It was two thousand and fourteen when isis forces at the height of their power rolled into one stolen tanks spinning through the citys Paradise Square which i says would soon turn into a showcase of sabbath. Today the same square aptly renamed paradise to help square with no capital and little territory isis is broken is a total defeat now imminent. Also coming up they have fought together to push back Islamic States now iraqi and Kurdish Forces may be turning on each other the u. S. Refusing to take sides claiming its really not that bad. Aside from the incident from Early Morning hours on sixteen october south of kirkuk that we assessed as a miscommunication there have been no further reports of Armed Conflict or contact between the two groups. And we begin the day with the biggest military victory so far in the battle against socalled Islamic State for the past four months u. S. Backed forces have waged a campaign to retake the syrian city of raka from isis today a general of the Syrian Democratic forces announced that the fighting is over in two thousand and fourteen isis fighters took control of rocket making it the capital of a new caliphate but rocket quickly morphed into a capital of cruelty isis rulers showed it showed off to the world one atrocity after another women accused of adultery beaten before an audience of men inside a sports stadium public beheadings of western hostages and men accused of being gay thrown to their deaths from the citys tallest buildings rock a liberated hell on earth is now an urban grid of rubble riddled with booby traps left behind by the isis fighters who managed to flee our first report tonight on a city freed but forever scarred. 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. That theres nothing left where near the end we havent seen any i asked militants we havent seen any of them near the stadium either i think the city will be fully clear of them in the next two days which ones all of the i ask militants are gone from syria ill go home. I asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the capital of its selfstyled 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 socalled 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 cofounder and Spokes Person is with me here at the big table im happy to welcome to the show Abdel Aziz Al homs now believes its 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 but other because it was not the scenario that was expected to from most of the people so its true that i saw was defeated by the city was left completely destroyed thousands of people that you know if i can band saw we documented almost four thousand people have during this bottle and so the campaign was not well theyre going there are not careful as the shelling as well the campaign to retake rocca yes we what do you know about the number of isis fighters who are still in the city. There are many estimates do you have any any firm numbers and what about the ice is members who were allowed to leave in the deal that was made before the city fell in luck at the number five spot as you learn the city there are a lot of ten thousand but that was before the vote along with started most of them inflated there is a man seen and this is it these are syrian members of isis right you know like even for for a year so most of them they you left and in the beginning when the what the started the foreign fighters. And what drew him and like a couple of fighters and like then at they and there were like almost less than two hundred so who do you see that tonight theres less than two hundred isis fighters in iraq oh yes so i was like not. Exact number about the five star hooman because many of them the other like they just said be. And day and lucky you assess. That college and i mean and to see if transferred couple of. Fighters are a lot and i says fighters are members to a specific chill saw especially for the forests one ok lets talk about the past four months this campaign to retake rocca we know that there were numerous attacks aimed at the isis fighters in that process we know that Children Women were killed we know that schools were hit hospitals were hit and has that been reported completely so for us as an organization we were reporting about all of the things we were lucky working hard just to struggle for information so but for sure like the International Media coverage was not the same as our coverage so it was like reported but a tad not that attention up to several reasons our luck several things are going on around the war zone or most of the media as the with the trauma tweets as an example saw which is like a big deal for them way more than whats going on in iraq i mean do you think its rocket were to get a tweet by the u. S. President that it would actually it would have helped the situation of the people there do you think it made a difference yes for sure to like push our luck draw that titian of the media to go and see whats going on there saw sometimes like having some other sayings can change the way how media are reporting about the things you know do you think that the coverage i mean has it been fear. Has it been accurate i mean for those of us who cant go inside iraq i mean do you think that the story has been reported as good as it could have been i cant say i can say yes and no so today i can say yes because ive been doing interviews since b. M. Until now so because like after the announcement and for the medias us a huge deal i says its a lot of eyes as iraq was defeated the from from the city so all the media started to talk about it but like a few issue two days ago it was it on the news forgotten we want it weve got lots of pictures that have been coming out of rocca basically a city destroyed maybe if we could just look at those and maybe you know if we can see them on the screen here maybe my producer can tell me were going to see those on the screen. Ok were going to try to show our viewers there you go weve got them full screen now these are the these are the u. S. Backed forces that we need to the stadium today basically saying that the fighting is over. What goes through your mind when you see this yes for sure like first like i look at thats your luck i know it in completely different ways so its not that stallion that i used to go and how do you feel that when you see this life i feel like i feel like happy but i feel like more mad and angry in the same time because like me barca im prevented to be there not to because of see if and like the color again we were so angry because like the way how it the city was gone so like with all of this with all of this blood and in the same time like about the violations so children fifteen recruited forcing