And im jane duck and this is the news live from coming up in the show. Celebrations as Iraqi Forces Drive away kurd fighters to retake cant cook we find out what this means for kurdish independence goals spains government gives catalonia a seventy two hour ultimatum to clarify its position on independence or face the prospect of direct rule. Turkey steps in to help the victims of somalias twin bomb attacks as the death toll rises to more than three hundred. And discovery of an age old cosmic collision that confirms the origins of gold and platinum. We begin with major developments in iraq where Government Forces have taken control of the contested city of kirkuk from Kurdish Forces tension has been mounting in the Oil Rich Region ever since the kurds how the referendum on secession last month stratford has more from it bill. The kurdish flag no longer flies in the center of kirkuk. The city now officially back in the hands of the Iraqi Government its forces but made a rapid advance lau
And. Carrying out a Ruthless Campaign against the. Whole of. The war over. Chinas president. Countrys fight against corruption remains a top priority the comments were made during the last three and a half hours at the Ruling Communist Party congress in beijing. China must cooperate with other nations to ensure the survival of mankind. When their eyes right now about the situation at home and abroad are only going profound and complex changes the prospects for china are great but there are also severe challenges ahead all members of the party must look ahead and be vigilant be courageous and stay innovative. Correspondent adrian brown joins us live from beijing so he talked for for quite a while adrian day you know he setting an agenda for for his party and for us country so tell us more about what he sat. Well rachele he actually spoke for three and a half hours which is pretty impressive and i think what we can deduce from that is that president xi jinping is very healthy healthy eno
Countries keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terror terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet hes talked pretty consistently although folks havent havent paid much attention to it recently about the disappointment that the nations havent been able to do so crisis we hope that they well we hope that theyll sit down and have talks but it seems like theyre not ready to do that yet fightings broken out between iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga northwest of kurd kook the kurds took up new positions on the road between erbil and her kook on thursday three days off they pulled out of the city there were reports the peshmerga is battling Shiite Militia in the same area and that a bridge has been blown up the iraqi forces once a push them further towards erbil the Kurdish Regional capital british Prime Minister to resign may is see
Has to do more before progress can be made also coming up catalonia crisis has nothing to do with us the e. U. Says its a domestic spanish issue and that it will not intervene as spain gets ready to impose direct rule on the region. And the syrian mother managed to flee the war in her homeland now all she wants is to be reunited with her three children and we explain why some germans want to prevent this from happening. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us. British Prime Minister theresa may has urged leaders to agree to a braggs it deal that she can defend to people in the u. K. At an e. U. Summit last night she also asked them to approach the issue with more urgency may wants to move talks on to the u. K. s future trading relationship with europe but you leaders want to negotiate divorce terms first despite the deadlock and america has said shes confident a deal will be reached. I whispered exchange and stony expressions chancellor merkel president and Prime Minister may were
Iraqi forces. A bridge was blown up near the town of prayers the size exchanged mortar and rocket fire the kurds took up positions on the road between bell and kirkuk on thursday three days after they pulled out of the city Stephanie Decker has more from the erbil kirkuk highway. We have seen smoke in the distance and just looking at the road really tells you a story immense military reinforcements being sent by the peshmerga Counterterrorism Forces also a lot of trucks with ammunition a new checkpoint has been set up further behind us where there wasnt one before further towards appeal so of course they are defending their positions their concern of course is that the iraqi forces pushed further up along this road towards the city of now just to explain just rough job graphy there is still the main checkpoint into and just a couple of kilometers down the road from Office Around a kilometer from that is where the fighting is going on theres also been ambulance a lot of ambulance activi