Aptly renamed paradise to help the square with no capital and little territory is broken is a total defeat now imminent. Also coming up they have fought together to push back Islamic States now iraqi and Kurdish Forces may be turning on each other the u. S. Refusing to take sides claiming its really not that bad. Aside from the incident from Early Morning hours on sixteen october south of kirkuk that we assessed as a miscommunication there have been no further reports of Armed Conflict or contact between the two groups. And we begin the day with the biggest military victory so far in the battle against socalled Islamic State for the past four months u. S. Backed forces have waged a campaign to retake the syrian city of raka from isis today a general of the Syrian Democratic forces announced that the fighting is over in two thousand and fourteen isis fighters took control of rocket making it the capital of a new caliphate but rocket quickly morphed into a capital of cruelty isis rulers showed it showed off to the world one atrocity after another women accused of adultery beaten before an audience of men inside a sports stadium public beheadings of western hostages and men accused of being gay thrown to their deaths from the citys tallest buildings rock a liberated hell on earth is now an urban grid of rubble riddled with booby traps left behind by the isis fighters who managed to flee our first report tonight on a city freed but forever scarred. A five month battle is over for the Syrian Kurdish and arab fighters backed by the United States they killed dozens of i asked militants in their final push rocka is now a shell of a city. Theres nothing left where near the end we havent seen any i asked militants we havent seen any of them near the stadium either i think the city will be fully clear of them in the next two days which once all of the i asked militants are gone from syria ill go home. I asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the capital of its selfstyled caliph that. The militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who oppose the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by us leader of a blackout baghdadi to migrate to the syrian city however in recent months the socalled Islamic State has steadily lost territory in syria and iraq. The fall of raka is a major blow to the militant group but the extremists still controlled territory in neighboring regions on the iraqi side of the border. A long road lies ahead to heal wounds and rebuild the ruined city of rocca the spite these fighters celebrations. Where the world knows what happened in iraq at least to some degree thanks to an organization of citizen journalists known as rocket is being slaughtered silently the group has documented the atrocities in the human suffering in the city it has been called the most reliable source of information inside iraq tonight the cofounder and Spokes Person is with me here at the big table im happy to welcome to the show. Of homs i believe its good to have you on the show. You were born in iraq and you graduated from the university there what did you think when you heard today that the city or that the fighting against Islamic State has ended their luck as many people from iraq i was having some but other because it was not the scenario that was expected to from most of the people so its true that i saw was defeated by the city was left completely destroyed thousands of people that you know if i can band saw a documented almost four thousand people have during this bottle and the company was not well there have been eyes was there are not careful as the shelling as well the campaign to retake rocca yes we what do you know about the number of isis fighters who are still in the city. There are many estimates do you have any any firm numbers and what about the ice is members who were allowed to leave in the deal that was made before the city fell yes so lucky. As to learn the city there are a lot ten thousand but that was before the vote along with started most of them to flee today or do unmanned seen and this is these are syrian members of isis right you know a lot even for foreign yes so most of them they you left and in the beginning when the what the started the foreign fighters. And went to him and like a couple of fighters and like then and they and there were a like almost less than two hundred so who do you see that tonight theres less than two hundred isis fighters in iraq oh yes so and was like not. Physical exact number about a five star room and because many of them being killed other lives they just said be. And day and lucky us. That college and i mean and to see if transferred couple of. Fighters are lucky and isis fighters are members to specific kill saw especially for the forests one ok lets talk about the past four months this campaign to retake rocco we know that there were numerous attacks aimed at the isis fighters in that process we know that Children Women were killed we know that schools were hit hospitals were hit and has that been reported completely so for us as an organization we were reporting about all the things we were luck working hard just to struggle for information so but for sure like the International Media coverage was not the same as our coverage so it was like reported but a tad not that attention up to several reasons a lot several things are going on are on the war most of the media as the with the trauma tweets as an example saw which is like a big deal for them way more than whats going on in iraq i mean do you think its rocket were to get a tweet by the u. S. President that it would actually it would have helped the situation of the people there do you think it made a difference yes for sure a tool like bush or luck draw that titian of the media to go and see whats going on