kurdistan region has taken in 1.8 million displaced people. europe has accepted about 600,000 asylum seekers, 28 countries, 600,000 asylum seekers versus one part of iraq taking in 1.8 million people. 60% of the displaced in kurdistan region, i'm afraid, i don't know about the rest of iraq, 60% of the children in the kurdistan region among the displaced region haven't been to school, that is despite all of our efforts, the u.n., us aid, and others trying to help, that is a ticking time bomb for all of us in iraq. the u.n. is saying they can't raise enough money to help the displaced in iraq. the u.n. launched an appeal for $500 million in june to see the displaced and the refugees through the six months from june to december. they have raised less than half of that amount. this is a ticking time bomb. i know you said you didn't want us to make statement and invite the panel to give their view, but i am going to do that because this is a disaster. i think everybody thinks that the disaster happened in june 2014. no the disaster awaits us. there

i think that's key to having a more stable kurdistan. be it an entity within iraq or an independent entity. jon: now, aaron, the peshmerga have been the most effective fighters against da'ish but da'ish seems to be principally focused on iranian influence. is there a changing way they re talking about kurdish fighters as this battles unfolds? aaron: well, just like the iranians a or any other entity, they view them as an enemy. obviously they're using different types of derogatory terms for kurds as they do with other groups of people. but i they realize they are not -- g to be able to push any they started doing things a year ago. therefore, they're focused on issue ader sectarian because it gets more play as a result, you see more fighting in that regard instead of them trying to push back into northern iraq. but at the same time, that doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity they would not be willing to do. we would see a suicide bombing that sneaks into kurdistan. for the i had lambic state, -- islamic state, as a result, nothing is o

on the weekend 16 soldiers were killed in another roadside bomb attack, the kurdistan workers party, separatist pkk claim responsibility for that and launched a series of air strikes on pkk positions, at least 20 targets hit and more than 35 pkk fighters killed according to the turkish military and it was then after that attack the turkish prime minister promised to wipe out the pkk. the security situation has been deteriorating in turkey in the eastern provinces really since the elections, the national elections in turkey in june. in the run up to those elections there have been increased violence from the pkk targeting turkish security forces after the elections, turkey at the same time it launched new assaults on i.s.i.l. targets it also launched air assaults on pkk positions and as that happened the pkk stepped up its number of assaults on the turkish military turkish forces and at least 90 members of forces have been killed now since june and many hundreds of pkk fighters killed at the same time. and all of this, the deteriorating situation comes as turkey prepares for a second

kurdistan region has taken in 1.8 million displaced people. europe has accepted about 600,000 asylum seekers, 28 countries, 600,000 asylum seekers versus one part of iraq taking in 1.8 million people. 60% of the displaced in kurdistan region, i'm afraid, i don't know about the rest of iraq, 60% of the children in the kurdistan region among the displaced region haven't been to school, that is despite all of l our efforts, the u.n., us aid, and others trying to help, that is a ticking time bomb for all of us in iraq. the u.n. is saying they can't raise enough money to help the displaced in iraq. the u.n. launched an appeal for $500 million in june to see the displaced and the refugees through the six months from june to december. they have raised less than half of that amount. this is a ticking time bomb. i know you said you didn't want us to make statement and invite the panel to give their view, but i am going to do that because this is a disaster. i think everybody thinks that the disaster happened in june 2014. no the disaster awaits us. the

turkey blames the kurdistan party for police that were killed. >> 96,000 children have been pushed into starvation. >>> u.s. democrats gaining more support for the iran nuclear deal. >> hello, the united nations is stepping up the pressure on european countries over the refugee crisis. today saying it must be manne mandatory for those who are fleeing war-torn scenes. men, women and children pushing through security through the border in serbia, desperate to get to hungary's capital. for most the you want destination is germany. it has taken the majority of refugees. but they say that it will come down to an e.u.-wide operation and 45,000 have crossed the mediterranean. the special representative on migration said that europe deals with this influx will be a defining moment. at europe's southern gateway, some of the thousand who pass into macedonia on monday, marking a new record oh in this humanitarian crisis. with no end in sight, the u.n. is sounding the alarm bills, calling for relocation for 200,000 refugees. >> we've proposed that there be european union-led mega reception and regi

