let's get more now on the story with correspondent kathy auden she joins us from air bill that is the capital of the semi autonomous kurdish region in iraq and some one hundred kilometers north of kirkuk kathy thanks so much for being with us we just saw images there of people celebrating in the streets what are your sources there on the ground in care cook telling you. i thank you for having me well this really makes it a real night in her purse so from last night until about mid-afternoon the risk clashes ongoing training iraqi forces between some kind of regular. street. i recently spoke with a major with iraqi kurds terrorism as you said that they have had their negotiations in deals with one of the kurdish factions the u.k. and there are those who doubt all of the five so the danger now is that there is. between here the. possibility. that the cash is all just between them that at the moment. is that thousands of peerages residents fled some arab protect the residents street and just a really mixed. reactions there and was quite a haul it. a volatile situation also with some comp

for more on the story let's bring in our correspondent kathy auden she is in the air bill the capital of the autonomous courage of the kurdish region in iraq and one hundred kilometers north of kirkuk kathy thanks so much for being with us what are your hearing from your what are you hearing from your sources there in care cook what's the situation there on the ground thank you very much for having me everything seems to be the moment and there are iraq buses that in the city and on the outskirts we've seen a withdrawal of so her head of hosts who are holding the city since twenty four when the iraqi people's. head of the isis three is so headed families have told me that they. have. both regions but i've also spoken to some of their contacts in the city xenia technically is that everything is fine has but everything's died down now you know sunny pretty pleased about this so a difference of opinions we have yet to minute just whether there is often the tensions what are we to make for the dynamics and also the justification behind this offensive i mean is this simply to do with the i

with corresponded cathy auden she joins us from air bill that is the capital of the semi autonomous kurdish region in iraq and some one hundred kilometers north of kirkuk kathy thanks so much for being with us we just saw images there of people celebrating in the streets what are your sources there on the ground in care cook telling you. hi thanks for having me well it's an really mixed picture that was not even heard kirk so from last night until about mid-afternoon there was clashes ongoing between the iraqi forces between so kind of regular as citizens out on the street with some . i recently spoke with a major with iraqi arabs terrorism voices who said that they had had some negotiations in deals with one of the kurdish factions the u.k. and their peshmerga vosa pulled out all of the five so the danger now is that there is a mix. between the kurdish forces and also the possibility. that there caches all just views between them that at the moment boasting in her case that thousands of kurdish residents have fled some arab and turkmen residents out on the street and just a really mixed picture of reactions here and what is quite a haul it home situation a