this is a reporter from a destroyed city you. truly believe in the. storekeeper living along the g.w. . this is d. w. news life from berlin and the self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles in syria syrian rebel forces hoist their flag in both coups outbreaks telling the so-called just lennix state from the last scrap of territory it's still held in the country will cross shelter responding to iraq and also coming up. collusion or no collusion u.s. special counsel robert morris completes his probe into possible russian

interference into the twenty sixteen presidential election and is reportedly not recommending any further charges to get analysis from washington. uncle philip welcome to the show we begin with some breaking news u.s. backed syrian fighters are claiming victory over so-called islamic state they say they have expelled the self-proclaimed caliphate from the last bit of territory controlled and syria rebels from the stare into a crowd of forces arrange their flag over a bow coups after announcing the defeat by us as follows weeks fighting over the village on the iraqi border yes the clarinets caliphate twenty fourteen and went on to control vast areas of syria and iraq. let's bring in vladimir fund vulcan

borg our correspondent in syria he's currently and rocca blood in the air what are you hearing about the situation in bugaboos. finally if you know that i was going to feed them. and that as you have forces are also asking for more support to continue to fight also against isis sleeper cells because there is also a predator. and also there were possibly about thirty m. damascus. the battle for baghdad has been going on so weeks why has it taken the syrian defense forces so long to drive out i guess. inter-married a lot of the battle be over soon but there was an unexpected amount of civilian still in bottles and in the refugee camp of all there is now around sixty dozen people and most of them right from the number of civilians that are still in buckles they still thought of pensive and that's why it took so long because they

wanted to protect the civilians there what happened to these civilians were they all brought to refugee camps. you know are the women are most of the women and children are bought with the gap but most of the men who were present because most of the civilians that are still in there are actually supporters of isis so that's the situation. what about those i asked supporters and the i as fighters have they have been taken into custody as you just said as the supporters and the fighters have been killed or driven out what's what's the situation what's happening to them. while a number of forces fighters refused to surrender absolutely were killed in the fight the majority of them they surrender and they were checked by u.s. forces and by. forces and they were brought to prisons and the women children they were first checked if they have and the weapons or is there and the like

information on them like chris mobile homes are taking from them and there are probably died in the so the men who were brought to prison who didn't surrender day were killed at the site and the women and children they were brought to. where there's a special section for foreign isis wives like local want to rock you thanks for your analysis like me. to washington now and the moment voters around the country have been bracing for yesterday's special counsel robert muller submitted has reported to the u.s. justice department smaller spent almost two years investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election and possible collusion with president donald trump campaign team it's unclear how much if any of the confidential report will be released to the public but u.s. media are reporting the special counsel does not recommend further charges in the document president trump has repeatedly condemned them or probe as

a baseless which. there was no collusion. there's no collusion no color there is the closure of the question was played to a trump presidency since day one modified the can lose your. duties campaign team collude with russia to win the presidency did donald trump obstruct efforts to investigate this is the man tasked with finding out robert muller shrouded in secrecy his team has been quietly conducting one of the most high profile political inquiries in u.s. history. so what do we know so far. russian meddling russian meddled in our twenty six to elections our intelligence community has it right it was the russians we know that they know that it was directed from the highest levels. of the like a u.s. intelligence agency say russia did interfere in the election more than two dozen russian citizens and three russian companies have been indicted so if you fall

seven derek used to using online campaigns to sway voters and hacking into democratic party e-mails. so what about trump and his team one by one members of his inner circle have been swept up in the investigation. former national security adviser michael flynn and former campaign. advisor. george papadopoulos who have both pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about their contacts to russian officials. former campaign chairman paul manifolds convicted of tax on bank fraud he was also found to have lied to investigators he now faces a lengthy jail sentence oh roger stone a former presidential campaign advisor and a long time trying to ally i will not testify against the president he's accused of making false statements to congress and witness tampering. and transform

a lawyer michael cohen jailed for three years on separate campaign violation charges since admitted to lying about a trump business deal with moscow in damning testimony before congress becoming claimed it was trump who instructed him to commit those violations and to lie about them i am ashamed because i know what mr trump is he is a racist he is a con man. and he used to cheat. so what's we expect i'm sure it'll be just one that you know why none of the revelations so far amounts to prove that the trunk team colluded with russia. to trump seek to obstruct the investigation that's one area where mullah could present more evidence in the probe has got ever closer to the oval office the question now is what it all means for the president. with a low morris findings have not been released some details about his report are coming to light correspondent helen humphrey has more on this what we do know so

