she covered baghdad for npr. >> at the time baghdad was siphoning money off by saddam hugh sai, here under the maliki regime, the oil revenue has fostered so much corruption in the country. >> that was the real dream at least the united states talked about in the beginning was that oil would help pay to free iraq. what happened? >> that's true. i mean you know, those revenues are set to increase over the years. it is something that you know, pretty much the entire budget for iraq's entire budget is paid for from oil revenue but it's also an opportunity for iraqi government ministers to get rich. >> what's the situation? how do you see the situation on the ground now, worse for some people than ever before? >> you know it's interesting. i think that since -- once saddam hussein was out, he was a sunni and the people who were sunni underneath his rule you know lived well. they enjoyed privileges that the rest of the country didn't. now they're disenfranchised. they are enjoying the privileges on the other party. it depends on the direction the incoming government takes, whether it's re

we had a few of us two enclaves in in baghdad that the rest of baghdad was entirely shiite and most of the sunni didn't move from the west of the anbar province said no other weekend we were starting to see on iraqi from both the side of of islam coming together in living together again which is a good sign but you don't then again you know you talk about the violence the violence is though the deity routine about three thousand people killed since the beginning of the error. frustration is not satisfying but there is stillness that they are i think hope signs and to go back to my leaky it will mean i get this this six next month the tp than they used to be a metric was commonly used during the iraq war the six next month will be crucial to see whether countries going to and how did the snake been easy to shore thing that he will form the next government. trent barrett. why did i get them into which groups. i think that i see my friend mike over at the critical issue. i did wickets during coalition groups and pay him any different if he cared for and a majority government he will cut a

now the baghdad operations command, they are the people who are tasked with securing baghdad have placed blame for attacks squarely on the soldiers of the islamic state in iraq and say the isl fighters issued a statement yesterday where they said they were going to attack shia targets in baghdad and across iraq and the pattern we have seen today. this is key to why we are seeing violence here in baghdad. in the statement i also saw criticized and as we hear the leader of al-qaeda who is allegedly in afghanistan said he let down the movement and praised bin laden and there is a struggle between al-qaeda and in syria they placed their support with another group and not iso and we say, a, because of a spill over from the conflict in syria and iso wants to see themselves at the forefront of the violence and jahad have been doing for the past year and not getting credit from the other groups and all that means is we are seeing much more violence on the streets in baghdad and across iraq. >> thank you very much indeed in baghdad. still ahead on the news hour, fighting to join nato and why geor

imran khan has more from baghdad. >> a series of attacks have hit baghdad.he operations commander, the people tasked with securing baghdad have placed the blame on the islamic state of iraq, saying they would attack shiia targets within iraq and in particular within baghdad. these car bombs have taken place in shia areas. one of them was in a sunni area. the six of them took place in shia areas. now, there is a power struggle going on between various jihadist groups within the movement to try and take over the leadership. the leader of al-qaeda who is currently resident in afghanistan, according to most sources, has crit sued isil and said they are not part of the jihadist movement and said supporting another group across the border in syria, now isil are involved in a fist-fight across the border and that's having an impact here in baghdad. isi are trying to say that they are the lead group within the jihadist movement, that can take on this file. what we are seeing is this power struggle having a spill-over effect in baghdad. >>> in syria, fierce battles i

, the ring around baghdad. that's really what controls what goes on inside of baghdad. then we uncovered a map in one of our raids from al quaida, and control the outskirts of baghdad. so i then realized, okay, that's what we have to focus on. we have to control the access to baghdad. so we put a lot of effort into putting more people into baghdad but also taking control north, south, east, west of baghdad and putting a ring around it and made it very difficult for people to come in and out. so it was a combination of all those says and that's why we needed the additional people to allow us to provide better security. in realty, the success was on the backs of the young commanders, captains, colonels and soldiers who executed this and did it with the ability to adapt and the flexibility they showed, the ingenuity they showed in executing this was important. so what i learned as leaders, i have to give them right and left limits and let them operate and what they were able to achieve was significant and we see t

at mid-day a gunman opened fire at a doorway in central baghdad. then another man walked into the packed hall wearing a suicide bomb vest. seconds later utter panic as worshippers run in every direction. some deaf from the noise of the blast and others in shock. as the smoke cleared bodies could be seen strewn closer to where the bomb was. even in their mourning, there was anger from many here. >> translator: the man that looked after me is dead. he stood near the bomber. >> reporter: despite baghdad attacks, this one shocks many here. the islamic state in iraq did make a threat they would attack shia mosques and shia pro sessions. now questions are asked. how was a man with a gun able to get so close to the mosque and was able to shoot a police officer and how was a suicide bomber able to get inside? those questions won't be answered anytime soon. every day attacks like these happen across iraq. so far this month 800 people have been killed as a result. >>> thailand's former education minister has been arrested after denouncing the military coup.

