Of their i bar and youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up in iraq Kurdish Forces withdraw from disputed territory as the army moves in to head off the threat of. Somalias president calls for more International Help after saturdays bomb attack that killed hundreds in mogadishu. In the killing of a high profile Journalist Research into corruption claims that attracted full enemies. We begin in syria where u. S. Backed forces have driven out from its capital of raka in syria after a tough four month battle the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces have raised their flag inside the city stadium which i saw had turned into a huge prison for anyone who oppose their role. Reports now from the turkey syria border. Triumphantly. Celebrating the cup. Which was. Told in syria but. Wasnt. The Syrian Democratic forces coalition and backed by the u. S. Held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling but. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to save areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped north of the city. I heard the news of a ceasefire and took my family but then we came under fire and the journey was tough because we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that iraq is under their control as fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria. An advance that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two have recently been competing to expand their military gains in iraq and dealers or the counter rocket is a major setback for either which is now trying to hold ground in a vast desert area on the border with iraq by losing fertile lands and oil fields the group finds itself deprived of crucial financial means that perfectly needs at this critical moment and it was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared Islamic State. Well im glad abdel as these are all hands there is the cofounder of rock is being slaughtered silently thats a Campaign Launched by a group of nonviolent activists in iraq had to expose the atrocities committed there and as you can see he joins us live via skype from berlin thanks so much for being with us on the program and from where you are in berlin what does it feel like to watch those images coming out of rocker and to hear that i saw has been driven out. You know hard for so for sure like me as many people from iraq and we were waiting for at that moment when i saw it be defeated but unfortunately it was not the scenario we were or we hoped or expected so i says what if you did but in the same time the city turned to be completely destroyed city so when i did percent of the city is destroyed i was in the city as being that can be and was not careful arthel. Like main goal of the caribbean was only to defeat to isis without caring of the sea the years of being living there about anything so. It turned to be a tragedy that people who were lucky to leave that city were simply they left and they left behind them was it and of the will who had been killed under robel at least they like most of that what they look they lost family members real attempts in a bar so unfortunate it was. You know yeah its 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 dont 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 territorys being forced to join in and fight against isis so right now there are little children or fourteen fifteen or fighting with see if they were forced to fight with this city if against isis so often is theyre trying just to hype their kids their children to be what they that you know in the same time most of that be will they were sent or transferred to an east arresting camp where they cant leave at all and they need to have some want to insure them so. People from the same city being in the same city they cant leave they can do anything so afford them taken so there whats happening is as a new york you bishan were a stranger came to lead them and there was no blood for the future or the day after so isis defeated right now but there was no blind eye talk so of those stiffy the ends are living with and on a future or so or its been so hard for them what to do what will happen and right now they are facing a new kind of coalition is up to displacement burning houses are resting and this is that kind of fix violations had to have been two years ago and as you have first. And the same violation is going on and we were trying to call it and turn the Show Community to stop its sea of committing discounted a violation but unfortunately it was kind of a promise is that they will drive to stop them but nothing had been so awful all right apple has these all hands that tony is there for that and appreciate your time thanks so much. Iraqs Prime Minister says the kurdish referendum on secession from baghdad is finished and a thing of the past hes calling for dialogue with the kurdish leadership this is Iraqi Government troops and their allies capture more territory from Kurdish Forces in the countrys north. Where the Kurdish Peshmerga are still in control in the hook. And solomon near the three provinces that make up the semi autonomous kurdish region but they have withdrawn from sin jar mark work here cook and head of kin all of which they took over during the fight against eisel and those areas that were included in the kurdish referendum on the session last month a vote that infuriated baghdad and ultimately triggered its move to take the disputed territories of the president of the Kurdistan Regional government has called the withdrawal of peshmerga fighters historic treason charles frankfurt has more from erbil. President Masoud Barzani has released a statement describing what he says was one of the reasons behind this incredibly fast withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from kirkuk and the other disputed territories he has blamed that withdrawal of what he describes as unilateral decisions made by some officials now this is consistent with some of the allegations being made by other members of his k d p party against the p u k now the peshmerga Central Command today described this withdrawal is as a result of his story treason from members of the p u k party and interestingly enough a former senior aide to the p u