it all has its i on the so-called kurdish insurgency, sort of embodied by the pkk, the kurdistan workers party. beenis really what it has most concerned with. from the turkish perspective, it is not about going the narrow target of the islamic state group. they see a broader security in broglie out, if you will. there have been military operations that have been aiming at islamists, kurdish militants, and also leftist militants. it is much more collocated from the security perspective, from turkey's standpoint. the coalition really is just glad that turkey is a, helping in northern syria, even there it is complicated because when turkey is trying to strike the goals ise of to create a safe zone, which has not been officially signed off by the u.s. or the rest of the west. but it would presumably repel kurdish militants aligned with the pkk, the ones you are talking about, who are the targets of these strikes, and push them back and remove a perceived threat from them. very complicated for turkey, and you have those elections coming up, elections in which they want to restore its majority

the government blames the kurdistan workers party, p.k.k. for the attack. let's speak to ryan evans, editor in chief of war on iraq, an on line magazine. when the pro kurdish people department party warns that turkey is swiftly heading toward a disaster, does it have a point? >> yeah, unfortunately, a perfect storm in turkey right now. you have kurdish militant groups on turkey's border in syria wanting to proclaim -- maintain some sort of autonomy. you have kurds in turkey wanting greater rights and kurdish you a to know plea and the end of the truce between the p.k.k. and government and this massive try lens in turkey, syria and iraq. >> there seems to be a daily attack. how concerning i guess it that violence could spiral out of control. >> i don't think president erdogan understood the extent to which the p.k.k. could make the turkish armed forces and police hurt we have decided to go after the p.k.k. in northern iraq and the y.p.g. across the border in syria. this could be a return to the battle days of the 1980's with low grade civil war between kurdi

explosion happened in the eastern province here and government is blaming the kurdistan workers on pkkhe attack and bernard smith is our correspondent and joins us and so this seems very much as though it's an attack again on the turkey security forces. there have been numerous attacks on turkish establishment, hasn't there, over the past four weeks. >> yes, marteen, this happened as the bus was carrying officers to accustoms post right up on turkey's eastern border up there with armenia and seems a bomb was detonated as the bus went past. no claim of responsibility from this but all attention focused on the separatist and kurdistan workers party, the pkk and they claim responsibility for an attack on the weekend at which 16 turkish soldiers were killed in a different attack and after that attack turkish prime minister promised to wipe out the pkk. >> translator: they will be cleared of the terrorists, whatever it takes they will be cleared and our nation should trust the government and state and i ask for your support for the struggle we are engaged in a calm manner. >> reporter: and

every once in a while there will be a suicide bombing that peeks through in kurdistan. for the islamic states, expand this, imperialists, nothing is out of town for them. >> you mentioned the reliable neighbor next door who was also thought to have a whole series of ties to the popular forces that is accused of being a sectarian militia attacking sunnis. what is the strategy for creating a genuine, capable iraq in national army that does not rely on foreign training, foreign funding, sectarian education, those kinds of things? how to get from where we are today to where you'd like to be? ambassador: we talk about the restructuring. that includes after the fall of mosul, there has been and will continue to be significant restructuring. at this moment, the endgame is still not complete. we need to understand what we need to protect and therefore how should our army structuring be? we are looking at that whether it is order, internal, so on. we also have national legislation that are important project. it's very careful handling politically and structurally as to who they

said it killed 15 turkish soldiers, fighters from the kurdistan workers party used mines to attack an armed convoy close to the iranian and iraqi borders. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan said forces would respond in a different and determined manner. it's reported that turkey's air force launched retaliatory air strikes. now to bernard smith, joining us on the phone. what else do we know at this stage? >> the p.k.k. have claimed responsibility for this. there is no official confirmation of the number of soldiers killed. the p.k.k. says it's 15. they said they ambushed vehicles, two armoured vehicles carrying soldiers out on patrol. the government has said that the vehicles were hit by land mines detonated by the p.k.k. fighters. there are reports as well that turkish jets, military jets, retaliated, hitting a number of p.k.k. targets in the area where the attack took place, which is close to the turkish border with iraq and iran. this is certainly, perhaps, one of the attacks on the turkish security forces since the ceasefire - 2.5 ceasefire collapse in july. already 70 member

