hoda abdel-hamid met -- safer areas. hoda abdel-hamid met some in northern iraq. >> reporter: it's a melting pot of people that share a harsh reality of being refugees and facing a life of uncertainty. stuck beside a checkpoint, we have nowhere to go. this woman has arrived. she was in hospital when mosul fell. when everyone fled, she had to follow. there was no one to help. i'm here with the children. without this camp we would have nothing. >> the fall of mosul created a mass exodus. there's a risk that more people are on the move as the sunni reb 'emmion spread. the u.n. says it's the beginning. >> it's been really dramatic help. event have unfolded at all levels, particularly the humanitarian level. there's displacement happening in dhuluiya, and people are crossing into other provinces. we'll probably see some in the south go towards baghdad. so we are really, as i said in the beginning, at the tip of the iceberg. when they first left, none of the people here realised the scale of the crisis. this camp is growing by

our correspondent hoda abdel-hamid is joining us live. describe to us where you are. >> well, i'm in a youth building in erbil. around me it is packed with people that arrived overnight. now, they all come from a town called tarakort along the disputed areas, not far from mosul. that town has come under mortar attack, heavy mortar attack, prompting thousands and thousands of people to flee in the middle of the night. we are on the second floor of this building. there are big rooms around, and they are packed with families, young people, babies as young as two weeks old. now, we have - they are all christians, many fled baghdad and mosul. now they came to the north. quit petrified. when you ask who was attacking your child. they will tell you we don't know, but not very far from there. we are in the area last week, there are checkpoints of the sunni rebels, and they say these are members of the islamic state of iraq and levant. we haven't seen, we can't confirm that. they were living in fear at the time and wondered as a christian minority

hoda abdel-hamid in haza. >>> now, kiev ran out of time to pay the gas bill. $2 billion to russia. the dead line was a couple of hours ago. ukraine faces fag the gas supply cut off. the discounted rate was axed in april. it was given ca time to settle the bill after making a payment of $786 million. almost sa% -- 15% of gas used comes prior ukraine. ukraine owes $1.95 billion in total. that's a big bill. the price for gas in ukraine is $$485.5 per thousand cubic metres. that is the highest in europe. kiev says it was ready to make full payment if russia cuts its price. the offer was rejected. rory challands is live in moscow. so what is the latest on the dispute. we know the deadline is gone, what is happening now? >> essentially it's what russia and gazprom are saying to ukraine, is that if you want more gas, you have to pay for it up front. so no cash, no gas. it's the result really of a dispute that has been labouring on for weeks and weeks and weeks. we've had negotiations in brussels, and berlin and russia, although it was willing to push the deadline was not willing to come d

hoda abdel-hamid has more. we are talking about john kerry's visit. >> well, he arrived about an hour ago, and his first meeting will be with p.m. nouri al-maliki. it's not difficult to acknowledge what conversation the two men will have. probably the u.s. secretary of state will press on the iraqi prime minister to form a government as soon as possible. elections were held at the end of april, and the prime minister or his party won a majority. since then he has been unable to form a government. that will probably be one of the topics of conversation. john kerry stressing that it should be an includes igovernment -- inclusive government. nouri al-maliki indicated that he wanted u.s. air strikes. he asked for that. indications out of washington is that obama administration is not willing to do that because it doesn't want to be seen to be taking one side versus the other in this sectarian conflict. certainly political reconciliation and the way ahead will be one of the main topics, the second. the role of these

we'll have more from hoda abdel-hamid in the kurdish region. caroline malone is at the jordanian border. first to imran khan, live in baghdad. to begin with, the presidential officer calling for parliament to convene on 1 july. what will happen then? >> well, that is the first part of the process in choosing the new government. it's partly a constitutional process. they need to meet. parliament will be sworn in, they have to choose a president, prime minister and a speaker. house. that will be the first big deft of the prime minister nouri al-maliki, depending on how many people he can get to support him, he'll likely try to build a coalition, he is unpopular and senior voices within the iraqi political spectrum openly criticising. you herd muqtada al-sadr, a key cleric saying iraq needs to form a unity government. for a long time he's been a vocal critic of prime minister nouri al-maliki. heats under a lot of pressure. will the government be formed on 1 july? it's unlikely. the last time they met to form a government in 2010 it took six months

let's go to hoda abdel-hamid.e was speaking about sectarianism and marginalisation and undermining national interest. many would blame nouri al-maliki and his government for creating this situation. absolutely. i think the prime minister had a bit of a defensive aggressive tone here. he was very quick to point out there was no sectarianism on the armed forces. every displaced person i spoke to or the past week here, whether sunni, shi'a, blamed much of the problem on the behaviour of the security forces. the people here told me they were not as much afraid of the sunni rebellion as they were afraid of the ricky army. it's not something that will convince many people or those that had to leave their home. at another point they said the fall of mosul came as a shock. if you speak to kurdish officials, whether from the security forces or the government. they will tell you they have been warning about this for a while, saying since 2012 they have been monitoring training movements of armed groups, they have seen train

