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Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will take to push out those last pockets of resistance while the group. They have shown themselves to be tenacious, very well armed and very tough to get out of the city. They cannot put a timeline on it. The military has regained control of most of the city, controlling people going in and out, there will be interesting to see, once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group who got involved in this attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape than once th
Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will take to push out those last pockets of resistance while the group. They have shown themselves to be tenacious, very well armed and very tough to get out of the city. They cannot put a timeline on it. The military has regained control of most of the city, controlling people going in and out, there will be interesting to see, once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group who got involved in this attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape than once th
It is sam is tuesday the greatest newsday. It is 8am in singapore and iam in london. Marawi has been under siege for nearly a week by islamist militants. On monday, the government has said it made decisive progress to retake the city but at least 100 civilians have been killed and 2000 people may still be trapped in militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We do not know how long it will take. They have been hard to evict from the city. I do not think anyone can put a timeline on it. They can 110w can put a timeline on it. They can now control people going in and out of the city. Once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group that got involved in the attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape and once that is done, there are bigger question is that the philippines government have tienza and one is how this terrible battle which has caused so much damage was allowed to take place. It was supposed to be a routine operation to detai
Could join us, its midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as Angela Merkel played host to le keqiang. He is the second east asian leader to receive the Red Carpet Treatment in berlin this week after indias Prime Minister on tuesday. The more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the United States taking a different position to the rest on issues such as Climate Change and free trade. The bbcs joe mellor Climate Change and free trade. The bbcsjoe mellor has been following the events in berlin. Its tempting to read a lot into this, there have been two east asian leaders here and this comes after a week where tensions between the us and germany have never really been higher. Of course these visits are planned a long way in advance and its true to say Press Officers of either delegation if you take a look at the Trade Numbers between china and europe they are improving as y