But perhaps not for much longer the Syrian Democratic forces backed by the United States have the city center surrounded and believe theyll have total control of iraq to within days or even hour its does it mean the end of. Grip and as what happens to the everyday syrians who once called rock the home. Both on the ground south sudan peace has been hard to come by ever since it cant its independence in two thousand and eleven but in east African Mediation Group is in juba trying to reestablish political case and maybe ease some of the suffering of south sudans people and in venezuela an election twenty three of them actually to appoint governors right across the country but with venezuela as a whole still an economic crisis this will inevitably become about the popularity of president of the road and whether he has the political capital. Fountain of right only to someone on their knees and in. And im going to fix kashmir now women are being attacked on the streets hundred their homes to find their long packets head chopped off his during it and wind nobody knows and its causing panic and im right. Here with the news with my money and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com all of those stories to come but were going to start with some breaking news from somalia there has been a bombing in the Capital Market issue the latest word is twenty people have been killed these pictures came in thirty five minutes ago also showing absolute destruction on the street there and weve seen some of the pictures showing the huge cloud of smoke going up over the somali capital fortunate to have mohammed dont in the studio with us is of course covered somalia extensively want to talk us through what youre hearing at the moment. Yes the safadi hotel is. In the busy kilometer five junction which is lined up with government offices shops restaurants and hotels and its a very busy shopping it is the truck that we saw in the picture is the one that had been loaded with explosives and list of the civilians. Bears the hallmarks of al shabaab outs hoch they forced newton into the truck of the gates of the hotel before about fall men got into the hotel and say to be engaged in a firefight or so on going yes. What strikes me and you and i talked about this a little bit earlier is that al shabaab technically was driven out of mogadishu six years ago two thousand and eleven and yet this keeps happening as you say its the hallmarks of them its very likely to be them how do they keep doing. Well first of all it points out the wickedness of the opponents of the government as well as the twenty thousand more than twenty thousand African Union peacekeepers who have been unable to take the bundle off millys shes. Only been. Able to operate in that little envious of somalia since two thousand and eleven they have lost all their albums from what it says about that is that they have lost their strongholds the group has not been weakened they continue to carry out such brazen attacks and what is also says above the government is that its a lot to do to come but effectively this group and one of the things thats just talked with analysts say is paying their soldiers because sometimes they go for months with just this morning the Government Forces left the tunnel but even fifty kilometers from going to few hours later it was taken by alshabaab ok mohammed thank you for bringing us up to date with that these the latest pictures out of mogadishu that is where twenty people dead after a bombing which as mohammad says bears all the hallmarks of al shabaab and an ongoing firefight at a hotel there as well we will keep you well up to date that story and the rest of the news of course i saw is capital the center of that socalled caliphate which may only be hours from falling the u. S. Backed Syrian Democratic forces say they now control ninety percent of raka and are now waging quote the final battle theyve also been reports of about one hundred i still find is actually surrendering after they were boxed into just one small area in the city center is a battle for iraq a began back in june street by street fighting plus an strikes from the u. S. Led coalition it has dragged on for four months but losing if and when it happens is seen as a major strategic blow for eyes so that after is undoubtedly important eisel is really just holding on there when i say they are boxed into just a small area. This is what were talking about all that yellow area is the s. D. F. Its just this one area of black eye so area in the mint in the middle of rock if i go in even closer you can see the detail there its close to a government compound here there are military bases up here they are entirely surrounded there and as we say the s. D. F. Talking about maybe only a matter of hours well certainly days until it is secured lets go to antakya now on the turkish Syrian Border hash is live for us there has been focus through the latest is what youre hearing. Dozens of. Mostly foreign fighters are taking positions in some of the buildings at the center of a. Deal that was reached between tribes and. Those eyes of fighters that would pave the way for them to leave tonight and then in exchange the city will be declared under the control of the kurdish factions the u. S. Coalition has distanced itself from the statement saying that it wont allow this to happen and then see the foreign fighters resurface in some parts of the country but however it looks like this is the beginning of the and for i still and i said is still losing ground in different