be a tough force. >> the conflict in iraq has taken a huge toll. we traveled to anbar province where more than 20,000 people have sought refuge. >> this used to be iraq's nicest holiday resort. less than an hour's drive from baghdad, a generation of iraqis highed after it was built in the 1980s. but with fighting in anbar province over the past year, it's become a refuge of last resort. for 24,000 iraqis trapped by the conflict. and they are still coming to what aid officials describe as the worst displacement camp in iraq. almost 200 families have arrived over the past two days from near ramadi. he doesn't have much to give them. >> translator: in addition to being displaced, there are no resources. it slows the efforts of originations. >> reporter: a $15 million project to restore the hotel started and stopped three years ago, leaving only the roofs and walls. there are people living everywhere. this is a disco. nine families live in it now. the hotel had an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a cinema, restaurants, tennis courts, a boat launch. it

where iraq happens to be on the side side as the u.s. in fighting isil but the general idea that he raises about the sanctions falling, empowering iraq. >> that's right. senator mccain saying this enhances iran's deterrence of the u.s. not the other way around. administration officials aren't not denying that. but they say the focus has to be on making sure that country does not get a nuclear weapon because if it does gain that capability and create an arsenal, it will have even more power in the region in terms of what it does with its money and military might. so the administration trying to make a difference there? -- in trying to parse out these issues. we have the defense secretary addressing brood concerns about the region. but john kerry's repeated mantra is let's make sure they don't develop nuclear weapons capability. >> and sanctions against members of the revolutionary guard have not been lifted human rights sanctions have not been lifted there are other methods on constraining iran's influence in these areas. i want to get to

but his reception in iraq is likely to be very different. iraq and iran are very close and have been since the 2003 invasion. the two countries are also working very closely together against the threat posed from the islamic state of the iraq and levant group but there are sectarian concerns in iraq and mr. carter will reaffirm the u.s. military commitment to the region and, indeed his commitment to countries like israel and saudi arabia, qatar and jordan. here this deal is a good thing and could possibly bring some calm to the unrest that we've seen over the years. >> the african union mission in somalia has denied allegations of mass shootings on tuesday. 4 people were killed when africa union troops open fired on young men playing football. well, they have strongly refuted the allegation that troops were involved in the deaths saying that their troops are under obligation to avoid civilian casualty and exercise maximum constraint. a senior united nations official has resigned in the handling of child sex abuse in the. she said she had been

. >> reporter: this used to be iraq's nicest holiday resort.eneration of iraqis holidays here, after it was built in the 1980s. but with fighting in anbar province over the past year it has become a refuge of last resort for 24,000 iraqis trapped by the conflict. and they are still coming to what aid officials describe as the worse displacement camp in iraq. this man says almost 200 families have arrived over the past two days. he doesn't have much to give them. >> translator: in addition to being displaced there are no resources. this camp is far away from the cities. it slows the efforts of organizations and makes it difficult to reach here. >> reporter: a $50 million project to restore the hotel started and stopped three years ago, leaving only the roofs and walls. there are people living everywhere. this is actually a disco, nine familiesly it in now. the hotel had an indoor and outdoor swimming pool a cinema restaurants, tennis courts a boat launch it was considered one of the nicest hotels in the middle east, in fact a lot of people who a

be here, they'll withdraw. that's always been the problem with the american perception in iraq. look at when they were through in 2011 and the status of forces agreement that never came into place. there's a deal, a hope that there might be increased cooperation between the u.s. and iran when it comes to fighting isil. for a year now the americans and the iranians have been on the same side in iraq fighting isil. iranians on the ground and u.s. with coalition airstrikes. the iraqis hope this paves the way at some point in the future for more cooperation between two sides. the other thing iraqis are looking forward too is the legitimization of the trade they have which is worth about a billion dollars a year. they'll be looking to increase all of that, there are investment opportunities that both sides will now have on each other's country iran and iraq. an overall sense of relief. we haven't heard from the sunnis or kurds. the kurds are likely to welcome the deal, the sunnis may be a little concerned about what this means in terms of the power brokers within baghdad itself, who a

could anyone envision a time when there could be trust between iraq and the united states if this goesording to plan? this >> well you just have to look back at the history and remember the iranian revolution was 36 years ago. 36 years of hostility and mistrust. there is no way that anyone can describe yet as iran and the u.s. and western partners as allies or friends. but this deal has the potential to change the dynamic, and that's why i think those who are definitely enemies of iran are so concerned about a repositioning of regional relations. this is clearly, i think an historic moment. there is no doubt this is one of those historic turns points in the history of iran. >> and obviously a turning point in which direction depends on which camp you are on james bayes thank you. >>> here is more of what u.s. president barack obama had to say about the agreement. >> because of this deal we will for the first time be in a position to verify all of these commitments. that means this deal is not built on trust. it is built on verification. inspectors will have 24/7 access to iran's key nu

