a national unity government national unity government that would prepare a constitutional reform and call an election the concept of national unity is the foundation of everything this is the number one provision of that statement and everything was based on that that that should be the government of national unity transitional yet the should be a government of national unity and then two days after that agreement was signed it was torn and two days ago there was a coup and then they declared a government that came to power in kiev the. government of syria so you can tell the difference between the government of national unity and the government of winners these were all the current problems of ukraine come from so we had a very frank conversation with my colleagues with my partners and i'm very grateful to them. and they all referring to me that the real they were in favor of national unity well if they are what the geneva statement said that a constitutional inclusive dialogue should start immediately involving all the regions and all the political forces this is what should take p

some believe that only a government of national unity will be capable of halting the militant advance because al malik has largely ignored pleas for national unity, he has been asked to step aside, but he remains defiant, and he has also threatened to sue the president, seen here on the left. >> he has violated the constitution to favor the interests of his own groups over those of the iraqi people. >> al-maliki deployed special forces loyal to him at intersections in baghdad to further underscore the degree of political instability. >> for more on this, we are joined in the studio by our iraq expert at a magazine which focuses on middle eastern affairs. welcome to the program. first off, what about al-maliki? is he going to stay? is he going to go? >> he is not known for brinkmanship. he is not known for risking his own life. what we see at the moment is for the first time in his political career, he is confronted with an existential crisis which does not only concern the political future of his country but himself, because if he steps down, there are many people that have accounts t

the civil war in ukraine to the national dialogue and forming the national unity. which was. mentioned on the twenty first of january february. the agreements between. mid between misters one has yet to new political uncertainty baulk and president you know which this national unity is. actually. after this agreement on the twenty first of february was broken by the so opposed moves no one has remembered anything about that but now this topic has returned to this political discourse because it's a really big fear to move out of this severe conflict which we have been witnessing in ukraine. we are raising two kids by us who. we are as you are so many things they don't want for the aging of the world and you for what it's maybe i suggest it's good meals is the most important it is the substance of our negotiations and if it's focused on the substance it's. just taken to according to our sources and. is only half true. or wherever they are for want was launched and still several seats were distanced it wasn't altered this say it was the state. of the ukrainian politics to start

declaring independence, it's not clear whether or not they'll push ahead with these plans if a national unity government is formed. now, as for the sunnis, what we understand is that there are a number of sunni groups fighting on the ground. it's not just islamic state group. now those sunni grouping groupse tribal leaders have been telling us for weeks now the politicians in baghdad, the sunni politicians do not represent them and do not recognize the political process, so any government, any inclusive government which the united states has been calling for, will have to include these men if they are able to form a united front in iraq in order to take on the islamic state group because as you know the united states was quite worried. right now it's defending erbil, but it cannot take anymore action, if it takes action it will be seen as targeting sunnis. this is the beginning, a lot of groupings are saying this is a positive step. but they need to form a government which creates national unity and reconciliation. >> and it could potentially be a game changer in the battle against the islami

afghanistan rival presidential candidates have signed a deal to cooperate on forming a national unityoth claimed victory after the june election and the results are currently being reviewed. in the central african republic fighting separated hundreds of children from their parents and many know their parents are dead and some have become child soldiers but others have found relative safety by getting help to find their families. and we have this report from the town. >> reporter: despite everything they have gone through the children manage to put on a brave face and religious-based violence torn families aport in the central african republic and saw lives unrival in an instinct. >> they were carrying machetes and took my father to the forest and killed her and cut up my mother and killed her and i escaped. >> reporter: the real numbers of children affected are not known and this is one of the few people who have taken in orphans and children who do not know where their parents are. >> translator: war brings suffering, i couldn't leave these children the street, that is why i took the

