♪ foreign airlines suspend flights in and out of baghdad after a plane is sprayed with bullets. ♪ hello darren jordan and you are watching al jazeera and also on the program greece new leader naming the ministers that will be asked to negotiate a new deal with brussels. argentina president moves to country's intelligence agency including rogue spies of trying to undermine her. new york city shuts down as a massive snowstorm blows through the coast of the united states. ♪ foreign airlines flying to iraq capitol city suspended flights after a plane was shot at as it landed at baghdad airport and it was hit by bullets as it came to land at baghdad's international airport. we will speak to jane who join us from the iraqi capitol and what more do we know about this incident including the fly dubai plane, what more can you tell us? >> darren it seems to have been small arms fire by fly dubi and the fire came from the wall beyond the baghdad international airport and the sniper fire is in a area controlled by iraqi security forces and still under control of iraqi security forces but understand

of the baghdad airport. intense woodland, that's where we expect the sniper was based. it was on the area disclosest to where the woodland is, where the marsh lands are. we have seen aircraft fire from that area, that is a difficult part of the area to control it backs onto anbar province. we are seeing somebody possibly within the perimeter. now the investigation is taking place right now but what we are seeing is this house of cards effect one airline has cancelled, one has nearly decided as well. nobody wants to take the risk of mh-17 flying into a place like that. it has a effect on the security concerns here. a number of people i've spoken to have said, baghdad airport is a red line. the that gets hit they'll stop flying in. the fact that somebody was able to get so close means that everybody is concerned right now at the security of the airport. >> and security as a whole still a massingive massive issue. >>> pictures given credence that there is a massacre in dyalla province. continuing to see the pic

but their faith in getting help from baghdad has almost vanished. they are now seeking help directly from the united states. authorities in baghdad have gradually agreed to a sunni leader's visit to washington. >> we will be back in erbil with memorandum mohammad adow in just a moment. let's take a look at the iraqi army. it was settle up in 1927 when it was dominated by majority shiez population. shia. the pro-british monarchy was assassinated in 1958. and then under saddam hussein it numbered 1 million men in 1990. then when the u.s. removed disax saddam hussein today the army is facing many domestic challenges like fighting insurgent and i.s.i.l. mohammad adow, live in erbil there he is. you were talking about a sunni tribal leader complaining about the lack of help from baghdad. why is the iraqi government so unwilling to arm sunni tribes. >> well, this is because of the sectarian divide here in iraq. the government in baghdad is dominated by mainly shia politicians who are suspicious of the sunni leaders and the sunni leaders are suspicious of

>> iraq's transport minister held a press conference at the baghdad airport. his explanation however, kind of raises more questions than it answers. he has told the world that the shooting of the fly dubai plane was accidental. a senior member of the committee has been told by iraqi security officials that this happened during training, live fire exercises from one of the training areas near the airport. the airport is a huge complex and it also includes a training center for special forces and other security forces. to emphasize what he says is the fact that the baghdad airport is secure the transport minister got on a plane with the head of the aviation authority and some journalists to fly around baghdad and to land, to prove he says that things are perfectly safe. that isn't the feeling among foreign airlines which have suspended their operation. the lone aircraft, passenger aircraft landing today apparently was an iranian plane carrying religious visitors. >> that's an extraordinary revelation, if it's true. however, there was a feeling that baghdad airpo

foster and a taste for what we have in the next 60 minutes, airline suspend flights in and out of baghdader a plane is hit by a bullet. confrontation or consillitary to the eu. argentina disbans the intelligence agency accusing spies of trying to undermine her. new york city shut down as a massive snowstorm blows through the northeastern coast of the u.s. ♪ all foreign airlines to baghdad cancelled flights into the international airport and worried about security and a passenger plane operated by fly dubai was hit by bullets that came into land at baghdad's international airport, all the passengers getting off there and nobody was hurt just evidence of rifle fire as we bring in jane who is in baghdad. how on earth could this have happened jane at an airport that is supposed to be one of the most secure anywhere in the world? >> well david, we are told that it was actually sniper fire that happened in an area just adjacent to the baghdad airport. now the airport has been relatively calm. you will remember the early days of the war when they had pilots doing corkscrew landing and this is th

