with major developments in iraq where government forces have taken control of the contested city of quetta cook from kurdish forces tension has been mounting in the oil rich region ever since the kurds held a referendum on succession last month al-jazeera is child stuff and has more now from ever built. the kurdish flag no longer flies in the center of kirkuk the city now officially back in the hands of the iraqi government its forces but made a rapid advance launched in the middle of the night fifteen hours later the industrial area airports military base and critical all fields were under the control of iraqi forces. soon after they marched into the center of the city. iraqi officials were quick to declare victory. the joint military operation was launched at dawn and progress significantly as the troops approached the area to crete and the north oil company were confronted by some rebels who tried to hinder the progress of the advancing units turned five in silence the fourth thank god today we have achieved all our goals according to our plan. the u.s. military which a trained both sid

an explosion and pakistan at least six police officers reportedly have been killed in the city of quetta several more injured it's believed a truck they were traveling in was targeted we're still getting more details on this developing story so to keep it here on al-jazeera. president. to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries. the restrictions which would have taken effect and this week targeted people from iran syria yemen somalia chad and north korea legal experts expect a final ruling will ultimately go before the u.s. supreme court but the travel ban still applies to people traveling from. supporters of president. continue to celebrate it there we saw sunday's elections the results continue to be questioned at home and abroad. just as the travel ban by the united states. comes into effect. on its own problems and leave the rest of the world alone. he's a member of venezuela's constitutional assembly he's also on the list of the. control of the united states when you travel ban affects him and his family. the country is divided and it's the perfect ground for interven

fighting erupts in quetta cook as the iraqi army advances towards the kurdish held city. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up. anger and grief as nearly three hundred people were killed in the deadliest single attack in the somali capital. venezuela's president held an emphatic victory in regional elections but the opposition is crying foul plus. i'm jake wood in california in a moment i'll explain why the government is looking at smacking something my size into something that size to save the earth. we begin in iraq where simmering tensions of escalated into a fire exchanged between government forces and kurdish fighters cook iraqi army's advancing on the kurdish held city with state t.v. reporting the troops have already taken vast areas in the oil rich region which is news agency is quoting a senior iraqi officer saying the objective is to regain control of a key arab. oil fields to the west of the city but it comes as tension rises over the disputed region the peshmerga took control of quetta cook in twenty fourteen when the iraqi a

said that madrid is quote choosing repression over dialogue that after jailing two leaders of the quetta one separatist movement and a sedition probe thousands of protesters have been taking to the streets in barcelona tonight calling for their release the spanish government warned catalonia that it must revoke its declaration of independence or face direct rule from madrid earlier a kettle on government spokesman said that the autonomous region will stand by its decision but. are for now we want to go to los rambus in barcelona that's where our correspondent barbara vigil is following developments for us tonight good evening to you barbara so the arrest of these two separatist leaders it has really inflamed the situation there hasn't. really because it's been relatively quiet throughout the week and it was like a standoff situation every side was looking at the other and waiting what they would be doing however after the high cards in madrid decided. to independence leader is. really an independent movement the spokesperson people are trying everything to release the fire they are now.

around the world in barcelona demonstrators have made a fresh call for independence for the region of quetta lonia this after catalan leader karla's who turned down an invitation to address the strains senate this week on friday the senate is due to hold a vote on dismissing judgements government over its push for independent. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salomon has pledged to restore a moderate form of islam in the kingdom at a conference in riyadh he said that he wanted to end extremism and to make saudi arabia a country open to all faith based on what he called quote the true values of our religion and. in bangkok the five day funeral ceremony have started for a king who me poland his son has been performing rights in the city's historic order while tens of thousands of mourners have filed into these surrounding areas to bid farewell to the monarch the king died last october at the age of eighty eight. italian police have identified sixteen people who placed anti-semitic stickers in rome's olympic stadium on sunday now the fans of capital club the o had sold to taunt supporte

the top stories on al-jazeera iraqi government forces have taken control of the contested city of quetta coq from kurdish forces tension has been mounting in the oil rich region since the kurds held a referendum on suspension last month. has more than ever been the kurdish flag no longer flies in the center of kirkuk. the city now officially back in the hands of the iraqi government its forces but made a rapid advance launched in the middle of the night fifteen hours later the industrial area airports military base and critical oil fields were under the control of iraqi forces. soon after they marched into the center of the city. iraqi officials were quick to declare victory. the joint military operation was launched at dawn and progress significantly as the troops approached the area to crete and the north oil company were confronted by some rebels who tried to hinder the progress of the advancing units turned five and silenced the fourth thank god today we have achieved all our goals according to our plan. the u.s. military which had trained both sides in this dispute trying to downpla

we've been mazed we've seen quetta languishes when they block us and from us eyes into mass a wrist of one hundred to one hundred fifty people people that have not been a part of the process they just happen to be in the area and while there have been arrested they have gotten mayes they have been sitting in jail for twenty four hours and then a lot of times they get released without any charge against them so what we are saying is a police force that is governing how we express our first amendment rights and when they get tired and when they get upset they militarize it against the people. now diplomatic relations between turkey and the us have suffered another blow ankara has cut these are services that its diplomatic facilities across america in response to washington taking the same steps allowing the detention of one of its conchubar employees recent events have forced the united states government to reassess the commitment of the government of turkey to the security of u.s. mission facilities personnel in order to minimize the number of visitors to our embassy and consulates want