every once in a while there will be a suicide bombing that peeks through in kurdistan. for the islamic states, expand this, imperialists, nothing is out of town for them. >> you mentioned the reliable who was also door thought to have a whole series forces to the popular that is accused of being a sectarian militia attacking sunnis. what is the strategy for a genuine, capable iraq in national army that does not rely on foreign training, foreign funding, sectarian education, those kinds of things? how to get from where we are today to where you'd like to be? ambassador: we talk about the restructuring. that includes after the fall of mosul, there has been and will continue to be significant restructuring. this moment, the endgame is still not complete. we need to understand what we need to protect and therefore how should our army structuring be? we are looking at that whether it is order, internal, so on. we also have national legislation that are important project. it's very careful handling politically and structurally as to who they report to. we do not want to creat

a campaign was launched against fighters from the kurdistan workers party or p.k.k., fighting a surge after a ceasefire collapse said in july. including one killing 14 turkish police officers in a bomb blast in the country's east. speaking at the ruling a.k. party, the prime minister pledged to continue the fight against the p.k.k. >> we will give punishments to those that attempt to destroy the peace, trying to drag turkey into chaos. for hours in northern iraq and places we are gathering in turkey are being wiped out by the forces of the turkish republic and awn a. >> their concerns that civilians are paying too high a price in the occupations. the council in europe is demanding access for the observing. activists say people were deprived of food, power and medical care and subjected to disproportionate use of force. >>> still to come on the show - refusing to be silenced. opposition parties in russia fight to be heard in regional elections. and a month after china's worst industrial disaster. the city is on edge. we'll explain why after the break. the beautiful flower i am! >> "ins

again the photographs and images coming out of kurdistan right now where, the population of kurdistandoubled in refugees. these are not kurds. these are sunni and shiite and christian yazidis and the like fleeing anything that they can do to get out of the line of fire. martha: they're battling against isis. they're battling against civil war. they're battling against religious oppression and not being able to practice their faith anymore in countries they're from. there are a lost comparisons made to world war ii here. i heard a recent comparison about the refugee crisis that they haven't seen these numbers of refugees floating through europe since world war ii. i wonder in terms of what is driving all of this, do you think there is a comparison. >> no. in fact this is the greatest mass migration of refugees since world war ii. the korean war did not produce this many. the vietnam war produced five million. you're talking 11 million people who are fleeing their homes, most will never have a chance to go back. there is absolutely nothing that we're doing to stand up for them. the unit

the president laid the blame for the increased violence on the kurdistan worker's party. >> translatorill keep trying to prevent this pain of mothers, fathers, wives, siblings and loved one, but the terror organization has shut the doors to the desired peace process. >>> in yemen the saudi-lead coalition has carried out a number of air strikes against rebels in the capitol sana'a. targeting an air force base controlled by troops loyal to the former president saleh. these strikes also damaged homes nearby including those of prominent houthi leaders. a tv channel controlled by houthi rebels said a dozen people died in ibb. witnesses say a residential building was hit during an assault on a military base and a weapons store. >>> unicef says it is alarmed by the levels of child hunger in yemen. it was already one of the poorest countries in the world, and now months of heavy fighting have taken their toll. unicef says 96,000 children are starving and close to death in the port city. it is estimated nearly 8,000 will suffer from severe malnutrition in aden in the next year. and almost 2 mil

. >> the government said most of those killed were fighters from the kurdistan workers' party or pkkie license is on the rides between the security forces and the pkk. two separate attacks on the southeast on sunday kill police officers in what's become a near daily pattern since at two-year peace deal crumbled in july. turkey's leadership is voy to go stamp out the fighters using whatever means necessary. >> today, the biggest test ahead of us is our fight against the terrorist attacks that pose a grave threat against the solidarity of our people and unity of our country. >> solidarity is the beingt how the conflict is inviting public opinion. gerald tan, al jazeera. >> in the news ahead: go ahead. hundreds line up to boost the beleaguered army as the battle for control drags on. >> and sport grease's prime minister and a conservative rival neck he can and neck in the next election. ♪ >>> so the top stories 4 on al jazeera. mexican president has condemned a government attack on a tourist convoy in egypt that killed 12 people. two mexican tourist after the vehicles were shot at in th

