but mosul is less than 20 miles from here. and even in these thick stone walls a lot of families feel the danger is closing in. dozens of families who fled mosul while they're staying here in rooms normally occupied by monks and pilgrims. nadia is one of them. her husband was shot dead in mosul four years ago, in a wave of violence. >> he came up and shot him with four bullets, one in the head. my son carried his body into a taxi. he died while they were passing the church. >> her youngest daughter is engaged to an iraqi in sweden. nadia plans to go back to mosul so she doesn't lose her job. noshein order to apply for a aam she would need to leave the country and she doesn't want to do that. he goes back and forth to the city and says things are quiet there. >> for the people it's very hard to stay outside their homes. we were putting them up in schools. and other people's houses. >> reporter: when martin finishes his studies for priest hood next year he will be sent to mosul. he was there for an hour before we spoke and he sa

and areas around mosul, and of course, the provinces of kurdish regional government.e challenged because they are not used to facing thousands potentially of conventional-armed isil forces think but they are a good army. there is 190,000 of them. they have tanks, artillery, they'll do okay. >> is there a confessional character, that is a religious identity to the national arm any and does that complicate things as you are trying to sort all of this out? >> yes, to a degree this issue of religious identity in the security forces comes up. now to be sure, there are many -- there have been many sunni arabs recruited in to the armed forces. but i think there is also to a degree desertion. but also on associates media you see on these pro-security forces pages and people putting up banners of ali and hussein and shia slogans which really i don't think helps convince the sunni -- wider sunni population now of the army having an intent to defend the nation as a whole rather having a narrow sectarian interest. and also there has been this issue in -- not in mosul so far, but

getting out of moz old -- mosul harrowing experience. they are not here only because of prices -- isis. people have spoken of a complete collapse inside mosul. are abandoning their posts to flee like everyone else. they are not just afraid of isis but what happens next and what the government will have to do to get mosul back from the jihadis. jihadis tell people they had nothing to fear. prime minister has said the victory in mosul will not stand. >> we will not allow this to carry on regardless of the price. we are getting ready, we are organizing. >> the roads into kurdish territory are choked. this is the beginning of the islamic state they hope to carve out. the battle to prevent such a state coming into being will be a bloody one. more people will see -- flee their homes before it is over. >> grim scenes from northern iraq. very difficult times for the civilians. been very well planned what do we know about the movement and its aims? our diplomatic correspondent has more on that. iraq'st's second city -- is opening mosul up.l they

and here in mosul, it's key buildings in the city. they are taking over banks, and tv stations, so right now, the situation in mosul is unprecedented. we have not seen this iraq until at least 2006. >> is the iraqi state in position to fight back, is the army equipped and professional enough? >> that's a big question. you have to understand that iso were able to come in, and the airaki army was this, but when they got there, they faced no opposition from the iraqi army. they abandoned their positions and they left in iso and for a long time, maliki has been pleading with the americans to speed up the sale of arms, and intelligence, and he asked for drones to be able to fly over various cities. he has got some of it, and not all of it, and he has for a very long time been saying, we need american help. nobody wants american boots back on the ground. but they are saying that the americans may have left. but they could help us with material. so are the iraqi army trained and developed enough to deal with this? yes, they have been dealing

they took possession of mosul. hoda amid is on the road from mosul to the turkish border. >> there's a queue of cars that stretches for several kilometers maybe more. for the kurdish authorities this is a logistical challenge. every car gets checked by the peshmurga. authorities are giving priority to families or to people who have some connection to the ku kurdish territories, but everybody has to register here first. and the wait is long. it's very hot. and sometimes, tempers flare. now we've been talking to a lot of these people coming through. they have been describing a calm situation for past 24 hours or so in mosul. they said that members of the i.s.i.l. are roaming around the city. most of them have their face covered but they say that they're protecting government buildings, banks, even though they do say that police stations have by and large been destroyed. now people here are extremely worried what's going to happen next. they do expect a reaction from the authorities in baghdad and what they fear the m

