Joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes the beginning of the end of i saw in syria critics led forces capture the groups a self declared capital rucka. Still in shock after saturdays massive truck bombing the president is blaming alshabaab and is calling for more International Help. The president of the philippines declares victory in the Southern City of we after a five month battle against isis a link fighters and the mass exodus of refugees it shows no signs of abating between ten and fifteen thousand crossed into bangladesh in the past forty eight hours. And. With all the days news. Meeting new york to try and find a way forward of the place continue to meall during the playing of the National Anthem that more later in the program. We begin the news hour in syria where u. S. Backed forces have driven out i saw from itself the Clear Capital of raka in syria after a tough four month battle the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces have raised their flag inside the city stadium the same stadium which i saw had turned into a huge prison for anyone who oppose their. Reports now from the turkey syria border. Triumphantly. Celebrating the city which was. Told in syria but. Wasnt easy. The Syrian Democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u. S. Began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are a lot are still fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to save areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city wealthy heard me i heard the news of a cease fire and took my family but then we came under fire the journey was tough because we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that iraq is under their control as fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria. An advance that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two have recently been competing to expand their military gains in iraq and dealers or the counter rocket is a major setback for either which is now trying to hold ground in a vast desert area on the border with iraq by losing fertile lands and fields the group finds itself deprived of crucial financial means that perfectly need at this critical moment which was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared Islamic State. What rocker really was the epicenter of all that i saw stood for and sought to project to the world a place where the group could carry out their worst atrocities on challenge and inflict their brand of terror on an entire city block that was the first city to fall to i saw back in two thousand and fourteen the group violently installed its own government taking control of all aspects of life in the city new strict dress codes were imposed on men and women and i saw began punishing anyone who did not conform then that came the public executions a something rucka became notorious for anyone who resisted their rule or ideology was rounded up and killed in city squares women accused of having sex outside marriage were dragged onto the streets and stone to this in front of crowds videos were often posted by the group online showing men who work used to be gay thrown off the top of buildings the viciousness didnt end there i saw hung the bodies of its victims from lamp posts fences and on the Roundabout Signs for days a message to anyone who would dare cross them many women from minority groups and the broad were taken to iraq or to become eisel brides sex slaves for the cities fighters children to were brainwashed their schools shut down and they were recruited from a young age to become the next generation of isis fighters even being made to participate in executions themselves were vladimir van vine a burglar is a freelance journalist who joins us live now via skype from combined there on the Syrian Border vladimir thank you very much for joining us here on aljazeera now you have been inside iraq just paint a picture for us of what the situation is like inside the city now from everything youre hearing. Or is it is. There are most where you know some of our fighters that are there is a song some very big dog bar. Owners are all over all. These. Things pirates got there all i said and we were just sort of reading through some of the atrocities of course that i still inflicted on the local population the found themselves stuck as the city became the capital all of the socalled Islamic State i mean how difficult do you think what do you think the challenges are going to be for the city to recover from the years living under isis well ive gone through. Translator was there are costs on he started one of them. Should be very patient because the children are brainwashed are isis and thats why all the progress on our city theyre already far over schools. Start. Washing children. Is our god now youve also spent a lot of time in the refugee just outside iraq a lot of people were obviously fleeing this city do you get the sense of people are wanting to go back to the city now you know my version has told people the wrong direction you go back there are. Going to happen or bonds but one of the biggest problems is the buyers because its all by the orders are not going to. Be for you by. Police force your boss or your son nick dont buy firearms are and how do you think that the former residents of rocco or the ones going by sea that theyre liberators in effect to do you think that they trust them. You know because. Theres a lot of local are. And also they have formica police force for so wheres my office of our i mean there are guards there meeting. At my door. Will be our movie