. >> reports from baghdad. >> in the orchards outside, 100-kilometers west of the capitol of baghdad. they use to hunt for improvised explosive devices. captures by iraqi forces. such left behind by the u.s. forces is what is making the difference. but a work is challenging in many ways. as you know our advance is slow, we are making some gains and gradually retaking territory from them but our capacity is limited. as local policeman in terms of dismantling i.e.d.es. >> this is from the capitol. the region remains largely under their control, and now they are trying to take control two, the police and army are trying to avoided that their efforts to protect the city when a sunni tribal leader joined the fight against isil. militia men support police in patrolling the districts. they are the exception and not the norm, and the government in baghdad is still unwilling to answer sunni militias in only bar province who are willing to join the fight. the government has not helped us so far we have called for help, and asked for assistance for many ministers but our calls seem to be calling

one of the detainees, buka is baghdad e.nd if you look at thenu 1, you know e tier leaders, the tier 1 leadership of is, mows of these visits were baathists who met al baghdad e in buka. the oil and the fire got to know each other in buka and we have the new brand, explosive brand of trailer in i.s it was re-branded with baathists giving strategy to us lammic ideal log. >> we worry about these western fighters going offered. >> we have today about 16,000 foreign fighters from about 90 different country tries. but about 60% of them come from five countries. number 1, tunisia. no. 2 saudi arab i can't and morocco and jordan and turkey. we have to put that number in perspective. >> uh-huh. >> put it in perspective of the regional struggle that's happening around thisese areas and the tension, cultural, religious, comic tensions that's happening and political tensions within these currents trees. >> the within earn ones going over, that's dissatisfaction? >> it is different in the u.k., most of the people that are going to syria

is fighting the islamic state and lavonte and we are live in baghdad and lots of dis disalusionmentthe country. >> this is the biggest since the government was formed last year and in it the political leaders, the president and prime minister called for the same thing they have been calling for since this new government came to life which is basically national unity. now, this is crucial now of course, it's not just an empty phrase because the country is basically tearing itself apart and not least in the way of allegations that iraqi forces and shia malitias involved in a massacre and he said it was an urgent matter and had to address it. >> translator: we need to be unified in order to put an end to i.s.i.l. and could put an end through government reforms, we have to be determined to defeat i.s.i.l. on the military secure and social fronts if we do this we will defeat our enemies sooner than we think. >> reporter: jane how does this all fit into the bigger picture? >> reporter: well, the bigger picture is really that it isn't just air strikes that are going to defeat i.s.i.l. whic

. >> let's bring in jane who is in baghdad for us. jane iraqi and u.s.ls had already said that the battle for mosul would be an extended military campaign. but really, do we have anymore indications as to the time scale as to when they will be ready to go in? >> reporter: according to general allen's comments this is not a country or iraqi security forces that are ready for a major of course i have. offense i have. he made clear that the u.s. would be deliberate about this along with its coalition partners and before they launch an offensive from mosul, for instance the isil strong hold, they need probably trained forces now just in the very beginning stages, they need a plan for reconstruction. they need a police force for stability. and he says they will need a plan for what happens after. humanitarian assistance, without all of that. it's clear that the u.s. is not going to be on board for any major operation of that kind. >> the u.s. are in no rush to go in to mosul until they think they are ready for it. is the government on board with that? >> repo

so i came and st- stayed in baghdad and worked in baghdad, instead of working embedded with us military. >> it used to be that you could do a mix of both. i tried to keep it 50/50, so that i saw the war from the soldier's point of view, and i saw the war from the local iraqi's point of view. >> journalists play this vital role as sort of an outside presence, an independent person to sort of see how this war is being conducted. >> if you want to get to some of these stories, you have to take the risks of the people who are living through the same thing, and sometimes that means risking torture, risking kidnapping, risking death. >> i faced tremendous amount of danger. i was shot at several times. my car still ha-- bears the marks of uh. of bullets. i was chased several times. i got messages, uhm. letters were taped on the outdoor of my house. >> kidnapping was, and is, a very real problem in iraq. criminal gangs, militias are roaming around, finding ways to extort money. this is why we've had doctors, academics, lawyers, a- a whole lot of iraq's intelligencia just flee the country, becau

>>> all right, let's talk to our guest, joining us from baghdad. thank you for talking to us. can we start with the military side of the conflict country, and we would refer to mohammed ado you, in the north a w, in the north a where i.s.i.l. came in taking over the second largest city of i.s.i.l. >> true under damaging circumstances why the army was at the city of mosul, and the present investigation of the cause, and realities of what actually happened in mosul. it's very high level, and will be probably suppressed in the

a blast near a car rare shop in central baghdad killed three. five others died in another explosion at a sheep market. two soldiers were killed after their army patrol was targeted in a bomb attack north of the capital. west of baghdad the iraqi defense ministry said government forces have killed more than 30 isil fighters near fallujah, rappeling a large isil offensive. among the dead were two snipers. >> the violence happened at iraq's prime minister was hosting a security summit in baghdad. al abadi addressed various factions from across the country. the feeing was aimed at divisions between religious groups. the government hopes to create a united front against isil. >> let's go back to our main story now and let's just remind ourselves what we know about the japanese hostage who has apparently been killed by isil. kenji goto was an experienced war correspondent working in various conflict zones over the last 20 years. we have a report on his career and the events that led to his capture and eventual death. >> this is kenji goto in a video h

