. >> this is to send a message to the iraqia oh. weapons toanced defeat the crisis which be falls the iraqi people. militiamen have a, there is a further blow to the iraqi government. they have this in the frontier. that is likely to make it easier for the militants to bring fighters across the border. their rocky army is said to have withdrawn its troops from the region. the have been discussing situation in baghdad. the government is now waiting for the arrival of some 300 military and visors. clear who has not become the next president. on saturday leaders they way behind the center. they came together in france to talk about a host of issues. including just how to jumpstart some of the ailing economies. here's more. >> leaders from across europe are head. agenda there the at the growth pact largely here. democrats. they know these are measured and should be with the time being. they have more to boost the economy. some two feetr fiscal goals. >> our top early is to prevent economic flexibility available in this. room to createe

state run "iraqia tv" today broadcast patriotic footage and music, including messages that read "allus are ready to lay ourselves down for iraq." and, "our safety is with your help." in baghdad, hundreds of shiite volunteers eager to join the fight flocked to recruitment centers. >> ( translated ): i have volunteered to join the iraqi >> ( translated ): i have volunteered to join the iraqi army to crush the heads of the i-s-i-l fighters and those who allied with them. >> ifill: officials said in the past week alone, over two million iraqis have volunteered to take up arms against the insurgency. raising fears that the violence gripping the country could deteriorate even further. so can iraqi prime minister maliki unite his country? or will it take another leader? feisal istrabadi was iraq's deputy ambassador to the united nations from 2004 to 2007. he's now a professor of international law and diplomacy at indiana university. abbas kadhim was born and raised in iraq and is now a senior foreign policy fellow at johns hopkin university's school of advanced international studies. and ch

the significance of representative iraq's most : on iraqia clerics is to take up arms to me is callingrorist. in idea that iran sending forces, iran working with washington, d.c. to shore up maladie. you are shia like regime in baghdad. what do you think needs to happen? do you see iraq falling apart? do you see baghdad being taken, falling? >> definitely. , it isroy the country not enough to vomit, but to have an inner fight. that is what has been going on since 2003. dividing iraqis in ethnic groups shia, christian, muslims. that is what is going on after the invasion. piece, and now we see it falling apart, unfortunately. -- the first country to injured, if you're member, the iraq intive chaos, so 2003 and then the other arab countries followed suit in libya, egypt, tunisia today, and syria. , is reallyrab spring not the arab spring. this spring never has borne fruit for the countries that are affected by it. who used the israelis to launch wars every 10 years and then every five years. we are goingo see the arabs killing themselves from killing each other, unfortunately. >> sami, w

iraqias something the prime minister was hoping to get. nowhat is the game plan from washington?e plan in baghdad? are we going to see a change at the top? a lot of people are saying that is crucial if the country is to move forward and we are to unite the kurds, she is, and sunnis. -- shias, and sunnis. >> i think it is a bit someistic to say that character is going to come forward to unite all of these disparate groups. the feeling in washington is that they couldn't be doing any current prime minister. he is seen as a divisive character. he has only served to exacerbate tensions in the country. we have a little bit more national unity in the face of this onslaught from the sunni , sometimes known as isis or isil. the u.s. is discreetly looking to push the prime minister aside and have someone else at the top. much indeed.very coming up, more on the crisis in iraq. many questions remain. the critical one is will the prime minister stepped down? when will the west take action on that front? we are going to find out. we will get the take of one of iraq's former finance ministers