a threat that has to be addressed in iraq and syria. so this coalition has to go into a different year in terms of its activities. it's interesting prime minister abadi went to the g-7 meeting. trying to be a presence among other coalition members but somehow that has to move into something more aggressive. these last few weeks are demonstrating this threat is metastasizing. the only answer is for the individual security services you know where they exist. libya is a nightmare because it's fallen apart as a country. who do you work with? the elements that the coalition will work with in all these countries need to ask for help and then do the fighting. it's not going to be possible for america france, america, france, britain, australia are not going to solve the problem. they can help. >> it's a very important question, mr. ambassador because everyone has accepted it intellectually but the pieces the coalition can handle operationally are the nonmilitary. i'm talking about coalition allies in the region are the ones best positioned tryi

of the first strategy as opposed to iraq, it should be an i.s.i.l. first strategy, wherever i.s.i.l. is. >> if we look at president obama's roll out of an anti-i.s.i.l. alliance, a broad group of nations aimed at stopping the threats. when we come back, we try to answer the questions, have members lived up to their commitments, have training and commitment came to pass in an important way. has the fighting in yemen, the involvement of iran, the multiple fighting forces complicated the fight against i.s.i.l. war without end - it's "inside story". >> growing up fast. >> my quest is to find me and me is not here. >> fighting for a better future. >> if you don't go to college you're gonna end up dead on the streets. >> life changing moments. >> i had never been bullied, everyone hates me. >> from oscar winning director alex gibney. >> shut the cam --. >> a hard hitting look at the real issues facing american teens. the incredible journey continues. is a strategy relying on air strikes proving effective against an army that employed and enjoyed widespread

carter will be going on to qatar and iraq. qatar has similar concerns as saudi arabia does about iran's role in the wider region. there are concerns that iran will continue to be a destabilizing force but his perception in iraq is likely to be very different. iraq and iran are very close and have been since the 2003 invasion. the two countries are also working very closely together against the threat post from the islamic state in iraq and the levant group. but again there are sectarian concerns in iraq, and mr. carter, no doubt will reconfirm the commitment to the region and, indeed, his commitment to israel, saudi arabia qatar and jordan. here this deal is a good thing and could possibly bring some calm to the unrest that we've seen over the years. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry will appear before u.s. law make necessary washington. >> this is a day that we've been looking forward to because we get to talk substance we get to go into politics. we look forward to answer any and every question that the members of house h

s efforts to make sure if it losses train within iraq and syria, it will be able to survive. it is a place where we are ultimately going to find ourselves. are those eventually teams for i.s.i.l. boko haram, al-shabab and others. they are a transcontinental. if you said that five years ago, the problem is as long as the black flag is planted in iraq and syria, they'll be a recruiting mecca to use a term that is unfair to the real mecca. i think the bottom line is we mention who were the ground troops, who defeated the precursor for i.s.i.s. the anbar awakening was an effective use of the local tribes who know the terrain and people, and defeated them once. the baghdad government will not allow that they don't want armed sunni forces when it goes against the iranian led mast evers wishes. we have the two most effective fighting forces that take i.s.i.s. out in iraq the kurds and sunni tribes sidelined because the iranians don't want them running. it's a disgrace and something we should do something about. >> if you follow the rise against i.s.i.s. you remember the key border d

another part of the strategy was to find a way to mobilize the elements in iraq that would have to be part of infecting isis from sunni areas. the sunni tribes in the sunni leadership. empowering them in this badly sick terry and iraq in a way that they would be effective implementers of the strategy. you ask what is the defeat mechanism? who is going to defeat these people in mosul and amfar? the answer was the best iraqi security forces aided by the tribes immediately comment behind the clearing force. that still hasn't happened. it's amazing to me many months ago you have iraqi defense minister visiting him on talking about the plants, facilities for training sunni tribal fighters in jordan. you had camps set up. you had all the pieces of that assembled and yet to this moment so far as i know it still is in embryo. i would say the same thing about the regional strategy. you nominally have the coalition that was turkey jordan saudi arabia and go down the list. we have this implicit working understanding with iraq and yet those elements i don't think have been mobilized and exactly w

the only solution is that the various constituent elements of iraq is a be the whoever, have to really why into the idea of iraq -- buyuy into the id of correct. it is a political challenge. it is an attachment to their country, to the bit they stuck on the edge of the house. so we have to be part of the political solution that convinces them iraq has a future, and i do not think despite the sectarian history and the blood feud or revenge it is not a hard argument to make on one foundation. if you really take emotion out of the equation, there is not one actor in iraq who by themselves can defeat isis. it is a fact. i do not care who you are, whether you are a good sunni, a shia. \ by yourselves you will not defeat faces. and only by coming together and that happen. but it has to happen without troops embedded as advisors, because that is the reason that -- fell. 900,000 on paper. a couple of thousand guys took mosul. we had no embeds. we were there to shame them. shame and honor. if there is nobody there to be embarrassed about you running home, you will run home dear your try because