both of those girls are all they are going to refer to their original aria. Going to be like iraq a bully. Or. We were just saying of course rocket was really the epicenter of everything i still represented that a lot of the propaganda emanated from the city now that i still live love the city what do you think will happen to the group led by me im a bird can you hear me. I think we have lost the bloody Mary Van Gogh gramberg journalist speaking to us from just outside rocky had been there in the past few days also been to the local refugee camp telling us of the situation there saying they really one of the most important things for iraq and now is a part of the sea from from things like clearing the land mines but also the education of children many of whom have been brainwashed by i saw and know nothing other than the life that they lived in iraq while i saw was in charge weve lost connection with them probably due to a power cut now Kurdish Forces have lost more territory in Northern Iraq a day after Government Troops seized the Northern City of kirkuk iraqs Prime Minister hyderabadi is calling for dialogue with the kurdish leadership Charles Trafford has more now from there be in. Iraq a Government Troops and shia militia on the outskirts of kirkuk less than twenty four hours of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrew from the oil rich city no one predicted the ease and speed with which Iraqi Government forces could take control of the oil fields and most of the remaining towns in the disputed areas of Northern Iraq. Forces withdrew in some areas without even firing a shot the iraqi Prime Minister says the new orders from erbil are so im not going to mock up what they went against your instruction and didnt kids are lucky for since please exists as a listener many people who fled kirkuk the day before began to return home like we dont know anything yet were about to enter but we dont know safe or not where else can i go i dont know where to go its better to go back were going back to our house and our city. Some arab residents in this ethnically diverse region celebrated the arrival of iraq you got. Forces us. Now all of kirkuk is retaken and we are happy some of the peshmerga killed in the sporadic fighting which taken to a morgue in the kurdish region second city solomon the the Regional Government hasnt released figures yet on how many peshmerga were killed the letter and this is to let you know since last night we received twenty five corpses of troops killed in battles of kirk and its suburbs relatives of those killed in battles received twenty one corpses so far the bereaved relatives are gathering at the morgue to receive dead bodies of their sons. You know bill many people say they are shocked and feel betrayed accusing the International Community of signing with the Iraqi Government against them. It looks like there was an international betrayal of the kurdish nation and that is due to the fact that we had a plan to move towards independence unfortunately we are facing a situation where we lost everything that we had before all this loss is a result of the fact that the kurdish nation is not united evidence of factionalism and rivalry between kurdish groups and Political Parties is growing in a Statement Released by the k r g president and head of the k d p party monsoon barzani said the withdrawal of peshmerga was because of unilateral decisions made by some officials the peshmerga general command is blaming this incredibly quick withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from these territories as being as a result of what it describes as historical treason by some senior members of the p u k party one former senior aide to the p k has called for a Transitional Government and says more constructive channels of dialogue should be set up with baghdad after the iraqi army has taken so much control of territory that the k r g was hopeful would be part of a future independent kurdish state president barzani is facing one of the biggest political crises of his life charles stuff at aljazeera north of erbil. Or can now go to washington d. C. And speak to rosalynn jordan who is at the state department rosalind obviously very busy few days in the region not only have we see now the liberation of iraq but also the taking over of kirkuk from the kurds by the iraqi army in the past few days so what reaction have we heard from the trumpet ministration. Well obviously the u. S. Government is very pleased that is essentially under the control of the s. D. F. The Syrian Defense forces but they also stress that a lot of work remains in order to make the city safe again for people to return and to try to reestablish their lives the first thing that they noted barbara is that there have been a lot of mines left behind by eisel fighters and that the dea mining has to get under way very quickly otherwise there really is no point in trying to establish electricity or trying to restore clean water and sanitation because it wont be safe for people to move around the city of raka but beyond that they are not looking to be engaged in any long term fashion and what many have described as nation building the state Department SpokespersonHeather Nauert indicated that the u. S. Has already been talking with other members of the anti eisel coalition and that a number of countries have indicated that they want to provide support to the people of iraq as they try to reestablish their local government and their role local economy similar things have been said and promised in terms of mosul in iraq but