yes like many things to us and that's with and helping daddy live for us from baghdad.meanwhile the un security council has dwelt on the parliamentary elections in and watch and comment on political entities in the middle east country to ensure a smooth transition in a statement issued on wednesday at the security council. ah so costly new government to before and that represents the will of the iraqi people. preliminary counting and distorting began immediately after polling stations closed doors across iraq on wednesday. this is a money box main communities the shiites sunni said crews have been deepening the lack of community reflects a failure of the political process to curb struggles between the country's factions after the us led invasion in two thousand and three. i've seen clay news agency has reported that ukraine has attained russia's military and cache to kiev on suspicion of espionage. he has been ordered to leave the country. it cited the ukrainian foreign ministry that the diplomatic skill was not named was detained on wednesday while undertaking intellig

or in airports going back and forth to baghdad. with that, i just want to also welcome our c-span audience and say instead of doing this as one of those panels in which one person gives a speech, then the second person gives a speech, then the third person gives a speech, what we're actually hoping to do, what should an lot more fun for us and hopefully for the audience as well, is to have a real conversation. a lightly moderate conversation covering a lot of the issues which iraq just faces. i'm not just talking about internal issues, such as what the bargains might be with regards to government formation, how this might impact long and tricky problems that have afflicted iraq such as some of the sectarian politics, such as some of the recent violence, the remaining disputes with regards to the oil law and so forth, the nature of federalism, so also what we might expect with regard to a new presidency inside iraq. are we going to have iraq in effect embrace of confessional model of politics, the appointment of individual positions

military arrives in baghdad, with heavy looting under way, marines protect iraq's oil ministry to the iraqi government buildings and institutions. >> we let the museums go. we let the art and culture go. we let the telephones go elsewhere. we let the administrative offices go. ministry of the interior, ministry of justice, we let all those things go. and we protected the oil ministry. >> the perception that the u.s. has launched a war for oil is further stoked when the u.s. army's 101st airborne division crosses the bored near iraq and establishes two refueling stations in the iraqi desert. the army names the two desert outposts after exxon and shell, unbeknownst to the companies themselves. >> presumably, some kell nell in the planning cell thought that this would be an easy designation for american soldiers, you know, flying helicopters through dust storms to bear in mind and to find on a map, but it did kind of undermine the pr campaign. >> as coalition forces rolled into baghdad and topple saddam, the general selected by the pentagon to stabilize the situation and quickly turn ove

baghdad believes all of the resources in the ground belongs to all iraqis. there is certainly posturing on both sides, but fundamentally when you push that aside you have two very different beliefs about the way the resources are to be distributed. baghdad honestly believes that the oil in the ground in kirkuk mra'ssra belongs to the as much as a belongs to everyone else. the kurds have a different issue. this is being brought to a head by the tankers starting to land wherever, and this will be resolved through international dispute mechanisms. you have the icc case being with paris against turkey, and i suspect that any american firm that touches that oil will be slapped with a lawsuit that is so large that their stock price will have to go through the floor. uglywill be resolved in ways. this is going to be like a very ugly domestic dispute, the one that does not involve domestic violence. i am all about legal mechanisms figuring this out rather than force of arms. >> i do not have much to add, but you will hear president tomorrow outline his overall visio

also coming up, iraq's shias gather in baghdad for a religious vents, three attacks rock the capitalling 31 people. hello there, i am felicity in london, among the story that his we are following in europe, 13 ukrainian soldiers are killed as fighters in the east raid a military checkpoint. >>> and i'll have all the days sport, including half the u.s. senate is pushing pressure on the nfl to endorse a name change for the washington redskins, calling the franchise's name a racial slur. ♪ ♪ >>> thailand has been taken over by the military. a curfew has come in to effect. no one can leave their homes between 10:00 in the evening and 5:00 in the morning. the military has suspended the contusion, and it's banned gatherings of more than five people. also ordered the acting prime minister and his government to report to an army base. veronica pa drough pedrosa is i. >> reporter: and with that announcement, thailand came under military rule of the chief of the armed forces and his comrades in uniform have taken overall functions of government. a full reversal of what he had said when he anno