be quick. this is a long-term campaign. isil is opportunistic, and it is nimble. in many places in syria and iraq it's dug in among innocent civilian population. it will take time to root them out. as with any military effort there will be periods of progress but there are also going to be some setbacks as we've seen with isil's gains in ra daddi and iraq and central and southern syria, but today it's also important for us to recognize the progress that's been made. our coalitions now hit isil with more than 5,000 air strikes. we have taken out thousands of fighting positions, tanks, vehicles bomb factories and training camps, we've eliminated thousands of fighters including senior isil commanders. over the past year we've seen when we have an effective partner on the ground isil can be pushed back. in iraq isil loss at the mosul dam. isil lot at mt. sinjar. isil has lost repeatedly across the kirkuk province they lost at tikrit. they have lost more than a quarter of the populated areas it had seized in iraq. in syria isil lost at cobanni, and recent losses including a key city denies a supply ro

iraq's foreign minister viewed dozens of piece misrecoverred by international customs agents after being looted from iraq in 2003. many of the sites they came from are now under isil control where there is not much that iraq can do about the looting and destruction. >> two years ago we were fighting smugglers. >> iraq is trying to recover antiquities through legal means. some important pieces stolen in 2003 between the iraq museum was looted or still missing and might never be found. others are still the subject of legal claims. this is the post important piece in this winged beings they believed protected their palace palaces. customs seized it when it came up for sale in 2008. pieces like that have never been registered, and archeologists can never be sure what is missing. >> a lot of these artifacts are looted from the sites directly, not from mys and they don't know that they've been looted until they turn up at auction. >> some are facts to fool buyers. some were not stolen but borrowed. iraq wants everything back. >> we're see serious. most of these pieces are in various countries

emily: if you succeed, are you saying that we would not be in iraq or there would not be conflict inkraine? sebastian: at the core, i believe that most people want the same thing. they want stability. they want safety. and they want the ability to unfold their potential. to contribute. that is cut off if you cannot participate. you cannot play. emily: something else that you think is broken is transportation. tell me about the self driving car. how did that start? sebastian: when i was 18, i lost a neighbor and the neighbor was driving with a friend. and a friend was driving his dad's brand-new car and made a mistake on ice, a split second mistake. they killed them both on the spot. i always felt this kind of notion of having 18-year-olds drive crazy cars or the fact that we lose about a million, 1.2 million people every year on this planet due to traffic accidents, that was wrong. we should not just except it. we have the technology to do it. why do we not make cars safer? emily: how did you invent the car? sebastian: first of all, i didn't invent the car, i had a fantastic team of

but this would be one of those issues if confirmed again, iraq, afghanistan, places where our young men and women are in harm's way, would be the first places we go to visit. this issue it's so important. the one issue i would look into personally. >> good. i appreciate that. and this morning's the hill, general petraeus had a couple quotes in there. i would disagree, he said we can schedule an end to our role in that nation talking about afghanistan, in that nation's conflict. we do not schedule an end to the war there or an end to the threat from al qaeda, the islamic state or other extremists of the global jihad. going to a zero option next year would be playing roulette with afghanistan's future is petraeus, right? >> senator, i think he's absolutely right with regard to the war. we continue whether or not we are there or not. i think you can assume the war would get worse were our presence not to be there. again, my aassessment is it should be based on conditions on the ground. i will certainly go over there and if confirm. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> gen

iran's role in iraq and the broader region must never be forgotten either. many of the aforementioned accidents were at the behest of iran or certainly after acquiescence. iran's influence in iraq and political decision-making can be seen prior to the 2008 visit of the iranian president to baghdad. today, iran has its own military boots on the ground in both iraq and syria and continues to support its progress. we must keep a close eye on iran and assess carefully their interest as a tactical and strategic level. as we work with the coalition to counter the threat, it would be useful to obtain your perspective on these and other factors as we endeavor to reshape our policies and our strategy. ultimately though, one of the key lessons from the iraq war is that no amount of u.s. or coalition led military assistance believed lead to the lasting defeat of violent extremism is the underlying political forces that allow shoes and -- extremism to rise unaddressed. we must address long-standing grievances of iraq minorities and expand the sunnis and kurds to iraq's m

