the fall of rocca 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 rocca the spite these fighters celebrations. or the world that knows what happened in iraq at least to some degree thanks to an organization of citizen journalists known as rocket is being slaughtered silently in the group as documented the atrocities in the human suffering in the city it has been called the most reliable source of information inside iraq tonight the co-founder and spokesperson is with me here at the big table i'm happy to welcome to the show abdel aziz al homsi believes it's good to have you on the show. you were born in iraq and you graduated from the university there what did you think when you heard today that this city or that the fighting against islamic state has ended there yeah like as many people from iraq i was having some boring but other because it was not the scenario that was expected from most of the people so it's true that i sa

i asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the capital of its self-styled caliph that. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who oppose the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by us 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 rocca the spite these fighters celebrations. where the world knows what happened in iraq at least to some degree thanks to an organization of citizen journalists known as rocket is being slaughtered silently the group has documented the atrocities in the human suffering in the city it has been called the most reliable source of information inside iraq tonight the co-founde

i bring coffee it's good to have you with us tonight residents in the city of rocca are bringing to a close their first day free from so-called islamic state the syrian the city was the capital of the islamist groups suppose it caliph it u.s. backed forces took control of almost all of the city today troops fighting say they have captured one of the militants last holdouts the city's hospital but there are still pockets of resistance in the city one of them is reported to be a stadium complex in rock which was used by all us as a prison and arms dump as you see right there and dozens of fighters have made their last stand there once the sea. islamic state's power the long fight for iraq has left this 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 rocka is now a shell of a city. there's nothing left where 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

of the democratic federation of northern syria a defacto autonomous region of syria just north of rocca thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and. what do you think of the defeat of the so-called islamic state will mean for northern syria is this a good thing or a bad thing for the prospects of peace. of course if we think about it that they that ices that control the city it is in january two thousand and fourteen and they think the march of isis they entered this whole the whole city the entire city and that you caused the blare on the city and they actually lifted the last few lists. i mean in the city for the women for the people for their children. their day to day the one hundred thirty four days the belief that the city is the believe which is that they call it the capital city of it it is falling now it is now but it is under control of the city and the parser's of course it is a very happy the it is exceptional day for all the people for all of the syrian people not only for this union people for all the people in the world because these two groups and they they used

the fall of rocca 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 rocca the spite these fighters celebrations. and how long will those celebrations last for more now we want to cross over to journalist of let him hear from the building block he joins us from kabbani in northern syria good evening to you so we've got the liberation of iraq today does that mean that the back of islamic state has finally been broken. because of course because rock out of the capital feiss in syria i thought the isis wives that are now satisfied advice in this that it's got lots of isis they would have had given them victory but now isis it sort of defeated aka of course there are still some isis pockets left and there is or the fight is largely over and more in syria so the fight is over but the people remain particularly the residents in iraq and around the city how much support from area residents is still there for isis do we know well i don't

in twenty fourteen it was here that i celebrated its push into the city rocca was declared the defacto capital of it's self styled culliford it became home to thousands of jihadists from around the world after a call by the i.r.s. leader. to migrate to the syrian city it's sort of was where they plan terror attacks across the globe. this is rockers municipal stadium the militant sets up a prison here torturing people who oppose their rule it's where many of the foreign jihadists were killed making a last stand after refusing an offer of safe passage. small pockets of i asked militants still thought to be holed up in the city but there's another danger to be faced in these ruins booby traps and mines the u.n. says there has already been staggering loss of civilian life and rocca well over a thousand were killed in the battle for the city with hundreds more bodies feared buried in the rubble. and from all its consulate agendas of lot of need one billion maggie joins me from kabbani in northern syria that's about one hundred kilometers north of rocca welcome the to meet what is the situat

i asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the company all of its self-styled conifer to. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who oppose the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by asked leader. 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 rocca 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 bo

