Everyone ive. From london coming up in the next sixty minutes beginning of the end of i saw in Syria Kurdish forces captured the groups declared capital rucka. But the kurds in iraq a very different story theyve lost more territory to baghdad leaving their dream of independence there in tatters also ahead a refugee crisis that showing no signs of easing more than ten thousand. From bangladesh in just forty eight hours. And. With all the days news as n. F. L. Team meeting new york to try and find a way forward after players continue to meall during the playing of the National Anthem more later this hour. We begin in syria where u. S. Forces have driven out eisel from its self declared capital of raka after a tough four month battle the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces have raised their fire inside the city stadium which i feel it turned into a huge prison for anyone who opposed their all reports from the turkey syria border. Kurdish fighters triumphantly. Celebrating the capture of the city which was. Called 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. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are a lot are still 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 there mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. I heard the news offices fire and took my family by then we came under fire 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 fields the group finds itself deprived of crucial financial means that currently needs at this critical moment which was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared Islamic State. Well the height of its strength not only did i still hold rocker declaring it its capital it also swept across iraq seizing control of a large swathe of the country a couple of years on its territory has been reduced to just this not only has it lost raca its also being targeted by Iraqi Government forces across the border the group is also under attack by the Syrian Government and its allies in the last pocket it holds dear as or tomorrow ill take such a close look now at just what losing rocker could mean for the future of eisel as a whole. The capture of rockabye i saw in two thousand and fourteen was held by the armed group as a major achievement back then i source said it demonstrated its strength as it continued to expand across syria and iraq it declared its capital in syria setting up courts prisons and other institutions but all of this was against the will of the people. I saw as emergence of a huge blow to the Syrian Opposition and the Free Syrian Army who had previously controlled the area their fighters were forced to retreat and president Bashar Al Assad was able to validate his claim that his troops were fighting what you call terrorists and not legitimate opposition in turn an International Coalition was formed to fight the group led by the United States and in coordination with russia whose forces had been sent into syria to help prop up the flailing regime the coalition and russia launched hundreds of air strikes in a bid to defeat i saw that many civilians were killed in the process on the ground the offensive to expel eisel from iraq i was being led by the y p g a kurdish faction supported and armed by washington while they managed to make large advances that true was at the expense of the Syrian Opposition who accuse the group of expelling the indigenous arab residents in order to pave the way for future kurdish states. Why p. G. Has links with the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k n armed group in turkey which i care considers to be a terrorist organization some of the journalists believe that despite the y. P. G. s success in expelling i saw from the group will not be able to achieve its goal of autonomy we can see that the kurds and their y. P. Ji definitely overstretched they could buy an area that they constitute a minority twenty five to thirty percent compared with seventy percent now that i saw has been pushed out from the many will declare the end of the armed groups but others disagree we are witnessing the fall of the. But that doesnt mean i will be destroyed isis will remain purcells in syria iraq and lebanon i saw is not an ordinary group its methods are both horrifying and unconventional it doesnt have a membership process for example anybody who wants to kill or maim can do so and then attribute those attacks through the group and thats what makes defeating ice all seem so impossible now whilst expanding its members from iraq is significant the reason need to deal with the root cause is the push young men to join such a group. Well lets talk more about those events in iraq with you neal days hes a fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations and has in fact just come back from iraq or Northern Syria welcome to you guinea and youve just been telling me off air while that report was going out that actually you know two of the women who are in the picture in our wall behind us actually the two one of them and at the center very center is called roger and he is the overall commander of the forces in iraq or so i went to see her to understand their military strategy it was like two weeks ago and at that point isis was surrounded in two areas the main hospital and a stadium in there by and we heard that this morning that the main hospital was cleared and ive seen drawn pictures showing how isis dug lots of tunnels and you can see the entrance and exits of those tunnels around. Like it was the case for the last few weeks isis was there and their forces was moving very slowly because isis had many civilian civilians with them. But you know the day after also some deals you know they cleared the whole city. What was it like when you were there and you actually say you you went and you saw some of the areas where i still have been cleared from but how intense was the fighting at that time on my first day there. Were married manning isis fighters try to block the siege so they start a really large scale attack on as the air force was burning down lots of stuff around you know to hide themselves from the aerial view and aerial bombardment but it didnt work and the two days later they did this time they started attacking from outside around hundred isis fighters attacked from outside coming from the regime areas apparently killing at least twenty nine people including a british citizen called moment and that didnt work as well they couldnt break the siege. One interesting thing was whenever