-- iraq, not far from mosul. militants will call the local tribal elder and say that they are sending their fighters, if you want to negotiate with us and give up without a fight. not only do these jihadist's control vast swaths of territory, it is an increasingly well-funded -- it is increasingly well-funded, expanding extremely rapidly and , once for amy powerful has completely dissolved. soldiers and troops left their post, leaving behind heavy weapons. all of these are assets to isd il. what we are seeing is a perfect storm of crisis that has hit us, right now. we are talking about a jihadist group, al qaeda is trying to distance itself from -- controlling territory on either side of the national border. we have seen deep sectarian divisions made by sectarian superpowers in the region, in a proxy war from influence and control, and we have seen local coalitions fiddling and jockeying for power and influence. >> one other thing, we do have the iraqi government that is andng to take action mosul one thing our c

there are reports that some people, not that many, are returning to mosul. apparently the electrician tis is back on. water is back on. if you have nowhere to go and no water as we return in the report, you can't can afford to buy a bottle of water, perhaps you'll return home. i wouldn't underestimate the depth of concern about the events that have been taking place in mosul. >> thank you very much indeed. >>> a parliamentary vote to grant powers to nouri maliki was delayed thursday when too few mp's turned up. we have more on the mood in baghdad. >> people are frightened with the recent news. militia led more in the area toward the province. it's 60 kilometers from baghdad the city. this has forced people to buy more supplies, stay despite what the government is saying. the situation here is not the same as it was in the last few years. people are remembering what happened during the 2006 and 2008 when the conflict was widespread civil war. some militia a attacks are now seen by islamists. they're very scared if this happens again, the country will go throu

it said 40 indian workers in mosul have been kidnapped. this quote from the foreign ministry spokesman speaking to reporters in new delhi. as we get more on that, we'll bring it to you. >>> we have a special program later. you can also see more about the crisis in iraq on our website, including the game gains made s fighter and more on what is happening to civilians who are caught up in the fighting. all of that at bbc.com/news. >>> other news to bring you, five people are known to have died, 32 others still missing after their boat sank off the coast of malaysia. coast guard say they suspect the passengers including women and children were trying to reach the country illegally. so far 55 people were rescued. the search continues for more survivors. >>> it is thought that at least 20 people were killed in nigeria when a bomb exploded at a venue screening the world cup. witnesses say suicide bomber on a tricycle taxi detonated explosives. there has been no immediate claim of responsibility, but boko haram has been responsible for a similar

and, of course, 85% of mosul is under the control of that group. very, very critical situation and very -- it's a big blow i would say for the iraqi government forces. >> yeah, omar, keeping an eye on events happening right across iraq, a very tricky situation, omar will keep us you up-to-date. thanks so much for that. >>> well, thousands of people have been fleeing the violence al jazerra have been at the crossing near iraq's northern border. >> reporter: we are here at the main checkpoint before entering the kurdish region just at the border with the province. now, there is a queue of cars stretching for several kilometers, make more. for the kurdish authorities this is a logistical challenge and a security challenge. every single car that comes through gets thoroughly checked by the kurdish forces. at the moment the authorities here are given priority to families or to people who have some sort of connection to the kurdish region. maybe they own a property or maybe they have already relatives living in the towns and cities across this part of no

of mosul, one of the locations controlled by the meshugua. it will is surrounded by towns and cities under the armed sunni groups and the kurdish militia, they say they will halt the situation. along the way, i have noticed as well tennessee of cars of iraq refugees. some literally sleeping on the streets because they couldn't find anywhere. some of them ran away from the fighting in mosul and many other cities and the situation remains very tension. i went as well to a number of christian cities, kurdish cities and the mood of the people is of fear and anticipation and high level of tension as well. >> of course, as you mentioned with the united nations having a small contingent there, certainly to see what the refugees wants, security must be a real concern to try and get aid in there without getting themselves into any bother. >> absolutely. i mean all the way, i went through, as i said to you from the city all the way to the area surrounding the city that is about 150 kilometers and along the way, we noticed there are tennessee of checkpo

