Everyone ive. From london coming up in the next sixty minutes beginning of the end of i saw in Syria Kurdish forces captured the groups declared capital rucka. But the kurds in iraq a very different story theyve lost more territory to baghdad leaving their dream of independence there in tatters also ahead a refugee crisis that showing no signs of easing more than ten thousand. From bangladesh in just forty eight hours. And. With all the days news as n. F. L. Team meeting new york to try and find a way forward after players continue to meall during the playing of the National Anthem more later this hour. We begin in syria where u. S. Forces have driven out eisel from its self declared capital of raka after a tough four month battle the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces have raised their fire inside the city stadium which i feel it turned into a huge prison for anyone who opposed their all reports from the turkey syria border. Kurdish fighters triumphantly. Celebrating the capture of the city which was. Called in syria but. Wasnt. The Syrian Democratic forces coalition and backed by the u. S. Held ground for. Five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are a lot are still fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to save areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting there mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. I heard the news offices fire and took my family by then we came under fire the journey was tough because we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that iraq is under their control as fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria. An advance that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two have recently been competing to expand their military gains in iraq and dealers or the counter rocket is a major setback for either which is now trying to hold ground in a vast desert area on the border with iraq by losing fertile lands and fields the group finds itself deprived of crucial financial means that currently needs at this critical moment which was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared Islamic State. Well the height of its strength not only did i still hold rocker declaring it its capital it also swept across iraq seizing control of a large swathe of the country a couple of years on its territory has been reduced to just this not only has it lost raca its also being targeted by Iraqi Government forces across the border the group is also under attack by the Syrian Government and its allies in the last pocket it holds dear as or tomorrow ill take such a close look now at just what losing rocker could mean for the future of eisel as a whole. The capture of rockabye i saw in two thousand and fourteen was held by the armed group as a major achievement back then i source said it demonstrated its strength as it continued to expand across syria and iraq it declared its capital in syria setting up courts prisons and other institutions but all of this was against the will of the people. I saw as emergence of a huge blow to the Syrian Opposition and the Free Syrian Army who had previously controlled the area their fighters were forced to retreat and president Bashar Al Assad was able to validate his claim that his troops were fighting what you call terrorists and not legitimate opposition in turn an International Coalition was formed to fight the group led by the United States and in coordination with russia whose forces had been sent into syria to help prop up the flailing regime the coalition and russia launched hundreds of air strikes in a bid to defeat i saw that many civilians were killed in the process on the ground the offensive to expel eisel from iraq i was being led by the y p g a kurdish faction supported and armed by washington while they managed to make large advances that true was at the expense of the Syrian Opposition who accuse the group of expelling the indigenous arab residents in order to pave the way for future kurdish states. Why p. G. Has links with the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k n armed group in turkey which i care considers to be a terrorist organization some of the journalists believe that despite the y. P. G. s success in expelling i saw from the group will not be able to achieve its goal of autonomy we can see that the kurds and their y. P. Ji definitely overstretched they could buy an area that they constitute a minority twenty five to thirty percent compared with seventy percent now that i saw has been pushed out from the many will declare the end of the armed groups but others disagree we are witnessing the fall of the. But that doesnt mean i will be destroyed isis will remain purcells in syria iraq and lebanon i saw is not an ordinary group its methods are both horrifying and unconventional it doesnt have a membership process for example anybody who wants to kill or maim can do so and then attribute those attacks through the group and thats what makes defeating ice all seem so impossible now whilst expanding its members from iraq is significant the reason need to deal with the root cause is the push young men to join such a group. Well lets talk more about those events in iraq with you neal days hes a fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations and has in fact just come back from iraq or Northern Syria welcome to you guinea and youve just been telling me off air while that report was going out that actually you know two of the women who are in the picture in our wall behind us actually the two one of them and at the center very center is called roger and he is the overall commander of the forces in iraq or so i went to see her to understand their military strategy it was like two weeks ago and at that point isis was