an area is cleared or the. Captured from isis people start moving in you know almost immediately so you see people you know trying to find their homes just two or three kilometers away from you know where the fighting is taking place ive seen shops for example selling lots of goods so its amazing how traders find out where it is clear supply those things people are very resourceful are they in times of desperation. How will what is left in iraq and now how is it going to be governed and how do the people there want to pick up that well you know ive met a lot of people there and you know the main discussion actually in europe and some other places is that you. Could kurdish that organization whether they will be accepted in iraq but when you speak to ordinary people on the ground they dont necessarily talk about in ethnic terms they know these people went through the regime and under democratic regime under assad regime and then you know Free Syrian Army groups. And now what they care about most is whether they will be governed and they you know. They will have a secure environment and ive spoken to a lot of people in i need a camp which is like. Forty fifty kilometers north of rocca where most people were from iraq took shelter in and they were also saying like we waiting maybe in a few weeks well go back to our homes but the one problem is the very city center is heavily damaged not only just with the latest fighting but throughout the time in isis so from now on the most important issue will be rebuilding the city and thats where foreign donors or European Countries will come in and play more influence and ive been to other areas where the forces took longer go like members other places where you know full well you know almost eighty percent of our population. And the citys population is increasing from thirty five thousand to one hundred of thousands now so the system there was mostly accepted and people werent talking about an ethnic terms and. I dont see much resentment among the population because what is interesting is that i spoke to an activist who was from rocker now lives in berlin i spoke to him in the last hour and he was saying that actually there are many people within rocka who dont regard the Syrian Democratic forces as liberators they see them or as another Occupying Force come to take over their city i think the main the you know priority of people is you know whoever is going to provide them with security and provide. Services but you know there are many people in iraq at the moment and there are maybe political groups in any so theres a rock a civilian council which is composed of also many important tribal leaders composed of also you know people in the city but also tribal leaders around so several of those tribal leaders actually joined in forces with. This they are getting im sorry to interrupt you because they are actually going to baghdad because i think we can hear now the iraqi upon its hard allopathy of course some of this. Started to have the own flags. As you can see where you can see alongside the iraqi flag side by side but the other. Part is flag. Because the flag is for everyone in this area. Do you see i will be sponsibility. Because we would want to secure the. Sea to ensure that security coke is its own go in. And we do not have to have any confrontation with the population or the people there we are try to preserve them and put them. And we will try and. Thats we will to avoid any harm or any disaster. Sometimes it got to a situation where. Not. Yet and most others. What we have did sort. Been reported. And it. Is all the central governments and the federal government. All deal here area as disputes or differences between the two parties. Because the federal. Government since nine hundred ninety one. After two thousand and two is became one country and therefore it should be. A federal team in every illusions. And also in the here in southern had dean and these central figure of the federal government should be pleasant in all decisions. You know you shouldnt be different treatment to one treatment should indecision difference and the other one. Even in salahuddin and but that. Still remain with the federal government. There were some. Early gratian before mixing up all the papers and all this legalization until its in some of the governed thats in iraq and in baghdad. So we have. I made sure that all the Security Forces to protect all the minorities wherever they are human and we will have to add to the Security Forces especially in kirkuk and i do. Caution and warn any good which is. In the cool in the other area. We have a clear instruction. To all the local authorities in decision to protect the population and also to make sure the control is well what it is our duty and i was possibility to protect the population in all decisions and with good help. We will go back to what we have asked that. Which we mentioned before via to address dialogue and according to the. I do i feel and i know. That some people feel disappointed in what. The citizens did because they are very happy because they are in touch with their. Compatriots the kurdish. So and some even some of them are over the until then they will call in for the implementation of the authority over this lesions. Authority and the governed by law. Every county they have. Political parties who elected and they have their voices in the parliament. And belong to different political section sect. But this militias which have. Military wink and they have. A lot inside the main here. And they are built on the just on the. Base on the political influence. And you have cooperated and they fought alongside us. They are from the kurdish and from the people. You see they did not for your section and they did not kill the iraqi forces. Against our people and your people in. Michigan. The parts of the iraqi forces and they all belong to different illusions. And so who did it more than they were among our forces so you cant just come back and the. Only advantage. To preserve and secure the Public Institution and build ins. And we asked for all parties to commit to we do not see any escalations and this is not acceptable. And then we dont want to go back to the. Old days when we do not want the vange who. They will all have their lights so all the iraqis. To the iraqi people and every key have the light to be and be in every illusion do you want to tomb and to be present as well we did want our policy is to be peace and cooperation we have to use