It marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for i guess also coming up in neighboring iraq bongani is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake the disputed kurdish held areas as the u. N. And the u. S. Appealed for calm. And a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack and more into the e. U. Says its horrified at the death of deafening zia hassan accuses the mortys government of complicity. Whilst in the next sixty minutes the Champions League returns with bundesliga clubs looking to get back their winning ways as well as a blockbuster clash between christiana lauren aldos real madrid and harry kanes tottenham. And forgiving the hobby or weinstein sex abuse allegations stories of sexual high risk. And sweep across social media using the hash tag me to. Color a warm welcome to you im under. You a speck finds in syria have retaken rock on the city the socalled Islamic State considers its capital a commander of troops fighting isis
U. S. Backed forces say that they have overcome the final pockets of resistance from the extremists it marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for i us. Also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u. N. And the u. S. Appealed for calm. And a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e. U. Says that it is horrified at the death of death eagle you see her son accuses the maltese government of complicity. Plus from great hope to break misery south sudan is one of the worlds newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and feed her family. Im sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us. U. S. Backed fighters in syria have retaken rocket the city that the socalled Islamic State considers its capital troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the milit
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
A heads i so is driven out of itself proclaimed capital a foot up in syria but the war against the armed group is far from over. A senior electoral official in kenya has resigned just days before the president ial election run rerun. And another legal setback for donald trump a court in hawaii stops the introduction yet again off his controversial travel ban. Hello chinas president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist partys one thousand congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech egypt paying laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years so he highlighted chinas successes and vowed to further open its economy but he also warned of severe challenges like like death inequality on. Corruption. Corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party we can only get out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of our party and our country if we persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to ensure that
You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. On saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. Don the reason i say unequality is not a problem, its not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it . Did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair . And when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, thats what were challenging and saying thats no