surrounded in two areas the main hospital and a stadium in there by and we heard that this morning that the main hospital was cleared and ive seen drawn pictures showing how isis dug lots of tunnels and you can see the entrance and exits of those tunnels around. Like it was the case for the last few weeks isis was there and their forces was moving very slowly because isis had many civilian civilians with them. But you know the day after also some deals you know they cleared the whole city. What was it like when you were there and you actually say you you went and you saw some of the areas where i still have been cleared from but how intense was the fighting at that time on my first day there. Were married manning isis fighters try to block the siege so they start a really large scale attack on as the air force was burning down lots of stuff around you know to hide themselves from the aerial view and aerial bombardment but it didnt work and the two days later they did this time they started attacking from outside around hundred isis fighters attacked from outside coming from the regime areas apparently killing at least twenty nine people including a british citizen called moment and that didnt work as well they couldnt break the siege. One interesting thing was whenever an area is cleared or the. Captured from isis people start moving in you know almost immediately so you see people you know trying to find their homes just two or three kilometers away from you know where the fighting is taking place ive seen shops for example selling lots of goods so its amazing how traders find out where it is clear supply those things people are very resourceful are they in times of desperation. How will what is left in iraq and now how is it going to be governed and how do the people there want to pick up that well you know ive met a lot of people there and you know the main discussion actually in europe and some other places is that you. Could kurdish that organization whether they will be accepted in iraq but when you speak to ordinary people on the ground they dont necessarily talk about in ethnic terms they know these people went through the regime and under democratic regime under assad regime and then you know Free Syrian Army groups. And now what they care about most is whether they will be governed and they you know. They will have a secure environment and ive spoken to a lot of people in i need a camp which is like. Forty fifty kilometers north of rocca where most people were from iraq took shelter in and they were also saying like we waiting maybe in a few weeks well go back to our homes but the one problem is the very city center is heavily damaged not only just with the latest fighting but throughout the time in isis so from now on the most important issue will be rebuilding the city and thats where foreign donors or European Countries will come in and play more influence and ive been to other areas where the forces took longer go like members other places where you know full well you know almost eighty percent of our population. And the citys population is increasing from thirty five thousand to one hundred of thousands now so the system there was mostly accepted and people werent talking about an ethnic terms and. I dont see much resentment among the population because what is interesting is that i spoke to an activist who was from rocker now lives in berlin i spoke to him in the last hour and he was saying that actually there are many people within rocka who dont regard the Syrian Democratic forces as liberators they see them or as another Occupying Force come to take over their city i think the main the you know priority of people is you know whoever is going to provide them with security and provide. Services but you know there are many people in iraq at the moment and there are maybe political groups in any so theres a rock a civilian council which is composed of also many important tribal leaders composed of also you know people in the city but also tribal leaders around so several of those tribal leaders actually joined in forces with. This they are getting im sorry to interrupt you because they are actually going to baghdad because i think we can hear now the iraqi upon its hard allopathy of course some of this. Started to have the own flags. As you can see where you can see alongside the iraqi flag side by side but the other. Part is flag. Because the flag is for everyone in this area. Do you see i will be sponsibility. Because we would want to secure the. Sea to ensure that security coke is its own go in. And we do not have to have any confrontation with the population or the people there we are try to preserve them and put them. And we will try and. Thats we will to avoid any harm or any disaster. Sometimes it got to a situation where. Not. Yet and most others. What we have did sort. Been reported. And it. Is all the central governments and the federal government. All deal here area as disputes or differences between the two parties. Because the federal. Government since nine hundred ninety one. After two thousand and two is became one country and therefore it should be. A federal team in every illusions. And also in the here in southern had dean and these central figure of the federal government should be pleasant in all decisions. You know you shouldnt be different treatment to one treatment should indecision difference and the other one. Even in salahuddin and but that. Still remain with the federal government. There were some. Early gratian before mixing up all the papers and all this legalization until its in some of the governed thats in iraq and in baghdad. So we have. I made sure that all the Security Forces to protect all the minorities wherever they are human and we will have to add to the Security