. >>> the iraq yay government is denying allegations that it tortures prisoners. officials are beingestigated. iraq ratified the u.n. convention against torture in 2011 but rights groups say torture is still widespread. >>> the iraqis are facing very tough questions. they have denied the charges, they said we do not torture people and there is no evidence provided to contradict that. however, there is a legal problem when it comes to the iraqi constitution. torture isn't clearly defined. some say this has been a deliberate measure to allow them to get away with torture. there is plenty of publicly available evidence on this. we have seen reports from human rights watch, amnesty international, and other groups about these secret prisons. there have been plenty of testimony from people who have been inside the prisons alleging they have been tortured. when abadi took power, he said he was going to clean house. we haven't seen a huge amount of that cleaning house going on particularly when it comes do the ministry of justice and these allegations of torture that is going on. the iraqis

possibly the gravest issue for the next scharm will be countering the security threat from isil iraq and syria and its spread in the middle east. as the president said earlier this week our counter-isil campaign will be long term and employ all elements of military power. and if confirmed, general dunford, you'll be responsible for advising on the u.s. military's role in supporting the broader counter-isil campaign, build the capacity of local forces to counter isil with training assistance and air support from the international coalition. the success of these efforts will ultimately depend on a broader complimentary effort to address the conditions that gave rise to isil. i look forward to hearing your views on the situation in iraq and syria and your thinking on the most effective role that the military can play in supporting efforts on a diplomatic front. regarding ran, while there remains no clear outcome in the p5+1 negotiations no matter what happens, the department of defense will play a key role, confronting common threats and working to deescalate or possibly resolve these th

fight this multifront battle against iraqi forces in anbar kurdish forces in be northern iraq and syria,. >> this could be a game changer. the coalition only has to now commute about 200 miles meaning they could stay around the targets much longer, look around for targets of opportunity apply air power much more effectively, instead of coming in trying to find your target, and go home before you run out of gas. with everything else going on the push against anbar the push is from the north ypg from the south, all of this could see some results against the islamic state. >> douglas olivant always good to have your insights, thank you. >> pleasure, antonio. >> anbar university sits three miles south only about 80 miles from baghdad. the fight lasted hours and destroyed large parts of the university. iraqis said they are in full control, recently launched a campaign to retake control of the anbar province. >>> new round of talks with north korea began in seoul met with the head of north korea's nuclear program. siler said the deal is the americans willing to compromise, to achieve agreemen

iran's role in iraq and the broader regions must never be forgotten either. many of the aforementioned actions by maliki were at the behest of iran or with their acquiesce sense and iran's efforts in iraq can be seen even prior to the 2008 visit of the iranian president ahmadinejad to baghdad. today iran has its own military boots on the ground in iraq and syria and continues to support its proxies. we must deep keep a close eye on iran and assess carefully their interest at the tactical and strategic level. as we work the coalition to counter the threat of isil will be useful to obtain your perspective in an effort to reshape our policies and strategies. one of the key lessons from the iraq war is that no amount of u.s. or coalition military assistance or boots on the ground will lead to the laing defeat of violent extremism if the underlying courses that allow such extremism to arise and thrive are not addressed. in iraq their body government must continue to take substantive steps to govern in a more inclusive manner, address grievances of iraq's sectarian

you will be countering the security threat from isil in iraq and syria. as the president said earlier this week our counsel icer -- counter isil campaign will employ all elements including military intelligence, diplomatic and economic. if confirmed you will be authorized on a military role including getting rid of isil safe havens with training assistance and air support from the international coalition. the success of these efforts will depend on a couple metairie effort to i look forward to hearing your views on the situation in iraq and syria and thinking in the ultimate role the military can play in supporting the diplomatic front. regarding the ran -- iran the department of defense will play a key role in reassuring our shared priorities in the region. working to did -- deescalate or resolve threats. if confirmed you will bring valuable experience to oversight in afghanistan where you have led the u.s. and coalition forces with distinction. while the afghan forces fought courageously come up more is to be done -- courageously, more needs to be done.

good to hear from you, that is be joining us from baghdad thank you very much for your time. >>> and still to come on the program. the long wait for help. the people in iraq who are struggling to get even basic aid. plus, green fields, a farming lifestyle. may be surprised when we reveal where this rural retreat actually is. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage all of taylor swift's music videos interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. >> putting loved ones in a nursing home... hoping for the best. >> my father died because of the neglect. >> are they betraying your trust? >> it's a for-profit business. $. >> hello again a reminder of the stop stories here on al jazeera eurozone finance ministers are in brussels to discuss greek latest bailout proposal. >>> and an iraqi mp says outlaw political parties are kidnapping members of the christian community in baghdad. houses being seized. >>> a truce which the u.n. hoped would allow the delivery of desperately needed aid has failed to take hold in yemen. fighting continues on the ground as saudi led forces carry on targeting hou