we've been mazed we've seen quetta languishes when they block us and from all sides into mass arrests of one hundred to one hundred fifteen people people there have not been a part of the process that just happened to be in the area and while there have been arrested they have gotten mayes they have been sitting in jail for twenty four hours and then a lot of times they get released without any charge against them so what we're saying is a police force that is governing how we express our first amendment rights and when they get tired and when they get upset they militarize that against the people. who mourn you. meanwhile back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building you had quarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work and if you were issues both with better results should be paying more attention to protecting external borders fighting against of curbing illegal immigration as well as harmonizing economic policies and judicial systems otherwise the europe we have toda

we've been mazed we've seen quetta languishes when they block us and from all sides into mass arrests of one hundred to one hundred fifteen people people there have not been a part of the process is they just happened to be in the area and while there have been a risk that they have gotten mayes they have been sitting in jail for twenty four hours and then a lot of times they get released without any charge against them so what we are seeing is a police force that is governing how we express our first amendment rights and when they get tired and when they get upset they militarize they against the people we've had police officers they have ran their car in the middle of processes we have police to antagonize probably beat him but times against the ground they grab people they hit on people and they are not being held accountable someone said those actions are taken and aren't justified as being ok any more than they are going to can say is this the it's a do it in we're going to concede it's a clash and i thank you joining us sir for your analogy international this morning it's approa

explosion in pakistan at least six police officers are believed to have been killed in the city of quetta several more injured it's believed they were in a truck that was targeted we'll continue to follow that for you rescue operations continue in somalia's capital for those still missing after the worst bomb attack in that country's history more than three hundred people were killed in saturday's attack there's been no official claim of responsibility for that blast somali president mohammad abdul ali for macho though says that there is no doubt to him that these are all fighters the u.s. judge has blocked president donald trump's latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries entering the united states the restrictions which would have taken effect of this week targeted people from iran libya syria yemen somalia chad and north korea legal experts expect a final ruling will ultimately go before the u.s. supreme court. those are the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post keep it here. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this tim

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 it all why don't we can be done. with it that we can do that with the swaggering suit wearing swimmers find mission and the. frequent flyers. can species endangered in germany be reintroduced it's hoped that the marsh brittle area and the vulture will make a comeback but isn't that easy. to borrow to do next. with a snap of a setter these photographers can turn our world upside down. giving us inspiring insides and unexpected views. gets a new perspectives our series this week. the moments in sixty minutes p.w. . germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this and if something him to resign we must overcome it india. going where it's uncomfortable globa

shown to be very weak what kind of the splits have been and the result being the withdrawal from quetta coupe so very much what the referendum exposed and revealed and what the consequences of the referendum exposed intervene old is a president and a leadership that struggle to institutionalize the nationalist movement away from personal trouble from ileo business kind of contracts and so to that extent i do think that this was a big gamble and this is a gamble that has not paid off so he was considering the way things have turned out for the current since the referendum do you think that this referendum actually made things worse for them. in fact here so many times they're there for and i'm sure and described it made the kurds lose quite large territories a lot of revenue a lot less control than before but it all now depends i think on baghdad how will baghdad deal with iraqi kurdistan and will it. amended the promises that prime minister about he is making for the whole country will have to see that is this going to be implemented or not is he capable of bringing in economic plans fi

community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in quetta children sometimes at court in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking bust to try to take them to gang violence i lost my family are you looking i live go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards outside. of the . six years after the death of gadhafi. al-jazeera travels to libya. to hear from some of those who fought his regime contributed to his downfall. the battle of misrata at this time on al-jazeera. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the way. al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera.

community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in quetta children sometimes a court in the crossfire when rival gangs fight the parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking us to try to take the violence i lost my family looking a little go i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards she was a society hostess in beirut in the 1940's she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese the rick was going to make this work her code name was the power and she spied for mossad in lebanon before. what she was doing it was such a brave as a woman al-jazeera world douses story of shown to go in. the beirut spy at this time. hello again i'm martin dennis in doha and these are the top stories u.s. backed opposition forces have driven eisel from rocka its self declared capital in syria kurdish led syrian democratic forces raise their flag in the city's stadium after a four

projected a warning from iraqi troops to withdraw from an area south of the disputed oil province of quetta cook the contested position controls access to an airbase and oil fields in the region tension has been on the rise since kurds voted overwhelmingly for succession from iraq last month and reports from west of chemical two weeks ago these iraqi government forces were fighting eisel in this area now after their victory they are advancing towards kurdish peshmerga positions the vehicles you can see there in the distance are shia militia vehicles they have moved closer to that burn to that wall in the last few minutes the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga are telling us are actually tanks they say the least fifty tanks in that convoy the situation on this defensive position with the peshmerga is increasingly tense it was a similar situation to the southwest of this peshmerga position more shia militia and iraqi army closed in the peshmerga say they will not withdraw. before the iraqi army were fighting i saw them and they didn't pay attention to us but now i still have