the government of baghdad to create the tribal security forces under the control of baghdad. for which the united states is going to provide a significant amount of arm as ammunition and equipment. >> i want to foe what has gone wrong in the past. you are the military spokes man and the bush you promise to train up this military, to provide hardware, clearly the u.s. failed? well let's be very clear about that, it is true that in june a significant amount of the forces retreated from the battle they ran from the battlefield, attribute that to the lack of the american willingness to stay inside of iraq, after 2011 as we are seeing now. >> and disbanning the army? >> the army was formed quite soon after 2003 but it is iraqi relate to the current issue, as we are doing in afghanistan has a force of 10,000 stays behind after 2011 to continue the development and the equipping and the progress with the iraqi security army, we may have had a different income to what we are seeing today. >> why do you think the u.s. has dragged its heels when it has come to providing. what is going o

you have the kurdish area, the sunni area and you have baghdad was a shiite area mainly. john mccain is wrong, you can't send u.s. forces to fix the middle east we don't have enough troops period nor do we have the language capabilities nor the intelligence. when you're dealing with failing states you really need an international effort on this. as the president said it's not whac-a-mole, we can go after a certain valley in yemen, maybe go after a certain group, maybe use drones but then go after somebody else. >> the u.s. thought it had a pretty good relationship of what was representative of the there, when the president stepped assize we know saudi arabia continues to be a great ally of the u.s. but when you talk about yemen, and now iran has a lot of infwluns in yemen. who needs that regional support? >> look at saudi arabia's point of view they are surrounded by iranian proxies, they are iranian financed,er rainian trained. you've got hezbollah in -- they are really panicking and we are moving toward a regional confrontation, the saud dpis are terrified we're going t

baghdad. >> comes at times to help. the clothes come from various foreign destinations for a trivial price wholesale. some of the world's best known brands are on display here, still in good shape and cheaper than anywhere else. for instance, lee levis or an armani armani that's why the poor come here for shopping. it is a destination for the middle class as well. >> it's cheaper and foreign stuff you don't buys these in a market in lahor secondly it's better stuff compared to what we have. and apart from being cheap for people who like fashion it's completely different. nobody has the same clothes then. >> oh but how do the more privileged go around the social aspect? >> washing and dry cleaning, make them look like new. other people say i bought this from london, because the clothes tag says it. >> none of the shop shopkeepers mohamed would tell me wash or dry the clothes because that would raise the cost. sometimes they are disploid displayed on dirty soil. >> they are late on the ground, you can get fecal carriers o

authorities in baghdad have agreed to sunni leader's visit to washington.re growing concerns here in iraq that the country could decent if it does not rebuild military to replace the numerous groups operating here and to do that the iraqi government would need all the help it can get. mohamed with al jazeera, erbill. >> let's look at the history of the iraqi army and set up in 1921 when iraq was governed by the british and the senior ranks were dominated by sunni arab and a majority shia population when it gained independence in 1932 the army was divided with those who wanted to continue british presence and those who did not and it was over thrown and assassinated in a coup in 1958 and then under saddam hussein it grew in size and strength and one million by 1990. when the u.s. led invasion removed removed hussein there was a vam with a country with sectarian tension and today army faces difficult challenges like fighting insurgencys, i.s.i.l. and internal corruption and live from baghdad on skype is iraqi member of parliament and great to see you there, t

of many villages on the outskirts of sinjar land disputed by the kurds and central government in baghdad. it is the case. now there are more vying for control here. >>> let's return to the skirmish along the israel border. >> nicole what more details do you hear. bring us detail about what happened? >> from the hezbollah, it is not a confusing picture. they released their first statement. we would expect to get more updates through the afternoon. they said that the marters of kinatra brigade targeted the convoy. there were officers and soldiers on the vehicle. they destroyed several tanks and a number of soldiers were killed and injured. it gepd how large scale the attack would be. and how many have been killed and injured. the information is they are getting hezbollah. >> nicole. for those that don't know the border area talk us though the geography of the area and why it is so contested. >> well this territory is occupied. it's a small area in essence. it's a territory disputed between here and lebanon. it's not the first time that hezbollah carried out these types of attacks, and atta

i would tell you from baghdad south to basra, things are fine.ave been some attacks and there have been some car bomb but that's the way iraq lived. the people are going out and going to restaurants, they're shopping and it's what's happening. now when you go out west to al anbar, that's a whole section. that's a mess right now. we do have u.s. forces out there all of the way out to al assad air base. i would call that the front line. they're helping the iraqis train and fight. they're not on the ground but they are training them and are providing them close air support. if you go up north up to the tigris river valley that's where you're getting a lot of the shia militia going up and you're seeing that but the iraqi security forces are also having some success. they're taken taji they've taken baji. they've done some good things up there, so we right now, what i would call is i think we've neutralized icis in iraq. syria, whole different story. >> peter bergen do you agree with that that coalition forces have neutralized isis in iraq? >> well ce