clearly they do have a lot of work to do before you even get to the long term project of reestablishing both countries as stable and secure as so as you say in a sense the u. S. Wanting to to pull back a little bit from that region but how do you think that they think or hope to deal with that resurgent iran certainly and iran which is becoming ever more and more prominent in that part of the wild. Well i did speak with an analyst today who says iran is very much part of the trumpet ministrations Foreign Policy focus that the trumpet ministration very much wants to check irans influence across the middle east which certainly is good news to countries that are allied with the United States and so you might see that there would be a lot of pressure on washington to do whatever is possible to check influence however there is a reluctance going back to the a bomb it ministration for again being engaged in nation building and that can be including the process of political reconciliation among various communities in side both countries as well as trying to have some influence on their relationships with their neighbors and certainly there would be some in both countries that would argue that they are free to have a relationship with iran because it is one of their neighbors but again thats going to be a very difficult path for the trumpet ministration to walk it doesnt want to do too much. With the latest from washington d. C. Rolls thank you. So lots more to come on this news hour including more than two years after war began in yemen an estimated eighty percent of people are now in need of humanitarian aid angering all over the killing of a high profile journalist Whose Research into corruption claims had attracted powerful enemies and on the road to russia people will tell you which european teams have been drawn against each other in the playoffs thats all coming up in sports. But first rescue operations continue in somalias capital for those still missing after the worst bomb attack in the countrys history more than three hundred people. Were killed by a suicide truck explosion on saturday somalias president has told al jazeera that his country cannot fight. And has appealed for International Help mohamed odeh reports now from mogadishu. A huge crater the point where the explosion happened rubble from collapsed buildings. The shelves so vehicles skated around the blast radius these images should be familiar to the people of somalia in conflict is the one thousand nine hundred ninety s. Yet saturdays attack one of the most lethal anywhere in the world for years. The way we have never seen anything like this this was a massacre of the weakest and poorest within our society there were. Students were returning from school and the. This changes mogadishu for ever. Been hit by bombings and were sent to us but have been. Here the suicide bomber chose the cities the rush hour on one of its busiest streets today the bomb rescue workers are still searching the rubble for bodies some they say may never be found. Theres been no official claim of responsibility for the blast so molly president mohammad up to life. In doubt its the fight. I thought they would claim but maybe they fear. This is a huge. Responsibility. To be claimed. But this is their fingerprint this is what they have done. Strongholds are concentrated largely in Southern Somalia with significant presence in many rural. Troops and African Union peacekeepers have been steadily taking back territory from al shabaab in recent years but the loss of territory. To stop the fighters from cutting out there being attacks the president has this warning for the International Community if they succeed here there are easier to. Promote their. Crazy ideology their political ideology to be. In the United States and in europe. For the difficult search for bodies and survivors under the rubble. Investigators are published the source of the grade explosives. Been used in the attack another focus of the investigation Officials Say is whether help from within the Security Forces mohammed at all just. The president of the philippines has the clay or the Southern City of liberated after a five month battle against isolated fighters theyre very good at their ten ounce the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says a fine continues as reports the threat of violent extremism remains not just them but all across them in the region and people are anxious about their future. A ceremony to signal the end of a month long military operation to take back full control of. An i saw inspired group called the mouth had taken parts of the southern philippines city earlier this year even though the military admits there are still pockets of resistance. Here. You all started with the mountain armed group raised its black flag over several government buildings last may now to fighters wanted to set up an Islamic State in the mindanao region. But. The significance is not lost today has been officially liberated over a thousand people have died more than a hundred soldiers have perished in the battle. For more than four months. For the soldiers this celebration is bittersweet. Our brothers whom we lost in the fighting especially our marine soldiers who died trying to take the bridge of thats where we incurred so many casualties. This means that our sacrifices have been the work that we can finally go back home and be in the arms with our families again i am happy that we survive it. This was a Difficult Mission the damage caused by the fighting is unprecedented even for a region long held back