Their watching all jazeera life from a headquarters in doha im dead you know also ahead the philippine president rodriguez the territory declares the city of mirali has been liberated from an ice a ling Group Despite fighting still continuing. Leaving no stone unturned so mali rescuers look for a survivors two days off to the worst Suicide Attack killed over three hundred in the capital. We struggle. To piece the life without my father. A daughters plea for freedom for an aljazeera journalist whos been jailed in egypt for three hundred days. Hello we begin with the latest developments out of a. Iraq thats where Kurdish Forces have lost even more territory so a group affiliated with the iraqi militias has taken over the city of sin giada thats in the northwest and thats after the withdrawal of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier Government Troops took control of the contested city of quetta kook so tensions been mounting in the Oil Rich Region since the kurds held a referendum on secession last month well shortly well get the latest from Charles Stratford who is in erbil but first heres his reports. 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 launched in the middle of the night fifteen hours later the Industrial Area airports military base and critical all fields were under the control of iraqi forces. Soon after they marched into the center of the city. Iraqi officials were quick to declare victory. The joint military operation was launched at dawn and progress significantly as the troops approached the area to crete and the north oil company were confronted by some rebels who tried to hinder the progress of the advancing units turned five in style and fourth thank god today we have achieved all our goals according to our plan. The u. S. Military which are trained both sides in this dispute trying to downplay the escalation in a statement blaming the firefight on the darkness calling it a misunderstanding. But kurdish fighters painted a different picture of what was happening on the ground who are learning of them now the moment i dont know what is happening exactly because we have been in the fight since four in the morning in the areas of tasa we have suffered casualties including martyrs and now we have withdrawn into this position and some of the other forces have pulled that they didnt fire a single shots and that so but we are seventh brigade holding up a system here. Thousands fled the city as the forces approached mixed in among them kurdish fighters now as the u. S. Urges dialogue and calm the question is whats next will iraqi forces and their militias pursue the Kurdish People and fight is that answer will have an impact here and around the globe oil prices are climbing with the news the possibility. Of a civil war perhaps in iraq with Kurdish Forces fighting both iraqi army and possibly iranian militias. Does not play well with the with the well so traders and so the perception is that prices will rise. Until thats what we vent risk is completely characterize she was saying on the state most world powers that will the Kurdish Regional government and not to go ahead with a nonbinding referendum where the majority of people who voted for the session from iraq now the people of this region and their government finding out there is a very real price to be paid in this search for independence so troels filed that report well speak to him now hes joining us live from erbil in Northern Iraq to first start with the developments that were hearing about since are and whats going on there are trials. Well yes weve had it confirmed to us that the shia militia groups headed offensive into sin john have taken control of the city they were supported by federal Government Forces we believe they would have come from the area around mosul intel off which is quite close and both under their control both fulla eisel strongholds the city of sydney was taken control of by Kurdish Forces in late twenty fifteen after the federal Government Forces withdrew in the face of that isolate fancy but its important to recognize that is not a disputed territory it comes under according to the iraqi map federal government control so it is an indication of a pattern starting to to of course kill a cook is disputed but were starting now to see what seems to be evidence of a push by Iraqi FederalGovernment Forces and the shia militias to take back control of all the areas whether they be be disputed its all knowledge that the peshmerga have controlled since full swing eisel back and that is a substantial area that includes large towns like. On my whole so it would not be inconceivable told to envisage further movement by the Iraqi Military and the shia and the militias towards the kurdish region of Northern Iraq ok Charles Stratford we thank you for an update from our bureau. The Philippine Military president rather says his military has liberated the Southern City of we are a five month battle against eisel linked fighters president or the territory says the city has been freed from what he calls terrorists but his military says fighting is still continuing so the announcement came a day after two senior commanders of the isolating group were killed more than a thousand people have been killed in the conflict which has displaced at least four hundred thousand people well speak to richard hes a professor of political silence science at the university hes joining us from the for the capital manila via skype thanks for speaking to us so there seems