagle you see her son accuses the maltese government of complicity. plus from great hope to break misery south sudan is one of the world's newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one woman's struggle to survive and feed her family.

i'm sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us. u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocket the city that the so-called islamic state considers its capital troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the militants last holdouts the city's hospital but there are still pockets of resistance one of them is reported to be a stadium complex in rocko which was used by us as a prison and in our stop dozens of fighters have made their last stand there once the seat of islamic state's power the long fight for rocca has left the city in ruins. a five month battle is over for the syrian kurdish and arab fighters backed by the united states they killed dozens of i asked militants in their final push rucka is now a shell of a city. north and north there's nothing left we're near the end we haven't seen

any i asked militants we haven't seen any of them near the stadium either i think the city will be fully clear of them in the next two days which is once all of the i asked militants are gone from syria i'll go home. i asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made at the company all of its self-styled comfort. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who opposed the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by i asked leader of a blackout baghdadi to migrate to the syrian city however in recent months the so-called islamic state has steadily lost territory in syria and iraq. the fall of raka is a major blow to the militant group but the extremists still controlled territory in

neighboring regions on the iraqi side of the border. a long road lies ahead to heal wounds and rebuild the ruined city of raka the spite these fighters celebrations. well let's get more now on this offensive i'm joined in the studio by daniel gary locke from zenith magazine and he is a middle east expert daniel thanks so much for being with us this afternoon and for having me now that rocca has been liberated what does this mean for the so-called islamic state. the so-called islamic state has lost its both both of its symbolic and at the same same time structural capitals mosul in iraq and iraq and syria which was a much more symbolic capital since it was the capital of the of the killing of an irishman and they've made this a story call references of course but they have lost the left and lost their stronghold in syria but this doesn't come unprepared for them they know since a long time since months that rocket would fall and they have to place their you

can say essential or non-essential staff their commanders and their families to the euphrates valley and there are still some pockets and there they are confronting the syrian regime and somehow we will see who is going to the city of rockets going to be handed over my guests you know later it's going to be the syrian regime to as they were preparing for this as you know you mentioned it seems as if they had a backup plan in fact for when this city would fall what does that mean now for the anti islamic state coalition going forward i'm for example what needs to be done politically to make sure that the military gains are in fact not lost or or that they're carried out. what i see in syria at the moment is fear and particular from the side of those tribes that lived under the yoke of the so-called islamic state or some of them have been forced into this and alliance or negligence to the islamic state and they're now left to the mercy of several armed groups and militias around you have the syrian regime you have the kurdish so-called syrian

democratic forces you have. have iraqi militias who are coming in across the border from iraq and these tribes there are in danger because the islamic state forces are going to try to merge into them and they're going to try to hide into them and the alternative would be like a military clint's in these forces and many people would fall victim to that or they would be left to the mercy of shia militias that have are coming from iraq and they're very much afraid of that so i think this area is very much in focus now at the moment and it needs to be peddled wise so then looking forward for this group the so-called islamic state looking into the future say you have a crystal ball looking one year ahead perhaps even five years ahead how do you see it evolving over time. look i never i never thought that the territorial project of the so-called islamic state was something tangible insistent substantial. you could

see if the opponents and if the states a weak in the region then these jihadi groups can always reemerge and rebrand themselves and and have some kind of terror territorial gains or autonomy. in certain parts of the middle east but i don't think that there is ever going to be such a territorial territorial project again unless the main players which are the syrian regime and other powers in the middle east a letting it happen either voluntarily or out of carelessness and i think this is the danger of the ideology of jihadism the ideology that that that empowered or the so-called islamic state is still present globally it's still have in a lot of attracting a lot of disciples and even though the territorial project might be dead jihadism a still alive and still very dangerous ok daniel fascinating stuff here and you're going to actually stick with us because we want to get your perspective on happenings elsewhere in the region we're actually going to head now to syria's neighbor iraq where government forces say that they have taken control of all major oil fields in the disputed northern province of care cook as follows fast on the