as we leave rocca the streets everywhere are full of civilians fleeing the conflict these come from day year as our. filk is heading to a refugee camp near the city as the battle for rocco wraps up the fighting has moved here some days a thousand people arrive at the camp looking for food safety and shelter almost all are arabs not kurds they're just trying to get out of the conflict zone away from i ask and its fighters who use local women and children as human shields and force the men to fight at the front. the kurdish red crescent runs one of the camps to mobile clinics make vilsack is not just a doctor he's also an activist he doesn't reject ideas expressed by the p.k. case militant leader abdulla urge alon that have a major influence on kurdish self-government in the region. without the kurds. the arab refugees here would be in serious trouble. yesterday i was in a newly built hospital building i saw it before back in february it will open soon i asked bombs things to bits then the kurds build them back up again that's what gives you hope and in their model men and women have equa

rocca that was back in twenty thirteen and hell captive for ten months i mean turkey hashem he's a senior correspondent for al-jazeera has been covering the conflict in syria for this network good to see you everybody good to see chads and we start with some video some footage from about a week ago celebrations don't sing iraqis have a look. at you used to live in iraq when you saw the celebrations it's mission accomplished what kind of victory in states. is. actually showing me because. that before i feel that there's people just dancing in the bodies or families. or friends they seem they don't break right now we know that this is not a true because this is the regime the thousands of civilians who have been killed because it's close to the kinds of civilians who are displaced now many of the civilians are from outside in their camps and living in very bad conditions there are many thousands will be killed in these operations by us what was your what was the if and why quality strikes and nobody dancing one because they don't see for example and names which is one of the most dangerous

you said there another person this is you to live through it's right send the biggest problem for rocca is house and food and that should be fixed first i believe as he heard what hashem said about aid agencies knowing that this is a priority right now what are the families feeling in this moment are you still talking to people who are on the outskirts who have fled rocka and what are their concerns. you know like i'm. living rock and. talking of course about the cams and major chamish. and arresting camps they can't believe that you have. to cry and tease them before they're up to being in their own city and they are kind of arresting can and then like. die because of their backs and dishes and cam or their like and there are risks there are having like that vaccinations there are leaving with best places to lock them. in there are there are saying no where is that these are all things and like them and problems that they're facing right now even like they consider towards health and food and anything of recruitment quite is the forcing children and a team to join them and. so those ch

the syrian democratic forces will win the battle for rocca but it's not over yet this is making a last desperate stand here the remains of a company and i guess attempt to stop coalition forces advancing. the u.s. led coalition says it won't accept the surrender of ai as militants so the remaining jihadists probably won't get out of rocca alive. well still to come on the day super girls to the rescue and get ready to meet the cartoon characters who are on a mission to change the attitudes towards women and girls and. wildfires in the u.s. state of california have killed thirty one people making of the deadliest fires in the state's history hundreds are still missing and the just toll is expected to rise dry conditions and fierce winds are hampering efforts to bring the fires under control the blazes in wine country north of san francisco have been burning since sunday and conditions are only expected to get worse over the weekend napa valley was the heart of california's wine industry but now napa and it surrounds the scene an unprecedented disaster. these men are among a thousand fire

northern syria again and again supporting his colleagues from the kurdish red crescent the battle for rocca is in its final stages but danger is a constant presence i asked fire. hers have been driven out but they mined the city extensively before someday sweeny with a family six people all of them enjoy it too and some of them lose nicks on the bodies but the lakes have our new offensive against i-s. will soon kick off from here in the northern suburbs a raga filk and his kurdish colleagues are looking for a safe place to bring the inevitable casualties the doctor complains of no one thinks about the people killed and wounded in the fighting. got a bothers me most is that the kurds who are expected to last i ass out of here are staking out their own necks for outside interests for example in the interests of the us but far too little is done for the civilians left holding the bag and too little is done for the fighters themselves you could say these people are being used to. this kurdish fighters signals us to stay undercover i.a.s. niters are still hidden in the ruins of the jihadist grou