the other question about democracy in iraq important to remember the idea that iraq was being the perfect laboratory for creating a democratic regime goes way back to the 1980s 1980s. state department fixture the idea that iraq was one and country in which even under saddam's survival stable civil society that would make cultivating relations with iraq easier and supportive but also could lead to the evolution of a democratic iraq. one of the factors which helped undermine that if you read miss flies recent book on the outcome of the war for one of the things that helped to undermine the stable civil society where the sanctions, the un sanctions imposed after the 1st gulf war which deeply impoverished iraq destabilized iraqi society achieved people talking about professors wondering well-respected professors at iraqi universities wandering the streets begging for money. thethe degree to which saddam hussein in power holding the sanctions regime did go a long way i think, to creating conditions that made the us mission pacifying the country and establishing a knew stable government that mu

could be capable of developing a nuclear bomb even after this deal and saudi arabia wants sanctions to remain in place and says a stronger iran economy will mean more iran interference in lebanon and iraq and could be a goal for states and it's a large trading point with them and the other side of the gulf. and we are live in jerusalem and has been following the israeli reaction to all of this and not surprisingly the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu not impressed with this deal pretty unequivocal in his reaction. >> indeed very unequivocal and really says a lot about how mr. netanyahu feels about the deal, the fact he made a televised statement criticizing this agreement that has been reached by these foreign powers and iran. before this announcement, before the deal was publically announced now what mr. netanyahu said, he said that this deal effectively gives, and i quote, iran a short path to a nuclear weapon and he also said it would ensure that iran receives hundreds of billions of dollars to and i quote spread terrorism and said this was a bad mistake of historical proportions and levelling a lot of criticism against the deal the deal he has been the most focal critic ab

when she was very strong to be iraq war. she voted for it. it took her down. it was peronealrobably the main difference between her and obama. >> in the remaining seconds we have hillary clinton is trying to stoke the progressive fire -- home fires, if you will and has been using the language and speaking to the themes. absolutely yesterday at the new school she did. but you hear amy and i think there is still a ton of skepticism about how legitimately grounded these big ticket proposals. >> i don't think there is a whole lot of belief in hillary clinton on the progressive left. i think folks have clear she's a centerist candidate. i think she will have to again make really clear what her stance on iran and free trade is. here is the thing. what is also happening is she's being pulled to the left of this conversation the president is going to have today. >> exactly. >> so i'm hoping this gives her opportunity to push farther left and recognize she has a progressive left base wanting her to stand up and do that. >> in a way it's president obama's policy legacy

iran's role in iraq and the broader region must never be forgotten either. many of the aforementioned accidents were at the behest of iran or certainly after acquiescence. iran's influence in iraq and political decision-making can be seen prior to the 2008 visit of the iranian president to baghdad. today, iran has its own military boots on the ground in both iraq and syria and continues to support its progress. we must keep a close eye on iran and assess carefully their interest as a tactical and strategic level. as we work with the coalition to counter the threat, it would be useful to obtain your perspective on these and other factors as we endeavor to reshape our policies and our strategy. ultimately though, one of the key lessons from the iraq war is that no amount of u.s. or coalition led military assistance will lead to the lasting defeat of violent extremism is the underlying political forces that allow extremism to rise go unaddressed. we must address long-standing grievances of iraq minorities and expand the sunnis and kurds to iraq's military struct

agree there are more but any time since. >>. >> when it comes to iraq but i certainly agree. >> for the turks is separate state would be problematic and with iraq a substantial autonomy of decentralized. >> do you agree general? >> partitioning is not a viable strategy. >> it do any of you believe the kurds have the ability for the oil to go liberate ramadi and you're obviously trying to facilitate the movement south said it doesn't matter the only reason i say that is they are getting a to the edge of the territory civics anybody to suggest the kurds haven't answered our problems know they each. they will not liberate syria. do you agree? they will not be a liberating force. >> what is more likely the president and. >> it is certain with the presidents of that is an easy question. >> we will be in power then. >> who leads first? >> i certainly hope it is assad. >> i don't think so. if he stays in power do you worry about jordan or lebanon to be in serious the way it is going? i think jordan and lebanon are already suffering those defects. >> it is even get worse step that is the concern we should all have. it is unjus

of course, restoration of the border which would be the ultimate step, rest rakes of their sovereign territory defined as the border between syria and iraq. >> that would be largely a federal police orb border issue and i'm not aware that number has been identified. the initial goal is to form or regreen, reequip nine brigades. >> what's the time frame that that could be acome plished in. >> putting a temporal division on this is risky at best because, ba us the campaign is dependent on a coalition and it's dependent on the network of actors that include the sunni tribes, the iraqi security forces themselves, this counterterrorist service and the kurds, the act of describing when those groups could all come together to establish the conditions to do this is just difficult to pin down. even if i knew the answer to that question, i would be low to report it to you in an open hearing. but i've said that from the beginning that it was probably a three-year effort to restore sovereign di to iraq and we're eight months into that. >> you know general, we pride ourselves and we point out the fact that we truly do have the greatest fighting force

