hello i'm don jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the united nations on your report on children in conflict a strongly criticized both sides in the war in.

hello i'm don jordan in doha with a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera the iraqi army and kurdish forces have exchanged gunfire near can't cook iraqi soldiers are advancing on the the kurdish.

hello i'm don jordan and with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. military is blaming.

hello i'm don jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. military is blaming an isolated group for an ambush that killed four of its soldiers and earlier this month a senate investigation is looking into how the men died meanwhile the chairman of the joint chiefs says the u.s. will stay in the shed despite the deaths. it is an isis affiliated group and i think what you're bringing up is what we're dealing with in many places is isis and al qaeda isis in this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. and connect those local insurgencies globally this is the challenge that we're dealing with and so our initial assessment is these or local tribal fighters that are associated with isis earlier the widow of one of the men who died criticized president trump for being insensitive johnson says trump struggled to remember her husband's name during a condolence call trump denies the allegation. the political philosophy of china's president will be written into the constitution the edition was approved in the final day of the communist party's co

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hello i'm don jordan this is al jazeera also coming up spain's government gives a seventy two hour deadline to clarify its position on independence or face the prospect of. leaving no stone unturned somali rescuers look for survivors two days after the worst suicide attack killed about three hundred in the capital. and the beverage is ridiculous horrible. most definitely. the tanks and soldiers to help fight obesity in one of america's largest cities loses its face. we begin 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 that 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

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