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well still ahead on the day rocca after isis in the syrian city the memories of atrocities are as fresh as the views of ruins are watching how do you begin to rebuild society and the state which state i'll ask a woman who's committed to doing just that and she is armed with lots of hope. every five years in china the communist party congress takes place in china's great political show that speaks to all the people with the voice of one and only one party or today's chinese president xi jinping continued that tradition but he also offered words unusually critical of the nation's future she also pledged to open the country's economy even further and he said he will pursue a policy of zero tolerance when it comes to corruption. it's a meeting on the grandest of scales. nearly twenty three hundred delegates representing the eighty nine million members of china's communist party and the focus of it all one man president xi jinping. she praised china's achievements during his stewardship but he said the country must not stand still. ok china has made major breakthroughs in its reform campaign

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two hundred thousand people has left it in ruins here are some of the latest pictures from inside rocca the kurdish led forces launched their military operation against the terrorists in iraq in early june they've liberated iran's ninety percent of the city although i still continues to fight for control of the center the last of the old city would be a huge blow to the terror group the syrian army is also pushing them out of debt as all considering i considered myself last stronghold in eastern syria. but the story of rocca is the focus of most media attention not far from the city are a number of assyrian christian villages which were repeatedly targeted by i still here's the story of one woman whose village was reduced to rubble. yeah the islamic state attacked us by surprise at four in the morning. they said leave everything behind because the village is going to be razed to the ground and that's precisely what happened before our rice we watched the smoke rise from our houses. from then on our life as hostages of islamic states started our fate was uncertain everything was uncertai

rita now for the latest on the often off of the fight for rocca in syria thanks helena u.s. backed forces in iraq are carrying out mopping up operations one day off of the took the city from so-called islamic state they're removing land mines and clearing main roads they're expected to announce the formal liberation of the city later today syrian forces captured the former i s stronghold on tuesday after an intense four month campaign after an assault lasting for months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flag in russia's main square. where near the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i asked fighters we haven't seen any near the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm flying and i'm so happy. jubilation on the spot known as the round up out of hell over the past three years my ass used for public beheadings and crucifixions suring the terror the characterize the militants reign. in twenty fourteen it was here that i celebrated its push into the city rocca was declared the defa

i think what you see is families and especially the children coming out of rocca is that they've beenhit with two kinds of two different events which have really had a significant impact on their well being first of all they've been living under isis control since early twenty fourteen so the children we met are really just numb to violence right now they described witnessing the ending they describe seeing bodies lying around on the ground for weeks now and have been to school in three years they can't read or write it's hard for them to imagine a productive future when you talk to children they just show the sense of really being now but then on top of that because of the intense bombardment that's happening you see children as well that are just completely terrified of airplanes and bombs falling they have nightmares during the night they can't sleep when they do try to sleep they hear the sounds of people screaming so these children have just been through so much for the last four years but then the most more recent bombing has definitely had an impact on them as well or a josh i

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the so-called islamic state are believed to be hiding out in the ruins controlling a small part of rocca the destruction is partly a result of u.s. led coalition airstrikes on a is that reportedly killed more than eight hundred sixty civilians since june that's according to the organization air wars which tracks casualties by interviewing eyewitnesses but this commander disputes that claim. no that's not true sometimes civilians are killed in the fighting but they're rarely hit by asteroids when people try to flee the combat zone that shot by us snipers well they stepped on i.a.s. mines. many have died that way. the syrian democratic forces will win the battle for rocca but it's not over yet i is making a last desperate stand here the remains of a company and i its attempt to stop coalition forces advancing. the u.s. led coalition says it won't accept the surrender of ai as militants so the remaining jihadists probably won't get out of russia. well still to come on the day super girls to the rescue get ready to meet the cartoon characters who are on a mission to change the attitudes towa

journalism to expose the tactics of i still also in germany mohammed coulda is another former resident of rocca he's now c.e.o. a sound and picture a documentary organization committed to recording the violence of i still in syria and iraq in france nicholas ten in a former journalist who was kidnapped by and i saw iraqi that was back in twenty thirteen and helped captive for ten months and in turkey. he's a senior correspondent for al-jazeera he's been covering the conflict in syria for this network good to see you everybody good to see you jed's let me start with some video some footage from about a week ago celebrations dancing in morocco have a look. mohammed you use a little rocco when you saw the celebrations it's mission accomplished what kind of victory in states. is. actually showing me because as a rock but before i feel that the those people just dancing in the bodies of four families . or friends they seemed a bit of a break from you know that this is not a true because this is the regime that thousands of civilians will have been killed because it's ghosted thousands of civilians a