the common sense of peace and also deal just force. On the principle of the blood that. D. C. Is a victim you took all the because thats how we consider it. And also this is the place in. Which to me and do you have the light and all the iraqis. And also the kurdish citizen should celebrate in order to built. Should city by disna you lation we are building between us when we do not have minorities small minorities here and there. We are committed for the rights of the citizens. And the citizens specked it and we do not division to divide these cities and based on different criteria. So a listing to an address by the iraqi Prime Minister hyder. Speaking about events in cook cook and in Northern Iraq he says we want to ensure the security of kirkuk and we have to preserve and protect all the people there you also reiterated there should be a government a federal team in every region of iraq and he said the peshmerga the Kurdish Peshmerga have indeed cooperated and force alongside us they are part of the iraqi forces we do know of course though that some peshmerga did not cooperate when the iraqi forces went in to kick call this is happening of course as Iraqi Government troops and their allies capture more territory from those Kurdish Forces in the countrys north Kurdish Peshmerga still in control of a de hook bill and still many are they are the three provinces that make up the semi autonomous kurdish region but they have withdrawn from singe our work kirkuk and hallock in all of which they took over during the fight against eisel and these areas also included in that kurdish referendum on session last month a vote that infuriated baghdad. And ultimately triggered its move to take those disputed territories but the president of the Kurdistan Regional government has called the withdraw of some of those peshmerga fighters historic treason charge stratford has more from appeal. 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 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 historic treason from members of the p u k party but 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 as 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 the United NationsRefugee Agency is urging bangladesh to speed up vetting of nearly fifteen thousand ranger refugee said to be stranded near the border with me and ma on monday the u. N. H. C. R. Released this drawing footage showing the scale of the crisis he wants people move further inland to safer and better conditions what half a million range are now known to have fled since violence broke out in mammals western rakhine state. Time a child really has more for us from coxs bizarre near the Bangladeshi Border with me and. The units here aerial footage shows a large number of refugees on the other side of bother trying to cross into bangladesh now this is corroborated by our soldiers on the other side as well as Bangladesh Border god on monday a ten to fifteen thousand refugees crossed over into bangladesh and shop where they bury and along their Land Boundary area the influx is continuous maybe not in Staggering Numbers sometimes but on average two to four thousand people crosses into bangladesh the fibrillation on the other side in myanmar is still very active and volatile what we hear from the refugees talking to them families and other members is that they are very scared to get out of the house that is no food all the food shops are closed theres no aid agency distributing any kind of food specially in western russia there are all kinds state rather and theyre trying to cross into buying that theres this take shelter in quite a scary hour filtered island in the not very bright and wait for the optimum moment to cross into bangladesh on the other side the bank of this government is not planning to set up a huge refugee camp which is supposed to accommodate up to eight hundred thousand people that is a Staggering Number of people in one refugee camp how theyre going to manage this is a question yet to be seen this is a larger than the population of washington d. C. City one reason the government is trying to do that is that on one their way into the refugees to scattered across bangor that they want to confine them in one area so they can have a better planning of distribution of relate aid and other emergency aid into one particular camp but most of this camp around the rule of shanty town to accommodate that many people in one concentrated area is a clear danger of spreading of Infectious Disease and also a very uncomfortable and many in a small concentrated area in one particular place this situation remains volatile and active in both side of the border as up now. Afghanistans deputy interior minister says at least seventy one people have been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban forty one people died in a suicide bombing and gun battle at a Police Training center impactive province one hundred fifty were injured in that attack and at least thirty others have been killed in car bombings in neighboring husni province. Rescue operations are continuing in somalias capital for those still missing after the worst single bomb attack in the countrys history more than three hundred people were killed by a suicide truck explosion on saturday and as of others were injured somalias president has told out to syria his country cannot fight on its own and has appealed for International Help or government is blaming the group for saturdays attack mohammed oh is in mogadishu for us. Police say they were arrested at least one suspect in connection with that that is forming in the couple will get issue they say they have arrested the owner of the truck 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 investigators. The driver of the truck was hauled out a checkpoint by Suspicious Security personnel when he accelerated on the vehicle. Killing. Before one. Hundred others now the president has appealed for International Support saying that his government is weak and. Only its all about he said that if the International Community allowed al shabaab to succeed here then ill. Tell you its come painted violence abroad stay with us because still ahead. Mission accomplished the philippines president announces the liberation. From. The murder of a high profile journalist Whose Research into corruption claims that attracted some powerful enemy. To russia. Thats coming up. Hello ray is returned to the caucuses and the tail end of this frontal system that brought the rain has been sparking