far is that the special counsel has reportedly not recommended that any more indictments be made so far thirty seven people have been indicted in this investigation including those close to the president full mana forty his former campaign manager was sentenced to prison time as was of course michael cohen his fixer as well now not since the watergate scandal the american public been so mesmerized by an inquiry all of this sort certainly the president and other high ranking republicans have called this a partisan probe they've said that it's a witch hunt and even if no criminal wrongdoing is exposed in this report what may be exposed are misdemeanors which the democrats may then further investigate so although this has been a long process and the report now has finally been handed in it's expected now to

be a far lengthier process. now to some of the other stories making news around the world . french authorities have banned yellow vests demonstrations in a large area of paris including around the arc de triomphe this comes in response to a looting rampage on the shelves i mean day avenue last week the anti-government protests are continuing for a nineteenth week and across france. the on more mosque than christ church has reopened to worshippers for the first time since a gunman killed fifteen people there and another mosque in the city new zealand police returned the mosque to the local community after conducting investigations into the march fifteenth the top. officials in mozambique say the death toll from cycle has risen to four hundred seventeen catastrophic flooding from the storm has killed hundreds more across minot law we and zimbabwe more than

a week after the cyclon struck victims say they're not getting enough food and assistance the port city of beara was heavily damaged but has emerged as the nerve center for rescue efforts and mozambique. where there is not much remains over just him and there is home. like most houses in beirut it was destroyed but she returned with the children because she didn't know where else to go she hoped basic repairs would at least give me a roof over their heads. they know this that would be a new way it was horrible to see how badly the house was wrecked i'm all alone with my kids you know i don't know where we can sleep where we can go it's so hard to try and find food for the kids and you know when hundreds of thousands of people in mozambique awaiting for help some is still waiting to be rescued from floodwaters and many are in need of food and drinking water but there aren't enough helicopters

to deliver aid going to though for this is the first day that we've received any help. it's just not enough for so many people out there when they're young and poor i have four kids how are they supposed to survive on this bread of the survivors frustration has been growing from day to day they're hungry and they're waiting for food to arrive for aid workers it's a race against the clock with priority be given to the weakest. the situation on the ground remains critical to the reasonable electricity or running water or hundreds of thousands of children need immediate help the priority right now is to give them shelter food water education protection due to the general red cross says the first cases of cholera have been reported in beirut and the number of malaria cases is also rising the u.n. has warned of long term food shortages. crop losses are extensive in fact more than three hundred eighty five thousand hectares of crops have been damaged which will

impact through security in the months ahead for a custom and dairy the focus is on surviving one day to the next she her children just want enough to eat. china's president xi jinping is in rome where he has signed an agreement to work with and only on beijing's belt and road initiative is meeting with italian prime minister choose epic content to put their names to the plan also known as the new silk road and is meant to improve transport and trade links between china and dozens of other countries italy will become the largest european economy to join so far against objects and some from the u.s. and other european governments are concerned that the project lacks transparency and favors chinese firms. i'm now joined by me in paris he is an expert on china relations and works for an italian think tank mr kasuri me you wrote a paper entitled rome beijing changing the game how does this new memorandum change

the game. the change in the game it means that the memorandum for the first. language is. in principle including clear reference to the east and going to be published. for the first time we have. and will you in the second generation memorandum with your feet differ she said destination that's the game changer china has accepted to sign to cities and over to. the e.u. and the us are not happy about the deal why is that i don't not happy about the memorandum in it said to you not the language with the. above that the method that italian government has in the law and if there has been no consultation no clear information whatsoever. government wanted to do with china would be traditional and distinctive. and that's why the united states and european union are rightly

concerned. government has done what does it only get out of it. look they need both economic and political benefits and on the economic side i think you mentioned the market access support ugandan prado to meet the need to produce it in particularly in the expanding the chinese market but those investments it under the bed or the initiative but those could have been obtained with the outside need a number and of understanding them around understanding we stare financial and political benefits in for instance a bite hoping that china will intervene in financial markets it will eat and he needs to sell something that could happen in the future when it till he could face another two or whether it's the financial markets in policing it's that the. there really are there is significance of the memorandum not done for structure and

economic benefits but also their financial backing of powerful china in the future it is a gamble of course thank you very much mr kerry and a reminder of the top story we're following for you the u.s. backed syrian fighters have claimed victory over so-called islamic state and syria syria democratic forces say by recapturing the village of goes the last scrap of territory held by yes and syria. coming out that it's been for at this time about the growing grain in the arctic thank you for the. look of it. during link from africa and the more your link to exceptional stories and discussion from the use of easy to outwit safety deputed comes to africa join us on facebook. africa.