iraqi kurdistan, it's one-fifth of their population. these are unimaginable numbers. >> 20% to 25%? >> 25% in jordan is syrian refugee right now. lebanon, sorry. >> just to follow that, 85% of the world's refugees are in developing countries. the european comparison would be germany has agreed to take 500,000 refugees -- accept 500,000 asylum claims over the next year and each of the next three years. that's a population of 90 million. italy, population of some 60 million, has taken in each of the last two years 120,000 refugees. the uk prime minister has pledged they'll take 4,000 a year in a population of 60 million. you can see the variation there and the big gap between the neighboring states in the middle east and the european government. it's worth saying the u.s. at its peak was taking about 180,000 refugees a year in '79, '80, '81. >> so 85,000 total refugees, that is not necessarily syrian refugees, that would be about 2% of the american population. so i say that in the context of understanding the challenges of other countries here compared to what the united states is loo

. >> reporter: but the government says most of those killed were fighters from the kurdistan workersr p.k.k. violence is on the rise between security forces and the p.k.k. two separate attacks on the southeast on sunday killed police officers in what's become a near daily pattern since a two-year peace deal crumbled in july. turkey's leadership is vowing to stamp out the fighters using whatever means necessary. >> translator: today the biggest test ahead us of is our fight against the terrorist attacks that poses a grave threat against the solidarity of our people and unity of our country. >> reporter: that solidarity is being tested. in istanbul, demonstrators marched against a recent security measures further sign of how the conflict is dividing public opinion. gerald tan, al jazeera. >>> swiss and u.s. prosecutors are expected to hold a press conference in zurich about the fifa corruption investigate. in may 7 executives were arrested as part of a u.s. investigate. including fifa vice president jeffrey webb, in total 14 defendants charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money la

and its own fight against the pkk the kurdistan workers party comparing the two as terrorist organizationsle awkward for the united states since the pkk and the kurds have been a major ally in fighting i.s.i.l. >> major announcements? >> not really. we did hear from the united states that they were enacting new sanctions against 35 individuals and entities from a number of different countries and attempt to cutoff funding for i.s.i.l., that was welcome news to the iraqis who as more countries to dry up resources for this group, iraq of course continues to get help from some 17 nations in training its military to deal with these groups but no major discussions and no major announcements if you will regarding i.s.i.l. in syria which of course that is a majority stronghold for this group. and you know there is aerial bombings still going on from the united states and france but not a lot new there. >> okay, kristen thank you very much. meanwhile the ukraine president porteshenko had an attack on russia and highlightd what he called open and unprovoked aggression from russia which accused of h

security forces blamed fighters from the kurdistan workers party for that attack. >>> authorities in turkey have imposed a new curfew in the southeastern city of sisra two days after it was lifted. the curfew is in place to secure safety as fighters are arrested. earlier riot police used smoke grenades and water cannons to disperse protesters. people were angry at a curfew imposed there. >>> after the defight of the u.k.'s assisted dying bill on friday, many supporters are looking to the netherlands where the practice is legal. as the parameters in that country widen, some begin to wonder if its getting out of hand. we have the report now from amsterdam. >> reporter: in the netherlands the debate is no longer about if assisted dying should be allowed but about whether more people should be able to end their lives this way. euthanasia has been legal in the netherlands since 2002. it accounts for 1 in 25 deaths, and the numbers are growing. dr. burt kaiser has helped dozens of people end their lives. euthanasia can be requested on the dutch national health service, but for many doctors

security forces blame fighters from the kurdistan workers party for the bomb. >> saudi king promised to find out what caused a crane to collapse, killing 107 people friday. he has toured the mosque in mecca. the accident happened days before the hajj pilgrimage. >> arab foreign ministers meeting in cairo, expecting a draft constitution for the plan in yemen, pushing for dialogue to resume. six months after the war began, humanitarian conditions are worsening. we have this report. >> r. >> i was using any means possible, this includes the old way of doing things. for five months, supplies have been scarce. where once there was plenty, these are difficult times. >> people are having a hard time finding water. we walked for 50 kilometers a day to get to villages and rural areas. >> the tough conditions haven't stopped people from flocking to military camps. hundreds of people have come to this training ground hoping to join the military. it suffers from limited resources. >> we are training people to secure the city and get ready to defend it from any possible attacks. >> the fighting w