k has said that a Transitional Government needs to be set up and more effective channels of dialogue between the k r g and baghdad a stablished the fallout from this sudden withdrawal is is very obvious when you speak to patients the fighters that weve weve met today they feel very despondent about this bear in mind that at least one thousand seven hundred patients were killed in the battle against i so the political fallout from this crisis is huge and there are some analysts saying that president barzani is now facing one of if not the biggest crisis in his political and military career i would mean is there a senior political analyst. Lets start off talking with the kurdish issue in iraq well because right now where does what has happened over the past twenty four hours leave them well look theyve tried to go beyond their strongholds another iraq beyond the many regions into the area and few cities around that and many villages now the iraqi forces baghdads guided if you will where able to. Push the peshmerga the Kurdish Forces back to their strongholds i think in a large way peacefully and now the kurds among themselves are exchanging insults as to who is in charge who is responsible for that kind of misstep and why did the withdrawal happen the way it did and why the kurds now a basically selling kook to buy the government in baghdad i think i hope that this enter kurdish tensions if you will dont become a conflict because for our viewers around the world its just good to remind ourselves that twenty years ago this month trial involving grid kurds die and those are the fighters in kurdish kurdish conflict another in iraq so while the courage do unite against. External forces like i so or like the government in baghdad but when theyre left to their own devices theyve had some real major conflicts hopefully this time around the remaining and i didnt order to be able to negotiate with the government and by that of course across the board a significant events happening in syria in the city of raka i saw being driven out that by the Syrian Democratic forces going in and essentially liberating us that he might say it rock it was interesting we were talking to you and activists from rocka a couple of minutes ago and he said that actually people in iraq at the ordinary syrians in rocka many of them dont regard the s. D. F. As liberators they regard them as an Occupying Force why is that you know liberating occupying of course within the one and same country is is a question of interpretation but certainly the kurds. Strongholds if you will if there is such a thing their way north of raka and east of rocca and certainly the idea that they were able to go down to iraq and the american guidance support air support and others is because they have really worked as a proxy for the United States in the fight against i so they were trained they were armed they were financed and hence they were they became a Formidable Force against eisel at least in the last several weeks whereby they were able to liberate iraq for the syrians of course it seemed completely differently from from damascus or from aleppo it doesnt look like the way it looks from washington d. C. They dont see it as liberated in fact you know the same problems facing syria today. The same problems facing iraq today are the same like they faced in both countries before eisel came to existence you know we all think and we all remember as if i still has been there forever its only been there for three four years thats it so really getting rid of ice is the ice of defeating eisel will only now bring back perhaps more staunchly the good old problems that syria faced as a legitimacy of the regime in damascus just like there is a legitimacy of regime in baghdad and the problem with that problem with the minorities not to be the kurds and so on so forth i think were going to go back to square one once i saw the defeated except after a good few years of civil war i think we dont know how far this is going to go and whether we moved from the challenge i saw to the challenge of the kurds and whether the fight against i so were now muted to another war inside syria and iraq this time against the kurds hopefully dusts or no thank you. Rescue operations are continuing in somalias capital for those still missing after the worst bomb attack in the countrys history well the three hundred people were killed by a suicide truck explosion on saturday thirty five seriously injured victims have been flown to turkey for treatment well somalias president has told our jazzier that his country cannot fight al shabaab on its own and has appealed for International Help the government is blaming the armed group for saturdays attack Mohammed Atta who has the latest from mogadishu. Somalia police say that that at least one suspect in connection with that is bombing in the cup we cant forget the issue they say there was that that or not all of the truck was laden with explosives and wood was used for cutting out bombing in one of the busiest streets in mogadishu. Also details emerging about the final moments before the explosion caught investigator thank you dr one of the truck was a checkpoint very Suspicious Security force and when we accelerated the vehicle the feeling. Before him sitting hundred others now the president has not killed what International Support that his government is. All about he said that if the International Community allowed al shabaab to succeed here then all shabaab. Violence. So ahead of the program more than two years after the war began in yemen an estimated eighty percent of people are now in need of humanitarian aid. Mission accomplished the philippines president announces the number ration of the. Week from trouble. Hello ray is returned to the caucasus and the tail end of this frontal system that brought the rain has been sparking sunder storms on the caspian coast of iran once again theyve been pokey for the last month alone off and here they are still flash flood territory has too many beaches in twenty four hours the dispersing out in the forecast and the temperature briefly droplets start to rise again at about the twenty mark still below thirty in baghdad but i think the sun warmed this up as well and beirut likewise is