to be some conflicting information coming through because the president is saying that the city has been liberated from pro eisel fighters the military spokesman is saying that some thirty militants and twenty hostages remain in the zone whats the real story here that youre hearing well the proverbial truth is somewhere in the middle right i think the president is correct to say that effectively the battle is over so its now in the mucking out operations stage also there is still militants in the area there still hostages to be freed. Just to go and Logistical Support and to breach between isis command and amal two brothers is yet to be found so i think the military is not triumphalist here because they still want to find some of the foreign elements were behind the siege and where are we but i think the president is going to say what impact do you want to give the lady of the two senior commanders have on the group. Right the amount of brothers who are essentially the military brain of the whole siege on the morrow we see teeth are now confirmed to be dead so is this ignorant to me or all i see is in mindanao and possibly even broader saudis dont have to learn so the leadership has been decapitated in neutralized already so really we are not going to mocking up operations and the implication of this is that first of all of these shows the growing experience of the Philippine Military in twenty First Century orban war for second this is also a reflection of the assistance that has come from American Special forces and from survey lands and intelligence support com and also from australia and other quotas including china and russia too so a lot of countries have been helping the philippines to end these five months about the field and then lastly i think the philippines can cautiously say that the threat of the we. In the philippines is now more or less under control its more or less contained so the concern right now is that the isis sympathizers in the philippines and elements we now shift of spectacular terrorist attack as i said in the middle east when they were defeated on the ground it cannot be with this because theyre going to file a terribly is that the solution when it comes to the philippines when you look at the area off i mean theyre now where morrow he is situated i mean i think the government has grappled for many years with insurgencies there so how do you get rid of the quote unquote extremist ideology that may exist. Well the war in morocco you may be over but the bad so were fighting extremism and terrorism is definitely not over if you see it the food we eat has been reduced to rubble very much is reminiscent of. Still you have to reconstruct that the as soon as you can actually go up to six hundred thousand people out of the space and if these people cannot go back to their home disenchantment is going to sink in so theres going to be still ground for mobilization by extremist groups not to mention their three four other groups while also pledged and allegiance to the i. C. C. Who are active in other parts of mean the no that is represented there are they still keeping the entire island of mindanao under martial law and also theyre also very carefully guarding manila because in two weeks time President Donald Trump and World Leaders will be visiting manila for the east asia summit ok we thank you richard hidari on for speaking to us from the from the legends the taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Police Training center in Afghanistans Paktia province so a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the compound a gun battle between a fortys on the attackers is still ongoing its not known if anyone has been killed civilians are fleeing i souls proclaimed capital in syria thats as the final assault to push out the remaining fighters and gathers pace a u. S. Backed Syrian Forces u. S. Backed Syrian Forces rather say victory is near despite fierce resistance its not clear how many eisel fighters remain inside the city. Now israel is expected to announce plans to build almost two and a half thousand new settlements Housing Units forty percent are earmarked to be built east of the separation wall in the occupied west bank and the expected approval follows a monday decision to allow the new settlements housing in hebron perry fossa joining us from. In the occupied west bank to just give us more context on the announcement thats expected to be made today on the new settlements housing and why its so important. Well this has been trailed for some time now by the government of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and it is as you say a large number two thousand four hundred more than that in terms of the the plan and the approvals for plans for Housing Units were expecting several hundred more to be given final tenders there is a gap still to the headline figure that they released a few days ago of more than three thousand seven hundred so we are waiting for all the full details of this and it is a complicated process the approval process for these Housing Units goes through various stages can take a long time it may be that final approvals for new construction will be in the hundreds but this announcement alone is more than the total for last year and they have these announcements four times a year so you can see that the settlement Construction Business is accelerating at the moment under the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and not just that but these are just expansions of