mosul is a pivot ol moment. u.s. foreign policy is underpinned by the use of force will lead to a favourable outcome, and the arming of local forces would secure the outcome once the u.s. lease. both are brought into question with the fall of mosul. >> on capitol hill. the main foreign policy is whether it was a show of weakness transferring five taliban soldiers for one u.s. u.s.'s ambassador to syria was giving interviews on how more aid should have been sent into the region. >> i strongly advocate identifying reliable groups - we have a good idea who some might be and giving them the wherewithal, cash, ammunition. >> reporter: some querfe whether policy -- question whether policy makers are really observing what is happening in iraq. >> instead of thinking what a mistake it is to militarize extremists, instead of seeing them as mistakes, calling it off and getting soars about diplomacy, even with people we don't like. instead of doing the call all over washington is supporting more and more weapons into the confli

what is the situation there where you are in mosul? >> i was in mosul just before the fighting started on one june, but i was lucky to get out alive. [no audio] there were a lot of iraqi soldiers they're being treated who deserted and fled. and there were also local and kurdish forces that were struck in the fighting. some people are talking about half a million civilians in the kurdish region of a rack. -- of iraq. it is spilling over into other provinces. >> what about the iraqi military echo are they anywhere to have -- the iraqi military echo are they anywhere to be seen? >> many of the soldiers have fled, but according to the soldiers i've spoken to and kurdish security forces, the mosul iraqi soldiers that were based there, most of them have fled to the kurdish region and to to walk. i talked to a soldier today who was from the north of baghdad. he was trying to find a way to get back to baghdad, but he was afraid he could get imprisoned for deserting the iraqi army. >> thank you for that update. take care of yourself. >> tanks a

that's a recent discovery in mosul, this is before they took over mosul, window directly inside the organization isis. it was wrote about in the "guardian" i spoke with him today. i was fascinated by this article and you're the only person i've read who found out this information. talk about the intelligence that was discovered about isis before mosul happened. >> two or three days before that dramatic storming into mosul took place, the iraqi forces had gone to the house of someone they had been told was the head of the military counsel, the isis organization that was led to him who finally broke after two weeks of interrogations, gone to the house, shot him dead and found 162 memory sticks and on those were a treasure trove of information. >> computer sticks that belonged to isis? >> everything. financial accounts, leadership, the second tier of leaders which is important because while they knew the senior leaders, they didn't know much about the second leaders. the foreigners coming from elsewhere, they had code names and initials of at least a thousand inform paants into the iraqi institutio

in this camp outside mosul, hamid has received the message. he was dessert ed from the army when isis attacked his city. he's glad he escaped when he did. >> translator: they are kidnapping the fathers or brothers of soldiers until those soldiers turn themselves in. one of my friends turned himself into isis. now his family say he has been killed. >> these men are not running from battle but towards it. hundreds desperate to join the army claiming they'll defend iraq from non believers. in the north, the war against isis has lasted a week. the commander here told me there were 20 of his men that had been killed. the general survived the isis assassination attempt. he says the conflict is bound to intensify. >> translator: we cannot say who is winning. the war will get bigger. the battle is moving little by little towards baghdad. foreign countries may intervene especially iran. >> the cause of the crisis divides iraq like so much else. did tony blare and george bush do a good or bad thing for iraq? >> translator: they have brought nothing but

