And this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a u. S. Army sergeant held hostage by the taliban for five years gets a dishonorable discharge but escapes prison time. Catalonia is deposed president vows to fight any efforts to extradite him to spain. The funerals been held for the multis investigative journalist killed by a kabul. Islamic state of iraq and the levant has lost further ground in iraq and syria the armies of both countries and the Syrian Opposition squeeze its forces in the last few minutes the iraqi Prime Minister has announced the recapture of on the Syrian Border syrias army said it now controls the city of daraa which has been divided for three years just five months ago i so still control vast swathes of territory marked in brown here including major cities on both sides of the border since then its been driven out of mosul itself declared capital rocka. The capital of an Oil Rich Region which was crucial for the groups finances the syrian army is now in a ra