hoda abdel hamid has more from a chur church. >> reporter: these people fled in the middle of the nighthey are christians from a town along the border of so-called disputed area not very far from mosul. they left in a hurry. they are elderly, babies as young as two weeks old. now, just a week ago, i was in that town. and people were worried. but they said that so far, they had been spared from the violence. a lot of the people who are among them are several times displaced, like this lady. she first fled from bassarah. then she was in mosul. she had to flee mosul and now she is in erbil in the kurdish north. now, she says she doesn't know where she's going go next. we are in a sports club. this building is three stories high. and wherever you go, it is absolutely packed with people. there is another similar room this way, and then there is another one this way, and it's the same pattern on each floor. now, these people do wonder what is the government doing to protect minorities like them. they say that the kurdish, their positions were intensified and they are protecting them at the mo

hoda abdel hamid reports now. >> reporter: it was a tough sell for william hague convincing the kurdstake part in a government under the leadership of maliki. the kurdish president says there is no going back to june 10th, the day the city fell. >> translator: we have waited for more than ten years for the iraqi government to address and solve the issues of these areas covered by article 140, but it was to no avail. the iraqi government forces have withdrawn, and it was necessary for the forces to go in to provide protection. >> reporter: the, remarks came a day after he made a surprise visit to the oil-rich city under rebel control. with an order of u.s. made f-16 aircraft on hold, the iraqi recently purchased second-hand jet fighters from russia and belarus should arrive in the coming days. maliki blamed the u.s., saying it is the lack of air cover. but sunni's say a military solution will only increase the problem, and blame the prime minister for narrowing down the rebellion to a fight against isil. >> if they didn't accept our political solution, they will face just isis and dest

hoda abdel-hamid has the latest. we heard about the fighting of bargee. is that the focus the government, militarily anyway? >> well, there are several focuses of the government at the moment. bayie is important. is provides a lot of oil, it's an important refinery. frankly speaking, since the fight has been going on for the past few days people have been feeling the act on the ground, all the way up to here, the kurdish region, there's a huge shortage of fuel. there's no electricity or water in a lot of areas. it's usually a big problem for the government. people feel i'll yepated in those areas. life is difficult, and the promises of nouri al-maliki, that he would retake the areas is not coming true. a flash point is the airport of talla far. the town is under the hands. sunni rebels, there has been a standoff around the airport. we are getting conflicting reports. what we can tell you is there is iraqi army presence in the airport itself. they appear to be surrounded. they are not firing. they appear to be in self-defence mode. if the sunni rebels go i

kerry is expected to meet kurdish leaders, and hoda abdel-hamid joins me from there. hi, hoda. give us an idea of why john kerry is there. >> he arrived less than an hour ago. he is here to meet with the kurdish leader. and the kurds are very much part of what is happening in iraq at the moment. their relations with prime minister nouri al-maliki have been strained at best over the past couple of years. then there was a new crisis at the beginning of the year over the issue of oil revenues and the kurd's exporting oil from baghdad. over the past two or three weeks, as much as the sunni rebels were expanding and baghdad losing territory, the peshmerga forces had to fill in the vacuum and it changed the reality on the ground - when it comes to the amount of territory that the kurd control, something that is of a concern to baghdad in the days to see how that evolves in the weeks to come. now, john kerry is here also to see what will be the role of the peshmerga. would they be willing to fight alongside iraqi security forces. this comes after spending a day in baghdad meeting with

hoda abdel-hamid spoke to refugees in northern iraq. >> he first fled, and now the mosul area. this man is stranded in a transit camp. with his children and grandchildren, worried about his future. >> where can i go. i'm taking care of all of them. this kid is disabled. back home he would die. i left my house, i left everything in the middle of the night. >> people here fled when fighters from islamic state of iraq and levant swept through their villages. for them, it was a matter of life and death. >> they think we are infidels. my wife is in backdad with the kids. i'm stuck here, i can't reach them, there's no way i can go by road. it's difficult to escape. most of those lay low. preferring to keep to themselves. mistrust is running tight. >> the differences are showing. when they come here. >> reporter: several families live here. they fled from the same district. they are staying together, it helps them feel safe and they are wary of visitors. >> it's difficult to have anyone to speak on camera. when one of them accepts, everybody else wants to make sure that he says the ri