iraq's foreign minister viewed dozens of pieces recovered by international customs agents after being looted from iraq since 2003. many of the sites they came from are now under isil control where there is not much crack can do about the looting and destruction. >> two years ago we were fighting against smugglers. now we're fighting against armed groups that are well equipped and well funded. >> some important pieces stolen when the iraq museum was loot are still missing and might never be found. others are still the subject of legal claims. this is the most important piece in this collection. a 3,000-year-old piece winged beings that they believed protected their palaces. it showed up for sale in 2008. iraqi officials are not sure which site it was looted from or when because pieces like that have never been register: archaeologists can't be sure what is missing. a lot of these artifacts are looted from the sites directly not from museums and they don't know they've been looted until they turn up at auction. not all are authentic. some are fakes intended to fool buyers. not all were

be very difficult to do. but at this point, i believe that is the best prospect for long-term success as a unified sectarian government in iraq. if confirmed and at any point i don't believe that is possible my advice will be adjusted accordingly. >> thank you very much, sir and thank you for your service again. >> thank you mr. chairman. in responding to one of the chairman's question you were talking about not having the authority to go after assad? >> that is my understanding. we don't have the legal authority at this time to go after the assad regime and it is the policy of the administration not to go after the assad regime militarily. >> for the record i would like to have you expand a little bit on that. as to whether it is desirable to have that authority. we have been talking for a long time with you and at the hearings about the amount of risk we are at right now. you were quoted as saying your commanders face increasing risk. we talk about the risk out there. and you know risk equals lives and we talk about all of these theories but how do you define too much risk? are we there yet? >> senator, i believe today we a

layers of encryption every other week so somehow that intelligence gap is going to have to be made up. in iraq something the u.s. did of enormous power it was the night raids, and people would arrive and there would be firefights and maybe they would capture people if they could, and they would capture intelligence that would drive the next night's raids and the next night's and the next night's and you gather momentum because each raid feeds the information you don't have. it's said the sigh kwraf raid the only kind we have seen in syria to capture and turned up the wife of the chief financial officer of isis was effective in terms of giving lots of leads. i don't see this problem being managed, and i include the foreign fighter part and the internal fight part without better intelligence and i don't see how you get that unless you had an increased operations tempo like what we have seen in other cufflings. >> thank you for the great comments. we will open it up now. please identify yourself and your affiliation. >> john mcgaffelin? >> i would like to raise what i call the problem of the conf

the most prominent example of that is the concerns we have about american citizens who are being detained in iraq. >> well, a deal may be aproeching given a shift in attitude in tehran. yesterday the "new york times" bureau chief tweeted quote, after days of pessimism, iran state deal is coming. the americans have compromised on their own red line. of course, that is what the iranians want to say it was the americans making the compromises, not the power sitting on the table in vienna. >> we know that congress is going to reply putting new demands on lifting an arms embargo, which i doubt many in congress. what about europe? have the iranians finally drawn a red line that we all cannot cross? >> yeah i think this will go down wale with the p-5 members as well. it's like they're iran i inserting something at the very end of the negotiating process. this hasn't been discussed up until now t. focus of the discussions has been on what to do about iran's iranian that it already has. what and how to do about the sanctions and when to lift them and which sanctions to lift and the inspection process, now

reported to be an iraq war veteran, purple heart recipient from the springfield area of massachusettsapparently believed to be in the military for more than a decade and a half served two tours in iraq. an irony that he would serve combat in iraq and killed by gunfire here. the other two we're identifying, lance corporal skip wells, said to be a member of the marine service reserve from georgia, he aend attended georgia southern. we have some sound from a close friend who has known wells since elementary school. listen. >> he loved his country. you know his mama served in the military. i believe she was a marine also. i figured he just wanted to - follow in her footsteps. he was in rotc in high school. he loved that. i just think that's a calling that he had. >> and the final member is staff sergeant david wyatt, said to be 38 years old, reported to be from tennessee but the military has listed his hometown as north carolina. husband, father also received an iraq campaign medal. so that's a picture of the ones who died and obviously we'll be refining that information as it comes in pa

in be are in iraq. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. >>> libya's internationally recognized parliament in tobruk. 18 others have been believed to be captured by the fighters. >>> turkish government says there will be no let up until the be pkk leaves the country. cover for attacking kurds. al jazeera bernard smith reports from istanbul. >> this is the aftermath of the latest turkish air strikes on the pkk in southeastern turkey. f 16s have been targeting i.s.i.l. and the pkk for the last week bit most of the bombs have hit the pkk. that's made the kurds suspicious that the real government agenda is to suppress kurdish territorial ambitions. >> translator: a night pass been waged against i.s.i.l. but listen as if we are responsible for all of the terror attacks. we know they have a political agenda. this operation is a political operation. >> reporter: the government says the pkk must leave turkey. pkk youth wings have been setting up roadblocks in kurdish majority areas. they have been accused of kidnappin

