a controversial leader whose success is beyond question the good times. and the london tragedy starts abell food on t w. this is d w news live from berlin give us another people's vote hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of london calling on lawmakers to hold a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. . also coming up the self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles in syria rebel forces points their flag about goose after expelling the so-called islamic state in the

last scrap of territory kids still held in experience. america evanston it's good to have you with us hundreds of thousands of people have marched through london to call for a second referendum on bragg's it the u.k. it was supposed to quit the european union next friday but even leaders extended the deadline after britain's parliament twice rejected prime minister teresa mayes bragg's a deal many britons now want lawmakers have back on you public vote on whether or not britain should believe that you at all. central london packed with protesters their message to the government give people another say on drugs that. waterway was true but it was. with britain's intended departure from the e.u.

just weeks away politicians and the country remain divided demonstrators think there needs to be a second referendum to settle the issue i just think that we didn't make an informed decision we were both on voice sides we were given enough information we were told it wouldn't she look like the country is in a mess brought on by our government their incompetence. london mayor suttle khan says it should be up to the voters to undo the brags that chaos was trying to get the british people a final say you know the british people. for the governments accountable for the future. the british people to vote for the new school none of this crazy. parliament is due to resume debate next week and must still give its approval to extending the march twenty ninth bragg's

a dud line britain would then leave the e.u. on april twelfth without a deal unless m.p.'s approve prime minister may's plan or propose a different way forward that would mean having to ask the e.u. for another extension and to taking part in european elections if parliament approves mase deal london would have until may twenty second to finalize its brags of preparations then there's also the nuclear option of revoking article fifty and cancelling brags that millions have already signed an online petition demanding just that. piling on more pressure as lawmakers face a week of high stakes decisions. u.s. backed syrian fighters are claiming victory over the so-called islamic state they say they've expelled the self-proclaimed caliphate from the last remaining territory controlled in syria rebels from the syrian democratic forces fought for weeks to retake the village. back who's

what remained of the caliphate now just a torn up field littered with clothes and twisted metal. on the small patch of land the diehards of the state made their last stand. but they were forced to surrender after years of rule the syrian democratic forces a kurdish led to group backed by the us celebrate their hard won victory. i don't be should go today that syrian democratic forces officially announced the end of all battles and the victory against the group calling itself the islamic state that name is now wiped off the map here in northeastern syria. the so-called islamic states territory one stretched across parts of iraq and syria years of military effort by iraqi and syrian fighters backed by the u.s.

force the caliphate to retreat was its last stronghold the syrian democratic forces have called this the end of the caliphate at least in its physical form but stressed to so-called islamic state remains an insurgency threats in both iraq and syria a message echoed by u.s. allies to our mission. there as if you go to work to make sure that the roads islamic terrorism doesn't continue to grow thank you all very much i mean it's just take me seriously in bangor whose syrian fighters have searched the u.s. to keep troops in syria they warn if it pulls out now it will only be a matter of time until the threat of the i.s. grows again. well joining me now in the studio for more on this is iraqi journalist who just recently returned from syria thanks for joining me i mean so the islamic state has now lost all of its territory but do you think this really signals the

end of a caliphate if still physically yes because they are not anymore controlling the territory in syria with or in iraq but you should just imagine this the idea of khaled faith still put in the minds of many young people in islam of course not just in syria and iraq and destroy that or you should bring some other idea another perspective another hope for that people telling them this is not the right tway to. imagine how you are going to live this is. an idea is still living and within the community it's them and community now the united states president has said that his country would remain vigilant against islamic state but what should this mean concretely do we still need to have soldiers on the ground or are there some other way to stop them from returning i

think's to day and go through the breaking of. is the point that the bouts of shifting from the from the ground to the security services bouts of holds i think. definitely there is another war has been begin the all just to go looking for the sleeping skilled in iraq in syria also within european countries i think. will try to make some attacks just to say we are still there i hope that will not. this is the whole story of that radical organizations just trying to keep themselves on going through tourist it's well you mention of there are still many people who believe in the caliphate believe in the ideals of i as we also have countless numbers of women and children the wives of fighters who fled the battles