heels of their capture of the kurdish held city of kirkuk have a lot of. celebrations in kid as iraqi forces ruling. supporters of the iraqi central government could contain their joy. thousands of kurdish residents fled the city ahead of the advance. assumed you were heading to where bill because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops have entered and there's no way we could stay out of grown up on the run our children are terrified we were afraid that there would be clashes and mortar rounds would have us that's why i'm worried about. kirkuk an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and the iraqi government had been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled when these 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 voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a controversial referendum. kurdish peshmerga leaders see the seizure of cuckoos amounts to a dictionary of war. and we are to read joins now by daniel gary locke to tell us a little bit more about you know how it is that you see this playing out in particular because i mean there are so many loose alliances and and disputes here as well i don't think that we will see a military confrontation between the quarter's first night of forces and the iraqi central states army and its militias i don't think this is going to happen was disputed for many years and the iraqi government announced such a step but they just did of course it's a coke of was an embarrassment to both sides because it has oil and because it's so disputed and such a difficult like kind of iraq in

a nutshell but i think both sides are reasonable enough to know that another full fledged war would cost many many lives and wouldn't totally said iraq in place so i don't think that's going to happen and of course this some wishful thinking and into daniel gary locke middle east expert journalist with zenith magazine we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon to share your expertise on the range and and the latest happenings today. well now we're going to turn to some other stories that have been making news around the world philippine president ravi go to terror tape declared marar we've liberated from terrorists he visited the southern city one day after the last two islamist leaders there were killed but military leaders say that the battle is still ongoing as they search the ruins for remaining pockets of the militants. and taliban militants in afghanistan have carried out a suicide car bombing in a gun attack on a provincial police headquarters an attack that killed at least thirty three people it was part of

a series of attacks against police across the country that have left at least seventy eight people dead and hundreds wounded. at least thirty seven people have died in forest fires and portugal firefighters are battling more than five hundred fires in the north in the center of the country the government says the fires the worst in more than a decade have been caused by higher than average temperatures and drought. one of malta's best known investigative journalists has been killed in a car bomb daphne. 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 now the maltese prime minister called the murder a barbaric act she he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics. are one a girly thea's ko exploded just after she had driven away from her home in moscow a town outside boxes kept on going led to 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 a monday evening to mourn her death. she was an anti corruption crusader on multan is best known investigative journalist the case in stone the small matter crimean island which is home to some four hundred parents and people family friend luke friend of 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 definitely not for nothing and i'm sure that 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. and we are joined now by herman glass he is the digital editor of the times of law

thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and what did you think and feel when you heard about death is death. good question. duffy was always in danger she was a very gutsy writer and she spared no punches she tackled the biggest criminals of all time she tackled politicians she tackled the man in the street over the many of us that she did it in sometimes frivolous way sometimes she did. tack you go into the gossip area but she was a very good journalist as well and she had a very considerable says which often landed something very good stories and by good stories i mean she got into the. goings on of drug mules of

criminals of. money launderers and she was eventually the one who broke the panama papers now remember what happened to my papers when they came out to syria government officials to the panama papers. so she was i would say probably resent it and loved in equal measure were you surprised though to hear that she had been killed i mean her son for example is blaming the government for being complicit in his mother's murder he says that they're they've created a culture of impunity what do you think. look i don't really understand you know what son seen as modern being blown up remember this was not just some random shooting ok you just had just driven out of the house and car car was blown up to smithereens that is the work of overgrown another guy and. obviously he says the government is complicit here fuses the government that they

have there is a culture of kind of impunity building up in malls where you know it's all about the money under sort about the rule of law now to be fair we have no suspects yet to be fair the prime minister within an hour of this is up and made a press statement and said he will have to come down to the bottom of it to see who was responsible is even roped in the f.b.i. to resolve this issue so yes i can understand. her and her children especially i mean it's twenty six twenty seven hours of the incident and the police commission hasn't even made a single statement about this and it's disgraceful haven't we thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about you know your feelings in the wake of this murder digital editor of the times of malta we appreciate it. well catalonia has refused on tuesday to renounce its declaration of independence speaking at

