security is tight in karbala. they are commemorating the death of hussein, the grandson of prom. >> imran khan is with the faithful in karbala. >> security is of concern during ashura, how are things shaping up? >> we have seen a pattern of attacks targetting smaller shia processions in remote towns. baghdad and here in the holy city of karbala there's an immense security operation going on. let me show you the sheer amount of people ahead. there's around 4.5 million people arriving here. half an hour ago and the procession is coming in. the faithful made a run from where the battle took place to hear, where the shrine is. the see the flags going in. those are the kinds of flags that could have been used in the battle at the time. there's a lot of rituals going on - people hearing stories of imam. underpinning that is the security. this is the biggest iraqi operation in 10 years. some 35,000 people, soldiers, have been deployed to secure the holy city. you get into the city. 15km before you get in people are made

civilian areas of the capital city the masses and to allow problems with bball clips showing attacks in karbala in this didn't ask province and at mine off to la province in the deal set to be filmed in its avid any background police said the refugee area was being targeted by the band and family. in the mouth area up to block people injured in the violence were taken to hospital after that sad young children were among the injured. well an outbreak of polio in eastern syria has left at least attend children paralyze the world health organization warns that this epidemic poses a threat to millions of children across the middle east and turn them into some actually doing a buy out chris klein and allah give a hand in damascus while i love how bad is the situation right now and what has been done to stop this disease from spreading whoa this point. this tuition is due for one one commission. we're going to sch and that they are several cases of all movement of dreams fulfilled and eastern parts of syria and inbetween two years the diversity last polio free this is only an aunt is up to now. an in

ignatius says that we can't really solve the sunni shia schism, the sunni shia schism dates back to karbala, it is not calling on the united states to solve that crisis but the united states has to have a syria policy that worked, but this idea that is threatening bashar al-assad with a red line, threatening with the bombing that never came and then turning to the russians and to the iranians, and we now have a proposition by the united states that we want iran to be party to the negotiations over syria. how you could ask iranians, whose revolutionary guard is a hezbollah proxy in killing syrians that we invite them to be part of the discussion of syria's future is really a moral and strategic catastrophe. >> rose: so what is going to happen with the russian, u.s. sponsored negotiations and according to what i have read, the syrians have done a reasonable job of adhering to what was required of them; is that right, david? >> well, they are certainly carrying forward with the specific benchmarks, you know, since the russians are their patrons, they are invested in this, they don't want to up

nothing will stop them from being here. >> imran khan reporting from karbala. >> a push for diplomacy on iran. the vice president is urging lawmakers to give more time. joe biden made his plea to the democratic congressional leadership. john kerry urged the senate banking committee to hold off on sanctions against iran. >> hour hope is know new sanctions about le -- will be put in faith, because if they are it will be viewed as bad faith, it will destroy the ability to get agreement and may set us back in dialogue that has taken 30 years to agree. we are asking congress to give dip lolomacy a chance to work. >> the u.s. and major powers are willing to lift sanctions if iran freezes part of the his nuclear program. john kerry says he'll ask congress for new sanctions if an agreement is not reach next week. >> toronto mayor bob ford admitted to buying drugs whilst in offers. it's the first time he admitted to paying for drugs. he admitted no smoking crack the campaign. a council motion urging him to take a leave of absips passed by a large margin. >> i'm not an alcohol. i'm not a drug a