yes but forces fighting are still in syria have been clearing main roads and rocca a day after their commanders declared the city under their control the kurdish led syrian democratic forces raised their flag and record stadium after a four month battle to push eisel from its self-proclaimed capital iraq's oil minister has asked the petroleum drive be paid to make plans to develop the could cook oil fields baghdad took control of the oil rich region from kurdish peshmerga fighters on monday china's president of this be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's ninety of congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech she jinping laid out his political and economic vision for his country over the next five years you know to nations as it's considering whether violence taken against the hinge of muslims constitutes genocide or the five hundred eighty thousand revenge or have fled meanwhile for bangladesh since august in what the u.n. has previously described as textbook ethnic cleansing to stay with us the stream is up next by for now. i mean ok on your in

female kurdish fighters who helped defeat eisold in the group self declared capital rocca have celebrated in the city's streets they dedicated their progress against myself to our children the head of the old kurdistan workers party in neighboring turkey and they vow to continue fighting until all women are freed from under beisel rule. a saudi arabian government minister has made a public appearance in a rebel held part of syria gulf affairs minister. visited syrian territory captured by kurdish led rebels to this photo showing him with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's special envoy against eisel. there is intensifying international pressure of being involved over the violent repression of writing double standards the united nations and the u.s. government holding military responsible and to calling for stringent measures to deal with the crisis and solve a bit of its ripples. tens of thousands of ranger refugees are coming to bangladesh every day they see their homes are being burned and they're being chased by buddhist moms. they describe desperate conditions and having little to eat.

by forces fighting i saw in syria have been clearing main roads in rocca a day off the commanders declared the city under their control. and police in somalia fired into the air does best thousands of angry protesters trying to reach the site of saturday's deadly bombing which killed more than three hundred people in market condition. four people have died in togo in clashes between security forces and protesters demanding the resignation of the president. for a second day police fired tear gas at people define a government ban on midweek protests to protest as in two policemen were also killed on tuesday opposition activists have been demonstrating since buddhist they want constitutional reforms including a two term limit for the president his family his rule the west african nation the hoffa century. spain has warned it will take the unprecedented step of seeking to suspend catalonia autonomy if the region's leader doesn't abandon his secession bit . remains defiant as new back reports from barcelona he's running out of options. save catalonia as independence movements looking increasing

you know yeah it's horrific what has been happening in rocca what about the future do you think those who fled rocka before will they decide to return i mean they are returning to a city that is all but been destroyed but will they feel the need to go back so of for i don't think that arses fighters will come back again to the city so they just simply already know they are trying just a defense them and cities like india is so are talking about the civilians for sure they hope to go back to the city but so far the city is full landmines and its like now you are seeing destroyed so there is no blissed for them to go and hounding your friends and family who are still in iraq how do they regard what the syrian democratic forces have in getting rid of isilon how they see the at the estie. so of like like most of that we were rocket they consider what happened as a new york you bishan because they consider a c.s. first as a stranger is not from the city and a group that being committed to human rights violations saw talking specially about children who were able to survive or to flee isis

what we've received the messages are quite mixed for those that have tried to push push as lot of rocca so many people have been sharing this particular video which showed earlier of rocker residents fleeing for safety. cheering and crying. and dozens of had this clip this is from the kurdish y.p. jean press office and it does seem to show a woman celebrating after she was rescued from michael control in rocca. but it was actually this drone video which has been making the rounds really showing the just the sheer destruction retreated hundreds of times with this caption ironically really this is how the u.s. coalition liberated rocka i sure i sure do hope that the people who live here are thankful now we were monitoring the situation where we saw a few interesting tweets syrian activists ahmed rashid harbor agreed with that earlier statement saying that eighty percent of the city is destroyed including six hospitals and twenty nine mosques some on twitter use is now complaining that even this news concerting to be hard to come by now i must say says that the mainstream media has simply