Forces especially in kirkuk and i do. Caution and warn any good which is. In the cool in the other area. We have a clear instruction. To all the local authorities in decision to protect the population and also to make sure the control is well what it is our duty and i was possibility to protect the population in all decisions and with good help. We will go back to what we have asked that. Which we mentioned before via to address dialogue and according to the. I do i feel and i know. That some people feel disappointed in what. The citizens did because they are very happy because they are in touch with their. Compatriots the kurdish. So and some even some of them are over the until then they will call in for the implementation of the authority over this lesions. Authority and the governed by law. Every county they have. Political parties who elected and they have their voices in the parliament. And belong to different political section sect. But this militias which have. Military wink and they have. A lot inside the main here. And they are built on the just on the. Base on the political influence. And you have cooperated and they fought alongside us. They are from the kurdish and from the people. You see they did not for your section and they did not kill the iraqi forces. Against our people and your people in. Michigan. The parts of the iraqi forces and they all belong to different illusions. And so who did it more than they were among our forces so you cant just come back and the. Only advantage. To preserve and secure the Public Institution and build ins. And we asked for all parties to commit to we do not see any escalations and this is not acceptable. And then we dont want to go back to the. Old days when we do not want the vange who. They will all have their lights so all the iraqis. To the iraqi people and every key have the light to be and be in every illusion do you want to tomb and to be present as well we did want our policy is to be peace and cooperation we have to use the common sense of peace and also deal just force. On the principle of the blood that. D. C. Is a victim you took all the because thats how we consider it. And also this is the place in. Which to me and do you have the light and all the iraqis. And also the kurdish citizen should celebrate in order to built. Should city by disna you lation we are building between us when we do not have minorities small minorities here and there. We are committed for the rights of the citizens. And the citizens specked it and we do not division to divide these cities and based on different criteria. So a listing to an address by the iraqi Prime Minister hyder. Speaking about events in cook cook and in Northern Iraq he says we want to ensure the security of kirkuk and we have to preserve and protect all the people there you also reiterated there should be a government a federal team in every region of iraq and he said the peshmerga the Kurdish Peshmerga have indeed cooperated and force alongside us they are part of the iraqi forces we do know of course though that some peshmerga did not cooperate when the iraqi forces went in to kick call this is happening of course as Iraqi Government troops and their allies capture more territory from those Kurdish Forces in the countrys north Kurdish Peshmerga still in control of a de hook bill and still many are they are the three provinces that make up the semi autonomous kurdish region but they have withdrawn from singe our work kirkuk and hallock in all of which they took over during the fight against eisel and these areas also included in that kurdish referendum on session last month a vote that infuriated baghdad. And ultimately triggered its move to take those disputed territories but the president of the Kurdistan Regional government has called the withdraw of some of those peshmerga fighters historic treason charge stratford has more from appeal. President Masoud Barzani has released a statement describing what he says was one of the reasons behind this incredibly fast withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from kirkuk and the other disputed territories he has blamed that withdrawal of what he describes as unilateral decisions made by some officials this is consistent with some of the allegations being made by other members of his k d p party against the p u k now the peshmerga Central Command today described this withdrawal is as a result of historic treason from members of the p u k party but interestingly enough a former senior aide to the p u k has said that a Transitional Government needs to be set up and more effective channels of dialogue between the k r g and baghdad as stablished the fallout from this sudden withdrawal is is very obvious when you speak to patients the fighters that weve weve met today they feel very despondent about this bear in mind that at least one thousand seven hundred patients were killed in the battle against i so the political fallout from this crisis is huge and there are some analysts saying that president barzani is now facing one of if not the biggest crisis in his political and military career the United NationsRefugee Agency is urging bangladesh to speed up vetting of nearly fifteen thousand ranger refugee said to be stranded near the border with me and ma on monday the u. N. H. C. R. Released this drawing footage showing the scale of the crisis he wants people move further inland to safer and better conditions what half a million range are now known to have fled since violence broke out in mammals western rakhine state. Time a child really has more for us from coxs bizarre near the Bangladeshi Border with me and. The units here aerial footage shows a large number of refugees on the other side of bother trying to cross into bangladesh now this is corr