an example of how a liberated iraq good luck. so if there's one place where the u.s. can be proud of its legacy in iraq they should be here. and on the surface at least the future seems brighter than ever. it's a bit surreal to see the architecture transformed and major international chains selling goods at western prices and it doesn't entirely make sense most iraqi kurds only around $400.00 a month these malls are full of people but it seems like those actually doing the shopping on cards from this region it's iraq hours truck up from baghdad the rest of the country and it's forest coming from turkey leaving iran. if small iranian influence may be expanding in the south turkey's footprint here is growing by the day 30 iraq has become turkey's 2nd largest trading partner most of that trade is with the kurdish region off the years of animosity economic potential seems to have

won out over turkey's antagonism toward iraqi kurds and their dream of independence and the kurds appear to have found a new patron. from constructing the roads to rebuilding the souk signs of the deepening ties are everywhere. the turkish company building on this site has some of the biggest contracts with the municipal authorities. but 90 percent of the workers here from turkey. so not everyone is feeling the benefits of those boom. you know if he doesn't listen to. them. then i would go and fuck it i can look at. the moment the past is gone it's not then it must govern also but you know the saying out of a muslim angela thought it should be an i'm. telling.

you how she got me. is that. now as many as not. the kurds have always been strong supporters of their own political leaders and the struggle for self the time a nation that they have represented. when i was here 5 years ago i never used to hear the levels of frustration with the kind of leadership that we're hearing now. and as we travel from bill to so many of discontent becomes even louder than. the families who've been living in this building have been told they have to leave the government is making a move to the city limits so that this area can be redeveloped. they say they don't have the means to build homes that. are there but you. had it was you what he she she what i must.

not be russian but. i might not want to come out you want to go. along with the sound you know. there's a growing perception that the money flowing into the region is ending up in the pockets of a small business class all of them politicians and party men. a year and a half ago frustration here in so many of boiled over. it was february 2011 and inspired by peoples uprisings in tunisia and egypt kurdish activists took to the streets against government corruption and repression launching a protest of thousands the last in $63.00 days nobody will ever. say that. i mean. that. that. i mean that.

that's a. really good where you know that on the 1st day government security forces opened fire on demonstrators who had surrounded political party offices and were throwing stones dozens were wounded one man was shot dead over the next 2 months government forces killed at least 9 more protesters as a among them zahir mahmoud a man's 14 year old son so q. could you hear the name packing that you could use. many good general. shade critical. but the kurds have other worries tensions with the central government are escalating kurdish leaders have been signing development contracts with foreign oil companies asserting it's their right to do what they please with resources in their territory. baghdad says that's just not true the k r g this is

a kiddish regional government. feel that they have the right to negotiate and decide on the oil that has. located in the region they feel they have the right to save his contacts and this is what their real disagreement lies with a u.s. ally has gone iraqi kurds are feeling less secure than when thousands took to the streets a year and a half ago demanding democratic reforms. shut if you will. even though you know you want to do or how many you get it. yeah i believe that moment about woman on the set i'm gonna tell you this was you know as that yeah you know and to us that yeah they can but it is a good you know we're into this here now. as kurdish leaders define bank bad and

broken deals for oil pipelines with turkey. it seems they're betting that this new alliance will protect them even if it cost them the promise of an independent kurdistan. democratic. and they had a. could you know it. for the company could just stand up we could toss them to 20 with little quicker than to. go on when i've been. through this and then maybe if there's one man who appeared surmises claims that iraq is in danger of sliding back into office or tearing rule it's fugitive vice president tyrant hashimi. the day after u.s. troops left the country in december prime minister maliki issued an arrest warrant for iraq's most senior sunni politician. accused of financing death squads targeting shia he fled to the kurdish north to escape arrest sleeves.

we caught up with him shortly before he left the country for turkey my kids his straightforward sectarian politically motivated in no way you could. be engaged. in any sort of violence hashimi says that his security guards have been detained and tortured into making false confessions against them members of his entourage show us photos they say or of one who died in custody his body appears to show signs of torture and this is by their religion a process has to be respected and if. believes he is innocent he should go to the court and prove that in a sense he cannot fled the country or said somewhat and the start of trying to politicize the issue of. the drama is the most visible manifestation of

a political crisis that threatens further fragmentation. and iraq's reader sent into violent conflict. that we don't have the real democracy in this country. that's fake and is moving to was a very dangerous situation as again too we had a kid. and a sectarian way. throughout our journey across the country from bands right through our bill financial to baghdad and mosul . the post occupation landscapes have very. every city unique. every stretch of road another distinct piece of iraq. but in each place the people we've met have voiced similar things impatience at the lack of basic services and jobs. anger a political corruption. distrust of the regional powers that seem to have more

influence over their destinies the nato. lingering bitterness about what invasion and 9 years of u.s. presence here has created. that legacy for nearly everyone that we've met can be summed up in a single word. fear of the prime minister and his grip on power. the fear of government security forces in the armed groups of sectarian politics and regional power struggles fear that the ghosts of the past will never stop until the present and defrock of the crew going to continue in that way is going to be divided and there will be a war of before a very divided and after the arrival of. iraq after the americans a powerful and moving film which is made yet more poignant by the fact that the terrible events following the rise of ifo had yet to happen we're going to talk