fighters overrenal iraq's security forces in mosul. earlier this week, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to flee their 0 homes. aid agencies are scrambling to deliver humanitarian aid. >>> in our first person report, carl shibri is with safe the children. he is vased in rabil about 50 miles east of mosul, and he tells us about the challenges iraq's fleeing children are facing. >> the things that children are witnessing, they are things which no human being, let alone children, should be witnessing in their lives. children who have been separated from their parents, unaccompanied minors. the most common story is in the chaos and in the panic that ensued when it became clear that there was this conflict raging in mosul, parents were fleeing and some children were left behind or got lost in the process. but again, the big questions, nobody knows whether their patients are alive, whether they will be able to get reunited soon with their families. it's all very traumatic. it's the kind of experience which no child should be going th

we are hearing reports of infighting in mosul. a small contingent of troops have been sent to baghdad to protect the american personnel and the u.s. embassy. imran khan joins us from baghdad. this intriguing story about sunni militias turning on each other in mosul. what are you hearing? >> well there has been an idea logical divide between the sunni rebels and the islamic state of iraq and levant. they have different goals. the sunni rebels want regime change in iraq. they want to take over the government, i.s.i.l. they want an islamic state, hence the title of their group. the sunni rebels inside mosul want to provide services to the people. they want fuel, they want to get people jobs and pay salaries. they want to run mosul like they would run iraq. i.s.i.l. want to run it along religious grounds and they issued a decree saying people have to pray five times a day and women cover up. clashes have occurred. it's about control. the i.s.i.l. rebels have a way they want to run the city. the other sunni rebels don't want it that wa

the biggest city that has fallen is mosul. it's likely that they'll go to mosul. you saw in the report that they are recruiting in large numbers, young men to fight in the tribal militias. they have done that in basra, which is shia, they are setting up the groups. it's along sectarian lines. what that means remains to be seep. we see this in 2006. what happens is iraq was plunged into sectarian war. >> thank you for joining us from baghdad. >> security concerns in iraq prompted the united states to relocate u.s. contractors based there. president obama says he's considering all options to help the iraqi government. >> iraq will need more help. it will need more help from us and the international community. my team is working around the clock to identify how to provide the most effective assistance to them. i don't rule out anything. we have a stake in making sure that jihadists are not getting a foot hold in iraq or syria. >> we have more from washington d.c. >> the message from the disagrees developed over the day. first they were keen to emphasise that they wan

the ones who are there now from mosul. those who defeated the army were from elsewhere and they left. what can malik do he didn't manage to do anything in fallujah, a how can he make a difference now? >> reporter: it's a common feeling among most of the refugees here, many fear that baghdad will unleash its air power over the city like it did in other parts of iraq where the fight against isil is ongoing. with such level of uncertainty, the kurdish regional government has put fits a force on his high alert. bracing itself for a bigger influx of people in the days to come. al jazerra, in northern iraq. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: i am meteorologist dave warren the national forecast we'll start in the mid-atlantic, a lot of moisture in the air, very warm and move i had the temperatures making it as far as north as philadelphia. problem is late they are afternoon. getting a little sunshine starting to see the showers pop up. here they are at the end here, showers with a lot of moisture around so they can dump a lot of rain in a sho

mosul fell in part because u.s. trained iraqi forces abandoned their posts. maliki has reportedly urged the u.s. to carry out airstrikes in recent months, but the obama administration has declined request so far. we will have more on the crisis in iraq after the headlines. resumed its drone war in pakistan after a six-month pause. at least 14 people have been killed in a parish strike since wednesday. it is the first known u.s. drone attack in pakistan since december. the strikes come days after taliban fighters stormed the karachi airport, leaving 36 dead, including 10 attackers. the resumption of u.s. drone attacks could signal the pakistani government is moving toward an offensive on the taliban. pakistan had asked the u.s. to pause the drone war when it opened peace talks with the taliban last year. an egyptian court has sentenced one of the country's most prominent pro-democracy activists to 15 years in prison. alaa abd el-fattah was found guilty of illegal protest and attacking a police officer for a rally against pedro connie and protest law last year.