they threatened to attack shia communities in baghdad and across iraq. one of the worst attacks took place. a man drove his car to where i'm standing right now and had a work with the mechanic and said, can you look at my car. i'll go away, grab some lunch and come back. he went off and the car exploded, and this is the aftermath. even after a bomb of this seize, workers cleaned up the neighborhood. it's a sign of how common place the attacks are that the cleanup operation is handled as efficiently as it is. what's more difficult to do is clear up the mess that these attacks cause. >>> the former israel prime minister was sentenced to six years in prison. he was found guilty of taking bribes in a controversial real estate deal during his team as the mayor of jerusalem. corruption allegations forced his resignation as prime minister in 2008. >>> the egyptian government has frozen the assets of morsor. he's now been on hunger strike in an egyptian prison for 113 days. he's been taken from his prison cell to an unknown location. two days ago his lawyer aske

the latest from baghdad. >> it's the sheer number of attacks that shocked many people. 16 across the country. one of the worst with was here in baghdad, where at least ten people are killed and more than 25 injuries. >> the car bomb exploded here, carry sod many tons of explosives. >> across iraq, it was the same story. shootings, car bombs, suicide attacks. violence is now at it's highest level, and shows no signs of stopping. two government blame as group called the islamic state of iraq. but others say the security situation is a result of the prime minister consolidating power, and alienating the people who can help embattled the groups. >> if it is the same man, getting the prime ministry, getting the minister of interior, getting the minister of defense, and you always have the same plan, the same failure, the same power, man power, that means there is a major failure and the major fire. just like the security fire. >> they have been turned into ghost towns, the late siege since the beginning of the year to try to flush out fighters but sources tell us that large parts is at le

apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. on a van trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement, about 20 minutes later. >> to me, the most shocking part of the video comes at the end. >> i'm going to come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. you're clear. >> there's some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, let's hit it with a hellfire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile, at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy just randomly walk into the scene. they don't say, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, don't fire. they shoot off the missile anyway. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business and then one second he's there, one second he's not. as far as i can tell he was vaporized. i don't think his family ever knew what happened to him because ther

in the capital, bag damage -- baghdad, a car bomb killed at least three civilians and wounded more than a dozen. iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah khomeini is calling on the country's military guard to mass produce missiles. his comments come ahead of international nuclear disarmament talks this week. this u.s. and its allies are worried the missiles could eventually be equipped with nuclear warheads in nigeria, church gores have been holding prayers for the 276 school girls being held by the islamist group. it's now almost a month since their kidnapping and the government has been chrised for its slow response. >> they're not giving up hope for the abducted school girls. nigerians gathered in churches to pray for their safe return. some young women who managed to escape the kidnappers have been talking about their experience. they gave a harrowing account of their ordeal. >> when we got to the boats they asked us to get out of the cars. i told my friends it's better to be killed than to be taken to a place we didn't know. we got out and started running. >> about 256 girls are still mi

. >> baghdad bob himself is probably the only person that believes his talking points had nothing to do with benbenghazi. here to set the record straight, karl rove. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm sure it bothers you when baghdad carney talks about it -- >> being insulted by jay carney, does that make me an honorary white house correspondent -- >> it probably does. >> i read your comments, she wasn't in the hospital 30 days, she was in the hospital four days. she did come out with the glasses that you referenced. nobody knows for sure what happened here. what was it, you did say, what were you communicating? >> here is the deal. this is a 30-day long episode. she returns from the czech republic on december 7th of 2012 with a terrible virus and by monday they postponed the trip and by tuesday they cancelled it. she's last publicly seen on the 7th by saturday, they say that sometime that week she has fallen and hit her head, and that she will not be able to testify, that she's going to -- her doctors on the 20th of december wanted a a benghazi hearing, her doctor told her to stay at h