there saw sometimes like having some other sayings can change the way how media are reporting about the things you know do you think that the coverage i mean has it been fear. Has it been accurate i mean for those of us who cant go inside rocca i mean do you think that the story has been reported as good as it could have been i cant say i can say yes and no so today i can say yes because ive been doing interviews since b. M. Until now so because like after the announcement and for the medias the lies is its a lot of eyes as iraq was defeated the from from the city so all the media started to talk about like if you would shift two days ago was it on the news forgotten we want to weve got lots of pictures that have been coming out of rocca basically a city destroyed maybe if we could just look at those and maybe you know if we can see them on the screen here maybe my producer can tell me were going to see those on the screen ok its a were going to try to show our viewers there you go weve got a full screen now these are the these are the u. S. Backed forces that we need to the stadium today basically saying that the fighting is over. What goes through your mind when you see this yes for sure look first like i look at thats your luck i know it in completely different ways so its not that stallion that i used to go and how do you feel that when you see this life i feel like. I feel like happy but i feel like more mad and angry in the same time because like me barca im prevented to be there not to because of. Life that collagen. So im angry because like the way how is the city was gone. Like with all of this with all of this blood and in the same time like about the violations so children fifteen recruited forcing to join and fight i says those who were able to sort of life isis and burning houses arresting killing all of the things so sometimes should not be only like islam extremism it might be. Extremism so talking about all the things that truck citizen have been suffering from last last one or two years from and see if and yeah the culligan to International Community couldnt stop a city of committing all this violation saw i was talking with my colleagues today who were luck who left the city like the last people left here and they were telling me about we were just leaving the city hearing people shouting going under their ovals and we couldnt do anything they can do anything you came to berlin youre in exile here in berlin do you think that youll ever be able to go home again do you want to go i would love so that was like my blond and like for me i was expecting that the first day that trickled deliberated i would be able to go back but up to all of the things and that way how this is controlled and up to see if its for sure not like i like for us as an organization that was for an i says to committing icily elections we were like accusing to be i says i was a from a z. If so then also is that with rocca is being slaughtered silently your work certainly is getting the i think the attention it deserves tonight for sure we appreciate you taking the time to tell your story with us tonight thank you thank you so much. Well still to come on the day the Harvey WeinsteinsSexual Harassment scandal just keeps growing now women are mobilizing against men behaving badly from hollywood to hashtags women around the world are telling their stories of Sexual Harassment via social media later on the day women men and me too. Well from one flashpoint to the next Iraqi Government forces and Kurdish Militia have faults together against isis when now they may be turning on each other baghdads troops say that theyve taken control of all Major Oil Fields in the disputed Northern Province of kirkuk iraq says that the move is necessary after kurds voted for independence from iraq in a referendum last month the vote was held in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan and also in some disputed areas outside of its official borders like in kirkuk and the kurds in occupied kirkuk and its surrounded areas when socalled Islamic State advanced across the country Kurdish Forces have been withdrawing voluntarily in some areas but other reports say there have been clashes the iraqi army says it is now retaliating and retaking what it considers its last territory we have this report. Celebrations in camp as iraqi forces ruling. Supporters of the iraqi Central Government couldnt contain their joy. Thousands of kurdish residents fled the city ahead of the advance. Assumed you were heading to where bill because the situation is getting worse the iraqi troops are ventured and theres no way we could stay one up on you know no our children are terrified we were afraid that it would be clashes and mortar rounds would have to us thats what im worried about. Cant cook an oil rich province claimed by both kurds and Iraqi Government have been under kurdish control since iraqi forces fled when the slimy state militants swept through the region in twenty fourteen now its back into the control of the Iraqi Government the advance comes three weeks after residents in the kurdistan region and also here in kirkuk voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a controversial referendum kaddish peshmerga leaders see the seizure of kirkuk amounts to a declaration of war. Well amir was always joins me here at the big table hes an iraqi journalist who was embedded with iraqi forces in the battle for most all he just returned last week from iraq before we talk about kirkuk iraqi forces let me ask you about Islamic State and rock i mean last week when you were there did you get the sense that the city that its fall was imminent what i think we it was expecting that they were will be controlled by the courageous troops because we were close to the to the major. Major hospital about