and are now in refugee camps what's to become of those people who are perhaps unrepentant well that's number we're talking about between fifty and seventy thousand refugees that are mixed different national ities of them iraqis the less the other half some syrians some international. people from european countries with this this is the most important point in that story because the iraqis will go back to euro and the syrians. as long as the time they will find some. solution for them the international people or for example from germany from france this is a political and euro ducal debris matic challenge for european countries how they are going to deal with them a please france took some of the children back to france but still there is no roadmap for that people how they're going to this is really

a problem in the future we'll face it you know journalist and near miss sally thank you very much for all of your insights you're welcome. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world norwegian rescue agencies are evacuating a cruise ship that lost engine power and windy conditions off the coast near the city of molder the viking sky has anchored about two kilometers offshore crews are using helicopters to airlift about thirteen hundred people to safety. officials in somalia say a gun battle between security forces and al-shabaab fighters in mogadishu has ended leaving at least fifteen people dead and the islamist militants set off a car bomb before attempting to storm a government building the deputy labor minister is reportedly among the dead. thousands of people have marched in berlin and many other european cities to protest planned reforms to e.u.

copyright laws european parliament is set to adopt the controversial legislation next week it would require companies to take steps to stop internet users from uploading copyrighted material. to washington now where house democrats are awaiting details from the justice department of what special counsel robert mueller has found in his probe into russian interference of the twenty six thousand presidential election muller spent almost two years investigating that and possible collusion with president donald trump's campaign team trump has repeatedly condemned the moeller inquiry as a baseless which. let's go straight to washington where w.'s helena humphrey joins us now so helena as we know the u.s. attorney general is now reviewing the moeller report a lot of people have been waiting with a great deal of suspense for a very long time to find out what's in it so when can we expect to hear.

the short answer is not today we've just heard from the department of justice who says that william barr will not be handing over his principal conclusions to congress today one would imagine of course that he has got a big task ahead of him reading through that investigation of course it took two years to complete but once he has finished that summary he will hand it over to congress and then it is expected to be a public document that said i wouldn't call that the mother reports that essentially is the bar report because those are his conclusions through the prism of the attorney general and as such there are many calls including from the house democrats for the entire miller report to be made public they've just been on a conference call in fact and they have raised the possibility of using subpoena power including on robert mueller himself if that report is not made public there will be issues with that as well of course for example when it comes to sensitive

intelligence information which perhaps potentially should not be made public not to mention the fact that if there is no criminal conduct but there are misdemeanors which have been committed should those be made public and potentially solly the names of those who are concerned well what we are hearing about the miller report is that apparently miller is not recommending any more indictments so is this good news for donald trump does that mean he is in effect off the hook. not by any stretch i would like to think of the russian raised by jerry nadler the chairman of the house judiciary committee who says that something that's a crime may not necessarily be grounds for impeachment and something that's grounds for impeachment may not be a crime of course we know that the process of removing a president in fact is not something that is impeachment and rather you know that the department of justice does not recommend indicting

a president's the fact that there is there are no further indictments doesn't necessarily mean much at this stage we have to wait and see what more we learn in that report but certainly the president does have further legal woes of course further investigations are underway into all sorts of other issues when it's whether it's campaign financing for example also allegations of an alleged hush money payment scheme in relation to stormy daniels remember of course that the molar investigation was limited in its scope it was looking at russia and collusion and potentially the obstruction of the course of justice so there are many more avenues in the months and well potentially years ahead well helena have we heard from donald trump himself in connection to this miller or being completed he's been uncharacteristically quiet i would say we haven't heard a tweet from the president we know that he's in florida but he was seen heading to

his goals of course there in the back of the vehicle reading the newspaper so presumably tracking all the media coverage of this but not a tweet yet i think what we can say is that when we hear from barr or for example when there's a leak from baal's findings then we can probably expect to hear from the president likely on his platform of choice of course which is twitter helena humphrey in washington thank you very much for your reporting. let's get you a quick reminder now of our top stories. hundreds of thousands of people have marched through london to call for a second referendum on breakfast they want lawmakers to back a new public vote on whether britain should follow through on plans to leave the european union. u.s. backed syrian fighters have claimed victory over so-called islamic state in syria syrian democratic forces say they recapture the village of the last scrap of

territory held by abstinence. tariff to date now as d.w. news will have lots more in the terminations at the top of the hour coming up next as world stories of the week and reports on evans gained from me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching. wasn't. just couldn't get this song. musicologist began searching for the.