. >>> we have some breaking news to bring you that we are getting from baghdad. this is only on the ap news agency at the moment but they are reporting iraqi officials who are saying that there has been a suicide car bomb attack. this happened north of baghdad, the capital, we understand, and those iraqi officials are saying that 12 shiite fighters and soldiers have been killed in the suicide car bomb attack just north of the capital, baghdad. so to remind you of that breaking news coming to us in the past few minutes via the ap news agency. iraqi officials saying there has been a suicide car bombing that has killed 12 shiite fighters and soldiers north of baghdad. as soon as we have more on that we will bring it to you here on bbc world news. >>> but for now, let's just bring you a story that is really making waves here in britain. comments by an american journalist. now, he made these comments in the wake of the paris terror attacks. they have really created a storm on social media, what everybody is talking about in the english city of birmingham today. becaus

the temperature is more than 100 degrees in central baghdad. >> whoa, ied!ost violent period u.s. forces in iraq have seen. the surge, 30,000 u.s. troops are deployed to root out the insurgency. more troops on the streets means more danger, and attacks against u.s. forces are increasing daily. >> this is at the apex of iraq going to hell. the surge has just started, and the war went from incredibly violent to over the top violent, especially in baghdad. >> we would get blown up regularly, snipers shooting at us. never really tell who the enemy was. >> soldiers from the u.s. army's bravo company 216, including specialist ethan mccord, are on patrol in a rundown neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base. and while the soldiers patrol, they hear sporadic gunfire. >> this area had been a troublesome area so bravo company was tasked out to go in and kind of flush people out. >> two apache helicopters are providing air support, and cameras mounted on their gun sights are recording the mission. w

jane araff reports from baghdad. >> most were elderly, disabled or sick. all were traumatized. among them are some of the oldest members of an ancient religious minority under attack by isil. when the gunmen rampaged near sinjar moucht an in june these yazidis were taken to talafer near the syrian border. but the u.s. and iraq have been bombing talafar and they were taken to mosul where he is ill decided they didn't want them. >> where in mosul when they told us they would send us to talafar. the driver said he was taking us to a safe place. i thought it would be talafar but we etched up in the district south of kirkuk. >> yazidi in their hearts some converted to islam when threatened by isil. jamal said she spent three months in talafar. >> we told them that we would become muslim and they didn't hurt us but they kept on kidnapping girls. they kidnapped my neighbor a young yazidi girl and another neighbor who is christian. >> cuddish forces picked up the yazidis and gave them medical treatment before sending them to a camp near dohuk for displaced raepingz. it wasn't clear why

at a security summit in baghdad and several religious and political factions are taking part.he top story then and let's look back at events that led to the crisis currently underway this yemen and ali stepped down after mass anti-government protests in november 2011 a few months later hadi elected president after running as the only candidate in the election in january 2014 the national dialog conference agreed on a document to provide a basis for a new constitution but in july 2014 the houthis demanded the government resign in connection with the dispute over fuel subsidies and a month later president hadi gave in and sacked his cabinet then in september last year the houthis seized control of the capital sanaa. by january the houthis stormed the presidential palace and just days later the government and hadi had resigned and mohamed is a former yemen ambassador and government advisor and joins us life from london. thanks for being with us sir and what do you make of what is going on at the moment and southern movement withdrawing from these talks, why do you think they have

is baghdad correspondent imran khan. we heard the kurdish leader saying his message is if you want to get rid of i.s.i.l. and you want to do it quickly, we need help. the issue of foreign troops on the ground is sensitive. >> what the kurdish peshmerga forces are saying is it's going too slowly. we need more help. we can make significant gains, and if we have more support, foreign boots on the ground american boots, we can battle i.s.i.l. philip hammond said iraqi forces are two years away interest being fully trained to fight i.s.i.l. that is a concern. the longer that takes, the more entrenched i.s.i.l. becomes. you have the split between the kurdish and the government in baghdad. they maintain they do not want large numbers of troops on the ground. it looks like they are reoccupying iraq and that will not work. if iranians are involved. they are supporting the shia militia forces who have made gapes against i.s.i.l. saying the fight is going our way. give us the money and the support that we have asked the americans.

the military has released this video of the fighting about 70 kilometers west of baghdad. now it says soldiers have repelled an isil offensive. meanwhile, seven civilians have been killed. some of the victims are women and children. >>> now in other parts of iraq, kurdish forces known as the peshmerga say they've managed to push isil out of the northern city of kirkuk. they seized the city in june when the iraqi army abandoned its positions. since then kirkuk has come under repeated attack by isil fighters having to take control of the rich oil fields surrounding the city. >> in the heart of kirkuk, in broad daylight the islamic state in iraq and the levant made its presence felt. three armed men dressed in black detonated a car bomb outside of the hotel. before storming the empty building. the attack on friday destabilized the security situation in this northern city. it was part of a coordinated assault that involved isil fighters attacking kurdish peshmerga positions west and southwest of kirkuk. kurdish peshmerga soldiers told us that they ended the siege after a two-h