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. >> sister ro, as she is known, is on a break before she returns to her greatest mission, kurdistan in northern iraq. >> i really admire the sisters. they go places people don't want to go. and they do incredible things. >> the newest sister is mau maura rutton. she made her first vows just last month. they work with refugees, handicapped, the poorest of the poor. and, for me, it was just that's what i wanted to do. i wanted to be with her at my side. >> the problem with maura is a rarity whose average age is in the 80s. >> does it bother you that the average age of the marinol sisters is in the 80s? >> it's a lot more uncertain than it was in the 1950s. no order will continue, will we get new sisters. that's a lot to think about. >> the current president is antoinette. she joined marinol in 1964. when i was growing up as a young catholic, and if i were sitting across from you, you would look different to me because you would be wearing a habit. and today, you're not. >> the change came act because of the second vatican council. >> that council, and formally known as vatican ii, sta

. >> sister ro, as she is known, is on a break before she returns to her greatest mission, kurdistan in northern iraq. >> i really admire the sisters. they go places people don't want to go. and they do incredible things. >> the newest sister is mau maura rutton. she made her first vows just last month. they work with refugees, handicapped, the poorest of the poor. and, for me, it was just that's what i wanted to do. i wanted to be with her at my side. >> the problem with maura is a rarity whose average age is in the 80s. >> does it bother you that the average age of the marinol sisters is in the 80s? >> it's a lot more uncertain than it was in the 1950s. no order will continue, will we get new sisters. that's a lot to think about. >> the current president is antoinette. she joined marinol in 1964. when i was growing up as a young catholic, and if i were sitting across from you, you would look different to me because you would be wearing a habit. and today, you're not. >> the change came act because of the second vatican council. >> that council, and formally known as vatican ii, sta

turkey blames the kurdistan

ivan watson, cnn, iraqi kurdistan. >>> the news continues next on cnn. >>> thank you, wolf. great to be with you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. we have breaking news involving this urgent situation involving a woman in georgia. here's what we have learned. a vatican representative has sent a letter on behalf of the holy father himself, pope francis, asking georgia prison officials to spare the life of a woman set to be executed within just a couple of hours. this will be the first woman to be executed in the state of georgia in 70 years. she's been on death row for two decad decades. a jury found this mother of two guilty in the 1997 murder of her husband. she convinced her boyfriend, her lover to actually commit the murder itself. he, by the way, is away for life in prison. the state parole board has been meeting for the past couple hours. martin savidge has been monitoring this for us. also john allen. john, if i may begin with you first. i glanced at this letter that has gone to this clemency board and even through the arch diocese of atlanta. h

the kurdistan workers party, the separatist p.k.k. claim responsibility for that. in response, the turkish military launches a series of air strikes on the positions. 20 targets hit, 35 p.k.k. fighters killed, according to the turkish military, and it was after that attack the turkish prime minister promised to wipe out the p.k.k. the security situation has been deteriorating in the eastern provinces, since the elections, national elections in june. in the run up. there has been violence from the p.k.k. targetting turkish security forces. after the elections, turkey at the same time it launched new assaults, it launched air assaults on p.k.k. positions. as that happened, the p.k.k. stepped up a number of forces. many hundreds of p.k.k. fighters killed at the statement. and always the deteriorating situation comes as turkey prepares for a second national election on 1 november after the elections in june failed to return a majority government and after the ruling a.k. party was unable to form a coalition >>> next on the programme - back to selma, a new march to hono

for example, when iran comes to the aid of the government of iraq and iraqi kurdistan in defense againste assault of isis, that is destabilization. if not aggression, perhaps. in contrast, when the u.s. invades iraq and kills a couple hundred thousand people, generates millions of refugees, destroys the country, and sets off a sectarian conflict that is tearing iraq and, by now, the whole region to shreds, and on the side increases terrorism worldwide by a factor of 7 just in the first year, that is stabilization. [laughter] part of our mission that we must continue for the benefit of the world. u.s. the exceptionalism of doctrine institutions is quite wondrous to buy old -- to behold. "the washington post" editors join dennis ross, thomas friedman, other notables in calling on washington to provide israel with a b-52 bomber and perhaps even the more advanced b-2 bombers and also huge, what are called massive ordnance penetrators, bunker busters and formally -- informally. there's a problem, they don't have airstrips for huge planes like that that they can use maybe turkey's airstrips. a

