we would not be having tea on haifa street two years ago. it was allawi who got most of the results here. the civil servant says that people will not try to get dragged in. we'll come to a shi'ite neighborhood to see how people see things here. most back in nouri all maliki -- nouri al maliki. the country is more stable, according to this man. the days of sectarian violence have gone. the american eyes in the sky are watching baghdad, knowing their withdrawal plans depend on how the result is received. andrew north, bbc news, baghdad. >> at least 40 people were killed just before the election results were announced when two bombs exploded north of baghdad. between bombing happened outside a restaurant, wounding a further 60 people. -- the twin of bombing happened outside a restaurant. israel says it will not change its policy of building homes in east jerusalem. mr netanyahu said the policy had been missing for 42 years and would not change. 300 have marched on kuala lumpur protesting. the demonstration after friday prayers represents a prot

sanctions act was passed 14 years ago and we've never enforced it, and recently, there has been some haifa tension given to this and -- attention given to this hand one example, large example is one of a south korean engineering firm that entered in to a contract with iran to upgrade oil fields in iran in 2007. it was a $700 million contract, and in 2009, the u.s. army gave of the same company a contract for $100 million to build housing. for army in south korea and then just a few months half that, they entered into another contract with iran. : and what that process, a particular country that has done something and iran is not on that list is not my area of expertise. >> one of the reasons iran is not taking us as seriously as we should is we talk about the carrot stick and using it and -- a lot that has been on the books for 13 years. we had a chance to talk in afghanistan. the size of the army we are building, the ability to sustain that. if you are over there, we are at the number 300,000, we build an army above 300,000 but even if we keep it there, that is going to be around $5.5 bil