to join and fight i says they also were able to survive isis and the burning houses arresting killing all of the things so sometimes should not be only like islam walk extremism it might be like secular extremism so talking about all the things that truck citizen have been suffering from last last one or two years from is see if and yeah the collagen to International Community couldnt stop a city of committing all this violation saw i was talking with my colleagues today who were lucky for who left the city like i said the last people left here and they were telling me about we were just leaving the city hearing people shouting going under their own walls and we couldnt do anything they can do anything i mean you you came to berlin youre in exile here in berlin do you think that youll ever be able to go home again do you want to go i would love so that was like my blond and like for me i was expecting that the first day that trickle of you liberated there would be able to go back but up to all the things and the way how this is controlled and up to see if. For sure not like for us as an organization that was blocking. Documenting icily elections like accusing to be isis was a from asean so. That with rocca is being slaughtered silently and your work certainly is getting the i think the attention it deserves tonight for sure and we appreciate you taking the time to tell your story with us tonight thank you. Well still to come on the day the Harvey WeinsteinsSexual Harassment scandal just keeps growing now women are mobilizing against men behaving badly from hollywood to hashtags women around the world are telling their stories of Sexual Harassment via social media later on the day women men and the two. Well from one flashpoint to the next Iraqi Government forces and Kurdish Militia have fought together against isis or now they may be turning on each other baghdads troops say that theyve taken control of all Major Oil Fields in the disputed Northern Province of kirkuk iraq says that the move is necessary after kurds voted for independence from iraq in a referendum last month the vote was held in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan and also in some disputed areas outside of its official borders like in kirkuk and the kurds in occupied kirkuk and its surrounded areas when socalled Islamic State advanced across the country Kurdish Forces have been withdrawing voluntarily in some areas but other reports say there have been clashes the iraqi army says it is now retaliating and retaking what it considers its lost territory we have this report. Celebrations in kirkuk as iraqi forces roll in. Supporters of the iraqi Central Government could contain their joy. Oh as thousands of kurdish residents fled the city ahead of the advance. Were heading to where bill because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops are ventured and theres no way we could stay one up on the run our children are terrified we would afraid that it would be clashes and mortar rounds would have taught us thats what im worried about. Cant cook an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and Iraqi Government had been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled when the slimy state militants swept through the region in twenty fourteen now its back into the control of the Iraqi Government the advance comes three weeks after residents in the kurdistan region and also here in kirkuk voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a controversial referendum kiddish leaders see the seizure of kirkuk amounts to a declaration of war. Well amir was always joins me here at the big table hes an iraqi journalist who was embedded with iraqi forces in the battle for most or he just returned last week from iraq a before we talk about kirkuk iraqi forces let me ask you about Islamic State and rock i mean last week when you were there did you get the sense that the city that its fall was imminent what i think we it was expecting that the rockets will be controlled by the kurdish strips because we were close to the to the major. Major hospital about three hundred meter and there were. A little mound of fighters there at this hour on the trump. Three hundred sixty degree. Cut off without any supplies and there were a lot of airstrike from the we i saw these two of them. The city. From the military side we we expect that would happen that quickly as quickly as possible but whats was also some dating with from the ct side yeah just to give march on for the for the civilians to have to come out so you did sixty amounts you talk about the kurds now weve got a situation where youve got the kurds and the iraqi forces who have been fighting together against isis. Do you think that theyre going to now turn on each other in Northern Iraq i dont think so because at least the kurds in within iraq are not human i just they are also different where you say theyre not. United but what about this referendum that we saw where there was this call for a kurdish stana and you know an independent state well it is their dreams i think every kurds person you got to ask about the long history of iraq eight years. Suffered from a lot of mis understanding of their wishes or they didnt the not got any rights to tool to use that language and so on till two thousand and three or two thousand and five when you know if youll like the new constitution at all that they do not have any rights of course they wish to have the ben in state for the. There is a small amount of them discuss the point that they have already their rights now they are already almost surprised but not separate double so someone autonomous somehow and they have you know kind of. Arena to move a political arena within within how do you explain what were seeing here because we had to move for independent this referendum that went through and now you have baghdad moving in taking you know the oil fee. In saying you know this is in violation of the constitution and the allies of the kurds the u. S. The u. K. And even the u. N. Very silent here they were not silent believe it right they were not silent before their own foreign and they did not war god they got pressure they got discussed with the the accord to the should they offered some other options just to say cuz can strike these on the fighting on Islamic State and we are we are ready to give you a grant see that all the problems with baghdad will solve it but it wasnt enough for its was about it wasnt you know or the of course stuff and because this ambition of the leadership of mr berg zani is very ambition if you want to say as a president of course he want to be part of that dream if you say and also he is under pressure inter inside. That