Youre watching aljazeera life from a headquarters and im doubting obligates are also ahead eisel is driven out of its selfproclaimed capital of syria but the war against the group is far from over. Another legal setback for donald trump a court in hawaii stops the introduction yet again off his controversial travel ban. And Amnesty International accuses mean mars military affairs the systematic and Ruthless Campaign against the rogue. Hello chinas president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist partys Nineteen Congress in beijing so in a sweeping three and a half hour speech she jinping laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years he highlighted chinas successes and vowed to further open its economy but he also warned of severe challenges like rising debts inequality and corruption by officials. Corruption is the biggest threat faced by party we can only get out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of apology and a country if we persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to ensure that our government its officials and policies. Well critics accuse she if using his Anti Corruption campaign to purge political opponents hes already seen as chinas most powerful leader in a generation it wasnt just clean politics she touched on but also the. Dangers posed by Climate Change saying china must cooperate with other nations to ensure the survival of mankind so chinas Ruling Communist Party has kicked off its biggest political events and she also said china will continue to open its economy and deepen financial reforms. Adrian brown has more from the congress in beijing. Where president xi jinping spoke for incredible three and a half hours which proves if little else hes in good Health Healthy enough to perhaps rule china for the next fifteen twenty years even president xi jinping outlined a number of important issues during his address he said the china remained committed to fighting Climate Change you also warned against independence for taiwan and on the economy rarely he warned that china face severe challenges in the years ahead he also said that socialism with chinese characteristics the formula that has underpinned chinas economy for the last three decades was now entering a new stage he also warned that the campaign against corruption would continue that corruption has so far purged more than one point four Million Party members the party really has been through a very tumultuous time in the past few years and the our people is by no means over but on wednesday we got a picture of choreographed unity this congress of course is all about president xi jinping and the fact that he could emerge Even Stronger the party has been told that an important amendment will be made to the constitution which could possibly mean the thoughts and writings of xi jinping will become the partys guiding ideology in the future now we should know if thats going to happen next week when the Party Congress closes on wednesday and thats when the new leadership will also be unveiled but if she jinping gets his way he will emerge as the strongest leader china has had since chairman mao who led the communist to power sixty eight years ago lets break all of this down with a to go hes the director of the China National association of International Studies joining us from beijing thanks for speaking to us on aljazeera so he touched upon a lot of different as soon as he spoke about corruption he spoke about sovereignty he touched upon power as well as the economy for you what was the important the most important issue and that he spoke about and what was the message that he was sending across. Well the nineteenth Party Congress which is ongoing as we speak is the most important political event in turn of this year possibly for the coming five years president xi jinping has important speech which is very almost everything in their turn has been engaged in over the past five years both domestic coal as well as international and i think in very clear picture and in very clear terms he outlines the major challenges that china is faced with both the communist party of china as well as the Chinese Government the Chinese Military and the chinese nation as well as chinas position on the global stage and he every size to all the key challenges and the difficulties that china need to overcome and i think in this way his speech is full of confidence about chinas position in the world as well as chinas momentum of growth and he lays out all the hope for the Chinese People here in this country but also i think equally importantly he touches upon chinas International Role and what china need to do to further open up and engage the rest of the world so that we all together will build up for the common destiny of mankind there are a lot of interesting turns and one of the here is a persons are a way of cars to them already and you know a lot of people wondering that after this conference can we in fact emerge Even Stronger whats your take on that. There is no doubt that president xi jinping will emerge at the end of this Party Congress as a stronger leader a leader with greater courage and with greater support with the communist party of china and this will happen at the time when china is going to become very soon the biggest economy in the world a country with greater International Responsibilities and i think a stronger more coherent china is good news for the rest of the world there is no doubt that more members of the Central Committee more members of the political and more members of the Standing Committee of the political role in china will be very much close confidantes of president xi jinping if you look at the one specific issue that our correspondent adrian brown outlined he was saying that there is an expectation that there will be a now an announcement when it comes to the amendment of the constitution what do you think that is going to be. There is general expectation that new amendments will be written into the communist party of chinas constitution and it will include them are other things the major initiatives that president xi jinping over the past five years have unleashed in china and on the global stage and we still need to wait until we see the final version of the amendments and whether they will be adopted by the Party Delegates as to for example where there will be major changes in the structure of the leadership of the communist party of china as well as for example the limitation of the terms of office for example and i would say the general believe is that these new amendments will enable president xi jinping to become a more effective leader not only in the coming five years but most likely probably beyond the second term and into the future years and possibly even decades ok a victory we will see what comes out of the weeklong congress in beijing for the time being we thank you for joining us on aljazeera six members of pakistans elite police force and a civilian have been killed in an attack on a patrol car twelve other people were were injured in that blast in the city of quieter no one has claimed responsibility. The iraqi army says its achieved its goals in the operation to take back curtis held territory in the north its now in control of areas around mosul as in any way of province including the mosul down Kurdish Forces pulled out of several towns and oil fields in recent days faced by an Iraqi Military advance all the towns were seized by the over the past three years as part of the war against iso the iraqi offensive began on monday when iraqi troops moved into the contestant city of kirkuk the Prime Minister has had ordered his forces to take back kurdish held areas outside the autonomous region. Says kurdish hopes for an independent state are now a thing of the past Charles Stratford has more from erbil. Iraq the Government Troops and shia militia on the outskirts of kirkuk less than twenty four hours off the Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrew from the oil rich city no one predicted the ease and speed with which