a power in the kurdistan region -- and powering -- empowering the kurdistan region is not in turkey'snterest. kurds in turkey seeking there aren't -- i see turkey and a clever game of trying to leverage the krg. you are starting to see this pullback. the kurdish president cannot control the syrian-kurdish problem and he still needs to remain a problem with ankara. you have something including not only the pilot into syria, but some upset potential hopes for pipelines that kurds are claiming they will build. i cannot go into the details of debt issue -- details of the issue. i want to focus, turkey and iran. turkey has a role here it is like it's up between baghdad and -- erbil. it has the aim of becoming a regional energy hub. turkey does not have its own sufficient energy resources. it supports 60% -- in imports 60% of its natural gas from russia. turkey has large stakes, small private companies have stakes, where the state company has oil fields in the south. this is significant investment in this out but that smaller companies, such as the biggest investor in the north. where turke

solver until now the us has been using the money also airbase in kurdistan since two thousand and one but bishkek now wants the facility back after twenty fourteen why is washington being shown the door. well it is because probably united states gives themselves and norms to restoring troops from afghanistan and basing rights in kyrgyzstan transit center were directly tied to the link to the. international coalition operation in afghanistan saw if they mean it that it is the rules from afghanistan there is no point of keeping zimmy with the. base. this was discussed also today including by as a russian president we can see an international civilian transit center that would serve for for international. community is good business in the afghanistan remaining beyond two thousand and fourteen now russia and central asian countries do suffer heavily from afghanistan as massive drug x. sport why as a nato been able to stem the deadly flow over the last eleven years. this is of course being the most negative criticism towards the end and significant. indication indicator of baler by the int

in kurdistan the american flag is also held very high but in the rest of iraq and i was a reporter based in or in baghdad last year in the rest of iraq know of the american invasion is treated as something that's actually made things worse for most people although of the liberty and the freedom that they have and the end of the dictatorship is something most people welcome look the fact is the arab world is in upheaval and there are aspects of it which are very dangerous but there are aspects of it which are very hopeful and when i said earlier that i seems to me that the western powers and also russia by the way should be supporting and guiding what i'm talking about is guiding helping through peaceful means to guide these these fledgling democracies and these states in upheaval to a peaceful and stable future because that's what we need we need and they come in we are based on american and european interests i mean this is contradictory of going to do you want to jump in there i just cannot see how more outside interference can help. convince me i'm obviously interfering i wouldn't car

kurdistan has agreed to extend russia's military presence in the country my fifteen years deal which includes the existing current air base was signed during president putin's visit to the country russia says the base will provide stability in central asia after the withdrawal of nato forces from afghanistan in twenty fourteen for more let's talk to political analysts dmitry babich who joins us now live in the studio here in moscow thank you so much for being with us and tell us a meter what is the significance of this agreement i think it's very important for russia to have a base in kyrgyzstan because it's in the middle of central asia and russia understands that some point it will have to face some rivalry with the united states and possibly with china in the region so russia wants to have a certain influence there why is it that kurdistan dismissed the idea of transforming menards the american base into a civilian facility welcomed by of the new president brought on by of. the talk about it today he said that it will be a civilian court in two years but we have heard it from the

we have to remember that kurdistan is a member of the collective security treaty organization russian federation and russia ees the most important partner for us. including in security area. eves there is any issue there is a national consensus in kyrgyzstan it is that we need to russia as our friend and we need russian military presence in our country basing rights in kyrgyzstan at my last transit center were directly tied to the length of the. international coalition operation in afghanistan the united states have themselves and on three strong troops from afghanistan so if they mean that that is the rose from afghanistan there is no point of keeping their meat that it is. american taxpayers who contributed more to israel's defense budget than israelis themselves in the past three years according to former israeli army chief of staff the u.s. analysts spends three billion dollars to prop up its allies military former pentagon official michael maloof says that aiding israel actually costs washington a lot more. i think that three billion dollars is really not the true figure because

and he brought in kurdistan the point is that we have quite different backgrounds we have quite different local politics and this hate video is a used in a different of it way by. on one side always hans to call islamist salafist on the other hand it is also used and caused enormous problem by the new government after the arab springs so if we look at the situation in cairo it was all going ised only partially by salafist group of. football soccer fans came in so this was something which was not planned in advance but big major problem arise now when morsi the president has talked keep a balance on the one inside and the right wing salafist who demand a very strong position towards you is a on the other hand morsi and the muslim brotherhood well knowing to what degree they are depending on the united states in libya the situation was completely different it was basically a planned attack on a small group of militant may be inspired people in yemen quite different situation again here one of the conservative. muslim preachers had to call to call in to his followers to demonstrate even powe

it is not only the kurdistan production we have to watch. we have to watch for a situation where potentially we see some attacks on the southern energy infrastructure. we had 100 people killed in attacks on sunday. we haven't had yet bombings of southern pipelines. northern pipelines. but if we ever saw sustained attack on the southern infrastructure, i think oil companies would be very nervous about operating there and we potentially would see some of those big gains in iraqi production reversed. dagen: what do you make of the comments out of netanyahu about the united states and how that relates to what israel does against iran and what we do again to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons? >> it is a really interesting statement from netanyahu. hillary clinton came out yesterday and said no deadlines. i think the israelis want a firm deadline from the united states on when we will do military action because ultimately if you look at this operation, yes, the israelis can hit something, yes, they can do some damage, but only with the uni