is another party push on him they say you are not anymore a legal illegal prison and from before two years he should move and that is one of the one should come because of his fighting hes still there and his position and he suspended all the parliament. Be that was very critical point in the end of the day he wants to push the problem inside forward to baghdad and he said see then that point but in the end iraq got allies from took in iran right i mean that is true that they have the friends and you know you have to have big friends if you want to become independent and the kurds dont have that do you think that this can be resolved without it becoming violent without there being fighting. Its difficult to expect that because at least the wish of that is the kurds to have their own state still their existing but in the end of the day if you get rights of every people in iraq. According the the constitution in the right way the new governance the Good Governance i think the kurds will satisfy with their will that what they have now. One more point i briefly were running out of time. Is the European Union countries and United States interested to have independent kurdistan now the question is not if thats why they they should be realistic and be with a real Political Rights marwa so its always good to hear the big table and hear your insights we appreciate it thank you. For these small island nation of malta is reeling after the death of one of its best known investigative journalist daphne was killed monday in a car bomb her son today said that his mother was murdered and he attacked malta calling it a quote mafia state run by crooks lead c. E. O. Was known for her reporting on governmental corruption which included the Panama Papers and allegations of Money Laundering surrounding the wife of mobsters Prime Minister. A day after the killing of want to buy a car bomb hundreds of martis gather to show their outrage of the journalists murdered they want to know exactly why she was killed some point a finger at the state authorities. We are here today to ask the state to protect us the state did not defend daphne it didnt do anything everyone who said shes going too far shes homing in on personal issues theyre all guilty we expect everyone to do everything for us but these days we have to look after ourselves. Two weeks ago daphne got a want to go had told police that she was receiving Death Threats on monday the car she was driving exploded not far from her home in the north of the island the Prime Minister of malta promised an investigation into death but its been all work and i condemn without reservation the barbaric attack as one against freedom of speech in our country. Everyone knows that. It was a harsh critic of mine both politically and personally but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way which is against all dignity and civility. Marta has long been considered a tax haven and it was the focus of. Investigative reporting as part of the consortium of journalists who revealed millions of documents known as the Panama Papers she wrote many reports alleging government corruption or accusations included the Prime Ministers family joseph was caught a wife is suspected of owning a farm in panama that has funneled funds to her through the leader of azerbaijan both the Prime Minister and his wife deny this. One of the journalists three sons matthew took to social media to blame god and his government for his mothers death saying you were all complicit he said she was targeted because she was the only journalist exposing ties between organized crime and the government. Multis investigators will work with Forensic Experts from the u. S. And the e. U. To determine the extent to which daphne is work was linked to her death. Well the very public fall from grace for hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has women around the world taking a stand against sexual predators france is now proposing tougher laws including an on the spot fine for a letter its behavior on the street no more kept calls wolf whistles and the like frances gender equality minister and Justice Minister both support the legislation and it could be put to a vote in parliament next year frances first lady urged you to mccall as also praised women speaking up against Sexual Harassment and she is writing a complex of hundreds of devery brave to do this im really in support of breaking the silence its amazing that something is really happening. And women around the world are flooding social media with personal accounts of Sexual Harassment if you are going to facebook or twitter today you know theres one hash tag that you cannot miss its the hash tag me too or joining us now from our social media desk is janet selfie t. V. And its good to see you so lets talk a little bit here about the types of messages that were seeing with these hashtags so were not going to start by saying that we as men we cant possibly claim to represent these women who have been abused but what were seeing online is hundreds of thousands of women coming forward sharing their stories on twitter of Sexual Harassment and some of these stories are really really quite harrowing and lets take a look at a tweet from a lady from florida has received thousands of reads sweets it says molested by a Family Member raped as a kid and an adult became a drug addict addict and then overcame dont ever give up im here hash tag me too so just to give you an idea of how many people are using this hash tag take a look at this map the dots indicate where its in use and you can see it spread all over the world and its been translated into many different languages were seeing versions of this hash tag trending in france and italy in france they using the hash tag balance tom pour which actually translates as reveal your pig this tweet you can see reads a University Professor sending pictures to his female students on facebook he is on twitter he will know im talking about him hash tag but on stump or so its really really making a huge huge impact on line yeah its amazing to i think i like the french but i think it actually speaks to you know right to the point reveal your pig and you know you said you cant obviously we cant put ourselves in the shoes of what women have experienced but men can stand up and defend women to make sure that these things stop in that takes us to another hash tag right quite right well actually many men are using. 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Do is live from berlin tonight the biggest victory in the war against a socalled Islamic State the city claimed as its capital rocca as fall the announcement came today after a four Month Campaign to retake