in sudan kurdistan in turkish there's an iranian kurdistan a strategy of herding upon kurdistan from all of this for is not on the agenda but again the borders of the mealies are changing so rapidly if the borders are not going to be changed the internal borders of these borders and the meaning of the borders are going to be changed. but if you ask me how the kurds want to achieve their self determination rights our strategy is not a struggle it must be through peace it must be through democracy it must be through political recognition because let me be frank with you any force division is not going to survive for or for good since you mentioned the upheaval that the middle east was going through and one of the most pressing issues is of course syria these days and the population of kurds in syria is now dot significant in around two maybe three million kurds live in syria but syria is of course a very important geopolitical juncture for all those surrounding countries with very large kurdish populations how crucial do you thing is the outcome of struggle for syria or are the overall

it can also help direct some two million barrels a day of kurdistan soil to the world markets but it needs baghdad's consent to do so without the two hundred people in this hall of crude oil from iraq has become its biggest gold will not be exported to consent of the rocky coast month. this oil is not being shipped to europe a modest yet. well constitutionally kurdistan is entitled to seventeen percent of iraq's oil and gas revenue there are disagreements about the regulating of the resources coming from the northern region therefore i couldn't purchase of energy directly from apple the kurdish capital and its cost of building a second pipeline has placed a lot of pressure on its relationship with baghdad. yet analysts say the deal is making perfect sense but think that is security and our security and border security. thanks to good relations with addie. on the deck and today it's more to which unite and strengthen through them is to have a soft penalty. i want to head lots of choices. and for its energy needs costs because oil is high quality well the kurds and turks say they will

in just over half an hour from now in the meantime oksana barker talks to a senior member of the kurdistan democratic party to discuss the kurdish role in the middle east that's coming your way after this short break. there are many internal battles in society liberals. conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms course their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their par

the asking so for people and now we understand the realities of poor countries and each part of kurdistan within the countries that we are living in has its own peculiarities so we don't want to copy paste what we have in iraqi kurdistan to the other part we do believe that this is the time for accepting the kurds as they are to live in a democratic situation that they can have a guarantee of their constitutional rights in their own country absolutely and i think this is the argument that there are various kurdish political parties have been making probably for decades but if you look at your most recent history it seems that any substantial change in their kurdish question.

seeing is turkey pushing closer and closer to the iraqi -- the kurdistan and northern iraq. that's driven by turkish domestic politics. that's a tremendous flash point in iraq, and also with respect to sirria. as syria falls apart, you have kurds in syria. >> one of the most oil-rich regions in the world. >> absolutely. and they could be playing around the issue of the kurds. >> what are you looking at? >>> american allies, not canada and mexico, not israel, japan and britain, but you get right under that group, and everybody is in play, indonesia, saudi arabia, south korea, france, germany, britain, all of these leaders that feel like american commitment to them is really open to question, and how is that going to be articulated in article -- their security policy, those are things i'm looking at. >> quickly, they precisely why you want to be mindful of what your allies want, a world of freelancer is ultimately very dangerous for the understand. that's what we're getting from too many countries to count. very briefly we should say something about mexico and the change of th

>> i'm going to -- i'm watching among other places kurdistan. it may seem unusual.you're seeing is turkey pushing closer and closer to the iraqi -- kurdistan in northern iraq. that's driven by turkish domestic politics. that's a tremendous flash point in iraq and also with respect to syria because as syria falls apart, you have kurds in syria. >> one of the most oil rich regions in the world. >> absolutely. i actually think you could have a real flash point crisis between turkey and iraq possibly with iran playing in there around the issue of the kurds. it's where i would watch. >> what are you looking at? >> i'm looking at american allies. not canada and mexico because they can't go anywhere economically. you get right under that group and everybody is in play. i'm looking at indonesia. i'm looking at saudi arabia. i'm looking at south korea. france. germany. britain. all of these leaders that feel like american commitment to them is really open to question and how is that going to be articulated in their economic policy, the diplomatic policy and their security po

you say gulf of mexico, but then you're talking about middle east, kurdistan. is this because when you're brought in, maybe some people felt there wasn't oil there before but you find it? >> well, the fact is, jim, they know it's there, they just have a difficult time maximizing the recovery. so they hire core laboratories, we do core analysis to look at the rocks, we look at the reservoir fluid analysis, which is the analysis of the natural gas, crude oil and water. we combine those data sets so they can maximize their daily production, but more importantly, maximize the recovery from those reservoirs. if we look at kurdistan, for example, there have been multibillion barrel discoveries there, but the recovery rates are in the 10% to 15% range. for those to be economical, we need to get that recovery range up in the 20% to 25%. worldwide that averages about 40%. so combining those data sets generated by core allows them to maximize daily production. but more importantly, to maximize the recovery from those fields over the life of those fields. >> does anyone h