ivan watson, cnn, iraqi kurdistan. >>> the news continues next on cnn. >>> thank you, wolf.t to be with you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. we have breaking news involving this urgent situation involving a woman in georgia. here's what we ha

and they do have influence in iraqi kurdistan. which he is acutely aware of. for him, too, it's a very difficult balancing act on the one hand to maintain the strategic relationship with turkey which is key to his agenda, which is independence. and underpinned obviously by being able to sell his oil. and you can't do that without turkey's help. but on the other hand, the fact that ordinary kurds are feeling angry about what turkey is doing to the pkk, the kurds and what isis is doing on the other. and the fact that the pkk seems to be the most effective fighting force against isis. so bearing all of that in mind, i think it's time to deal with the pkk. and i think, as i said in my little talk, that this is a great opportunity. and i think the fact of the pkk now having this experience of running an area inside syria is having a profound effect on them. it's civilianizing them, if you will. they're having to actually run towns and deal with the issues of ordinary people. you might argue they already have that experience in turkey whether hdp is running municipa

i've, kurdistan.i've had no an excellent adequate to me though how you get to, particularly the sunni and the gse and. who is it that draws the boundaries? what happens in terms of oil revenue for sunnistan which has no oil production in the footprint that now occupies? so again there is very serious ethical issues here which is not resolve result in a civil war and you'll have syria part two, except in iran -- iraq. intellectual, academically, okay, tell me how you're going to get there in a country where the politics are so fractious that the sunni arabs feel alienated from baghdad. you are not going to agree. this is not going to be in amicable divorce. this will be a civil war. tragically there has been further thickening displacement during the latest violence, as there was, in fact, into 2005-2006 timeframe to a considerable degree. the concept for how the sunnis would survive and how to generate revenue, how all of this would work i think are quite problematic. >> so would you said any kind of

and they do have influence in iraqi kurdistan. which mr. bazani is acutely aware of. it's a difficult balancing act. on the one hand to maintain the strategic relationship with turkey, which is key to his agenda, which is independence, and underpinned obviously by being able to sell his oil. and you can't do that without turkey's help. but on the other hand, the fact that ordinary kurds are feeling very angry about what turkey is doing to the pkk, the kurds and what isis is doing on the other. and the fact that the pkk seems to be the most effective fighting force against isis. so bearing all of that in mind, i think it's time to deal with the pkk. and i think, as i said in my little talk, that this is a great opportunity. and i think the fact of the pkk now having this experience of running an area inside syria is having a profound effect on them. it's civilianizing them, if you will. they're having to actually run towns and deal with the issues of ordinary people. you might argue they already have that experience in turkey whether hdp is running municipalities. that

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it had helped broker peace talks between the turkish government and the militant kurdistan workers party known as the pkk, before the truce collapsed earlier this summer. turkish security forces have now crossed into northern iraq as the military launched airstrikes against kurdish militants, killing 40. the attacks come after 14 turkish policemen were killed in eastern turkey on tuesday and turkish soldiers killed in a 16 roadside bomb explosion on sunday. meanwhile, two british vice journalists who had been imprisoned in turkey on terrorist charges have been released. jake hanrahan and philip pendlebury of vice news were detained in august while covering protests in eastern turkey over the government's military offensive against kurdish dissident groups. a translator remains in custody. in the united ststes, congress -- states, commerce returned from summer recess tuesday with the historic nuclear deal with iran topping the agenda. four more democratic senators announced their support for the deal tuesday, cementing the deal's future. the addition of richard blumenthal of connecticut,

fighters from the kurdistan workers party have been blamed for the attack >>> 16 people are still missing after severe floods in eastern japan. one of the places worst hit had 5,000 residents waiting to return home. wayne hay is there with more. officials moved quickly to try to repair the break in the riverbank along the river. they are concerned, of course, that the typhoon season is not over in japan, and they need to plug the gap as quickly as possible before the water level rises. there was a plan in place to fortify all the banks along the river so they could withstand the rain fall that might occur once every 10 years, clearly that plan came too late for this disaster. there's thousands of people in evacuation centers. areas like this too devastated and damaged for people to be able to return to just yet. still a lot of water lying around. infrastructure has been destroyed in places like this. people can't come back to their homes, and some may not be able to return for some time. as i say, a lot of water laying around. officials brought in more pumps to try to lower the water leve