be in charge of this effort. general allen has the management of the coalition piece. different commanders in charge of the effort in iraq and a separate set of commanders in charge of the train and equipment effort outside of syria. and being able to coordinate both the diplomatic and the military assistance aspects of this in a coordinated fashion is to be essential to success. the president has warned that it is going to take years for this battle to be within and battle to be won, and one that the region is going to have to embrace. but without proper recalibration of what we're trying to do, i suspect that the fighting against isis is going to prove more longer and drawn out than it needs to be. thank you, brian. >> thanks, hardin. steve, i want to turn to you, first, hardin said, the strategy is fundamentally okay, we just need to recalibrate it. we heard general john allen earlier, your assessment whether you agree or disagree and how you see the snapshot right now where we are. >> first of all, i think the strategy you heard here sounded very familiar to me. we have a coalition that's going to wage this conflict.

but we're trying to stick up to the principle that iraq is a single unitary multisectarian state and difficult as that may be that is much preferred to the alternative which is the sectarian disintegration of iraq. senator ayotte: let me follow-up. so clearly the kurds are capable and motivated. at this point what are they receiving all of the weapons they asked for? because as i understood it, isis at one -- isis unfortunately captured some of the armaments we left in iraq and some of them heavy armaments. the kurds are quite effective but it's hard if you're , outarmed. and are they now receiving -- what have they requested that we're not providing and if so why? secretary carter: i'll let chairman dempsey answer that. again, just to say it's not just us. i think there are more than 12 nations overall arming the kurds and i noted i was with the german defense minister over in germany last week and she was providing to the kurds these critical anti-tank weapons of the kinds the germans make that is especially effective. so it's not just us, and the kurds are an example of what we're looking for which is an

be." in two tours in iraq, he earned a combat action ribbon; for his wounds, two purple hearts. when he was warned that a gunman was there in chattanooga, he ran in -- so that others could live. today we echo the words of his community: gunnery sergeant thomas j. sullivan "was our hero and he will never be forgotten." "thank you for protecting us." [applause] growing up in georgia, skip wells was a true servant leader -- devoted to god and to his friends, quick to lend a hand or put you on his prayer list. during his hometown's fourth of july parade, he was so proud to be a marine that he went in his dress uniform. just 21 years old, a year out of boot camp, easy going, always smiling, even during the hardest drills. a friend said, "skip is the kind of kid you want on your team." as americans, we are forever grateful that lance corporal squire k. wells was on our team. as an eagle scout in arkansas, david wyatt would race up a mountain to be the first on top. he was determined to do his part for our country, found his calling in the marines. he led with courage, in afghanistan a

but his reception in iraq is likely to be very different. iraq and iran are very close and have been since the 2003 invasion. the two countries are working very closely together against the threat posed from the islamic state of iraq and the levant group. but again there are sectarian concerns in iraq and in carter, no doubt will reaffirm the u.s. military commitment to the region and, indeed his commitment to countries like israel, saudi arabia qatar and jordan. here that deal is a good thing and could possibly bring some calm to the unrest we've seen over the years. >> a memorial service has been held in texas for sandra bland. she was found dead in a jail cell after being pulled over for not using her car indicator. >> get out of the car now. >> i'm going to yank you out of here. >> at a time when the spotlight is on law enforcement in the united states this happens. >> get out of the car. i will write you up. >> uaw. >> uaw. >> what should have been a routine traffic warning turns sour. the local police chief admits the police officer did

another part of the strategy was to find a way to mobilize the elements in iraq that would have to beart of evicting isis from sunni areas the sunni tribes the sunni leadership, empowering them in this badly sectarian iraq in a way that they would be effective implementers of the strategy when you would ask what's the defeat mechanism, who's going to defeat these people in mosul, in anbar? the answer was you know in part the best iraqi security forces. but aided by the tribes who could immediately come in behind the clearing force. that still hasn't happened adequately. it's amazing to me when you know, many months ago you had the iraqi defense minister visiting ahman talking about the plans, facilities for train training sunni tribal fighters in jordan. you had camps set up. you had all the pieces of that assembled. and yet to this moment so far as i know it really still is embryo. i say the same thing about the regional strategy. we nominally have a coalition that includes jordan, turkey, saudi arabia, go down the list, we have this working with iran and yet those elements i don't t

but it is likely to be the islamic state in iraq and the levant. they often have said that they want to attack baghdad and have done in recent days. what we're see something this use of car bombs. it's a system that isil has developed, and they're using it in devastating effect. these car bombs are sometimes made from u.s. made humvees. and it's technology that you simply cannot protect against without decent intelligence. you park the car in the neighborhood and it looks like any ordinary car. this is putting a lot of people in baghdad in a scared and angry frame of mind. >> what are people telling you? we saw just a couple of days ago another two car bombs going off. we can only imagine people feel utterly terrified and as you said helpless. >> that's exactly right. you travel around these neighborhoods, you speak to people, you find this idea that people don't want to leave their neighborhoods. they don't want to travel. they're very scared that these bombs are going off. they're very wary of soldiers coming in to their neighborhoods. take for e

