there is an an exlented u.n. representatives there who has got to know the parties well. there needs to be a regional approach. the government was planning a conference on the 15th of this month, the problem with that is government invitation is not taken up by so many of the suni leadership and the tribal leaders and while the efforts continue, i think more of a regional approach and bringing in saudi arabia and gulf states and iran and getting away from what is looking like a very serious problem. >> can action be taken fast enough? it is out of nowhere for the people that they have taken their eyes off of iraq. >> this is what happens when you try to manage some of the brewing conflicts that we have seen in the region, rather than try to resolve them. on syria, we have let it drift. we had been warning that these areas were being infiltrated by the al qaeda extremists and similarly in iraq the broken system is allowing the resurgence in iraq. this is a very deeply worrying silts situation. it is requiring the regional actors to avert the kind of horrible scenario that