this is the abu ghraib district 20 miles from the center of baghdad. last week the violence and tenseified. this was a suicide bombing which killed 31 at a shia election rally in baghdad. in the center of capital today cars were banned. sunni extremists have threatened to kill anyone who votes. mr. malaki, we'll probably see him releected but not with a clear majority. a divisive figure in a bitterly divided country. the election is a day of change, a day of prosperity and freedom. we hope to get rid of sectarians and those who are corrupt. >> reporter: 22 million iraqis are eligible to vote with the first result tomorrow though forming a government could take longer than that. >>fill: today's voting marked the first parliamentary elections since u.s. troops withdrew from iraq in 2011. back in this country, the federal reserve is winding back its economic stimulus program a bit more. central bank policymakers announced additional cuts in their bond-buying efforts today. they said the economy shows signs of rebounding from the effects of a severe winter

at midday a gunman opened fire at the doorway of the shia mosque in baghdad. another man walked into the packed hall wearing a suicide bomb vest. several seconds later utter panic as they ran. some deaf from the noise of the blast and some in shock. bodies were strewn closest to where the suicide bomber was. even in mourning there's anger for many year. >> translator: the man that looked after me and my family is dead. his only crime? he stood near the suicide bomber? >> reporter: this one has shocked many year. no one has claimed responsibility so far, but the islamic state of iraq last month made a threat that they would attack shia mosques and shia processions. how was a man with a gun so close to the mosque and how was he able to shoot a police officer and how was the suicide bomber able to get inside? those questions won't be answered any time soon. every day attacks like this happen across iraq. so far this month nearly 800 people have been killed as a result. >>> the libyan prime minister has escaped unhurt after his house was attacked in the capital of

baghdad the like. i must continue to defend the innocent. french president francois going to disown the national assembly polls from the windy side by side in time we knew wimpy and content of the socialist party. we're now up into one of the world's most recognizable museums of the mix to abu dhabi will happen with all that siren and ahead of its opening song the charges headed out back to the united arab emirates to be put on display here the special exhibition lousy inaugurated of exhibition president was funneled to the best projects exemplifies just a place that i saw that thing throngs of its gulf ally. as always the season in the pool beach and the french and reaches a special treat of the ladies just one among the hundreds of works on display at paris's to move and said to be shipped to the museum says the sign to not be gone the next year their paintings for months is like more you use the five bucks each. sculptures from central asia and africa. from the arab world itself inaugurated the a train to bristol press well known tuesday.

it will be 90 days before we reach baghdad. i said you should be there 96 hours. that is impossible. no it isn't. what if they shoot at you on the way in? drive around them. pick of the iraqi army as you find them, bring them along. we had been with trash bags full of cash in afghanistan, pass out the cash, the afghans joint u.s. of we would. we probably didn't even have to do that. we should fly iraqi flags. should be liberation of iraq by iraqis with us in the background. and we get this clerk that is responsible and eliminate them but that didn't happen. >> host: we are talking with colonel douglas macgregor. when i read your book you sound very angry. is that a fair characterization. >> we were angry collectively. one reason i wrote the book, 1100 men in the battlefield, for things that they never got any credit. i wanted to go through and as you described the battle give people credit for doing things because one of the things you learn about real war is you don't micromanage battles. essentials the an armored cavalry squadron of 1100 men, 42 tanks, 41 bradle

. >> i'm sure it bothers you when baghdad bob carney criticizes you. >> being insulted by jay carney, does that make me an honorary member of the white house correspondents association? >> i think it does. she did come out with the glasses that you referenced. nobody knows for sure what happened here. what was it you did say? what were you communicating? >> this is a 30-day long episode. she returns from the czech republic on december 7th 2012 with a terrible virus. on tuesday, they have cancelled the trip. she's last seen in belfast. sometime that week, she has fallen and hit her head and that she will not be able to testify. her doctors on the 20th of december have told her to stay home. on the 30th of december, she goes to hospital for routine exam and they find a blood clot and they put her in the hospital. they will not say what kind of blood clot it is. her doctor said the blood clot was behind her right ear between the skull and the brain. on wednesday, she's released. she's in the hospital for four days. it is from december 7th to january 7th before she shows back up at the st

of course, the place where i was arrested was the district north of baghdad, about 10 years ago. this was the first place of arrest. after that, i was moved from one place to another until ended up in abu ghraib prison. >> can you explain who arrested you? and then describe what happened you at abu ghraib. >> actually, the people who arrested me in the district are from the american army, but i cannot really differentiate if there truly individuals from the army or from private security companies because most people there used to where military outfits and without military ranking and cigna that might have verified their affiliation to the army or other institutions. >> where were you arrested? can you talk about what you were doing at that time and even before you made it to abu ghraib , where you were taken? >> of course. this is the main point of this issue. the issue is that i am a journalist and i was at my work place covering the events in the district north of baghdad. events inuty to cover the field and on the ground, as well as political events. so my arrest happened whi