seeing temperatures slowly rise not by much but because the wind direction coming up from the warm side it does it it does tend to warm up in fact thats what the wind is doing is coming dancers ago has dropped both humidity and improved the air quality has been quite clear in bahrain and qatar thirty seven there still quite worth the time the able and breeze country in the quarter picks up some dust might be dusty in mecca and takes the wolves further north otherwise for effectively cloud free should be the case it has been raining recently again though in south africa not surprising from the west and east was that cloud has been grazing the coast now we see its a pretty big shock as you know its nothing like that in the forecast it looks like that she all of Southern Africa is just enjoying big blue skies. Right. Welcome back i reminder at the top stories on aljazeera u. S. Backed forces have driven i saw out of itself declared capital of raka in syria the battle to take the city for myself began in june. Kurdish forces have suffered more territorial losses in iraq the day after Government Troops seized the Northern City of kirkuk. And rescue operations are continuing in somalias capital for those still missing after the worst bomb attack in the countrys history. The u. S. Says it has launched its first attack on i saw targets in yemen in a series of nighttime airstrikes on land u. S. Drones launched around twelve missiles at positions in the southern albaida province the pentagon said that the u. S. Forces have killed dozens of eisel fighters in a strike on two Training Camps there but local residents said the strikes hit fighters from a powerful alqaeda affiliate which is battling iran aligned rebels as part of yemens civil war or the war in yemen has been raging for more than two years now and it is the course of millions who are paying the price the u. N. Says more than eight thousand people that sixty percent of them being civilians have been killed and almost fifty thousand injured in airstrikes and fighting on the ground since march twenty fifteen eighty percent of the population is now in need of some sort of humanitarian aid at least three million yemenis have been displaced the country is facing the Worlds LargestFood Security emergency and a cholera outbreak that has already caused more than two thousand deaths. Before the story im joined by Robert Martini hes middle east director of the International Committee of the red cross the much for being with us i think youve actually been in yemen recently is that right i mean just how desperate the picture for us how desperate is the situation right now because you get the feeling that the full picture the full story is still not being heard. Yeah i think behind the set is six lies human tragedies and i think today the humanitarian situation is nothing short of catastrophic and every aspect of life is being affected by this conflict you want to find any yemeni family who hasnt been affected by this conflict and imagine a country that relies on everything it needs from abroad has restriction on imports only thirty percent of medicines are reaching them and today. There has been one hundred sixty Health Facilities directed targeted or attacked since the beginning of the conflict and today only forty five percent of Health Facilities and hospitals are running today people are not only dying because of airstrikes Ground Fighting they are also dying because of preventable and treatable diseases cholera is a case in point it is the most Massive Health crisis in modern times of a preventable disease. And you have the food crisis you have the fifteen million yemeni today affected by this food crisis seven million dont know where their next meal is coming from. And it is a terrible journey to go from one place to the other in the country of course. When goods reach the country the whole challenge is how you get them from one place to the other crossing frontlines negotiating our way through checkpoints is it is a terrible ordeal for ordinary yemenis well i was going to ask you that was or even who is it thats actually stopping you and other organizations like yours from getting that help to those who need it because its not just want to agree upon im guessing having to negotiate with various factions absolutely it is a conflict that is fragmented there are dozens if not hundreds of different armed groups operating in yemen and the humanitarian aid is prone to political negotiations and is being politics. So you need to negotiate everything thing that you shouldnt be negotiating in the first place as getting food to the people in need getting water and Sanitation Services getting. In to Health Centers so that people want died from bad it is for instance all this is a struggle and i think today yemenis are suffering and are paying the highest cost of this conflict and i think all parties of the two the conflict have contributed to this catastrophic situation there has been criticism of the International Community with some critics saying well the yemeni war and the situation humanitarian situation have simply been ignored by the International Community but from what youre saying what else could the International Community be doing right now because youre being blocks at every turn if you like getting aid into areas that need it what can the International Community doing that is different. I think the International Community should get it acts together and find the solution to this conflict and a way think for this solution to come because its a complex one at least the International Communities and in particularly countries of influence should exert their influence on the various groups active in yemen so that the basic rules of four are respected hospital should not be targeted civilians should be protected it is more than a slogan is just i mean parties to the conflict should take every precaution to spare civilians there should be restrictions lifting of the restriction on imports checkpoints should lead humanitarian convoys pass. More medicine should go into into the country today every every day twenty yemenis are dying because of preventable diseases or afic stories. Thank you for coming in thank you. Well the philippine president