Hello again im watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next hour exodus from kirkuk thousands leave the iraqi city is the army moves in to take over parts of the kurdish run oil rich area. We cant understand this president and confusion the Spanish Government for mines cattle and leaders they have until thursday to withdraw their bid for independence. South. Also this tiny pharaoh islands crowdsourcing has its own Translation Service in a bid to get google to add it. And sport calling cabernet fights back the american football quarterback in n. F. L. Games filed a lawsuit saying he has a been hired to have played owners are colluding against him. Thousands of people are leaving the iraqi city of kirkuk as Government Forces advance on Kurdish Military positions the Iraqi Military says its forces have captured the k. One air base and the local airport which had been under peshmerga control the army and allied forces have also been moving on oil and gas
As Iraqi Forces Advance on kir kuk. Road m as we kick off a busy week for earnings. Plus a win for workers, the white house pitching the tax cut plan countering democratic criticism and seeing middle class americans would see incomes rise. Eye on subs, netflix after the bell and is expected to hit another record today stocks are looking to hit record highs, dow and s p 500 coming off five straight weeks of gains. Yellen saying the ongoing strength will warrant a gradual increase in rates. Meantime oil prices are higher this fighting between iraqi and Kurdish Fighting escalating and wti up almost a buck. 600,000 barrels in play and you also have to believe the area being destabilized has made it at least for a couple of days you get over 50. Ive got to tell you, ive got at least a dozen Oil Companies i monday ter that will be in there selling again today. They have to sell because they are exceeding their cash flow. So when you see 52, you need to see a breakout to like 56 to realize th
Clothes all rubble youre watching aljazeera lifeboat headquarters here in doha also coming up kurdish flags are coming out of all tiled side of Northern Iraq are back in control of Iraqi Government forces. Also israel is to approve of other bache acceleration of subtle but you did say that the occupied west bank plus. Will a take a step dealing at a fellows beat your to discuss the controversy surrounding a because most popular sport. Welcome to the program to us but forces have driven out ourselves from itself declared capital of raka its syria in the past few hours the Syrian Democratic forces have raised the flag inside the citys stadium. Battle to take the city from beisel because jews civilians have been to flee for weeks as the fighting intensified at the height of its straight does all declared rocket its capital it also searched across iraq sees a good troll of large swathes of the country a couple of years old its totally has been reduced to this just last rocket syria has als
Hello adds a whole robert this is the aljazeera to use our life for headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes u. S. Backed forces in syria say theyre in full control of raka. Self declared capital. But while Kurdish Forces in syria baby celebrated retreat of a major territorial losses over the border in iraq. Also latest United Nations figures say almost six hundred thousand bridges refugees have crossed into bud laddish persecution it be a. Im joined again by sports news including n. F. L. Players and officials prepared to meet in new york but will they take a stand. As i have more on that in the program. Welcome to the news i could tell you come today we start in the middle east where u. S. Backed forces have driven still for itself declared capital of rocker is syria in the past few hours the forces have raised kurdish flags inside the city stadium the battle to take the city from i saw to get it jude but civilians have been fleeing for weeks as the fighting inte
Theresa may, who is headed into talks with the block. Also coming up, the clock ticks down to elections in japan. Our correspondent meets the three front runners on the campaign trail. Thank you for joining us. We start with catalonia, where Carles Puigdemont faced a final deadline this morning to drop a bid for secession from spain. Has notfor independence been abandoned. The Central Government has announced it will move ahead in suspending catalan autonomy. Many fear that could lead to unrest and catalonia. We have heard from the government spokesman for spain, who talked about the lack of clarity from the catalan leadership. Question ofthe whether or not catalonia had declared independence was asked, in the clearest terms, we did not receive an answer. The Spanish Government will therefore continue with the procedures outlined in article to of the constitution restore legality in catalonias government. For more, we are joined by our International Affairs editor. Pushed intoas been a