the group controls two major cities, mosul and tikrit. al-malaki has failed to declare a state of emergency, not enough politicians turned up for a session to vote it through. iran's president has weighed in on the crisis. he says his government will tackle fighters in neighboring iraq but hasn't gone into any details. >> on the ground, fighters from isil say they'll now march to the capital, baghdad. we have correspondents covering every angel of the story. we are live in baghdad, and in northern iraq where hundreds of thousands are seeking refuge. we are in beirut, looking at the attempt to link syria with iraq. let's talk about the latest political developments from baghdad. the fact that al-malaki didn't get the state of emergency, what happened? >> not enough people turned up to vote to push this through. they needed a 50% plus one, that's 166 to turn up. it was a political move. those that didn't turn up made sure that this state of emergency wasn't declared. it was hugely criticized by soon any politicians, saying the prime ministe

other developments north of the country, at the city of mosul, to the west of the city of mosul, rather, fighting is fierce between the government forces as well as the rebels in the town of telafa. it is predominantly shia. the fighting there is described by local as very fierce, very intense. people say they are really worried. the death toll from the fighting stands at 10, at least 10 people. but we do expect the death toll to rise because we are told that there are a lot of injured people with serious injuries. >> the pentagon now has three u.s. warships stationed in the arabian gulf after president obama said there will be no u.s. troops sent to iraq. al jazeera al jazeera randall pinkston is life in washington with more on the white house's approach to the growing conflict in iraq. randall, good afternoon to you. first off, republicans are on a war path against president obama's decision to remove troops from iraq. so what exactly do they want him to do now? >> reporter: well, morgan, as you point out, they don't want troops on the ground but republicans are calling for decisive a

mosul, mosul is a city we're going to talk about in a minute because mosul is very important.t is at this moment at the center of all of it. i'll explain why and what happened in mosul because it is very important. right now they're on the move south toward baghdad. so aleppo, you see, close to that. this is a whole sort of califate that they're trying to create. these borders matter to everybody but them. they are sunni or shia. you see, the government here in iraq is a shia government. shia are the -- they are the majority in iraq. sunni are the minorities. what they've said, the sunnis are like, you've been repressing us, you're not giving us a voice in government, you're not giving us a say in our own nation. you made it to do this or we're going to rebel against you, and now they have. the thing is, sunnis are the majority in the rest of this area, right? they've come from syria to help and back and forth. they've mounted this insurgence. we'll explain exactly how in a minute. as for the iraqi government, nuri al maliki, the prime minister, he's a shia and asked the parli

let's take mosul for the beginning. we have spoken to several sources in the si and people -- city and people living abroad with rebels inside the city. that i.s.i.l. fighters mounted a military parade, they move the concrete barriers away. life is returning to normal. a bugbear of people living in mosul is the amount of army check points. i.s.i.l. fighters removed the check points. people are being treated with respect. no churches have been attacked. this is a mutty ethnic -- multi-ethnic community. no shi'a mosques have been attacked. people are wondering what i.s.i.l.'s end game is. they have heard what has been done in other parts. in mosul they are bringing a semblance of normality back to the city, and that seems to happen, in the north as well. i.s.i.l. have made a declaration to the army. they have given them a deadline, saying if you don't leave soon we'll come in and take over the city. the army are saying "no, we'll stay and fight back." they did manage to take over six neighbourhoods last week, and when the

and it's not just in mosul they have done this.st week alone, they have taken over neighborhoo neighbord taken people hostage at a university. they seem tour resurgent. >>> reporting from baghdad. thank you. >>> kiev says it has reached a mutual understanding with moscow on a plan fro posed by the new president to end the violence in ukraine. there has been no comment from russia. but ukraine confirms that two days of talks have given momentum to an emerging piece process. poroshenko also announced a corridor for safe passage for eastern regions with the pro-russian insurgency is occurring. >>> the trial for the officer-y that sanction two months ago. many of the families called the defenders murderers as they were led in to the courtroom. the trial will focus how the captain and crew escaped while hundreds of passengers remained trapped inside. more than 290 people, many of them students, died when the ferry sank. if convicted the captain and crew members would face the death penalty. >>> two days before the most watched sports ev