we mistook the center of gravity as baghdad. some research suggests that the most successful occupations occurred after high civilian deaths. you utterly crushed the population. you look at the book, occupational hazard, by david edelstein. this is one of the disturbing trends that he finds. war is awful. nothing in my comments should that we-- suggest should kill a lot of civilians. i am saying that mistakes that come from kindness are the worst. you may think you are being kind. you are you long waiting the war -- elongating the war. slowly, we had gone targeted the population and military, would we have killed civiliansthe 122,384 we ultimately killed? this is the example, essentially. .e will never know that is a hindsight question that we have no answers to. let me move onto the third, for the purposes of time. they say that they military should have quit the enterprise. i am in the camp that i do not think the military should choose the wars. that is not their job. that is the civilian's job. it is our job, as the electora

a lot of us remember when in your opinion baghdad during the war in baghdad during 2003 and all the otherts you've gone in, risking your life on so many occasions as you are right now so on behalf of all of us at cnn, all of our viewers around the world, thanks very much. job well done, well deserved courage in journalism award for arwa coming up here in new york in october. we will be there with you, arwa, to celebrate. congratulations. >>> up next, anthony bourdain has a change of heart about the u.s. state he once said he wouldn't even want to visit. coming up, he tells anderson cooper about his newfound appreciation for his latest destination. ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can clear a table [ sneezes ] without lifting a finger, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. ♪ zyrtec®. muddle no more™. [ female announcer ] and now introducing children's zyrtec® dissolve tabs for full 24 hour allergy relief. tdd#: 1-800-345-255050 tjust waiting to be foun

one of the worst was here in baghdad where at least 10 people were killed and more than 25 injured. >> a car bomb exploded here, carried so many tons of explosives. >> across iraq, shootings, car bombs, suicide attacks, violence is now at its highest level since 2007 and shows no signs of stopping. the government blames isil, others say it is the result of the prime minister consolidating power and alienating the people who could help battle the armed groups. >> if it is the same man getting the prime minister, getting the minister of defense and you always have the same plan, the same failure, the same power -- man power, that means there is a major failure and the major file just like the security file. >> turned into ghost towns, the iraqi armed lead siege to flush out fighters. sources tell us that large parts of fallujah is still under the control of isil. >> groups criticize the government, saying they shelled the local hospital 16 times at least. that's a charge the government denies, but it is trying to pressure isil fighters to try to get rid of them from the area. it seems t

it targeted a restaurant on the main highway between baghdad. the u.n. estimates 600 civilians were called across iraq last month. >>> at least 22 people including children are dead after two boats capsized off the coast of greece. they were close to the island between turkey and greece. survivors say 60 people were packed on the boat. 14 were dead and the bodies of another four people were recovered at sea. we have more from athens. >> authorities have found a total of 22 drowned bodies in the eastern ey aegean sea. most of them came in a boat 10 meters long overfilled with 60 people. there are 36 survivors, and there is an unknown number at this time of people who are missing. so we don't know exactly the total number of people who were on those boats to begin with. but the survivors were found on a rubber dingy, and on the up turned hull of the motor yacht. the majority drowned were found inside the motor yacht which seemed to have capsized for unknown reasons. the weather was calm. authorities tell us there was no distress signal from the vessel. it

you have a shiite government in baghdad and a shiite-led government in damascus. in between you have a rebellious sunni population, very tribal. they are not going to be pacified as in iraq or syria. it will boil. because turkey, saudi arabia, the gulfar abs will continue to -- gulf arabs. the boarder of the two countries runs down the middle. they are not nations. they hate each other today. >> i'll stop you there. >> without separating people, it will be difficult. >> i have to wrap it there. we'll have you back. joshia, sunni and fasil. thank you, that brings us to the end of "inside story". i'm ray suarez, from washington. >>> on "america tonight" - making babies beyond borders. our investigation into international sur gassy and what can go wrong. cautionary tales from would-be parents who lost tens of thousands on dreams of having children. and the risky business of spending money for nothing. >> there's no guarantees. it's not babies are us, or you walk away with a child nine months after paying. >>