if we look at kurdistan, there have been multidiscoveries there, but the recovery rates are in the 10%nge. for those to be economical, we need to get that recovery range up in the 20 to 25. worldwide that averages about 40%. so combining those data sets generated by core allows them to maximize daily production. but more importantly, to maximize the recovery from those fields over the life of those fields. >> does anyone have that technology besides you? >> well, the major oil companies do. we tend to see ourselves as symbiotic on a technological basis with the major oil companies. so when their own internal staffs are full up, they outsource that work to us. so we're always trying to innovate new technologies with them so they grow our technologies right along with the exxons and the shells and the bps and the chevrons of the world. >> you know, dave, i have been a believer that we have more oil. i've been right but lately people have been doubting me saying, jim, the stocks aren't doing well. reservoir management continues to have a high level of activity in the permian basin project

and is also obviously the effect of the iraq civil war on the possibility of kurdistan declaring somekind of semi-autonomous stay there, too. so it often think we do see a real uptick in instability around the kurdish issue in 2014. >> fair enough. >> thank you. thank you very much for doing this. in my first comment is that it's quite different from last year. china as paul mentioned was big on the horizon. that china is nice, reforming cabinetry. this is deep contrast to my question is primarily to david. what i would say is you did not mention the fear of new imaging market crisis. of course, turkey is one of the countries we're worried about, indonesia, india, south africa. so i wanted to ask how concerned -- summit. >> sure. i mean, hard about has to do with the focus of this session on civil conflict and implications for u.s. foreign policy. actually if you look at our document, what we call diverging markets is our number two risk. and it basically highlights the fact that the years between 2002-2012, 2013 were very good years for the emerging markets. they basically acted as a

and is also obviously the effect of the iraq civil war on the possibility of kurdistan declaring someind of semi-autonomous stay there, too. so it often think we do see a real uptick in instability around the kurdish issue in 2014. >> fair enough. >> thank you. thank you very much for doing this. in my first comment is that it's quite different from last year. china as paul mentioned was big on the horizon. that china is nice, reforming cabinetry. this is deep contrast to my question is primarily to david. what i would say is you did not mention the fear of new imaging market crisis. of course, turkey is one of the countries we're worried about, indonesia, india, south africa. so i wanted to ask how concerned -- summit. >> sure. i mean, hard about has to do with the focus of this session on civil conflict and implications for u.s. foreign policy. actually if you look at our document, what we call diverging markets is our number two risk. and it basically highlights the fact that the years between 2002-2012, 2013 were very good years for the emerging markets. they basically acted as an

alex asks the kurdistan, safe, secure and prosperous and has been spared from the violence by and large. what role can the kurds play in combating the isis in anbar province? >> the kurds are doing a good job in combating al qaeda, and the region but they're not doing much in the other regions of iraq. all of us would expect some more help from the kurdish area to stop the infiltration of al qaeda inside iraq and also to take some measure to stop them from coming there. but their main concern now is the region. i don't think they are playing a role in defeating of al qaeda. >> sam at csis asks the question about history. you asked for america's help to fight resistance. last year prime minister al-maliki visited washington, sat right here where you are sitting, and made a similar request. iit america's assistance is so central to iraq's efforts against extremism, why was the status of forces agreement not extended at the end of 2011? this is a historical question i think. >> it happened. >> it did. >> and happened. [laughter] so, now are you responsible about -- do you want to feel that

excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, i have just returned from a syrian refugee camp in the kurdistan governor rate of iraq. i have previously already visited the refugee camps in jordan and turkey. the deputy secretary-general also visited one in lebanon. the people they are dependent on our solidarity to survive. but more than supplies and services, they need peace. from iraq, i went to the second international humanitarian pledging conference on syria in kuwait. his highness, the emir of kuwait, proved his country to be a global humanitarian center. 's contribution of a half a billion dollars set and inspiring done. your governments and other partners pledged generously more than $2.4 billion. these funds will help us give hope to families. and they will continue to regional stability by helping syria's neighbors to cope with the economic, social, political and security difficulties of hosting more than 3 million refugees. humanitarian aid can feed a hungry child, which is important enough, but it can also indirectly stop a car bomb by reducing social tensions. the conference in ku

there is also obviously the effect of the iraq civil war on the possibility of kurdistan declaring somekind of semi-autonomous state their too so we are concerned that we can see a real uptick in instability around the kurdish issue in 2014. >> fair enough. sir. >> thank you. thank you very much for doing this and my first comment is that it's quite different from last year. china as paul mentioned was big on the horizon last year and now china is a nice reforming country. this is really a deep contrast. my question is primarily, what i was surprised that you did not mention was the fear of the market crisis. of course turkey is one of the countries we are worried about, india, brazil so i wanted to draw you out. how concerned are not concerned are you about this matter? >> so part of that has to do anders with the focus of this session on civil conflict and implications for u.s. foreign policy. actually if you look at our document what we call converging markets is our number two risk. and it basically highlights the fact that the years between 2002 and 2012, 2013 were very good years