people have been -- city people have been queueing for hours to buy fuel, with mixed results, hoda abdel-hamid reports. >> reporter: early morning, angry people block the road. they had been waiting for hours at the petrol station in vain. tempers were so high. warning shots couldn't dislodge them. >> translation: the gor said he would -- governor said he would solve the problem. selling to odd and even licence plates. i pashed here last night. until now i have not been able to get fuel. they tell me there isn't any. >> we measured one of the queues. those that made it to the pump only got 30 litres. many of the stations are shut down. the short started after the refinery came under attack. it provides oil for domestic consumption. it accounts for a quarter of the country's capacity. it had an impact on domestic consumption. wherever you dry here, you see the fuel tankers. they are bringing oil to the refinery. people are angry because they say everything is for export. >> hundreds of truck drivers transport oil daily. >> it is not because we have not enough fuel in kurdistan. i think personal

hoda abdel-hamid met some of them in karzai in northern iraq. >> reporter: it's a melting pot of people who shared a harsh reality of being refugees, facing a life of uncertainty. stuck beside a checkpoint, they have nowhere to go. this woman just arrived. she was in hospital when they fell to sunni rebels. when everyone around fled, she had to follow. >> translation: there was no one to help. i'm here with my children. i never imagined i would end up like this. without this camp, we would have nothing. >> reporter: there was a swiss exodus. there were fears that people were on the move. the u.n. says it's just the beginning. >> it's being really dramatics how events have unfolded ot all lels -- at all levels, particularly the humanitarian level. there's displacement and people are crossing provinces. we'll see some in the south go towards baghdad. we are at the tip of the iceberg. >> when they left none realised the scale of the crisis. a lot of people have run out of cash. many that are staying, for the second time are displaced, coming from other parts of iraq. they moved through mos

hoda abdel-hamid spoke to a commander in the kurdish region of qatar. >>> there has been some fighting between the kurdish forces in northern iraq and members of the i.s.i.l., happening wednesday evening, on the outskirts of mosul. according to a kurdish commander, the iraqi soldiers have evacuated the bases in the areas, and so they decided to move in to make sure the military hardware fell into the hands of the i.s.i.l. that's a main concern here for the kurds, special in areas where there's a sizeable community. this happened also in kirkuk. >> translation: i want to confirm that there has been no fighting between us and i.s.i.l. and kirkukment there were reports that we control the whole of the area. that is not true. we have beefed up the forces. we took over some of the bases. they warped us that they were leaving, but we found empty bases. we took over the bases to secure them. i want to make clear we never pushed the iraqi army out. the kurdish forces are on high alert. these are in defense, in areas where there's a sidable kurdish community. so far they haven't been asked by b

hoda abdel-hamid is there, and filed this report. >> reporter: it's not difficult to spot displaced iraqis these days. they are usually stranded by the side of the road, near a checkpoint, waiting for permission to get into the kurdish region. with a widening conflict, more are heading north. these are the latest survivors. they are from the turkman minority. this is not their fight. >> we left because of the fighting. i don't want to stay. i'm trying to reach my daughter. they are not allowing us to get through the checkpoint. they tell us to get through another way, but where? >> it's a question that many ask. it seems many are overwhelmed. >> when you travel through the region, you can't help but notice the amount of people on the move coming in from all directions. the reason they come is for safety, and this is the only place in the entire country where there's no sectarianism. >> reporter: we reached the outskirts in the east. the same queues. long waits and exhausted faces. they are mostly sunnis, from tikrit. fallujah, and beyond. this group first had to go though iraqi army positi

al jazeera's hoda abdel hamid has more but we should warn you some of these images are disturbing. >>he appearance of fighters of isil has sent a shock wave from baghdad to washington. their black flag flying over war bounty, u.s. made vehicles and equipment after months of widespread sunni protests against the policies of prime minister nouri al-malaki perceived as sectarian. the government crackdown was brutal, like here in the town of hawiji, it happened last april. a former officer of saddam's guards, he doesn't want to be identified, nor does he want to give any clues of his whereabouts. >> translator: the protests started because of the marginalization of our areas. it reached a point in anbar when someone was detained, you knew he would be killed. families would make preparations for the funerals. >> it's this alienation that purposed many sunnis to welcome fighters from isil in their areas. but they deny isil is taking over iraq. >> this is the extension of the resistance that started in 2003. isil is irrelevant, a sunni revolution my members with military experience. people a

hoda abdel-hamid has more, and we warn you that some of the images in this report are disturbing. >> reporter: the fighters of i.s.i.l. or islamic state of iraq and levant have september a shockwave from baghdad to washington. they are black flags flying over the war bounty - u.s.-made military vehicles and equipment. it comes after months of sunni protests against the policies of nouri al-maliki, perceived as sectarian. the government crackdown was brutal. like here in the town of howeja. it happened in april. this is a former officer of saddam hussein's republican guard. he doesn't want to be identified nor give a clue of his whereabouts. >> translation: the protests started because of the marginalisition in our areas. it reached a point in anbar, where whenever someone was detained, you knew they'd be killed. families would make arrangements for funerals. >> reporter: it's denied that i.s.i.l. is taking over iraq. >> translation: this is an extension of resistance that started in 2003. i.s.i.l. is ir rev lant. they are professional people with military experience, people humiliate