do we know what life has become like in mosul?ave they started to institute their rule of law there? >> they have but perhaps in a more subtle way than we've seen them try to their rule of law in syria. they're encouraging people to abide by the rules at this stage. let's also remember that they're trying to keep this relationship that they have going on currently with the sunni tribes and the various other sunni insurgent groups, the former baathists as a fairly solid one and one that loose arrangement was made to bring all the sunni groups together to launch this current offensive, isis was supposed to abide by certain rules. and that was not to impose their own interpretation of sharia on the islamic population and certainly not to carry out the mass executions. we're hearing from sources they've been told to sort of hold back on trying to impose their ideals on the population. but that being said, they are continuously issuing orders. most recently, they told all journalists that they are not allowed to film anything unless th

john simpson, bbc news. >> for more on the follow-up mosul -- follow-up -- fall of mosul, i asked our guest. tell us more about the state of preparedness of the iraqi forces. >> it tells us about the extent of ambitn isis -- islamic state of iraq and syria -- has. they are willing to attack the second-largest city, one that would have serious offenses. leader, us about its who was now far and away the most dangerous man in the world, the most successful terrorist leader possibly in modern times. iraq split into component parts? >> people have predicted that and have been proven wrong. i believe iraq can hold together as a country, but the fact that it's second biggest city can fall to a terrorist group suggests a lot needs to be done, repairing relations between the sunni and shia, kurds and arabs, before the country can return to normal. >> did the u.s. decision to fully withdraw from iraq healthy extremists? >> is certainly did, but it is not as if the u.s. had a choice in the matter. the government of nouri al-maliki wanted the americans to leave. they gave assurances to the iraqi

they are taking over places lie mosul this is a city of 2 million people.y did it last week as well. they kidnapped -- sorry held hostage the university students in a province there as welling. dedesperate situations require desperate measures. the prime minister is saying give me the power and let me deal with it as best i can. >> there is a suggestion that people are being told to arm themselves and fight back. is that likely to happen? >> reporter: well, it's already happening. what we are seeing is a number of militias being formed on the outskirts of mosul people that have been given weapons from the army, had weapons from peeve conflicts are getting ready to go in what the prime himster said is before the army can get there, let's defend our cities. malicioumilitias in iraq don't e accept reputation asthma liciouss in libya. they are not seen as a destabilizing influence they are controlled by political groups who are trying to become a political party. you can liken that militia group, pretty in touch hezbollah in lebanon in which case almost governm

this lady was in hospital when mosul fell to sunni rebels.hen everyone around her fled, she had to follow. . >> there was no one to help. i am here with my children. i never imagined i would end up like this. but without this camp, we would have nothing. >> it created a mass exodus, a feel more people are on the move as the sunni rebellion spreads throughout iraq. the u.n. says it's just the beginning. >> it's being dramatic how events have unfolded at all kind of levels but particularly the human starn level. there is some displacement now happening in diala, and people are crossing into sulimania province. we will probably see some in the south go towards baghdad. so, a i said in the beginning, we are at the tip of the iceberg of the whole problem. >> reporter: when they first left, none of the people here reed the scale of the crisis. >> this camp is growing by the day, simply because of people have run out of cash. many of those who are staying here actually for the second time displaced. they come from other parts of iraq. in the past ye

people flee the iraqi city of mosul after it was captured by islamists. thousands of south korean police raided communes in the search for the fugitive billionaire whose family owns the ferry that sank. >>> militants say its fighters attacked karachi on sunday. >>> brazil is limb bering up for the kickoff of the world cup. is it still the land of fun and soccer? >>> hello there. that's news out of iraq. women, children, whole families among hundreds of thousands who have said the city of mosul was taken over by the islamist e-mail tant group. the iraqi army and police are said to have abandoned their positions after four days of violent clashes across the city. the militants are now in the nearby oil town of baji. as you can see, convoys of isis gunmen swept through mosul on tuesday, and now say they have liberated the city. the group is comprised of sunni muslims, and it poses a real challenge to nuri al maliki. he has ordered parliament to declare a state of emergency. more detail about who these people are and what they're fighting for. the name isis s