parts of the east and syria theyve lost now in a while ago and they are retreating south towards come out on the border of iraq were talking about a vast desert landscape which is totally exposed the can no longer send reinforcements or drive in convoys or large numbers because they can easily get themselves intercepted by the u. S. Coalition and as the fighting intensifies thousands of people are still trapped in those areas and thousands are fleeing their homes they feel traumatized abandoned with nowhere to go and they live under a very tough conditions. Civilians have been waiting for years they are being evacuated from fighting iraq staying home wasnt safe strikes have killed hundreds. In neighboring dales or thousands of syrians flee their homes as fighting intensifies i still fighters have regrouped in a mayor dean a city on the border with iraq before an expected push by Syrian Kurdish factions known as the to capture the city. North of rock was built to accommodate the internally displaced its struggling with a growing number of refugees who have nowhere to go such as. Well has just arrived from the us. We left home because of the farting in there it was a long journey before we got to the camp we spent a long sleepless nights and many days with nothing to eat and theyre buried and my daughter is sick and she needs treatment we have been suffering since the start of war in Syria Kurdish factions control the. Very few aid organizations manage to reach the area the camp lacks basic infrastructure services. A situation that is likely to worsen during the winter. Time and. Look at the tents they gave me in this camp i have nothing no covers my sheets nothing imo and i cannot look after my children on my own they told us go to the camp and you will get help i got nothing from them. Many here have lost hope they will ever be able to return home to their villages. The battles to recapture rock and dealers or have destroyed entire areas defeating i sill may not be the end of war in syria as the s. D. F. Advances the syrian army is on the move both competing to control more territory the Syrian Government is determined to recapture areas it lost or i sell the rebels and the kurds a confrontation between the kurds and the syrian army may trigger an exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey has. Had time to get a good idea of the conditions certainly that people are under having had to leave iraq and we want to talk however more about the military operations going on there now weve got address creagh to do that good friend of the program an assistant professor at the Defense Studies Department at Kings College london what do you think andres there saying maybe might only be a matter of hours or certainly days until this happens. Just a matter of time. As it is one of these many questions that weve asked on these on this program and many other programs on aljazeera you know we talked about it when most of fell we talked about it in aleppo and you know were talking about is probably soon and girls are as well you know is it its always going to be a matter of time and yes the coalition is making progress and a lot of the large areas of land that were once controlled by the Islamic State of now been recaptured or are in the process of being recaptured but it doesnt mean its the end of isis it might be the end of the Islamic State i think its the end of the caliphate its the end of this social political project that this group was starting to to unravel in two thousand and fourteen but its obviously not the end of the narrative and the ideology of isis which has now moved from more insurgent into a terrorist organization and i think many of the people who will survive those fighters who survive rocka and those who survive the old sure will regroup in the desert and fight another day if not in syria then possibly in iraq and theyre not doing this as a state but theyre doing it as an undercover terrorist organization embedded with the civilian population you know youve actually reflected what one of our viewers a sense in a Facebook Live comment to me jumbo who said the movement of eisler around the world cant be overcome or conquered as far as well as many things but as far as the mysterious mystery surrounding who sponsors them is still unknown yet theyve been fighting for years now and have managed to keep going all this time. And clearly will still have funding from wherever it is to keep as you say going elsewhere. I mean they dont really have funding its not like there is a foreign body that fund vices i mean isis is for the Islamic State for has been for a very long time self sustained you know theyve ruled territory they extorted money from people they traded with oil and other goods illicitly and you know they they they raise taxes and so on and so forth to really i mean the Islamic State as such will disintegrate and thereby it will deplete their resources those people who still hold out have not much they dont have an allotment munitions they have hand fire weapons small arms they dont even have r. P. G. They dont have tanks they dont have Armored Vehicles like they used to have they are very much its down to the bones of what is left now so just really quickly hundreds then the actual battle for iraq are we we talk about it is there as a symbol of the socalled counterfeit if it falls when it falls are you saying then that in the end its it is that symbolic. It is very much symbolic i think its a narrative thats going on here so the coalition is trying to say