hoda abdel hamid is there with this update. >> reporter: most of these people fled in the middle of theht and they keep on arriving. they are christians from the town which is just along the border of the so-called disputed areas. they left in a hurry. they are elderly, babies as young as two weeks old. now just a week ago i was in that town, and people were worried, but they said that so far they had been spared from the violence. a lot of the people who are among them are displaced like this lady. she was has had to flee several towns, and now she's in the kurdish north. now she says she doesn't know where she is going to go next. we are in a youth sports club. this building is three stories high, and wherever you go, it is absolutely packed with people. there's another similar room this way, and another one this way, and it's the same on each floor. now these people do wonder what is the government doing to protect minorities like them. they say the kurdish forces destroyed their town overnight, intensified their positions there, and that they are protecting them at the moment, but t

hoda abdel-hamid reports. >> reporter: it's not difficult to spot the iraqis.hey are usually stranded by the side of the road, at a check checkpoint, waiting for permission to get into a kurdish region. more are heading north. these are the new arrivals, the latest town to fall into the hand, from tal afa. they are from the turkman minority. this is not their fight. >> translation: we left because of the fighting. i'm trying to reach my daughter in kirkuk. they are not allowing us to get through the checkpoint. they tell us to go another way - where? it's a question many ask. kurdish authorities are overwhelmed by the influx. >> when you travel through the region, you can't help but notice the people on the move. the reason they come is for safety, because this is the only place in the country where there's security. niece people are mostly sunnis. coming from tikrit. this group of young men had to go through army positions and the sunni rebel once. >> translation: we don't know what will happen, we are living tomorrow not knowing what it will bring. if you lea

hoda abdel-hamid reports. >> reporter: he may be miles from the battle ground, but this sheikh conditions to wage war against a long-time enemy, nouri al-maliki. from a hotel in the kurdish reason, the sunni tribal leader is sending a clear message - there can be no reconciliation in iraq until nouri al-maliki moves and no peace until an interim government takes control to carry out reforms. >> we informed sunni politicians and warped them -- warned them no to attend a parliamentary session, they would be considered traitors, and would be accepting of nouri al-maliki. >> reporter: a national salvation government has been dismissed by nouri al-maliki. he called for the parliament to meet, to discuss the process of forming a government. a more inclusive government is a key demand. it wants it in place before insisting the iraqi government if as what it calls military threats. >> reporter: washington is in a difficult position. sunni groups are taking part, and sunnis report the rebellion. the u.s. can't be seen as taking seeds in what is -- taking suds in what is seen as a shia war. once th

hoda abdel-hamid met some of those soldiers in the north of iraq and sent this report. >> reporter: we met them inside a tent in a makeshift camp, where they live in fear, keeping to themselves. they are soldiers from the iraqi army, who fled mosul when it fell into the hands of the islamic state of iraq and levant, or i.s.i.l. they will not give their names, but their story sheds light on how the army crumbled so quickly. >> we fought for five days and ran out of ammunition. we asked for support - it didn't come. we asked for ammunition - nothing arrived. the big commanders from baghdad ran away and left us. how could we condition fighting? we were left here. >> reporter: not everyone here wanted to be filmed but they came from all over iraq. they fled and handed weapons over to kurdish authorities, and don't understand what happened. this is a video shot in mosul as the isil fighters were approaching the city. they are sipping defiantly -- singing defiantly "let them come, we are ready to fight." it was meant to boost morale. it was hard on television, watching it height eps their se

hoda abdel-hamid has more from erbil. should warp you some of the images in the reportar disturbing. >> translation: the sudden appearance of fighters in i.s.i.l., or islamic state of iraq and levant sent a shockwave. they are flying over the war boundary. u.s.-made military vehicles and equipment. even though it comes after widespread protests, perceived as sectarian. the government crackdown was brutal, like here. it happened last april. this is a former officer of saddam hussein's republican guards. he doesn't want to be identified or give clues of his whereabouts. >> the protest started because of the marge junalisation of the areas. it reached a point that wherever someone was detained, you knew he would be killed. >> the i'll yepation pushed sunnis to welcome fighters from oil in their areas. they deny that i.s.i.l. is taking over iraq. >> translation: this is the extension of a resist apps that started in 2003 -- resistance that started in 2003. i.s.i.l. is irrelevant. these are professional people with military ex