says that there has already been staggering loss of civilian life and rocca well over a thousand people were killed in the four month long battle for the city and for more on all of this let's talk now to mcdonald's spokesperson for save the children in the middle east the organization has been working with people who have fled iraq and you join us this afternoon from jordan's capital amman thanks so much for being with us and what can you tell us about the civilians who have fled this city and what does their condition say about what's been going on there. the children that we speak to when they arrive in these camps are in churches condition they. they've been living for the past few months in a city that's been boman to be fighting with outs water electricity food all in very short supply so that they're really in quite a desperate state when they they reach the camps but they've also been living for more than three years now on isis will many of the children that we talk to you are still suffering nightmares because of the extreme violence that they seeing. everything from seeing pe

female kurdish fighters who helped to defeat iso in what was the group's self declared capital rocca i would celebrating the streets of the city i dedicated their progress against i saw two of the jailed head of the outboard kurdistan workers party in neighboring turkey britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled for exit talks to resume a is calling for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the block as the headlines tuesday with inside story is next i'll have the news after you straight after that thanks for watching. spain says it's going to take away catalonia is autonomy as the regional leader ignores a deadline to abandon secession plans what's next for the capital and.

after four months of operations rocca is 90% cleared. that isis has been defeated but clearance operations continue and we expect our democratic force partners to hit pockets of resistance as the final parts of the city are cleared. >> reporter: the reason for that is many of the iis fighters that remain in raqqa are foreigners. they were not afforded the same opportunity to surrender like the syrian fighters were. the militia wants them dead, doesn't want them to return or go elsewhere or go other places to fight. they are running out of food, water, ammunition but that will take some time to get rid of them. as the capital of raqqa of the islamic's military says the fight will not be over. the u.s. army says ias has 60,000 fighters in syria and iraq. big milestone, 3 months after the us established its anti-ias coalition in iraq in syria, a big success but the u.s. army says the fight isn't over yet. heather: what happens next and who controls what, very key. how is it possible isis spread so quickly? karl rove, chief of staff or georg

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the syrian democratic forces will win the battle for rocca but it's not over yet i s's making a last desperate stand here the remains of a car bomb and i as attempt to stop coalition forces advancing. the u.s. led coalition says it won't accept the surrender of ai as militants so the.

hundred civilians used as human shields coalition forces have now captured more than eighty percent of rocca once i s's.

hundred civilians used as human shields coalition forces have captured more than eighty percent of rocca once i s's de facto. apatow. the oscars academy has expelled film producer harvey weinstein following an avalanche of sexual abuse allegations the academy announced it was taking a highly unusual step after an emergency meeting of its board some thirty women have now come forward accusing weinstein of sexual harassment assault and in several cases rape. a suicide bombing in the somali capital mogadishu has killed at least twenty people police say a truck packed with explosives detonated at a busy intersection lined with government buildings hotels and restaurants there was no immediate claim of responsibility but the islamist group al-shabaab frequently targets the city. the number of people killed by wildfires in california has risen to forty with hundreds still missing the death toll is likely to rise thousands more people evacuated their homes on saturday as the fires fanned by high winds spread fire fighters have made some progress in the reference to contain the flames but they'r

human shields during the withdrawal coalition forces have now captured more than eighty percent of rocca once i asked as defacto capital. a truck bomb explosion has killed at least twenty people in the somali capital mogadishu police said the blast happened as security forces were trailing the truck there's been no claim of responsibility but the islamist al shabaab group has carried out similar bombings in mogadishu in the past. four people have died after a cargo plane crash in the sea off ivory coast the aircraft was chartered by the french military and it crashed shortly after taking off from the international airport the four dead were all moldovan citizens four french nationals were among the injured. in the u.s. state of california rising winds are fanning wildfires that have killed at least thirty eight people and forced thousands to flee their homes the blazes have been burning for a week now and they're still growing. the wind makes fighting the flames even more difficult fire crews have been working tirelessly to bring the blazes under control but many of the biggest fires hav