, interestingly, the prime minister talked about drew parallels between isil and the p.k.k., the kurdistan workers party drawing parallels between the fight the p.k.k., and isil, with a little bit awkward for the united states, of course, because the united states has relied somewhat on the curds in it's fight against isil. but many countries vowing better cooperation that we heard from. >> so a lot of talk of cooperation, we heard from president obama, be uh the need to defeat isil, any major announcements any new ideas that this conference came up with? >> not a lot. we did hear the united nations, announcing they had put 35 more individuals and entities on the sanctions list of attempt to dry up funding. that was welcome news to the iraqi prime minister. he called on other countries to do more to dry up the resources of this network. but no major initiatives, no discussions about how to get at isil in syria. which of course, is the ungoverned strong hold for this movement, the. booing campaign does continue with the united states and france, launching aerial attacks against isil in syri

it is is one thing for kurdistan who is largely autonomous and has oil revenues coming in. although not enough. they are running a deficit. they still need to get their 17% out oil revenues from iraq proper, which means really the two southern provinces it produced the most. there is no oil or gas going to be provided for the sunni areas. there's no production in those areas. one of the real serious problems is how would they survive? the second is, who drives the boundaries? where are the borders? if you have a state of politics that is so fractious, how are you going to have an amicable divorce? this will be a fractious divorce. the body wants to pursue inclusive politics. i don't think people picked up there are huge demonstrations going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged by in sufficient services, particularly electricity for a month and then corruption. and they are flat outraged. the grand ayatollah is seeing this through his clerics, issued statements, that encouraged the reforms that prime minister abbad

and they now have a headquarters, a task force headquarters in iraqi kurdistan from which they are puttinging profiles basically of islamic state leaders. j sock and the cia working together and then they will strike those leaders with its own drones. >> your book is creating quite a stir in defense circles. even getting all the way to capitol hill. a lot of the people who are mentioned in your book, dod said sort of expect some media scrutiny. ash carter said, it is not up to any individual entrusted with national security secrets to disclose them and e especially when it would affect our ability to protect our people and our country. how much did you find out in this book? and how were you able to do it? were people willing to talk? >> yes a lot of people were willing to talk to me. i think i found out a lot. i would be -- i would be naive to say that i thought i found out everything about joint special operations command. it is a very large and secretive organization at this point. but i think have been successful in putting together the -- the outlines and a lot of the meat of its hist

the strikes come after kurdistan workers party, known as the pkk, killed at least 16 turkish soldierson sunday, in what is being described as the militants' deadliest attack since the collapse of the two-year-old ceasefire. meanwhile, 10 turkish police officers have died in a bomb attack on a police bus in eastern turkey this morning. no one has taken responsibility for the attack, but turkish officials have blamed the attack on the pkk. british prime minister david cameron says england has launched its first drone strike into syria, killing two british citizens accused of working with isil. england does not have a parliamentary mandate to take military action in syria. cameron said the strikes were conducted in self-defense to prevent attacks planned by eisele -- isil in britain. the announcement comes on the heels of news that a u.s. drone strike killed another british citizen in august, after approval from the british government. meanwhile, the pentagon has announced plans to redesign the $500 million program to train and arm so-called moderate rebels in syria, after syrian militan

hundreds of people have been killed including dozens of , security personnel in attacks by the pkk or kurdistanorker'' party. in july, turkey began an air campaign against camps run by the pkk in northern iraq even. -- iraq. the fighting has shattered a peace process launched to end a conflict that had killed more than 40,000 people since 1984. to talk more about turkey we are going to turn to several guests. in istanbul, where joined by ayse berktay, a member of the hdp party assembly. in new york, we're joined by zeynep gambetti, this is a professor of political theory at bogaziÇi university in istanbul, on thursday evening, she helped organize a demonstration at columbia university in solidarity with the kurds in turkey and against the turkish government attack. gambetti co-edited the books, "the kurdish issue in turkey: a spatial perspective" and "rhetorics of insecurity: belonging and violence in the neoliberal era." welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us, professor. start off by explaining, for people who hardly even know where turkey is, what is happening right now? ho