the newly elected government says national unity is the only way to restor restore balance. rula amin reports. >> in a hotel under the protection of a heavy security presence. are fighting between different libyan militias has thrown country into the turmoil yet been. a new house of representatives has called for a national unity government. >> the transitional government is proposing an urgent vision, at the core of which is to put in place all necessary solutions for security. using all means possible that would produce a balanced situation in libya. >> reporter: the instability caused libya's oil production to drop below 450,000 barrels oday, well below the 1.4 million barrels it produced a year ago. britain is the latest embassy to close its doors and pull out diplomatic staff. u.s., france and other countries had done so days earlier. libyans and foreign nationals continue to cross the border into tunisia to escape the fighting but thousands remain trapped including these egyptians. they are stuck on the border as tunisia has restricted those leaving. only solid proof t

that the presidential candidates in afghanistan's election has signed an agreement to form a national unity we are hearing from one of the candidates. remember back in june 14th, there was a runoff in the election. it was marred by widespread allegations of elector rat fraud john kerry has been trying to negotiate this deal between the governments. we've got news that has happened. we're gathering more details from kabul and will bring them as soon as we have them. >>> now to join jamie with business. >> thanks very much indeed. a british business man and his american wife are in court charged with illegally gathering personal data on chinese citizens. humphrey and his wife have been working for the pharmaceutical company to identify a whistle blower in the country. the couple's arrest coincided with the government's probe into the allegations. this is a complex case. it does underline the changed climate under which some western companies in china now find themselves operating. now they say that great leaders are respected, but they're not loved. that's not the case at one u.s. company. ta

concerted military and political strategy, working with what i hope is a new iraqi government and national unity, working with a searing opposition that we have to cultivate, more than we have in the past, and come up with a serious strategy. the obama administration, in my opinion, has done a good job in ordering it steps correctly. taking sure kurdistan was not overrun by isil. if you have any doubts about their ambitions, why would they want to go into kurdistan if they had taken ambitions? not even their fellow arabs and they saw it as a target of opportunity. they will take what they can get, including close american allies, like george and. -- jordan. i am not trying to suggest the entirety of the subject of today's panel is being addressed by my recommendations but i think we need to focus clearly on this question. to fend we have helped off the immediate threat to donestan, now that we have a nice job pressuring nouri al-maliki to step down as prime minister, in a realistic way to have a new government under another shia, and it has to be from his own party leading the government, but ho

candidates have signed a deal for national unity. they have both claimed victory and accused each other of electoral fraud. john kerry helped broker the deal. swappingbout presidents. still to come. fighting the spread of a bullet. we will go inside the san diego lab where the serum given to two u.s. patience has an developed. local grocery was but -- fired. employees are seeking his return. >> thousands of workers are here in support of their boss. the president of market basket pushed out of a family feud. really cares about his people. it is about the customers first. >> he comes in and he knows your name. >> you think you would be popular with shareholders. this is one of the most successful private companies. return of to shareholders and was fired. that is when staff revolted. no workersmarket means nothing on the shelves and no customers. market basket will not last long like this. about reserving a way of doing business. >> we have lived prices like a warehouse store would have. on top of that because he takes care of his emp

there are calls for a national unity government. says it's the only way to create balance in libya. rula amin reports. >> they were elected in june but this is their first official meeting. violence is rife in tripoli and violence has forced the army to withdraw. under the protection of a heavy security presence. fighting between different libyan militia, to add to complexity, the head of the parliament has called for a meeting in tripoli, the head of the new government has called for a national unity government as a way out of the current crisis. >> translator: the transition government is proposing an urgent vision to put in all measures to reserve security. that will produce a balanced situation in libya. glfer the instability caused libya's oil production to drop below 450 thousand barrels a day, well below the 1 million barrels a day it produced a year ago. the u.s. france and others have pulled out days ago. continued to cross the border into tun tunisia to escape the fighting. these jnt egyptians are stuck oe border. the egyptian foreign minister and prime minister have agree