has. Liberated after a five month battle against. Ordering of the house the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says fighting is continuing. Reports. To signal the end of a month long military operation to take back full control over. An i saw inspired group called the mouth had taken parts of the southern philippines city earlier this year even though the military admits there are still pockets of resistance. I started with the mountain armed group raised its black flag over several government buildings last may now to fighters wanted to set up an Islamic State in the mindanao region. But. The significance is not lost. We has been. Liberated over a thousand people have died more than a hundred soldiers have perished in the battle. For more than four months. For the soldiers this celebration is bittersweet. Our brothers whom we lost in the fighting especially our marine soldiers who died trying to take the bridge of thats where we incurred so many casualties. That our sacrifices have been the work that we can finally go back home and be with our families again i am happy that we. This was a Difficult Mission the damage caused by the fighting is unprecedented even for a region long held back by poverty and armed rebellion. Relentless airstrikes ferocious gun battles and displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians have turned matter we city into a desolate place this week tomorrow to leaders were killed in a military operation the groups plans of setting up an i saw inspired Islamic State in mindanao have been shattered but in the region with many conflicts groups like them out to do not remain without a leader for long the government admits it made mistakes and says it will go after local leaders who supported them out a Group President at their day has promised to rebuild but are we city people here say theyre grateful that they are now free from them out here in. The sea they would like to know what freedom means to those now were fearful of an uncertain future. On. The southern philippines. And also the son of a journalist killed in a car bomb on monday says the country is a mafia state run by what he calls crooks. Run a blog highlighting cases of alleged corruption among politicians on the island reports. Being run by crooks those morning who agree. The gathered outside the law court in the capital of a letter the center of the investigation the journalist family has already succeeded in getting the head of that investigation changed she had herself been a target of glaziers work. It is our obligation to ask the state to defend as the state did not defend the state did not do anything. Whose car was blown to pieces how to lead. Widespread corruption and links between state actors the betting industry and the math here in malta on twitter journalists and others express their outrage so to do it in a sandwich the founder of wiki leaks he put a twenty thousand euro reward up for information there was a tribute to the European Commission in brussels president young and the European Commission condemned this attack and its strongest possible. The right to free journalists to investigate. And for uncomfortable questions and report effectively is at the heart of our values and needs to be guaranteed that all the time its reported extensively on the Panama Papers the giant leak of information about how the global rich cover up their wealth in offshore Shell Companies in the biggest indication of how far her allegations went attribute came into from the maltese Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat his wife had been accused by galicia of running a company out of panama muscat and killers you hated each other it is going to work bloody said if i condemn without reservation the barbaric attack on the person and against the freedom of speech in our country everyone knows carolina galicia was a harsh critic of mine both politically and personally but nobody can justify this barbaric attack in any way because he has work made her countless powerful enemies it is a fact that some of them now have to investigate her murder and do it properly gloriously aljazeera. And reminder of the headlines on aljazeera u. S. Back forces have driven eisel out of its self declared capital of raka in syria Syrian Democratic forces have raised their flag inside the city stadium which i thought had turned into a huge prison to hold anyone who oppose their rule about to take the city began in june civilians have been fleeing for weeks as the fighting intensified. Attack you were talking about hundreds of thousands of people who fled the fighting who were affected by the fighting. In iraq over the last few months of basically you wont be able to send them back home because the area is not safe about booby trapped buildings or my area and some entire neighborhoods were completely destroyed this is going. And rebuilding iraq is something very wise amount of. A lot of money Kurdish Forces have lost more territory in Northern Iraq a day after Government Troops seized the Northern City of kirkuk they withdrawn from the towns of sin cook and hunted kin as well as giving up control of several oil fields tension has been mounting in the Oil Rich Region since the kurds held a referendum on secession last month. Rescue operations are continuing in somalias capital for those still missing following the worst bomb attack in the countrys history over three hundred people were killed in a suicide truck explosion in mogadishu on saturday. But anything president says his forces have retaken the Southern City of modern way after a five month battle against. The city has been free from terrorists but his military says fighting is continuing. The uns Refugee Agency is urging bangladesh to speed up vetting of around fifteen thousand refugees said to be stranded near the border with me and ma the agency wants the people moved further inland to safer and better conditions and those the latest headlines on al jazeera in five stories next but by. The Iraqi Government to seize control of the disputed all rich city of kut cook and Kurdish Forces have retreated from other major contested areas in the north so how will this affect the kurds push to secede from baghdad this is inside story