sunder storms on the caspian coast of iraq once again theyve been pokey 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 dropped it started to rise again at about the twenty mark still below thirty in baghdad but i think the sun warm 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 being quite clear in bahrain and qatar thirty seven is still quite well for the time the able and breeze country had to kota picks up some dust to dust in mecca and takes the wolves north otherwise for effectively cloud free should be the case it has been writing recently again though in south africa not surprising from the west and east was that cloud has been grazing the coast that we see its a pretty big shock you know theres nothing like that in the forecast it looks like the all of Southern Africa is just enjoying big blue skies. She was a Society Hostess in beirut in the nine hundred forty. People from the lebanese the requests to make this work. And she spied for mossad in lebanon. What she was doing it was such a brave as it would make. The baby. At this time. From the shores of the red sea storage of clean water the globe and home on it that made us but in georgia this team of a muppet is changing out to the pics of the himalayas where Water Conservation looks like this. Solutions to save the worlds most Precious Resource and the next episode of right we look at what is being done step towards crisis. At this time of aljazeera. Welcome back our mind at the top stories here on the aljazeera news that u. S. Backed forces have driven eisel out of itself capital of syria the battle to take the city from. Kurdish forces have lost more territory in Northern Iraq a day after Government Troops seized. The u. N. Refugee agency is urging bangladesh to speed up its vetting of. People move further to safer and better conditions. In 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 daphne. Run a blog highlighting cases of alleged corruption among politicians on the island protests as it held a demonstration demanding answers about her death reports. Had said multi was being run by crooks those mourning her murder agree. That 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 work. It is our obligation to ask the state to defenders the state did not defend the state did not do anything. Whose car was blown to pieces had alleged widespread corruption and links between state actors the betting industry and the math here in malta on twitter journalists and others expressed their outrage so to june in the sand 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. Of the European Commission. Condemn this attack in the strongest terms possible. The writer for a journalist to investigate ask him for an uncomfortable questions and report effectively is at the heart of our values and needs to be guaranteed that all of the times. 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 a murder and do it properly gloriously aljazeera. Or sorry for all fear is an investigative journalist and joins me in the studio right now thanks for being with us perhaps and worth explaining first of all just what a shock this murder has been that its taken place on malta just not what you would expect yes i was shocked yesterday of course as many people here and all the people in my i wish but equally as shocked because i travel extensively tomorrow i was covering. An investigation over the citizenship by Investment Program and i got in touch with the ethnic ironically so because she was one of the few journalists probably the last the only one journalist amal power deeply uncovered this issue and this was all saw at the center of the her latest investigation which we do not have to forget that brought about the snap election in the last june so i got in touch with their bye for now i never managed to me in my. I had the feeling she was suspicious about everything and everyone and. You think she felt she might have been a target i mean shes been doing this work for many many years and she yeah yeah she used to run a blog oh well a website. Which gives a very clear picture of the massive level of corruption which. Is going in miles so yes i think she was aware are. This is also what many people in multiple me about her and reportedly she reported to the police. Of their threats just recently two weeks ago clearly they arent going to be in in shock i think people outside of malta wouldnt have been aware of these corruption allegations the accusations against its not just politicians is it its members of the criminal underworld the reports that the math here operates in malta yes sure this is i mean its particularly alarming if we think that miles thought was the country who their european proceed and see until just a few months ago and i mean is a country at the hertha of the European Union an indefinite khurana galatea was basically doing her job for uncovering corruption wrongdoing and. As an investigative journalist yourself i mean i think journalists within European Union countries generally feel that we can investigate what we want without fear of our lives does this make you rethink that there i think definitely here a sense we unfortunately yes but its said that things like these has to happen not to to remind us that we cannot we are not allowed to investigate or or learn things and i think this is a problem which regard not just as a journalist but of course we as a journalist we were all we are all shocked to be but i think all of the citizens also or we might be all a large window by what happened in montana and a final thought do you think this will actually change what happens in malta that it might be of come more open and people will be able to find out about the things that she was making allegations about. I hope so. But im not very honestly im not very optimistic about it as one friend of mine a lawyer wrote to me just today this morning she wrote me what scares me most now is that all the information duff and i was working on now on the stories she was reporting on there we ended up in nothing basically. Because people as i have no trust dont trust our institutions saw or its its quite. You got alarming your alarming shocking and they are probably sad for all three appreciate you coming in thank you so much thank you thank you. Journalist not going to say no has now been imprisoned in egypt for three hundred days human rights the media organizations have joined the network in denouncing his detention and according to his release that are going to