three hundred meter and there were. A little mound of fighters there at this hour on the trail. Three hundred sixty degrees. Degree. Cut off without any supplies there were a lot of airstrike from the we i saw these two of them. The city from the military side we we expect that would happen that quickly as quick as possible but while it was also some has it eighteen months from the ct side just to give march for the for the civilians to have to come out so you did experiments you talk about the kurds now weve got a situation where youve got the kurds and the iraqi forces who have been fighting together against isis. Do you think that theyre going to now turn on each other in Northern Iraq i dont think so because at least the kurds in the within iraq are not human i just they are also different where you say theyre not. United but what about this referendum that we saw where there was this call for it kurdistan and you know an independent state well it is their dreams i think every kurd person you got to ask about the long history of iraq eighty years. Suffered from a lot of mis understanding of their shoes or they didnt not got any rights to do to use that language and so on till two thousand and three or two thousand and five when you if you will like the new constitution at all that they do not have any rights of course they wish to have the bend in state for the. There is a small amount of them discuss the point that they have already their rights now they are already almost surprised but not support someone autonomous somehow and they have you know kind of. Arena. Will move a political arena within within how do you explain what were seeing here because we had to move for independent this referendum that went through and now you have baghdad moving in taking you know the oil fields and saying you know this is in violation of the constitution and the allies of the kurds the u. S. The u. K. And even the u. N. Very silent here they were not silent believe they did it right they were not solemn it for their own foreign and they did not war got it right they got pressured they got discussed with the the accord to the ship they offered some other options just to say cuz can strike these on the fighting Islamic State and we are we are ready to give you a grant see that all the problems with baghdad will solve it but it wasnt enough for its was about it wasnt you know or the of course stuff and because this ambition the leadership of mr berg zani is very ambition if you want to say as a president of course he want to be part of that dream if you say and also he is under pressure inter inside. That is another party push on him they say you are not a legal illegal prison and from before two years he should move and that is one of the one should come because of is fighting hes still there and his position and he suspended all the parliament. Be that was very critical point in the end of the day he wants to push the problem inside kurdistan forward to baghdad and he said see then that point but in the end the iraqi got allies from took in iran right i mean that is true that they have the friends and you know you have to have big friends if you want to become independent and the kurds dont have that do you think that this can be resolved without it becoming violent without there being fighting. Its difficult to it. Check that because at least the wish of that is the kurds to have their own state still that existing but in the end of the day if you get rights of every people in iraq according to the constitution in the right way then you governance the Good Governance i think the kurds will satisfy with their with their what they have now. One more point i briefly were running. Is the European Union countries and United States interested in the bend in kurdistan now the question is not if thats why they they should be realistic and be with a real politik its all rights and i was only as always good to have you here at the big table and hear your insights we appreciate it thank you have. I. Or the small island nation of malta is reeling after the death of one of its best known investigative journalist deafening elites he was killed monday in a car bomb her son today said that his mother was murdered and he attacked malta calling it a quote mafia state run by crooks believed c. E. O. Was known for her reporting on governmental corruption which included the Panama Papers and allegations of Money Laundering surrounding the wife of mobsters Prime Minister. A day after the killing of want to buy a car bomb hundreds of martis gather to show their outrage of the journalists murder they want to know exactly why she was killed some point a finger at the state authorities. We are here today to ask the state to protect us the state did not defend daphne it didnt do anything everyone who said shes going too far shes homing in on personal issues theyre all guilty we expect everyone to do everything for us but these days we have to look after ourselves. Two weeks ago daphne got a want to go had told police that she was receiving Death Threats on monday the car she was driving exploded not far from her home in the north of the island the Prime Minister of malta promised an investigation into death but its been all work i condemn without reservation the barbaric attack as one against freedom of speech in our country. Everyone knows that. Was a harsh critic of mine both politically and personally but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way which is against all dignity and civility. Marta has long been considered a tax haven and it was the focus of. Investigative reporting as part of the consortium of journalists who revealed millions of documents known as the Panama Papers she wrote many reports alleging government corruption her accusations included the Prime