look were were finally getting this and to this point in iraq of being in a very symbolic for the Islamic State that was their capital you know it has some historic roots for for muslims in general going back to the golden age it is a country you know the liberation of iraq a was a it was something that happened with a lot of fanfare in the media they really made it a media spectacle the Islamic State so now the coalition is trying to make it a media spectacle as well saying look we liberated it but in the end of the day its not a victory because if you look at the humanitarian cost of it you know loads of people have been dying and what they conquer is a is of huge piece of rubble and thats all it is really its nothing more its not really a victory even though the Islamic State might have been pushed out rocker has ceased to exist their good perspective there from indras craig always a pleasure thank you for joining us if youve got me thoughts on syria on any of our stories coming up in touch with us is the hash news grid with Twitter Facebook or whatsapp were running through the details really quickly at a. 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The ministers arriving in south sudan know dave got a tough task ahead of them to breathe new life into a peace deal signed between president salva kiir and Opposition Leader rick my char in august twenty fifth scene a deal which failed soon after the two men put pen to paper our mission. Is that. Implementation of the rebuy for television process decided by the heads of states joining us about. On Something Different are these Peace Agreement so far. All the processes of the. Fighting broke out in south sudan in twenty thirteen less than three years after the countrys independence from sudan the greenman signed in august twenty fifteen was intended to end the war but less than a year later fighting broke out in the capital juba forcing my char who had returned as first Vice President to flee again since then the conflict has spread the Intergovernmental Authority for Development Also known as i gad once an end to the violence south sudans government has expressed its readiness for the process but it has concerns we think that we should move forward with given over. To god is going to respond to some of the points of view shes a. Very technical questions which is why im just trying to assess because this commission of both military has noticed political forces. Millions have been displaced after the fighting in the capital last year a famine was declared early twenty seventeen in parts of the country more than six Million People half of the population are facing Food Insecurity and the countrys economy is hard hit by the war. Missing all the sides involved in the conflict is just the first step in revitalizing to. The next step would be bringing them around to negotiating table and thats that may prove more difficult as more armed groups have emerged. The government has made it clear that it isnt going to start a new Peace Process to include those new groups theres a limit to what i get can do. Would have. To bring peace to the country nobody can make them the only thing that and any other international party. Is the facilitator and bring them together. Groups who are in disagreement so that disagreement those disagreements have caused the lives of countless hours to the nice people i guess the magic effort is intended to end the suffering but ultimately its up to the working factions to put their guns down people morgan out of their juba in washington d. C. First now is a political analyst the executive director as well of the african immigrant caucus nice to see you again i think the most important thing i heard there in his report was when she said this group. Can only do so much and thats the case here isnt it they can talk they can suggest what but this really is up to the groups in south sudan whether they want. Well i happen to think that i can do a little more but also with the support of the International Community the Security Council the United States because you know the south sudanese they are responsible the leadership there on both sides are responsible for this horrendous senseless war that has descended into ethnic cleansing you can yes they are responsible but like like about my rig they need outside help to do what needs to be done so i actually put a lot of the hope and pressure on each guy because they have been divided they have been backing different sides they need to get the act together also the International Community you know again it is true that the south sudanese have to do a lot by the arms they dont manufacture arms obs our fluorine the International Community has had great difficulty in stopping the arms floyd so i agree with him about that a lot of lives in the hands of the south sudanese but i also think the International Community and eager itself they need to do much more and ive been arguing in washington that the new ashington administration when it has good relations with what they got members see they get one relationship weve got to have good relations with uganda with you know with ethiopia i want washington twisting in the arms of the eeg odd members to get their acts together because i said next in the south sudanese engage you know war the economy of themselves the outsiders need to push out and thats my opinion is it just me is it just about power in the end i wonder if. You know an outsider looking in on this would think why would either of these sides want this to carry on peop