. >>> 21 have been killed in a series of bombings in iraqi capital baghdad. three car bombs going off in shia neighbourhoods. >>> iran and six major powers are beginning talks in austria. the aim is a draft agreement before july. the national security advisor says tehran must take action, or there wouldn't be a deal. the u.n. report shows purchases for its nuclear programme slowed recently. >> to india, where exit polls predict a large victory for the right-wing b.j.p. narendra modi is seen as a front runner. b.j.p. is forecast to 270 seats. the ruling congress party is expected to take 100 seats. final results expected on friday. ukraine's interim prime minister is preparing to meet european union on the country's crisis. separatists in the east asked to join russia, and it claimed more than 90% of people voted for self rule in areas like lugansk and donetsk. jonah hull has more from donetsk. >> reporter: the press conference was supposed to be about self-rule. it turned into a call for annexation instead. >> based on the will of the republic we asked people

you have a shiite government in baghdad and a shiite-led government in damascus.in between you have a rebellious sunni population, very tribal. they are not going to be pacified as in iraq or syria. it will boil. because turkey, saudi arabia, the gulfar abs will continue to -- gulf arabs. the boarder of the two countries runs down the middle. they are not nations. they hate each other today. >> i'll stop you there. >> without separating people, it will be difficult. >> i have to wrap it there. we'll have you back. joshia, sunni and fasil. thank you, that brings us to the end of "inside story". i'm ray suarez, from washington. >> 120 mine yours still trapped underground in turkey. the prime minister says 238 are now known to have died. ♪ >> hello there, you are watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also on the program, fearing more mass kidnappings like this villagers in northern nigeria have reportedly killed dozens of boko haram

you have a shiite government in baghdad and a shiite-led government in damascus. in between you have a rebellious sunni population, very tribal. they are not going to be pacified as in iraq or syria. it will boil. because turkey, saudi arabia, the gulfar abs will continue to -- gulf arabs. the boarder of the two countries runs down the middle. they are not nations. they hate each other today. >> i'll stop you there. >> without separating people, it will be difficult. >> i have to wrap it there. we'll have you back. joshia, sunni and fasil. thank you, that brings us to the end of "inside story". i'm ray suarez, from washington. >> this is an area where our government discriminates against its own citizens leading trial lawyer david boies is fighting to bring marriage equality to every state. a battle he says is akin to the black civil rights movement. >> in the '60s, you had businesses saying we don't want to serve fragr fran americans. >> boies along with ted olson took on proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage. the two friends were also add versaries on another l

. >> i had a colleague in the cabinet whose son had been attacked by a missile in baghdad and she sharedh me the challenges as her son came back to health of the records she had on paper and his family had to truck around between the different locations. so we came in and made it a clear priority to digitize and open up some of those records. so now, today, over a million veterans have been able to download safely and securely electronic copies of the same records. so we've modernized a number of the systems that have been in place. >> jon: 90% of these guys are still working on paper records. >> the claims backlog you have been talking about quite a bit. >> jon: down a bit. we had a center in virginia where the fire marshal had to declare the building uninhabitable because of the paper. we have those scanned out, electronic forms have come in and the backlog is down 50% because we've put in a lot of focus and attention. when we learn of problems -- president obama said we've got to get to the root of the problems and fix them. >> jon: right. here's the thing... (laughter) we knew the pr

iraqi officials say exploded inside a shiite mosque in this sector -- in the central section of baghdad. >> police say the tom was packed with ball bearings, a design meant to kill and wound as many people as possible. two others died in a separate attack. no group has claimed responsibility, but sunni islamist insurgents have been gaining momentum. iraqi's government is struggling to contain the worst surgeons terry and violence in eight years. >> just before the break -- completely different news -- the rolling stones are back on the stage. the band paused for they show after the death of make jagr's ardor. but they restarted their world tour on monday and runs of more than 20,000 fans in the norwegian capital of oslo. still shaken it like a young guy. mick and the band were at their energetic best, playing hits like "jumping jack flash." that's the song we're hearing right there. >> looking good. >> keith richards still moving good. >> we have to take a short one minute break but one we come back, we will tell you about egypt's presidential election. they have extended voting for a t

i mean it feel to hear reports from baghdad. will it is cold you know. polling stations roasted coffee too. many of the youth team. the cost of this. it also talks. she is just as i look freaking choose a government that was for the benefit of all the people you want. a solitary an end. this will bring a change he said. fifty seven years old. all need to do what he wanted to. but far away from his home. he and his tummy he came to a few months ago. this gave the lions were numb by robots the mohawk that we were stocked between the fighting extremists. the military muscle the on ball is in the waist. both the boat it was she. this mystic made it in from sea is too will tell of being crossing into iraq delphi. don't know. moments both the sunni community. if you would do love these boys that she of the. soldier has changed in the new prime minister among the key of knowledge being able to he gained control residents of being team. woods was little nick and katie. more than four hundred thousand people the fiendish days. within the country at the jubilee tr