has not pushed out of the yazidi villages in land long disputed by the government in baghdad. it is the case. there are more players vying for control here. >>> afghanistan's parliament is voting. there has been controversies about the president's choses. afghanistan has been without government since ashraf ghani agreed to share parliament. we are talking about a government sharing if the nominees get there, are we seeing the formation of a proper government or of a short in afghanistan? >> at least the voting is going on. afghans have been waiting for this for four months. that is how long it's taken to get cabinet nominees into parliament. seven of the cabinet nominees were not voted on. they were rejected for having no citizenship, questions about educational credentials, and questions about her age. none of the three cabinet nominees made it to the vote. we'll see a vote. only a partial vote. as well ahead of the intelligence services. the parliament will then go on recess. we won't see them for at least a month. if it goes through and there's a semblance of movement. how

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jane araff reports from the capitol of baghdad. >> reporter: most were elderly, disabled or sick.ll of them were traumatized. among them are some of the oldest members of an ancient religious minority under attack by isil. when the gunmen rampaged through their homeland near sinjar mountain, these yazidis were taken near the syrian border. they were taken from there to motionul where he is ill decided it didn't want them mosul >> we told them that we would become muslim and they didn't hurt us. but they kept on kidnapping girls. they kidnapped my neighbor a young yazidi girl and another neighbor who is christian. kurdish forces picked up the yazidi and gave them medical treatment before sending them to a camp near dohook for displaced iraqis. it wasn't entirely clear why isil release did them. activists could say because the radical group increasingly under siege by fighting can no longer take care of such a large number of prisoners. isil has killed hundreds of yazidi men and said it won't harm those who con vert. more than 4,000 are believed still held byis ill. almost half are

but they are getting help from baghdad has almost vanished, they are now seeking help directly from the united states. authorities in baghdad have agreed to a sunni leaders visit to washington. >> there shall growing concerns here, that the country could descend if it doesn't review it's military to replace the numerous groups operating here and to do that the government would need all the help it can get. mohamed al jazeera in northern iraq. >> a member of hamas will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing three israeli tea parties. three life sentences today the murders of the teens set off a cycle of violence that led to the 50 day war between israel and the palestinians last summer. the first real chance to cut the cord on cable the new service that gives you live muse and sports we will look at the wide ranging implications. and how experiment to reuse rockets headed to space could open up new frontiers. uh ah, got it. these wifi hotspots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? what do you think a wifi ho

in the iraqi capitol and surrounding areas killed nine people three more shells and shia north of baghdadng four people and bombs exploded at a wholesale market in the west of the capitol and northeast of baghdad. anti-government protests across regions in egypt, demonstrators in cairo were demanding egyptian president resign and some protesters held pictures of deposed mohamed morsi removed two years ago. protests in pakistan against the french newspaper charlie hebdo on wednesday it published a cartoon with mohamed on the front cover and the largest demonstration happened in the pakistani port city of karachi and used rubber bullets to clear protesters outside of the counselor and demonstrations in the capitol islamabad and protesters there were members of the religious party. and we were at the protest in islamabad and sent us this report. >> reporter: there is anger across pakistan on the publication of the cartoons in charlie hebdo magazine the people are deeply conservative and do not take kindly to any insults hurt of the prophet of islam. the measure adjust from the people and isl

al jazeera, baghdad. >> a short fall and pledged donation to rebuild gaza has forced the palestinianugee agency to suspend assistance. more than 96,000 palestinian homes were damaged or destroyed in israel's 50 day offensive on gaza last year. the u.n. agency has received only $135 million of the $720 millions required to rebuild. a spokes men he says the situation in gaza is unacceptable. >> the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people will increase. it means means the whole profit of repairing the damage, and will not be paid any more, we are now out of money. this means also that the -- actually here in gaza, it is in a great distress because of the whole story that the december appointment the frustration, the anger is driving every moment here. and it is really very dangerous to everybody. right now the international community donors did not reach gaza we haven't sevenned money from emeritas and others but what is about the billions of dollars that has been pledged. we have to tell the truth to the people, also to tell the international community, to tell them that what is g

in my opinion the baghdad government needs us more than we need them.y should tell them that we're going to send these weapons to the peshmerga because it's in our interest and in their interest to do so. senator john mccain and ed royse, they've been very clear. we've waited long enough to provide the weapons necessary for the peshmerga to defend themselves against isis. they've been the most effective force against isis, to have significant wins. frankly, they're just holding on. i think over a matter of time because of new isis tactic, they could lose ground. >> if they don't get this, what do you fear? >> i think they're going to start losing ground. they're facing ieds, cars full of bombs. isis is adapting to the peshmerga forces and trying to wear them down. they need these weapons now. >> they're asking for that, they're not getting it yet. we'll see what happens. thank you. good to be here. >> absolutely. >>> just hours from now president obama returns to washington to begin work with a new republican congress. but with the gop setting its sight