a news conference catalonian government spokesperson said that the autonomous region will stand by its decision the announcement came as protesters gathered in barcelona to demand the release of two catalan pro independence square you know it's the till happened provisionally jailed since monday night in a sedition pro. and in business news ben fizzling as you can see is here he's talking a little bit more about the castle and crisis and how that is weighing especially on economic growth right ben yeah considering the government today is just lowered its growth forecast for next year callow his controversial independence referendum and madrid's heavy handed police response of spock's uncertainty for investors and an exodus of businesses. this was the scene outside the headquarters of the catalan government on monday nice protesters expressing their outrage over the arrest 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 his 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. that will bring 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 year article although the theme into that built into the route of growth 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. european aviation giant air bus is buying a series passenger jet business at no cost it allows the canadian plane maker to use an air bus assembly line in the us possibly by passing tough tariffs. celebrations in toulouse after an unusual deal somebody a c. series had a bumpy start it almost forced the canadian aircraft maker into bankruptcy now body is teaming up with its competitor air bus to build an manage the mid range aircraft it's a perfect this is why we've done it and we think it's good news for airlines customers that already potential customers shareholders on both sides that's why we call it win win i mean is that latest new newest innovative technology and one hundred

twenty p.c. class so there is no other aircraft like that so when you combine this with the arab. reach capability i mean it will only take the full value of the aircraft the european cooperation will only a little more than half the endeavor without having to pay in but then airbus will be responsible for the entire building in marketing of the c. series the deal is also a result of the ongoing trade dispute between bomb party and the us administration which is threatening the canadian company with hefty tariffs and vines if it sells planes in the u.s. the new partnership throws a monkey wrench in the trumpet ministrations trade plans because the canadian planes will be sold through the e.u. company air bus. and air bus can only gain from helping its competitor it broadens the air bus product pallet and makes it more competitive internationally. over to

colorado's an f. a national correspondent in frankfurt is following this story for us coming out is it more about saving is still all more about. having the stakes against boeing. well ben of course it's both but i think it's a bit more about saving bombard you the company was in deep financial trouble up until now up until this deal it was unclear and unlikely that bombard you would have the stamina to stand through this conflict with the u.s. department of commerce but now combined with the two companies of course do have the money the resources the lawyers to really negotiate this with the americans the boeing calls this a questionable deal is a. well what would you say if you missed out on an opportunity to get rid of one of your competitors whether or not this was a questionable deal whether or not the subsidies that the canadian government paid

bombard you when it developed this airplane remains to be negotiated and according to the rules of the international institutions where we have for international trade nafta for example the north american trade agreement or the world trade organization provide rules for cases like this and just explain to us how the deal could get bombard you around trump's tough tariffs. well it's unlikely that the government of donald trump will impose tariffs on planes made in america especially made in the state like alabama where mr trump has a lot of friends jobs in america are at stake here are rebels in the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. now have a listen to what's going on on wall street. a lot of excitement there no longer trying to go down the way the dow jones industrial average broke through the

twenty three thousand mark for the first time a strong earnings reports helping extend a wall street rally but the excitement is coupled with hesitation this is the second longest rally in history no one knows how much longer to last and if there's a correction around the corner europe's major stock markets are also holding close to record highs. we'll be reporting live from the new york stock exchange later on doubt twenty three thousand who would have thought been absolutely incredible just from one record to another thanks so much for telling us more about it which going to turn now to south sudan because hopes were high for south sudan when it became the world's 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 over six million people need food aid to survive we follow the struggle of one woman to try and 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 vent 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.

more. transporting the food to the village is very difficult but i have no choice my family has starving who are woman 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 he admits mistakes have been made. people into their own hands even within the government. 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 her home village hannah 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. in sports news bundesliga clubs dortmund and to leipsic are in action at the champions league tonight but the big back everyone will be watching israel madrid versus tottenham both teams go into group clashes with perfect records madrid's

attack will of course be spearheaded by christiane although the reigning world player of the year already has four goals in this season's champions league but tottenham have their own in the form forward in harry kane who has scored five goals in europe and will be desperate to prove himself against the world's best team. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you here at d.f.w. u.s. backed syrian forces have retaken rocka a city i-s. militants had considered their capital local military leaders say that an operation is underway to clear out dozens of bias fighters who have refused to surrender. iraqi forces are celebrating their capture of the northern city of kirkuk from the kurds but as thousands of civilians flee both the un and the u.s. have expressed fears that tensions between the two sides could escalate into conflict. europe today i'm sara kelly in berlin thanks so much for watching was

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