. >> dozens more died in suicide bombings and shootings across shiite areas of baghdad. the violence comes just weeks after april's national elections and threatens to undermine the prime minister to form a new coalition government. it has been a month since rival palestinian groups hamas and the plo agreed to create a unity government. the palestinian president has made his pick to head the cabinet. >> a man you see on the left of your screen is currently the premier of the west bank and administration. the transitional government will be the first in seven years to govern both the west bank and gaza strip. it has been nearly three months since malaysia airlines flight mh370 disappeared shortly after taking off. >> since then, an international search effort to locate the missing plane and find out what happened to it has come up empty. nearly 240 people were onboard the aircraft. >> estrella and officials say the area of the indian ocean where they have been searching for weeks is definitely not the plane's final resting place. >> search crews were hoping this underwate

eights baghdad is really comfy she gave the kids and a g e n and will continue to be a very strategic industrial branch or for the country in three years. let me give you a misdemeanors. yet when you are wondering i don't have to deal them to pieces under minimize the fact that this nationally. i don't understand this. everybody from the new racing from the international congresses they got nice he doesn't need your opinions that matter the season to console me this is in the historic possibility if we do this too would seem intent on stump to build up a fantastic training camp in what can benefit us to an empty tent and european champion. there will be some work for the french and we're all hopeful and positive terms. so this nationalistic christian novel problems that i think it may have bits we're talking the whole school was about the financial aspects and so i think we should get back to and that the union is to use my fingers fifty three farms in germany. in a lot of people on nonprofit to read it wrong to call this job if it continues to teach intermediate didn't even have even

the city west of baghdad has been held by antigovernment fighters for more than four months. reports suggest at least two people were wounded when shelling hit part of fallujah's south. >> libya's parliament has chosen a new prime minister. he's been sworn in by the general national congress. he needed 120 votes to win. h libya's previous prime minister ne resigned three weeks ago citing security concerns. >>> the trial of three al jazeera journalists has been adjourned again until may 15th. they are accused of falsifying news and conspireing with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. a fourth journalist has been detained since last august. he has been on hunger track for 104 days. al jazeera rejects all of the charges against its staff. >>> panama is known for its famous canal. now it is getting ready to expand in the hope of becoming one of the shipping capitols of the world. a report from the seaport of cologne. >> panama's makeover is well underway. cranes fill a skyline crowded with sky scrapers. new highways are being built and the country's first metro was inaugurated. it's

why do i want a baghdad thank you do you feel like that the arab red line. crowd or get everybody right so they're going to take him out although hales identified what he believed were iraqi vehicles he became concerned when his apaches fire control computer contradicted the grid coordinates provided by the troops on the ground relying on his battlefield instincts and commanding officers directions males prepared to fire on the vehicles. but they it's hard to pull the trigger back me up a little bit here tell me how far ahead here are seven zero forty eight hundred metres. before firing hale's attempted to lock on the vehicle but since they were friendly vehicles that failed to engage. with the plan. to. help us up and go. up one you could say that it was like a second one. guided the plea to the troika i forget what. such feel. like i didn't like it because it's still a fact but it's like going to go away ready in the back which do. you. feel like. we did we get the forgive. me when i did anything at around the two vehicles there are no hard and i've got yo

car bomb in iraq killed at least three people and targeted a restaurant on the main highway between baghdad kid cook, the u.n. estimates that at least 600 civilians were killed across the country last month and brings the total number of civilians this year to 2000. we have reports of the arrest last august and pictures were taken on saturday while he was being transported to court and his detention was extended for a further 45 days. he has been on a hunger strike for 105 days and limited himself to water since march 16. the al jazeera journalist lost more than a third of his weight. this video taken before his arrest shows him in normal health and celebrates his 26th birthday today and held without charge and denied access to a lawyer or medical treatment. and three english journalist held in egypt and held for 128 days and they are accused of conspireing with the muslim brotherhood and it has been a terrorist organization by the government and al jazeera rejects all charges and demanding their immediate release. still to come on al jazeera we will go live to ukraine where there are repor

