This is a reporter from a destroyed city you. Truly believe in the. Storekeeper living along the g. W. This is d. W. News life from berlin and the selfproclaimed caliphate crumbles in syria syrian rebel forces hoist their flag in both coups outbreaks telling the socalled just lennix state from the last scrap of territory its still held in the country will cross shelter responding to iraq and also coming up. Collusion or no collusion u. S. Special counsel Robert Morris completes his probe into possible russian
interference into the twenty sixteen president ial election and is reportedly not recommending any further charges to get analysis from washington. Uncle philip welcome to the show we begin with some breaking news u. S. Backed syrian fighters are claiming victory over socalled Islamic State they say they have expelled the selfproclaimed caliphate from the last bit of territory controlled and syria rebels from the stare into a crowd of forces arrange their flag over a bow coups aft
isis ideology does not die. the camps have been described as something of an isis academy. add to that the fact that the kurds who make up the bulk of the fighting force against isis in this area, those key american allies who have now been betrayed, they say, by the u.s., they suspended their operations against isis and now have turned their entire focus onto the front lines with turkey and with the syrian arab forces on the ground that turkey is backing. all of this has meant that there is a vacuum that has been created. priorities have been shifted and as we know, only too well, erin, isis is an entity that is extraordinarily capable of capitalizing on these type of security vacuums. add to that the fact that there are a number of isis sleeper cells that exist across both syria and iraq. all of these are good reason as
pretty tenuous at this point. the chinese are expecting to come this week for trade talks, but the two sides seem to be far apart here. as turkey plans a threatened syria incursion, kurdish led forces say isis sleeper cells are attacking groups in raqqah. they re calling for a no-fly zone. president trump tweeted in no way have we abandoned the kurds who are special people and wonderful fighters. nick paton walsh live on the syria/tury border. nick, any move at this point? reporter: i know when we spoke about an hour ago, we saw suvs driving. they just return and made it a little clear, one of them waving a free syria flag out of the wind window, a clear signal to media
borg our correspondent in syria he s currently and rocca blood in the air what are you hearing about the situation in bugaboos. finally if you know that i was going to feed them. and that as you have forces are also asking for more support to continue to fight also against isis sleeper cells because there is also a predator. and also there were possibly about thirty m. damascus. the battle for baghdad has been going on so weeks why has it taken the syrian defense forces so long to drive out i guess. inter-married a lot of the battle be over soon but there was an unexpected amount of civilian still in bottles and in the refugee camp of all there is now around sixty dozen people and most of them right from the number of civilians that are still in buckles they still thought of pensive and that s why it took so long because they
loose and the evidence of their presence is very clear in many places. in fact, for instance, yesterday at 10:00 a.m., not far from where i m standing, there was an attack by an isis sleeper cell on a four-wheel vehicle belonging to the syrian democratic forces that resulted in the death of two sdf soldiers. there are isis sleeper sells working throughout this area as well as many parts of iraq and, therefore, it comes as no surprise whatsoever there are more a thousand isis fighters who have fled syria into the mountains and deserts of iraq. in fact, the only surprise is there are so few. ben wedeman, thank you for the context and perspective on the ground in eastern syria for us. still to come the crisis in haiti is hitting hospitals hard.