the defense minister say there is change in baghdad. >> translator: the government has now adapt aid and national approach. the prime minister is committed to supporting all groups equally. we hope this positive attitude will continue and be widened. >> reporter: promising words but clearly not enough for some. the governor of mosul and a brother of the vice president. >> we have until now promises more than action. but still we hope that we will get the help. and we need to keep the good relation with the central government. >> reporter: iraqi kurdish authorities have often insisted that they can only play a supportive role in the battle for mosul. the peshmerga say they are spread thin on the ground. however, mosul is just 90-kilometer as way from erbil. the fear of a strong isil command base that is close to their regional capital could drive more peshmerga fighters in to the battle to retake control of mosul. mohamed, al jazerra in northern iraq. >>> now, egypt's president has been celebrating judiciary day by praising the independence of the legal system. he says he has been car

let's speak to jane arraf live in baghdad. jane what is the latest with these talks and and what what is han happening. >> these talks come at a crucial time and a crucial last few days we had world that there is yet another death of a senior peshmerga commander on the battlefield near kirkuk. this one, we are told is a major general, who was killed by a sniper in clashes - fierce clashes over the last few days near a community not far from kirkuk. this is the second senior peshmerga, kurdish commander to be killed within the past two days. previously a lower ranking general was killed in the clashes. that is why it was so important for a body to address the incident saying that basically any security forces acting not within the law, a reference many felt to an alleged massacre in diyala province would be criminal. he called for national unity. >> translation: we need to be unified to put on end to i.s.i.l. we could put an end to i.s.i.l. through applying government reforms. we have to be determined to defeat i.s.i.l. if we d

and i spent eight months in baghdad documenting a family particularly a doctor who was a -- who had a clinic, and people would come to the clinic and say -- they would talk about their you know, whatever their illness. then they would start talking about the occupation and what was happening. it was an amazing window into understanding what was happening for iraqis. and i wanted to understand it not just intellectually but in human terms. and at that point, this is 2004, 2005, there was a lot of news coverage. a lot of press was in iraq. you got the front page of the news.zñ it would say like 150 people killed in5a%l a car bombing in baghdad. but you didn't know anything about those people. you just got body counts. the work i do is trying to get human impact in these things. that was the first film in this work. and then i made a film about guantanamo. and -- and filmed both at guantanamo and in yemen to look at some of the war on terror and how that was being played out. that was of a more complicated film. i followed somebody who was really complicated character in -- but also pivo

>> well, we have a large contingent out at the air base at -- outside of baghdad. al assad. and it's being shelled every day with rockets. look there are i believe, 3,000 there now. and they will have to be more because we are not gaining against isis. they are going to need more air controllers. they are going to need more trainers. so when the president says there is no boots on the ground. there is about 3,000 there now. the president celebrated when, quote, the last american soldier left iraq and declared victory. and obviously things have gone to hell in a hand basket. and it's important to note that the president afghanistan, has just said that if we withdraw as the president wants to that he probably won't be able to defeat the taliban and they will eventually prevail. so it's not only a situation in iraq, but we're going to see that same movie in afghanistan as well. unless we withdraw based on conditions on the ground, not on some calendar that has to do with the end of president obama's presidency. >> what i thought, some people were talking yesterday and we discus

two people hurt when a plane is shot at in baghdad. we'll tell you what we're listening about this. >>> plus, police say this woman was shoulder surfing and cut up multiple victims in her way. we'll explain what shoulder surfing is. >>> and could a big pile of money ever be a huge problem? we'll explain. have you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes? no what is it? starting february 21, 2015 if you have a 415 or 628 number, you'll need to dial... 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. okay, but what if i have a 415 number, and i'm calling a 415 number? you'll still need to dial... 1 plus the area code, plus the phone number. so when in doubt, dial it out! >>> it is 5:13 right now. and breaking news, overseas, it appears a hostage situation at a luxury hotel in tripoli, libya, is now over. five gunman stormed the corinneia hotel and killed three guards and five foreigners. libya's security official says the situation is under control but does not say what happened to the gunman. he als

the islamic state is no longer a threat to baghdad. that's good. that's a victory.unni in syria and iraq to come back over it's not happening. and we can train all the sunni people we want we can give them all the weapons we want they're going to go back to syria and i can almost predict with 100% certainty those weapons and a lot of those trained people are going to end up with the fundamentalists whether it's the islamic state or otherwise. it can't work. it's a band-aid on a gaping wound. >> but then what do you do, bob? >> reporter: i think right now, my personal bias is to let the middle east divide up and give the sunnis a stake. you simply cannot have a shia government in baghdad going into the sunni areas and trying. they are secular leaders. they are pro shia. i don't think we should support the borders. they were written in secret in 1916 by the europeans. they don't exist anymore. we certainly can't send enough troops into the middle east to hold them together. the americans don't have the patience. we don't want to go there. we couldn't do it. it would t