also coming up, iraq's shias gather in baghdad for a religious vents, three attacks rock the capitalling 31 people. hello there, i am felicity in london, among the story that his we are following in europe, 13 ukrainian soldiers are killed

window tab of north said we don't have introspective according to that seemed to do with colleagues in baghdad he failed to meet today to rest. now with competition flying in on the indian state and the neighboring china these changes will happen if the custom is to keep buying the plaintiffs help the generations to come. for our rating went to tp woke up the bulk market has continued his amazing stuff the season with another win this time of his home track in spain. he was the third successive victory the new season means he's won every race and on when you wonder why this set of eight hundred palm pre with these festivals when their parents. one stage he said. by five seconds before easing off to finish ahead of the house on the rusty bucket his honda team mate danny goes to. he had it been all bad deeds of the family because his weekend visit with a price to get into the mothering than a weekend at the met and when the time but enough about me went in off course it was so close by but they dunno why in the days i get books and of course. mostly to be good to go about what they knew it so th

constitutes a war crime and also constitutes a new and traveling tactic by the iraqi army, i'm in baghdade remember the 2000 people massacred during the civil war from 1960-1996, last year the former president was found guilty of genicide of his role but his conviction was later overturned and david mercer has more from guatemala city. >> reporter: marking a landmark for music they talk about the conviction of the former dictator that was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genicide and crimes against humanity but the festivities are bitter sweet. ten days after the victim guatemala court overturned the conviction sending the trial back to a private us vain and legal actions have many here worried. in fed attorney general, one of the genicide case architect was told to step down seven months before she thought her term was set to end and passed up for reelection inspied of being the second most qualified candidate. in april they tried to suspend the year the judge who presided over the trial. massacre survivors says it's clear what is going on. >> translator: there have been changes in fa

the household, had a job and not with different because the growth i tightened the nanny, largely baghdadthroughout the picture. they have biological dad, but they were not part of their everyday lives and their moms were starting to lose it because that's the drug issue and so their families are just beginning to be ripped apart. what i saw in this appalachian community event an idea similar to what you see another urban families at the grandma it's kind of step in and start taking over at taking control of the family. in fact, one of mr. say read about, her grandma was her central caretaker and that was pretty common. >> host: how did you get out? how did she get to college? >> guest: the one keyword is education. i have to be very grateful. i was a very naÏve working-class girl. i was a little bit of an anomaly because i loved vaux and i loved reading. i was a bookish little girl. i think because of that, did really well in school, got a period i did nothing about college. didn't i do get in. you know how to apply, did know about the process. got a letter in the mail saying i had a sch

we mistook the center of gravity as baghdad.some research suggests that the most successful occupations occurred after high civilian deaths. you utterly crushed the population. you look at the book, occupational hazard, by david edelstein. this is one of the disturbing trends that he finds. war is awful. nothing in my comments should that we-- suggest should kill a lot of civilians. i am saying that mistakes that come from kindness are the worst. you may think you are being kind. you are you long waiting the war -- elongating the war. slowly, we had gone targeted the population and military, would we have killed civiliansthe 122,384 we ultimately killed? this is the example, essentially. .e will never know that is a hindsight question that we have no answers to. let me move onto the third, for the purposes of time. they say that they military should have quit the enterprise. i am in the camp that i do not think the military should choose the wars. that is not their job. that is the civilian's job. it is our job, as the electorat

hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police deployed to protect polling stations and a big cool down in baghdad and errands to do with colds flu rise news. despite iraq experiencing its worst unrest since two thousand and eight hundred and sixty people killed in a costly come later this landmark election post a few hitches and adventure reports of funds. what trust for the twenty ten elections the council was brought by explain this the extra pressures have success at the end it's up to congratulate the iraqi people and their statistics in the fencing. it expresses here in the alcove rather testing went well. i talked to said it was over fifty percent versus twenty three b and accurately. i was not a single complaint with the dough in the bomb. this is for more than nine thousand candidates the column entry election effectively serving as a referendum. prime minister nuri al maliki a shi'ite islamist government in tears this dilemma same name cos he's likely to win the majority of the three hundred twenty eight seat parliament. and a definitive results expected anytime soon even if maliki slice