but within their, you got kazakhstan and around the edges you got kurdistan, whose pakistan -- uzbekistan and tajikistan and turkmentstan did essentially is a very then you move to afghanistan, pakistan, and from there on down to the subcontinent. >> for the folks at home as well -- but also to help my education -- when all of these countries were named stan, but that part has a reference? >> it is literally country. just like stana is literally capital in kazakh. >> this is the 20 the anniversary of independence, and it is amazing that the culture has gone back 1000 years and then you jump forward and you say 50 years ago, part of the soviet union, and now 20 years ago, independence. how did you see the future of kazakhstan? >> kazakhstan is still writing its own future. nobody can predict where it is going. they made commitments -- last year you may know they were the head of the organization of security and cooperation in europe, and they made a long- term vision for a country that is very much a western country, i guess you would say, in the sort of democratic and human rights about y

and the political balance between kurdistan and baghdad and how kurdistan and iraq. that is what my question pertains to. >> another question? >> here. in the back. hi. my name is kay walters. i'm also an elliot school alumni. my question is, so the it seems like the tensions between the krg and baghdad were getting worse. and do you think that is the case. also the recent agreement to pay part of the money for baghdad to pay part of the money to the krg and there was an armed group that some of mall the supporters were going to have in the krg and they said they weren't going to do that. it was on puk news. maybe it's not a big deal. anyway, do you think that the payments are a sign of tensions lessons or is it not just a big deal and not important? >> thank you. another question? up hire in the front. -- up here if the front. >> hi. a question from matt. i'm wondering what are we talking about in terms of amount of money and time to repair those pipelines? and in the case of the one that goes to saudi, what would it take for to get the saudis to agree to reopen it

militants fired rockets at a military convoy and no one claimed responsibility for the attack yet the kurdistan workers party is being blamed members of the organization are considered terrorists by the u.s. and the e.u. i want to carve the eastern kurdish state off turkey. but the conflict has already claimed forty thousand. nearly two hundred occupy wall street protesters were arrested in new york as they mocked the movement's one year anniversary of peaceful antique or productive bursts flooded the streets trying to block the entrance to the stock exchange but police resorted to using force. i was that a witness that day began with hundreds of optimus and their supporters storming through lower manhattan some attempting to block the entrance of the new york stock exchange to take progress we saw many clashes between new york city police departments and activists that were walking through lower manhattan chanting we are the ninety nine percent and pioneering a message that began months ago a message that started in new york city and then you might nationwide and ultimately global but the most

alluded to which turkey of course but the rebels how does that affect on chris conflict with the kurdistan workers party. yeah this is interesting because the turkish government syrian policy has not been supported by the majority of the people in turkey this is the first time in years of keep the government at the same time this syrian kurds the moment they enjoy of course certain support not only from turkey about the from the united states of america and of contrails however because there is no use of creation among the groups fighting in syria definitely the kurds are also not the success they have expected to be going to the fight is still going on and turkey is somehow in between on the one hand they support the kurds in syria but fight the kurds in turkey but what about the change relationship between turkey and syria itself me turkey used to have a strong good relationship with syria recent years but then korea was pretty quick to support the free syrian army why the sudden change of heart. this is so the what the people probably the turkish government has miscalculated the events

he gets up north to kurdistan and across into turkey. >> is he powerful?oes he have any sway whatsoever now that he is out of the country? can he do something? >> he doesn't have any sway, but he has a lot of support among sunnis, and this is where you are seeing violence wrap up. it's the local al qaeda affiliate, the islamic state of iraq. it's kind of an umbrella group. you have al qaeda certainly involved, but you also have sunni islamist groups and remnants of the old saddam ba'ath party who are behind all this violence, and it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. you know, every month there's been a major coordinated attack. >> why is this happening? >> 350 people were killed. >> why is this happening now, michael, the timing of all this? obviously, people are looking at the situation. a lot of people see that you went into iraq thinking that eventually there would be home building, nation building, and this hasn't happened. there is no peace there. >> it was a pretty naive notion to go into iraq and think that would happen, to be honest, and

he was making the decision to do this and he said -- somebody said what about kurdistan?t do this campaign against these guys. he was like we don't need your what, we have the americans wheat. we think of ourselves as being the primary intent of it and the primary actors. go to the wikileaks and dewolf and some interesting new dialogues between american diplomats trying to tell people in other countries you have to stop these farmers from saying they won't accept food. we have to make sure these guys accept our food. so again i feel like we have our work cut out for us it is not just us as americans and we don't even think of. >> i feel like the biggest hurdle with conflict that in addition -- will try to think that food should be cheaper. it's hard to have a balanced conversation about it because when you're on this side of the issue and you say that, you look like a jackass, but it's true. food should cost something so people can get paid minimum wage at least to read this is the ongoing conflict that is difficult to resolve. >> we're trained to believe food should be t