Iraqi Government forces could take control of the oil fields and most of the remaining towns in the disputed areas of Northern IraqPeshmerga Forces withdrew in some areas without even firing a shot the iraqi Prime Minister says they no orders from erbil. They went against your instruction and didnt. Listen to many people who had fled kirkuk the day before began to return to life and now we dont know anything yet were about to enter but we dont know. Where else can i go i dont know where to go its better to go back were going back to our house and. Some arab residence in this ethnically diverse region celebrated the arrival of Iraqi Government forces. And. Now all of kirkuk is retaken and we are happy. Some of the peshmerga killed in the sporadic fighting with taken to a move in the kurdish region second city so many of the Regional Government hasnt released figures yet on how many killed the lead up to and this is tell them since last night we received twenty five corpses of troops killed in battles of kirk and its suburbs relatives of those killed in battles received twenty one corpses so far the bereaved relatives are gathering at the morgue to receive dead bodies of their sons you know bill many people say they are shocked and feel betrayed accusing the International Community of siding with the Iraqi Government against them. It looks like there was an international betrayal of the kurdish nation and that is due to the fact that we had a plan to move towards independence unfortunately we are facing a situation where we lost everything that we had before all this loss as a result of the fact that the kurdish nation is not united evidence of factionalism and rivalry between kurdish groups and Political Parties is growing in a Statement Released by the k r g president and head of the k d p party Massud Barzani said the withdrawal of peshmerga it was because of unilateral decisions made by some officials the peshmerga general command is blaming this incredibly quick withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from these territories as being as a result of what it describes as historical treason by some senior members of the p u k party one former senior aide to the p u k has called for a Transitional Government and says more constructive channels of dialogue should be set up with baghdad after the iraqi army has taken so much control of territory that the k r g was hopeful would be part of a future independent kurdish state president barzani is facing one of the biggest political crises of his life charles stuff at aljazeera north of erbil while there have been jubilant scenes on street the. Where u. S. Backed forces drove out of it self declared capital kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces raised their flag in the citys stadium after a four month battle from her thai thats on the turkish Syrian Border heres how. Kurdish fighters triumphantly into rock theyre celebrating the capture of the city which was eisel main stronghold in syria but taking iraq wasnt easy for. The Syrian Democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the us began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling. We control rocket but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are no are still fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to safe 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 they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. I heard the news of a cease fire and took my family but 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 fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria and 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 there was over 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 on. Field the group deprived of crucial financial means it desperately needs of this critical moment and it was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared islamic state. Still ahead on aljazeera well tell you why kenyas top electoral official has resigned just days before a president ial election. And why israel has shut down two major t. V. Provider is in the occupied west bank. Hello there all storm ophelia has now moved away from ireland but while it was with us it certainly left a bit of destruction in its wake and we saw well people trying to stand up against those strong winds that these pictures are from the west of on and we can see the waves well theyre coming on shore there and a fair amount of wind damage as well so that system then as i say swirling away away from us now working its way steadily towards the northeast but is joining quite a bit of cloud behind it as well this actually is fairly good news because in spain and portugal weve had a lot of wildfires recently and fortunately it looks like the rain will help against those then because this area of cloud should bring us a fair amount of rain and some of thats going to be quite heavy thats where the sand on wednesday on thursday begins to pull away towards the east but ahead of it weve got this huge area of High Pressure so for most of us in europe its actually following and settled and pretty warm at the moment as well vienna all the way up at around twenty degrees that fine sunny weather also extends a bit further south so most of us along the northern parts of africa seeing that settled spell too but not quite all of us because the rain thats working its way across spain and portugal is also just nudging its way into the northwestern parts of africa too so expect a fair amount of plaid a few showers there in parts of our area on wednesday and it turns heavier on thursday. With. Hello again youre watching aljazeera heres a reminder of the top stories chinas president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist partys Nineteenth Congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech he jumping laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years the iraqi army says its achieved its goals in the operation to take back kurdish held territory in the north its now in control of areas around mosul is nineveh province the iraqi offensive began on monday in a blow to the kurdish administrations hopes for independence there have been jubilant scenes on the streets where u. S. Backed forces drove eisel out of for itself the car capital crudest lead Syrian Democratic forces raised their flag in the city stadium after a four month battle. A judge has blocked u. S. President Donald Trumps latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries entering the United States the restrictions which would have taken effect this week targeted people from iran libya syria yemen somalia and chide the latest court ruling does not apply to north korea and venezuela which are also subject to a ban legal experts expect a final ruling will ultimately go before the u. S. Supreme court lets make. Sofie hes the president of the Muslim Association of hawaii joining us via skype from honolulu itself tell us why youre pleased with this ruling and why it was important for hawaii. Yes hi thank you for having me this travel ban that discriminates against an entire population of over one hundred million men women children and just based on the nation of letters in relation its certainly an american and unacceptable so this is a huge victory again we want to first when we took a quarter of the muslim band version one and version two this is that their version because quite frankly just in north korea and in them as well thats not changed if this is a clear discrimination against people when no other reason than being born in that country and that stinks i believe that you were speaking on behalf of the Muslim Association of hawaii right now but tell us why you think this is important for how why itself well why is a multicultural beautiful place to which people this is going to affect travel this kind of fact students coming to our university is going to. Folks that are here for business so hes not as simple as sign the declaration executive order it certainly has a long term fact its one in berkeley has an. American children