this it may be that iraq will have to be divided we'll have area and the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in kurdistan is worried we have oil we have a strong army. they may help or oil but fuel is running scarce for days now iraqi forces battled with isis for control of the country's largest oil refinery this is one of the first things you notice here in our build these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped out overnight to try to get online so they can get gas frustrated residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since the outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black market and so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what the ring of the fear is

that it will get a lot worse before it gets better that's a sentiment we heard from many here and it's not just a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to. the job or came here six days ago from baghdad in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse people are arming themselves and getting ready to fight one another all you see in the future is bloodshed and violence and if something doesn't change iraq will be a country of new phones and widows caffein of erbil iraq. earlier this week the kurdish regional government said it was weighing up plans to establish an autonomous state in northern iraq and event goal has been endorsed by the prime minister of israel his position though seems to clash sharply with the united states government's views on how to quell unrest in the region washington is called on the kurdish leaders to stand by baghdad but at the same time it is eyeing

a military aid package for rebels fighting the government in neighboring syria u.s. president barack obama has urged congress to approve a five hundred billion dollars to be spent on training and equipping syrian opposition fighters now if this funding is approved it would mark the first to direct u.s. involvement in the syrian conflict let's now take a closer look at how washington's a role has developed now just a year ago washington gave the green light to non-lethal support for the so-called moderate rebels but that later ended up in the hands of jihad ists and america was forced to suspend the aid however earlier this month america admitted it has been covertly sending weapons to the opposition fighters anti-war campaigner brian becker thinks that the u.s. is failing to learn from its past mistakes the united states appears they have a schizo front foreign policy there they're saying they demand unity in iraq behind

the central government which is fighting what they call islamic extremists from i so where is this and at the same time they're funding these same armed groups in syria to take down an independent nationalist and sovereign government in syria what the u.s. is doing and has been doing this finally in money guns and more occupation tools in a region that it considers to be vital because it's resource rich that's about it more news from around the world and ukraine after a short break right here on our two international stay with us. there's a leader so we leave the media. bush and secure. the party is it the. shoes that no one is that stupid with to get that you deserve answers from . politics.

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relationship with the united states in a recording obtained by the polish magazine pros he even compared to the alliance to a sex act according to the magazine sikorsky believes his country is doing everything it can to please america while getting nothing in return he also thinks the partnership has been detrimental to war solves ties with other nations alienating both russia and germany. moscow has shown some sympathy for his comments though saying the colorful language was most likely a response to controversial remarks made by senior state department official the nuland back in february so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you but it's not just the u.s. the polish foreign minister is less than satisfied with sikorsky pulled no punches when talking about the british prime minister's dealings with euro skeptics

suggesting david cameron bounded to pressure when he should have stayed strong and is that if that weren't enough sikorsky went on to recall other times he believes that cameron misfired politically saying he's not likely to change needless to say the embarrassingly frank diplomatic conversation has caused quite a stir here's what some of the commentators we spoke to are saying let me start which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does voiced. by most of the population here that's really it raises other troubling questions about the judgment of a man who is after all his country's chief diplomatic representative who aspires to be the chief diplomatic representative of the entire european union and the government has been so scathing about the governments of britain and the united states or the very countries which have supported him throughout his career into which he owes so much i think it shows that there is

a real awareness among the circles of power in poland as to what the relationship with the united states has really brought them which is nothing. ukraine of finally signed a trade agreement with the european union this week the refusal of the country's previous leader to do so was one of the main it triggers of this ongoing crisis however the new leader insists this is just a first step towards closer ties with europe. we see that. ukraine as a utopian country under the forty nine article will have an opportunity to us for the membership perspective this is a very important carrot for ukraine to work up. a financially challenged europe still does not appear to be quite ready for ukraine that is commissioner for enlargement has said kiev still needs to prove its european credential and enact reforms the blocks energy commissioner has warned the bailout for greece is peanuts compared to what will be needed to save kids' economy the president of the european