and it will take an enormous amount of force for baghdad to reexert control over the sunni areas, if they can at all. so to answer your question poppy, no i think it's probably going to get worse this year. >> wow. and i want both of you to address this. take a look at this picture that i'll pull up two young girls, young women, in their 20s italians missing believed to be captured by extremists in syria. you're looking at them there. video messages have been sent from them back to their families. we know the italians have been negotiating for their release. do we have any sense of what group is holding them? >> well poppy, it's not yet clear who is holding these two italian aid workers believed to have been kidnapped near aleppo back in july. and this video that you're referencing was released on december 31st with that plea to their government and negotiators to help return them back home. there have been some postings online saying that it is al al masri front the al qaeda affiliate in syria that has been holding them. but there's been no official confirmation of this we've seen n

the government in baghdad isn't working. they've been sending in you know death squads into the sunni areas. that's not helping at all. we really do have to change here. it's not working, and i don't see the islamic state disappearing especially with these attacks on kirkuk and the kurds have said also that they are not going to participate in an offensive on mosul. so how are we going to take mosul back? something's got to change. >> michael, do you think that that something has to be u.s. boots on the ground and if that's the case do the american public have the stomach for that the appetite for that again? >> for the book we interviewed at least a dozen former and active u.s. military officials, including military intelligence officials whose job it was to anatomize and track al qaeda in iraq. not a single one thinks the iraqi security forces can do this especially as bob rightly pointed out because the vanguard fighting force on the ground in iraq is really not the iraqi military or interior ministry professional soldier

>> jane thanks very much indeed and wrapping up our series of reports there from baghdad.o far the path of the world succession in saudi arabia has been clear but if you take a look at part of the family tree it shows how complex it could become abdoullah the latest in the line to the king who reigned until 1953 now power has passed to his half brother solomon and he is already 79 years old and in poor health and makes the other brother the new crown prince and he is ten years his junior. after that the picture is more complicated with hundreds of princes potentially in line for the throne and the new king disappointed his nephew as deputy crown prince. and still questions remain over the stability of saudi arabia during the transition of power. king soloman moved to address some concerns and on television he plans to stay on the course his father had set for the nation. >> translator: we are going to continue with the approach of father, king abdoullah who built the state and followed by his sons and continue to implement the karan and the character of mohamed into our le

the areas of baghdad under isis control. see the yellow, august they began consolidateing from a. >> reporter: -- aleppo into anbar province in iraq creating an unbroken line of territory from syria across the border into iraq. september, where the incursion into kobani, the border is almost a solid line of isis territory. they've also almost moved through the north of iraq. november they further consolidate in northern syria, pushing west of aleppo. then december sees them further entrenched in northern syria. along that turkey/syria border. they've been ceding control closer to the iraqi capital, baghdad. mid-january, that trend continues. they're also building up their presence near the syrian capital, damascus. we're seeing a growth of support in anbar province. but in terms of territorial gains, they have been reversed. that brings us to the present day. the province in green, north of baghdad, has now declared itself isis free. add to that the loss of kobani an important coalition victory breaking up their hole ahold a

the same goes for baghdad. i do not want to be in the middle of a long more because i do not think there is an answer, at the same time, we cannot leave our embassies unprotected. we either come home completely and bring everything home or we defend our embassies. at this point, we defend our interest. that is not mean we have to be involved in every war and skirmish. if there is any one true thing that is irrefutable, every time we have gotten involved to topple a secular dictator, it has been replaced with chaos and the rise of radical islam. that would be the war in libya the republican war in iraq. there are more problems with the rise of iran as a problem because there is no counterbalance in iraq anymore. some of these problems aren't solvable. we should defend our country and our people. >> senator paul makes a good distinction. there is a civilized, more religious islam. making that distinction is very important in solving the problem itself. >> i agree with your definition [indiscernible] to your point

. >> in the orchards outside the city 100 kilometers west of the capitol baghdad a bomb disposal unit is at work. they use a robot to hunt for explosive devices left behind by isil in one of the villages captured by iraqi forces. such equipment left behind by the u.s. forces is what is making the difference. the work is challenging in many ways. >> our advance is slow because of many land mines and i.e.d.'s, isil fighters making gains. but our capacity is limited in terms of dismantling i.e.d.'s. >> this is the capital of the province. the region remains largely under isil's control and now fighters trying to take control over rimadi too. the army are trying to avoid that. the efforts to protect the city were boosted when a tribal leader joined the fight. police were supported in patrolling the neighborhoods and districts. sunnis fighting along the government forces are the exception and not the norm in iraq. the government is baghdad is still unwilling to arm san knee militias willing to join the fight against isil. >> the government has not helped us so far. we have called for help