the dynamics in mosul very interesting. overnight, one strike by the iraqi government on a military base to the south of the city. we spent all day on the border talking to residents who were fleeing actually describing life as being fine. they say, yes, there are masked gunmen roaming the streets, ice sis fighters. they're not really bothering us, they haven't been carrying out mass execution and haven't been looting and pillaging and some people even saying they were going back because they believe ice sis, when they told residents to return. a lot of this going back to sectarian tensions, predominantly sunni areas and residents telling us they were going to go back because ice sis at this stage, to them, was a better option than being under the control of the government shia prime minister nori al malaki. >> stand by, i want to bring in christiane. it looks to the outsider at least this could be another civil war in the making between the largely shia backed iraqi government versus the largely sunni ice sis or thesis or

as they fight through iraq and take the city of mosul.nd they appear to have taken the city of tikrit. >> my team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. i don't rule out anything. because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria for that matter. >> the white house spokesperson jay carney says the united states is not contemplating ground troops but that air strikes are being considered. the iraq military carried out its own air strikes overnight. arwa damon joins me with the latest, we have heard isis continuing their push through the country. what is the latest you're hearing right now? >> reporter: well, anderson, they're still maintaining a very firm grip over the city of mosul. when it comes to the oil-rich city of kirkuk, they attempted to take that by were drawn back by the kurdish fighting force. we spent the bulk of our day at one of the border crossings into northern iraq. the region of kurdistan,

foreign journalists are not allowed into mosul. holly williams talked to an iraqi who has seen what's happening. >> reporter: this doctor, who works in mosul, made his way through checkpoints to meet us a few miles outside the city. the islamic extremists known as isis have been welcome by many in mosul. like the militants most of its residents are sign muslims who resent the iraqi government, which is dominated by shiite muslims. the do, wouldn't show his face, not because he's frightened of isis, but because he fears retribution from iraq's government. have isis enforced islamic law in mosul? >> actually, they have this idea. bit they are not forcing people. >> reporter: he told us his hospital only has water for two hours a day because the iraqi government switched off the water supply. so things are better under isis? >> as the people say, it is better than a government. it's better. >> reporter: why? >> because they gave them freedom. >> reporter: in internet videos, isis shows a very different face, including summary executio

in all of its fashions liberated mosul.he reason they are being oblique is they don't want to admit to the extent that isil had spearheaded the insurgent takeovers and they don't want an open armed con frontathes at the moment. >> iraqis who either cannot see american news channels or cannot understand english should count themselves blessed. many of the same neocon voices who helped cheerlead america to invade in 2003 with tails of wmds and non-existent links to the 911 attacks are back. many are calling for u.s. forces to reentered iraq. >> we go in. we use air power, get some boots on the ground. >> judd i think miller, the did i graced -- disgraced reporter has been dusted off. her alleged expertise sought by fox news. >> on the situation in iraq and who is responsible and how did this situation occur? >> some of the most prominent commentators you are seeing on u.s. cable news are not canny observers of the iraq war. they are the people who produced the debacle in iraq. people like paul bremer, wolfowitz who were the a

has isis enforced islamic law in mosul? >> reporter: he told us his hospital only has water for two hours a day because the iraqi government switched off the water supply. so things are better under isis? >> as the people say, it is better than a government. it's better. >> reporter: why? >> because they gave them freedom. >> reporter: in internet videos, isis shows a very different face, including summary executions of its enemies. >> if you do not think the way they do, you die. that's it. >> reporter: retired colonel harry schute fought in iraq during the u.s. invasion and now advises iraqi politicians. he blames iraq's u.s.-backed government for dividing the country along religious lines and driving the country's sunni muslims into the arms of isis. can iraq survive as a state? >> looking at it right now, i don't think so. i think the iraq that we had in our vision from, you know, a couple of years ago or whatever, is finished. >> reporter: some people here have told us that iraq's religious fault lines are now so deep