prime minister of spain as soon as the role of president of the region of catalonia or the nation of quetta loony as the government here would have it but the government here is nowhere to be seen right now we do know that on friday night as all those crowds were completely crammed into the square in front of the seat of government the government buildings where ministers would discussing that tactics on what to do now when it appears that they will face warrants of a rest for various charges on monday when the prosecutor general intends to follow up what he regards as crimes these ministers according to t.v. three the catalonia t.v. station according to t.v. three these ministers all went to their homes on friday nights but they said nothing they were tweeting they were making any statements they did not respond to my on a roll hallway when he then announced the suspension of. parliament no response whatsoever they're lying low we don't know where color speech tomorrow is he is reported again by t.v. three and some other media as possibly being in jail rona which is where one of his homes

from these areas these disputed areas happened so quickly and mr barzani said that what happened in quetta cook was as a result of what he described as a unilateral decisions made by some officials now this is as i say perfectly consistent with some of the allegations that have been made by other members of his party the k t p against senior figures in the p u k policy the general come on earlier today described what he said was historical treason by certain members of the p u k and that's why the peshmerga withdrew so quickly from kirkuk an interesting lee a former senior aide to the p k party is demanding that a transitional government be set up and that what he describes as more effective channels of dialogue a stablished between the k r g and baghdad i mean all indications are off to this last quite incredible two days of this sudden superfast withdrawal of these troops from areas that the k r g had that vision which would play an intake will paulton a future independent state that president barzani could well be described as facing one of the biggest political challenges of his career

with international oil economist mom to celebrate the immediate impact comes from the clashes in quetta cool so far these clashes have added one to two delegates to the price of oil in the oil fields and chemical. is very ample if then he had not caught only because economy is the pan then the queue of ninety per cent annoyed at having and be kind of cool only and feel have be employed using says nine twenty seven and then out of continuing to produce oil. they the amount they have been improved using all reason than we see the four hundred fifty to five hundred thousand barrels a day so it is almost them. oil production. now kurdish forces in syria have delivered a major blow to islamic state is reports suggest the deisel has been defeated in its former defacto capital of racket the american backed syrian democratic forces who are also fighting the terrorists there claim that rocker is fully under their control however the us led coalition is less optimistic about the situation saying the city has been ninety percent clear device so and they still expect some resistance. we are aware o

doha the top stories on al-jazeera they've been violent clashes between spanish police and voters in quetta linnaeus succession referendum paramedics of had to treat at least thirty eight people who were injured outside polling stations referendum leaders of catalan voters to use passive resistance if police tried to interfere with the photos. hold camera operator. were caught up in the clashes outside a polling station and bosler. right there on the edge of the but as you can see are now starting to move on the to the crowd. that shot in the crowd from the crucifixion photos patients down the. release from other areas of playing to catch a load of the specific crimes out on this thread. are people trying to vote in the referendum have been speaking out about the spanish police's heavy handed tactics as they see at a polling stations. i completely respect people that don't want to be abandoned for but i wanted to ban guns which is not you can be in favor you can be against but it's not i'm not the and today it's been one of the worst day in my life because i came to the fans our right to vo

region of iraqi kurdistan and also in some disputed areas outside of its official borders like in quetta coke the disputed area still under kurdish control in great big city them south of it but it has been they've all been kurdish forces defeated the so-called islamic state now iraq wants the territory back. celebrations in can't put 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 you were heading to irbil because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops have entered and there's no way we could stay out of going up on the 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 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

journalist in malta who will strongly critical of the government has been killed in a car bombing that nic quetta and i get a wrote a popular blog highlighting alleged corruption with many dogs involving politicians on the mediterranean island nation the prime minister joseph muscat who faced accusations from cairo and earlier this year made a t.v. statement denouncing the killing indonesia's former education minister ennius buzzword on has been inaugurated as the new governor of jakarta he was elected in april after large protests against this predecessor christian governor bush to keep the jackie poor mana step vasant has more now from jakarta. annis perswade and was elected governor after a divisive election campaign based on religion and ethnicity the former education minister was supported by conservative groups who aim for the implementation of islamic law a sensitive issue in muslim majority in nisha which recognizes six official religions a second release this but. we will be realistic the gov can only implement parts of sharia law for example clean governance and poverty eradication we h

that iraq the forces and shia militia groups were moving towards their positions south and west of quetta cook our sources in kirkuk confirmed those kind of allegations made of course they are all key government have completely denied that prime minister hydra law abiding saying that this is not part of any future military or on operation in that area and the head of iraq's joint military command center also refuting these allegations but of course when you look at kirkuk this area that is so strategically important because of the oil wells around there and the fact that it is in these disputed area the fact that the kurds say they are not going to whistle and hand over control of kirkuk then being in control of it since two thousand and fourteen in the context of this recent referendum this controversial referendum you can understand just how nervous the kurdish regional government here is you that's what i want to quickly ask you now that we i want to wake since the referendum and the the noose that sort of been tightened around the chaos since then the pressure that's been put on them