basra in a very long-term, five to ten-year project.general electric and others are doing well in iraq. but i agree with you. there are a lot of opportunities particularly many parts of the country that are very secure sch. that's where i'd like to, you know, help focus our foreign policy, anding that's why i was asking you if you could rewrite that. with fallujah, do you think the iraqi government can control fallujah and defeat the isil? do you feel like they can go in there, they have the will power or the assets to do that? >> as i said in my testimony, i think without the support of the local pop haitian, it'll be extremely difficult. that's a lesson we learned in iraq. >> all right. what about you were talking about the bang bone -- the backbone, the u.s. is the backbone of the iraqi military. were you meaning with our military assets? >> with equipment, equipment and training. the iraqis consistently look to us to be their primary supplier and primary supporter. >> okay. and then chairman royce was canning about where the foreign

four km track connecting north korea's port city of not seeing and russia's eastern border town of basra the project this old wants to ultimately build a distribution channel director of south korea's southern port city of his time doing north korea and to rush out. for the project had been underway since november when president i've met with russian president palmer in and signed a memorandum of understanding. bill hall south korean companies take part in the real me with bodily season projects the unification ministry also announced it will look into this unsuspecting hands cultural understanding between the two kirby yes i'm working in various areas including sports and arts the minister emphasized however that it will also dedicate equal efforts continue to arise in north korea will try to see improvement chains with its northern neighbor. beauty and the defendants. before your dna. and another begins. get the latest line from seoul expert analysis from ages fourteen with the viewpoint of the cold its global network and why. for the odd white gold accents. he always on standby. south

we are proud that hill, an american company, has commissioned with basra to lead the effort there tory to modernize in a very long term project. general electric and others are doing very well in iraq. we need to get the private sector involved and invested in iraq and there are a lot of opportunities. >> that is where i would like to help focus our foreign policy and i was asking if we could rewrite that. with fallujah, do you think we can defeat the ifil? do you think they have the willpower and the assets to do that? >> without the support of the local population, it will be extremely difficult. that is a lesson that we learned in iraq. >> the u.s. is the back bone of the iraqi military. were you meeting with our military assets? >> -- >> the chairman was asking about where the fighters were coming from. is there any estimate how many are coming in that go to syria and over to iraq? >> i don't have those numbers. i would have to get back to you. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i yield back. we go now to mr. collins of georgia. >> i appreciate asking and answering the multitude of ques

campaigner has turned violent activists threw molotov cocktails at police in the capital the app rising in basra and has been ongoing since two thousand and eleven with thousands for its hassen against the monarchy. people were killed including two children one a grenade exploded at an opposition rally in bangkok leaders of the protest movement blame the governments for the attack all the prime minister has condemned it as an act of terror more than twenty people have died in thailand in the last four months as an ongoing government demonstrations. in venezuela one of prize the critics has engaged in an armed standoff with army officers who came to arrest them general us who's accused of masterminding a trap that killed the government support are arming themselves with an assault rifle and with the surrender the officers were then chose the way by the supporters the standoff took place after thousands gathered in caracas and supporter of president maduro. up next the europe's far right on the rise artie's panel about his gas discuss what it means for the e.u. and cross to stay with us. judy cox

scuse me hello i'm here to see the men's hockey game where do i go so these competitions are held in basra i still and you can get there by crossing this treaty then turn to the left and you will see the big building in front of the world to drop it's very big our beautiful very nice and you speak english russian and voyage yes german very good watching how the show said thank you very much was part of our. city's tickly just under half the helpers are women and the average age is twenty five in reality though this giant team has volunteers of all ages. they call the older people silva volunteers it's a reference to how advanced age a friendly face and knowledge of foreign languages and knowing how to get from a to b. are just some of the skills these guys will need to out the games in the paralympic . long days demanding work but it's a red chance to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events and then name the rest they consult she twenty forty something to remember. today andrews. sochi. good on the ball excellent job ok the big news that either just to recap this huge night

spent several months behind bars after helping organize protest here's her experience of minutes in basra and security forces face to face. present it was it was really very bad and it stood up today it's very interesting people everywhere present it's not just a woman women and men and children everyone who. will be through the torture process that. everyone everyone will be everyone will be sexually harassed everyone we. signed confessions we don't go in with what is inside we don't have any access to the. outside world that's the situation it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and since two thousand and four nothing just for speaking up understanding for the rights of people. for the last three years artsy has been closely following the uprising in bahrain and you can find the big picture of what's going on there on our website artsy dot com now the british government says casting about for ways to stop its citizens gone to syria to fight stay with us for the story on how a forty one year old man left his family behind so fights and die in a foreign war and more just ahead. t

the agreements between the military commanders at the time that moved in during cap ostroff -- camp basra theiry have paid with lives to live there under the agreement that we made. >> you are aware that they are living in graves now? there are paper thin walls and are coming in. >> i was at the camp this month and talked about what it was like to live in a trailer when -- eagues are being >> the good news and bad news, most of them as i understand it are not living in trailers. the bad news is they have had to dig out a three foot i six-foot grave to live in to avoid the rocket attacks. how long does it have to go on? to getwe not be pressing them out of the country? in roundup best while we work diligently on that, should we not be getting them protection? how much longer do you estimate are going on? >> we need to do everything we can to get them out of the country. >> you were here 78 days ago. moved tof them have albania. and we should be gracious because they have taken about theresidents and i wish were more willing to do the same. >> i'm told earlier you may, that the walls were c

so we are using is anyone's guess they were rumors earlier today a basra briefly that he may have been on board a russian ship in the russian fleet is based in said that's seven still all on in the crimea but that was denied a ukrainian media actually called up to the fleet and they denied that the russians firmly denied that he is on their ships. obviously he had been speculation the company could go by tse be taken to rush out which are presumably would be safe territory although you know that's not sure because this little love lost these days between but you get the ten convicted of a coven of these men are not men who love each other anymore and patina is not this is rather disdainful of the way yanukovich has not canceled on things in russia's been rather horrified at the turn things are taking and as you said that considers the turn of events here to be up. i'm new to me in arms mutiny and a coup d'etat to victory on a cut which could be anyone like you can still be in the east who knows but he is not really given any sign of his whereabouts since a dairy of greek tv appearance