name reports. In the three hundred days Mahmoud Hussein has been imprisoned his family says hes grown depressed hes accusing the egyptian authorities of denying him legal rights and medical treatment and providing inadequate food and clothing he is father to nine children my sisters and brother face social stigma every day in their schools everyone calls them that they are sons and daughters of petitioners. And they are not tool or flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is not safe. Hussein is an egyptian journalists who is based in qatar working for aljazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state el jazeera has denied all allegations while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father. Its a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being officially imprisoned. He was unjustly enabled as a terrorist by egyptian media. Hussein is the latest al jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt last year a former editor of aljazeera arabic website was sentenced to death in absentia in two thousand and thirteen an International Campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases aljazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to iraq. Civil 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 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 the country is facing the Worlds LargestFood Security emergency and a cholera outbreak that has caused more than two thousand deaths robin madine is the middle east director of the International Committee of the red cross he says the war is having a devastating effect on people in yemen. You know i think behind the statistics 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 a restriction on imports only thirty percent of medicines are reaching yemen 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 meal is coming from it is a conflict that is fragmented there are dozens if not hundreds of different armed groups operating in yemen and humanitarian aid is prone to political negotiations and is being politicized so you need to negotiate everything things 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 beat 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 the philippine president has declared the Southern City of nor are we liberated after a five month battle against islington. Were going to tell the city has been freed from what he calls terrorists but says fighting still continues on his reports the price of violent extremism remains not just in iraq but all across the mindanao region where people are anxious about their future. Signaled the end of a month long military operation to take back full control of. 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 in the arms 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 merrily city into a desolate place this week tomorrow to leaders were killed in a military operation the groups plans of setting up and 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 that there has promised to rebuild but are we city people here say theyre grateful that they are now free from their mouth is tyranny. They would like to know what freedom means to those now were fearful of an uncertain future. The southern philippines. Israel has advanced plans for more than a thousand new settlers homes in the occupied west bank and others are likely to follow the government has promised to push ahead with more illegal construction schemes with u. S. President donald trump for less critical of Settlement Expansion than his predecessor barack obama people in the gaza strip are hoping the reconciliation deal between the two rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah will do something to improve their lives after runs the Palestinian Authority for the past eleven years hamas has been in control of gaza it means crossing the border to and from israel is a laborious two stage process at two different locations. Smith has been given exclusive access to film that journey from israel to gaza. The sensation of being fenced in begins as soon as you step into garza from israel. So the first check when youve cleared israel and arrive in gaza is here this is the sort of passport control for the Palestinian Authority and this is where i hung over my passport and press card to get it checked by the palestinians my father. Here the Palestinian Authority coordinates with the israelis who control who is allowed in and out. So thats me cleared with the Palestinian Authority but that was really more of a formality now we go to where still the real power is where the main checkpoint is and that is with hamas a short few minutes taxi ride down the road. Seventeen years ago almost thirty thousand palestinians crossed here every day to work in israel now israel only lets through the most desperate humanitarian cases going up what are the numbers i have been waiting areas for five hours my daughter is a cancer patient there are always problems every time we need to go to the hospital because of israels security checks did not do it then we arrived his six hours ago im still waiting my son needs a pin heart surgery so this is the. Hamas fatah. This is the hamas customs checkpoint this is where they still x. Rayed the bags this is where again my passport has to be checked so take it to these guys to check in and this is why i have to have a visa or permission to enter the gaza strip. Once my details have been entered into hamas his Computer System im allowed in the ground. So that we have to separate customs checks or one territory gaza strip part of the palestinian territories what is supposed to happen when the reconciliation fully takes place is that all these customs checks should be done in one place but it begs the question there are some forty to fifty thousand people hired and working for the hammer. Forty including the people who are here the Customs House for example what is going to happen to that of those. Forty percent unemployment so the future. Will be one of the most significant factors in deciding if this palestinian reconciliation can work. With terrorists. Biggest tournament. Well again time to sort out his piece of. Felicity thank you so much n. F. L. Team owners players and administrators are locked in a two day meeting in new york to try and find a way forward with the ongoing issue of players kneeling during the National Anthem before games this is the Second Season that players are protesting in this way of the former San Francisco forty nine ers quarterback