about those issues now with found as there is middle east correspondent imran khan just back from baghdad himself maybe you can just give us a rundown of well those last 5 years basically since the end of that film and i still comes along well that's i think to really explain it that we have to go back 220-0678 when iraq was a breaking point it was a new civil war between the sunnis and the shias and also there was in iraq at the time now al qaida in iraq were able to form because a lot of anger towards the shia led government within baghdad itself but it was really the precursor to everything that we've seen since then now al qaeda in iraq were defeated by sunni tribal militias the 2nd was the awakening councils supported by the americans now when the sunni tribal militias got rid of al qaida in iraq and they were promised all sorts of things by the shia led government in baghdad you fast forward now it's 2012 and the americans leaving. in iraq have been defeated

there was a a a group coming up at the time called the islamic state in iraq again another threat to iraq and what happened was the shia led government in baghdad really completely ignored the concerns of the sunnis particularly any province and for years the sunnis protested saying they were promised all. sorts of things jobs within the military civil service things like that for defeating al qaeda in the things they were given things are getting better i mean that sounds like a very bleak picture but things are getting there because prime minister howard other body is pushing forward with with reforms but these reforms are being met with with stiff resistance from those people who have entrenched positions and well let's just pause for a 2nd because i want to bring someone else into our conversation to talk a little bit more about the human cost of these last few years joining us from beirut all right general who is amnesty international's advocacy director for the middle east and north africa it's nice to have you with us right in runs giving us a really good rundown of how the politics of change i guess in the last 5 years and

bringing eisel in our film talked about 1300000 displaced people half a 1000000 lived in just one count how is those numbers and situations changed the numbers are much water snow amnesty international can confirm the number of i.d.p.'s in iraq is over 3000000 now there aki government has unfortunately been a part of the problem many of these internally displaced people who are displaced because of the actions of the iraqi government and militias affiliated with the iraqi government and their conditions. be bad because of the actions of the iraqi government many of the internally displaced people are taken through screening procedures would families are separated many of them up and arrested under suspicions of collaborating or walking for isis

that are tens of thousands of iraqis who have been addressed at the last few years with no due process with no access to any. mostly based on a tip from an informant or other suspicions so there are for government is definitely a part of. the problem in many cases it is the reason behind the problem and reconstruction effort that was promised has not even started in many cases tell me about outside influence and i'll also ask you about this after we heard from the raid and specifically talking about iran. and if he has not commented on the politics of what's going on in iraq this in 3 to 4 months or a mandate i mean i can say from from a person and point of view that many of iraq's neighbors have been interfering in

iraq's domestic politics and different levels iran for example has a lot of leverage and water all over iraq you put it that iraqi militias some of the militias seem to be. there after the or even controlled the by iran so it's one of the countries that has been involved very heavy in iraq's domestic issues i do think the iranian influence is absolutely key also turkey you know and we're looking you know saudi arabia as well they're opening an embassy again which they haven't done since 1901 so these are all people that have something to play for within iraq and the influence is all but what ride was saying is very very important what you saying earlier about the sunnis and about the people who for feisal or not as the case may be being separated from their families

that will lead to a lot of anger why i'm very concerned about the future of iraq is those people who are absolutely angry at this government won't again be given what they were promised they'll go back to their homes they'll be abandoned and that's what led to isin coming into existence in iraq in the 1st place that some anger so the next fight may well come from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran can as well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come off santa maria thanks for joining us see you again sir. kidnappings and murders in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea and in china. i don't understand why it was called.

the schools of crimea into times have been arrested. most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret. on al-jazeera. hello there we're still got quite a few showers over parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is picking them out just want to mostly around parts of iran but these are 2 all turning out to be rather heavy in places and kicking up a fair amount of dust we're expecting more as we head through the next few days say wednesday and thursday should bring us more showers it's hot though whether or not you see a shower kabul there all the way up at 29 a matching the temperature we're expecting in teheran on thursday and then force in baghdad even hasa a top temperature here of 43 degrees here in doha our temperature the topping at around $4142.00 at the moment and that means the air is pretty dry there's more

cloud down towards parts of yemen and this could give us one or 2 showers is certainly dragging down the temperatures a bit so santa no good you know high then around 28 degrees as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we have had a fair amount of rain in the southeast but all of that is now trying to clear a couple of showers could be with us around the durban area for the west it should be joy i think forcing cape town it should be fairly pleasant day all temperatures topping at around to 21 degrees will get cooler as we head into thursday little bit more cloud there will make the temperatures only overing at around 18 i think for us in madagascar there's likely to be quite a few showers at times. there's

no gun no smoke. only speculation chinese tech giant y.y. challenges the u.s. decision to put it on a trade blacklist calling it unconstitutional. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up sudan's military council criticizes the nationwide strike by protesters saying it puts lives at risk we are live in khartoum. the question today is. what you will do to protect civilians if you leave it warns of a catastrophe and syria's government forces bombed the last rebel stronghold. in

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