. >> at the time and the months leading up to the iraq war there were two big intelligence judgments to be made. one is what is the status of saddam hussein's weapons of mass distraction program and the second was what was the relationship between iraq and al qaeda? on the first, what was the status of the weapons of mass distraction program? the analysts at cia and about the analysts in the entire u.s. intelligence community, and that the analysts and every intelligence service on the planet that looked at the question came to the same conclusion. this guy has chemical weapons. this guy has a biologic weapons production capability and this guy is reconstituting his nuclear weapons program. that is what the analysts believe. they turned out to be wrong. all of these people who looked at this question turned out to be wrong and we can talk about why but it turned out to be wrong. the reason i apologize to colin powell was twofold. one is i think colin powell is a remarkable man. i think he served his country with great distinction in job after job after job after job. he deserves the stella

strategy, saying iraq is being put under too much pressure when it comes to dealing with i.s.i.l. that without a political solution. to mount the attacks. it means that iraq is under a tremendous amount of pressure. >> meanwhile, the unenvoy is having talks with the government. he was concerned that barrel bombs have been dropped over some towns. government air strikes caused death and destruction in civilian areas. the town, which is close to the lebanese border has been subjected to several attacks this week. the situation in syria is gradually spilling across the border to turkey. the outlawed kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. has claimed responsibility for killing two turkish police men. the party says that it cooperated with i.s.i.l. to carry out a separate attack. that is an attack in which more than 35 people were killed, our correspondent has met one of the victims. >> reporter: this couple is crushed by survivor's disappointment. their smile has deep pain. >> reporter: i left them there, i left my brothers there how could i have done that. they felt far closer to each

being hit. fears of another attack are never far off >>> now to iraq where children as young as 13 are being recruited into militias to fight against i.s.i.l. in anbar province. these militias are known as popular mobilization forces and they are controversial human rights groups are concerned. imran khan reports from baghdad. >> reporter: young recruits study battlefield tactics in a shia base north of baghdad. they are taking advantage of cooler night air to learn deadly skills. at summer camps across iraq they are being taught to fight. the teenagers answered the call to join up from the highest cleric, the grand ayatollah khamenei. it's not just about weapons and surviving in a war zone, but about indoctrination, believing that the fight is just. >> we are here at the camp answering the call to defend our lands from terrorism. we are getting courses on weapons, rules of engagement and first aid, and we are also getting islamic doctrine evidence >>> in i.s.i.l. video they use the mix of battlefield tactics and religion. both sides are entrenched both saying they are right. not all the recruits are

of the national iranian american council, he says letting this deal slip away would be as big as going to war in iraq. i wonder if you could explain that point. letting this slip away would be akin to going to war with iraq? >> i would say so. because the geopolitical shifts that could follow this deal meaning that the united states and iran have been at odds with each other for the last 35 years spent so much of their energy undermining each other in the region which has caused a lot of that stability. they can now transform that deal. i don't think they're going to become friends or partners or allies, but it is also clear both of them are ready for a truce, ready to stop using their energy against each other. that could be a game changer in the region. united states and iran have a common enemy, that is i.s.i.s. iranians are already fighting i.s.i.s, any coordination or collaboration is very weak, and that could be important for u.s. national interests. >> if the iranians really want a deal and for peaceful purposes why then are they refusing to come clean about previous efforts to weaponnize the

be quick. this is a long-term campaign. isil is opportunistic and it is nimble. in many places of syria and iraq including urban areas, it has dug in among innocent civilian populations. it will take time to root them out. i'm doing so must be the job of local forces on the ground with training and air support from our coalition. as with any military effort, there will be periods of progress but there are also going to be some setbacks, as we've seen with isil's gain in ramadi in iraq and central and southern syria. katty: president obama at the pentagon earlier today could for more on the fight against islamic state, i spoke with matthew levitt, director of the counterterrorism and intelligence program at the washington institute for near east policy. we had the president at the pentagon today saying this would be a generational struggle and not just military. but trying to strike an optimistic note in terms of what can be achieved against the islamic state so far. is he right to do so? matthew: politically he has to do so. every so often, to show that we are making progress. when he first star