commission says the e.u. is simply not ready to welcome ukraine right now and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany which comes as no surprise to financial expert patrick young ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how that signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union out the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is it kept a strong move for the ukrainian economy the only winners i do this are a few sadly deluded egos whether they are in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some horror of that they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job and also as. washington has been blaming russia for stirring up the conflict in ukraine since the very beginning and it's threatening sanctions unless it stops but america's plans are facing staunch

opposition from western businesses and here is why russia being an emerging market with a growing income has been quite attractive for u.s. companies the possibility of being cut off from that market is making american business bosses very nervous but just who is involved already in russia where boeing buys nearly a third of its titanium here and the country is also one of the fastest growing markets for pepsi and then there's u.s. car manufacturers they have a huge interest in the russian market with general motors and ford both selling tens of thousands of vehicles here last year and the u.s. chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers have launched an ad campaign to explain just why new sanctions will backfire they say it will leave u.s. companies scrambling to keep up with firms from other countries earlier we spoke to the president of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry. it should have been because they actually. put it you could see. white no.

talking about it going to be could sanctions so we need two ways over them that they should not do it to the again they should use diplomacy to do so dude the ukrainian the place he's using it and taking him to host the g.'s companies with the us you are pinned on french company. something which isn't acceptable for us what the sanctions are doing is isolating the united states' economy and instead of isolating russia they were meant to isolate russia but given the trend of world trade for all of the exports that russia has and for diplomacy there isin their backfiring in isolating the united states it's a very strange business logic it doesn't make sense logically so it has to be political austria is less than enthusiastic about the sanctions against russia the two countries this week struck a major gas pipeline deal with president vladimir putin in attendance and the issue

of ukraine came up during a lighthearted exchange i don't want to feel it but is it then putin was. it was just. tell us a bit. ok and. in the way. they mayn't. however the south stream pipeline deal between austria and russia is not going down well in washington and you can find out why on our website our two dot com. now take a swing around the globe to look at some other headlines making news this hour hundreds of people gathered for a rally outside of the b.b.c. studios in the scottish city of glasgow the demonstrators voiced their anger over

the news organizations coverage of the upcoming independence referendum accusing it of bias in favor of british unity. israel has carried out several airstrikes on militant bases in gaza officials say the twelve locations were targeted including manufacturing sites and concealed rocket launchers and palestinian officials say that a fire was killed in an earlier drone strike meanwhile israeli troops are continuing their large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. the protesters set himself on fire in front of horrified crowds in central tokyo the man was demonstrating against changes to japan's pacifist constitution to allow the deployment of troops overseas he survived with burns covering his whole body is being treated in the hospital in japan has a powerful self-defense force but has maintained a tough restrictions on its use since the second world war i.

now an update on our breaking news story from ukraine on the telly a camera man working for russia's channel one has been killed. activists say he suffered a fatal stomach wound when following a bus with the soldiers' mothers to an army base a crew from channel one confirmed death to artie's marine from ocean above the station has not officially released any confirmation yet a car belonging to russia's life news channel was also fired at in the same area people inside managed to escape into the woods leaving the vehicle and the equipment behind and this isn't the first time russian reporters and other television staff have been killed in eastern ukraine a correspondent and a sound engineer from another russian channel were killed earlier this month their camera man survived and managed to film the moment when his colleagues were hit with a mortar shell. and coming up after

a break it is that venture capital with host katie but if you are in the u.k. stay with us for the latest episode of the news team watching our team. have you ever heard the expression pleasantly surprised well that is how i felt when i heard that the supreme court of the united states had ruled that digital information on cell phones of rest of people cannot be seized without a warrant finally the american people catch a break in a court decision this ruling is linked to the two cases in which the police used information on a suspect telephone to press for further charges against them i think that's the most important aspect of this decision is the press that it sets the court said that just because a cell phone is in a suspects hand it does not make the information on it any less worthy of protection for which the founding fathers fought so could we extend this to say something like just because i have

a telephone or computer that doesn't make the information on them unworthy of protection from the n.s.a. or other privacy invaders the thing is that this supreme court decision is a good start but the police using your cell phone against you upon arrest is just the tip of the privacy destruction iceberg if the members of the highest court in land really do feel that the founding fathers fought to protect our privacy then they have a lot of paperwork and court decisions ahead of them for stuart but that's just my pain.