of just four months ago dash was trumpeting plans to seize baghdad.two things happened, and not by accident, in iraq the new government was assembled that was intent on reform and iraqis themselves came together determined to move to a different future and determined to add the confidence of their citizens and you've just heard from the prime minister and second we forged together an international coalition. with a band aid to disrupt to defeat dash. we are both deeply involved in those developments. since september, our coalition has pursued a carefully crafted comprehensive strategy to weaken on multiple fronts. we have launched 2000 airstrikes and disrupted their structure and undermined their propaganda and squeezed its financing, dam urged its finance structure. today much of iraq and with coalition support they have retaken terra tories near cities of tick correct and in syria dash__ no regard unit can move forward without worrying about what will come down from the sky is now. yesterday at this coalition meeting held in paris, iraqi prime minis

we have more from the capitol of baghdad. bring us up to speed on the fighting in iraq. >> >> the u.s. has carried out 11 attacks, an indication that even where iraq security forces along with the kurdish forces, the peshmerga and shia forces have taken back territory, they continue to be in play. the u.s. is looking very closely at a battle campaign here to take back sties such as mosul. it has made clear that that could be sometime away. >> was going to ask you about that. the top u.s. official yesterday saying during a press conference in baghdad that the fight against isil is going to take more time because of training. what else can you tell us? >> he made the point as i had asked him what would be needed, really to take back the city of mosul, because iraqi officials are really fond of saying that it's pretty much a done deal, that they are ready to go in and take it back and he really made clear that it isn't as easy as that. he said there needs to be more training and part of the $1.6 billion the united states has ple

embassy in the world in baghdad. but then we left it half full. >> yeah.nd with a new prime minister there, hopefully things are going in the right track. i guess time will tell. >> you know, he's saying the right things but we need to see results. >> i would agree. now, there's a growing debate about the white house's refusal to discuss radical islam and terrorism. they won't even use the phrase. now we're seeing criticism from the left too. your colleague, another iraq war veteran, called it disturbing and frustrating. is there a problem with white house being too sensitive to address the real issue here? >> i think the issue is that we've -- look we've got to have a strategy. congresswoman gabbert, who serves with me on the house armed services committee and is really becoming a good friend and tremendous colleague on the hill, she's right. we need to have a strategy to address radical extremists. but i do think that language matters. and our greatest allies in this fight will be moderates. so if we're saying things or using terms that offend or alienat

in 2004 comment and then was attached to the marine corps for the battle of volusia, sent back to baghdad and on to hibernia did a little bit for the elections and went back in 2006 and spent that time in rum body, the battle of from body and went back again in 2008 was sent out west, they sent out a call for snipers to come to baghdad and help secure the green zone by going into cider city. >> host: why did you leave the seals in 2009? >> being a ceo is extremely tough on your marriage. we have extremely high divorce rate. as 95% divorce. my wife and i constantly struggled trying to keep the marriage of afloat. even when you are not deployed when you come home your training is not at home so you are never really through the home. it was causing stress on the marriage and finally got to the point i needed to decide is it going to be god, country, family or is it going to be god, family, country and i chose to hang it up and quit and give everything back to my family now. >> host: >> host: your wife is tired or can? >> guest: can. >> host: you have children as well. >> i have a son and dau

tony abbott spoke to haider al-abadi in the baghdad capital. carried out bombing raids against cite as a part of a u.n. pled coalition to wipe out the group. >>> peshmerga forces are trying retake their momentum, one in the village of sultan abdalla where peshmerga forces were reportedly in full control just a few days ago. the capitol of mosul and erbil. mohammad adow reports. >> about 80 kilometers from the capital of the semi autonomous region. there are i.s.i.l. fighters still holed up in some sections of this village. sultan abdalla is where there was heavy fighting just two days ago, between peshmerga and i.s.i.l. fighters, although at one point peshmerga fighters say they were in total control of this town, they say now there are pockets of resistance in the town and getting incoming fire from the positions of i.s.i.l. here in the camp and at this front line we have seen some unexploded ordnance, particularly mortars that peshmerga fighters said they lost to some men. what we also know is that the village of sultan abdalla is also close

it's right, it's a split between the baghdad and kurdish government. i.s.i.l. territory - the kurd are making gains. they want the fight to be quicker than it has done. they see foreign ground as a way to do that. the type of training that the iraqi and kurdish forces get need to be adopted. we are looking at a period of two years before iraqi troops fight i.s.i.l. the timeline is unacceptable for the kurds. the split comes when you take a look at what the baghdad government wants, they don't want american or foreign boots on the ground. they see it as a reoccupation. the iranians who are involved say that they are capable of beating i.s.i.l. you have that split. there's another. pro-sunni tribes want american foreign boots on the ground. in 2006 2007 and eight, they were able to beat al qaeda, and need that pore. there's no unified presence it's to deal with the idea that you have the peace treaty and the kurds would like to go in. it's a reoccupation if they go in. >> the likelihood of american boots on the ground is not date diplomated it is unlikely. there'