along side the humanitarian crisis there is the failure of the army in mosul.ome call it a dereliction of duty that they abandoned their posts. many are angry at what the army did. this footage shows the moment iraq's army fled on fuse. his comthe convoy in the city. >> we're introduced practice tall steps by mobilizing people in the public communities to win back mosul. our aim is get rid of isil and terrorist groups. we're meeting. internationameeting with international organizations. >> the prime minister alread some are saying that the prime minister already has enough powers, but whether they agree or not iraq is in a state of crisis. >> we go over to to see how close those isil fighters are getting to baghdad. >> reporter: yes, that's right. now we are getting reports confirmed reports that "groups are closing in on baghdad. they reached in on two areas both of them are less than one hour away on the capitol of baghdad. when you listen to the state media television saying that special forces are heading towards the province, those areas just mentioned are

fighters are in control of been 80% of the province, including the capital mosul. they advanced into kirkuk and took the main city by the same main. overnight they moved south into salaban and r. >> -- richarbardy but there's reports that the army is back in control. there was an oil refinery and a battle around the refinery, pivotal to what iraq needs, oil to survive. >> before i answer that wech i'll bring you to -- question i'll bring you up to date. this is a fast-moving story. you saw the pictures of the iraqi army travelling into the kurdish stan region, three senior soldiers were in the compound. we have reports that the three senior soldiers are on a plane coming back to baghdad where they'll have to face charges that they abandoned their post. i.s.i.l. fighters walked into baji and took the oil refinery and the main city. the oil refinery is about 15 miles away. the army fighters came into the city and took it over. there was no casualties or fatalities on either side. it seems the fighters disappeared once they realised the fourth armoured decision is bac

the new iraq dawned this month when the sunni terrorists known as isis captured mosul. in our interview i asked john kerry why isis caught american leaders flat footed. >> you and president obama both suggested the only real surprise in isis's capture of mosul was how swiftly the iraqi armed forces melted away. but given all that america has done and sacrificed to stand up to the iraqi armed forces over the years and give end too isis

first, paul evans brings us up-to-date on the fall of mosul. >> reporter: the exodus from mosul goesn. perhaps as many as half a million people fleeing the violence that's gripped iraq's second largest city. roads clogged as families flee into nearby kurdish areas. in mosul itself the smoldering aftermath of a battle that didn't take long. the militants attacked just five days ago on monday, the provincial governor urged residents to hold firm. hours later he was gone. iraq's out gunned security forces weren't far behind. militants now control government offices and banks too. in january another major city, fallujah, fell to the same hardline group, the islamic state in iraq. the government has tried and failed to take it back. tens of thousands of people have fled. isis now controls a broad swath of territory across the middle east. in iraq's anbar province fallujah is still in rebel hands and has been fighting in ramadi too. in syria the group is involved in fighting in alleppo and has a regional base in more ok wroe they have months you'll too. >> tens of thousands of them now hav

powerless at the moment against the advancing islamist fighters firstly when the extremists seized mosul it opened up access to cash arms and ammunition all vitally important another key asset isis is striving to capture is a rags largest all refining area for the militants did briefly gain control over it before being pushed by the army and the number of militants is growing the group said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks in the process on top of all that it's exploiting in fueling sectarian tension in the community gathering support among radicalized sunni muslims while another branch of the group operates over the border in syria and that's providing a steady flow stream of reinforcements over to iraq so you can see the background here peter van buren who served with the u.s. foreign service for more than twenty years told me he thinks the world's just beginning to feel the consequences of the u.s. led war in iraq when you deliver weapons to the battlefield you really have no control over what happens to the united states has made a number of t