collin kappa make set and they kneeled during the playing of the anthem in the early part of the twenty sixteenth season kristen salumi has more from the meeting in new york. The issue overshadowing the leagues annual owners meeting is taking the need during the National Anthem and whether or not and f. L. Players should be forced to stand out of respect for country during during the National Anthem this all started last year when San Francisco forty nine ers quarterback collin caprona decided to live during the National Anthem in protest of Police Brutality and other minority issues that are roiling the United States at the time. Since then other players have followed suit and then at the beginning of the season this year President Donald Trump weighed in and criticism for the players and the league for not punishing the player saying it was a sign of disrespect to the country not to santa not to follow this tradition before the game so now some fans have been protesting and complaining to the league the league is under pressure from the president to do something about it right now there is no rule requiring players to stand as i said its just a longstanding tradition but the owners have indicated that they want to go back to that tradition but they want to get players standing so theres a lot of discussion going on about how to advance the social issues that have been raised by many of these players while at the same time getting back to football and getting away from this controversy so some scenarios that are being discussed are. Providing Financial Support to social programs and legislation that would help advance these issues while the same time getting the players to stand up but the question is how do you do that is it going to be a rules change what if the player stands but raises the fists should there be a punishment for that a lot of very controversial issues and viewpoints from all across the spectrum coming together today not just the owners but the players in the players representatives to talk about a way forward from the n. F. L. To Major League Baseball now and to smash the new york yankees back in baseballs American League championship series so outrageous. The three run home run in the second inning to give the home side the advantage against the Houston Astros then up steps to a rookie to see that everyone judge you may have heard the name this season with another three run homer and as the game hes won eight one used to be the series though two one. Going to chance to play baseball every day you know the deal with my dream so you know you take the ups with the downs you know you can have all the good you know i can come out here and a thousand you know you know id want to but its baseball you know i got to enjoy the good times in the bad times and you know what i kind of picked up and learn from my teammates and theyve always supported me all year you know through the good times and bad times and you know i guess that i can that chance of playing for the new york yankees its a dream come true in europe the Champions League is back with a to matches taking place all of those have actually just kicked off in the last five minutes also in creepy little fool or away at meridor Manchester City hosting enough in a big game in group if i can tell you that liverpool are actually one mil up in that game their old away games for. Dortmund both former Champions League winners while the match of the night is all given group h. Way rail madrid taking on talking im hot. Now the European Play of true for next years world cup has taken place with a team still in the running for four remaining spots at russia twenty eighteen four time champions italy will continue to try to qualify. For world cup theyll play sweden theyll travel to sweden for the first leg that will take place between the ninth and eleventh of november with the return for the following week. His confirmation of those four ties in europe sweden as we mentioned at home against italy in the first leg that one will be Northern Ireland trying to get to the world cup for the First Time Since one thousand nine hundred eighty six they are playing switzerland greece will face croatia that will be a tough one and then denmark and the republic of ireland will be battling it out for a place as well lee willing this was at their true. Well we cant be surprised that italy ended up in the playoffs because their ranking slipped and i ended up in the same group as a spanish team this regain its form and thats why its really found themselves into the playoffs and having to place weight which is never easy i signed up when i saw them play the netherlands in amsterdam the way the guns they were unusually poor in the first half but by the second half they were going their composure and they always make it so difficult to leave in sweden could be tight you would expect italy to find a way to throw all of these guys time Northern Ireland versus switzerland the thing about the overall and is that chile were ranked higher than twenty three which sounds good doesnt it but if theyre right where they were a couple of games ago they could have avoided switzerland and you think well actually so its a lot the worst thing to play theyre constantly under rated they were in the top eight seeds at the last four knows they have a brilliant record over the past few years and i will be five which debate Northern Ireland denmark versus the republic of ireland its a difficult one to call and the last game between croatia and grace. I think croatia could do really well if they reached the finals but you never write off greece look what happened when people did that in two thousand and four and they won the European Championship its not easy to qualify for the world cup from europe much easier to qualify for the European Championships and these players will demonstrate that six months after back surgery tiger woods has been given the green light to return to golf with no restrictions by his doctor hes unlikely to make the United StatesRyder Cup Team for next years tournament fronts though thomas bjorn and jim furyk will be their respective captains of the european and u. S. Teams they took part in a stunning photo session at the eiffel tower in paris hitting golf balls from its first floor its a recreation of a piece of writing history forty one years the legendary Arnold Palmer did the same thing and thats all the sport more later felicity. 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