the major settlement blocks along the green line than the one hundred sixty seven border between israel and the occupied palestinian territories a significant proportion of these new units will be built in more isolated settlements deep inside palestinian territory making the prospects of those settlements at some stage in the future being evacuated all the more difficult in any two state solution that might be in the offing it doesnt look very promising at the moment and Benjamin Netanyahu has already said several times in the last few weeks that no israeli settlement will ever be uprooted in the future ok gary foster thank you. For the heads on aljazeera escaping persecution the u. N. Releases video. Of the rebel refugee crisis thats coming up. So clear lovely weather across central and eastern parts of europe and youve got a big area of High Pressure keeping things settled but we are still feeling the effects of what remains of hurrican a fairly high just around the far northwest of the continents possible and scotland as we go on through tuesday feeding that very disturbed weather little hook of cloud that will make its way just to the far north of Northern Ireland running across the northern half of scotland as we go through tuesday temperatures back where they should be so no more twenty three celsius for london that we reserve for paris sixteen degrees there for london just noticed some useful right there will come into spain and western parts of portugal pushing right across spain actually i say useful because we have had wildfires here so that is good news cooler air coming in to madrid as well as around eighteen degrees celsius central parts of europe still on the quiet side still in the settle side but a bit about the morning mist and fog into those central areas but twenty one in vienna still too bad beginning to the mo twentys to across northern parts of africa maybe a thirty four cairo we see a little bit of cloud just skirting with the far north of libya rather more cloud also making its way just across the far north of morocco as we go on through choose day and push into Northern Areas of algeria by wednesday. The top stories on aljazeera Kurdish Forces have lost more territory thats a day after iraqi Government Troops took over the Northern City of kirkuk elsewhere in the shows are now in control of some jar thats in the northwest after Kurdish Peshmerga withdrew from the town the philippine president says his military has liberated the Southern City of mirali oster a five month battle against isolated fighters president rodrigue of the tears he says the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says fighting is still continuing rescue crews in somalia are working to find survivors three days after the worst Suicide Attack in the countrys history more than three hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured after a truck bomb explosion ripped through the heart of the capital. On reports. Its a search to recover bodies and perhaps to find survivors rescue workers hope theres still life under these piles of rubble. Twenty four hours after the explosion we found a young man who was alive the first thing i asked for was a phone so he could call his family he will continue to look for survivors for as long as it takes. More than three hundred people died in saturdays bombing attack in mogadishu scores are still missing. And his family were nearby when the car exploded he hasnt seen his brother since then. My brother and his wife very near the blast that hes still. Out or if they survived weve gone to the sea and all the hospitals but still nothing. Many families are left with only questions not knowing whether to grieve or hang on to hope. Remarkable my son had a pharmacy. Where the tragedy happened we still dont know where he is dead or a life he had she wipes and twelve children he was a sole breadwinner. For Survivors International help has arrived military planes take these victims to turkey where theyll receive specialized treatment with limited resources and medical supplies local hospitals are struggling. In my career as a doctor ive never seen anything like this they were burned bodies all over the place hundreds of fatalities were registered at medina hospital countless are injured. Countries like kenya ethiopia and qatar are offering logistical help locals are also doing what they can retrieving bodies from the rubble providing food and water for emergency workers. But they are also angry hundred six of the streets to protest the attack they blame the armed groups fighting the government and. Union peacekeepers inside somalia. It was a message ive never seen anything like it in the last twenty seven years i saw a little boys head lying on the ground it was shocking. No one has yet claimed responsibility but speaking to aljazeera and al shabaab spokesman refused to confirm or deny responsibility the president who visited the scene blames what he calls terrorists targeting innocent civilians. The shock has now turned to anger pain and frustration as somalis deal with the deadly aftermath and all rising death toll. Now. Philips a professor of journalism at the university of Southern California he says western media have often fail to cover attacks in africa. The coverage in the United States today was pretty substantial but i think by tomorrow it will evaporate whether its somalia or yemen the fact is that the west particularly the United States is very slow to cover things that dont directly affect the on the