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understanding i believe that netanyahu's war against gaza is to break the unity, to break the national unity government ask to go back to the status quo. the status quo which is approved by israel before the war has three pillars, one is the palestinian governing, the second is the stability and security in the west bank. and these two -- these pillars should be maintained. if the palestinians come together it means that we have to do our best to keep them less united. this just justification and excuse for netanyahu to evade peace takes and a solution whatsoever. and to expose hamas and say that hamas is the main responsible for the continuation of the conflict. and i do believe that as well that netanyahu and israel at large don't want to see a moderate hamas. they want to see a hamas that goes back to struggles, goes back to military, because, again, this gives them the pretext. and directly speaking, in fact, every time they come to gaza strip for the sake the mowing the lawn as they say, which is to reduce the u capabilities of hamas, they end up exactly with the opposite. with a growin

many iraqis are hoping his successor can form a national unity government with sunnis and kurds and hope those forces can join forces in the fight against the militants. >>> president obama said air strikes to help other iraqis threatened by islamic militants will continue. >> we broke the isil siege of mount sin jar. we helped vulnerable people reach safety and helped save many innocent lives. >> obama said a small team of americans checked conditions on the mountain. and they found food and water have been reaching those in need. he said every day, thousands of people have been taken to safety and u.s. forces have increased the delivery of military assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces fighting you the insurgents. >>> tensions are high on the streets of ferguson in the u.s. state of missouri. confrontations between demonstrators and police 280 trucks left the western russian town of voronezh on thursday after a rest and refueling stopover. russians say they're carrying humanitarian supplies. the ukrainian government says it has not been given detailed information about the cargo or wh

the occupant of that office stands as a symbol of our national unity and commitment. so if the judgment of the people is to be reversed. if the majority of the will is to be undone, if that symbol is to be replaced through the action of the elected representatives, then it must be for substantial and not trivial offenses supported by facts and not by surmise. we've heard a great deal of debate, and you will hear more, devoted to the question of the construction to be given to that phrase high crimes and misdemeanors. it's been suggested the phrase is limited to violations of statutory crimes. well that's an interpretation that i can't accept. because the purpose of that constitutional provision was to prevent the chief executive from engaging in the gross abuse of that tremendous power invested in that office, to protect the people against the diversion of the rule of law, and of fundamental liberty, no matter how silent or how subtle that subversion may be. one constitutional scholar very recently in his book pointed out that if the president of the united states wer

if he manages to make a government of national unity does that take of the pressure off of trying to fight isis with one front uncovered? >> it would. the difficulty is that the war and the reform of the iraqi government and by vur which you of the government, those circumstances are driving forward parallel but with different paces. isis when it decided to act and kill certain civilians and target the groups they are making the decision without a need for consensus or politics. the iraqi government is always lagging behind that process. now the good news is if the iraqi government gets their act together and rally around the flag, they have a lot more capability to do that and they know the place, they are from there and fighting for their own future. >> do you accept that isis is made stronger by the exclusivity of the previous iraqi government that purged the sunys and didn't give them a take or a place at the table? >> it created the conditions for that to happen. look a lot of the resentments driving the isis's ability to mobilize the people are derived from the mismanagement of

afghanistan's rival presidential candidates signed a deal to cooperate on the formation of a national unityent. that comes after the u.s. secretary of state john kerry held a second day of talks and the two candidates have been in dispute over how the june election was handled and results are currently being audited. and jennifer glasse is in kabul for us. so, jennifer, do we know who is going to be president? >> reporter: not yet, steven and that is what the afghan people are waiting to see and a lot of what this meeting was about, trying to move forward on that process, that election counts and audit process, the biggest the u.n. has ever under taken, 8 million votes to be looked at again. they are already behind the pace they had hoped to set and until all votes are looked at steven we don't know who the next president is going to be but they will work together and work with the audit and it has been contentious and i was speaking to an international obevener who has been there a few days and seen three fistfights there, the idea is the two candidates trying to, who together hammering ou

hope for any security or any peaceful future, it really needs a small -- strong government of national unity not, the u.s. may have no other choice but to put troops on the ground. >> and indeed, many feel that america is back at war in iraq. >> that is right, and editorial says the third war in iraq. it seems a lot like a war. the u.s. is bombing iraq. it is sending hundreds of military advisers. and this editorial argues in favor of a more aggressive military strategy. it is saying that limited bombing will not defeat militants. and it likens it to the u.s. escalation to the involvement in vietnam. and you can see obama saying "good morning viet -- actually, iraq." >> and that harkens to the film by robin williams, who sadly died yesterday. also, lauren bacall. >> lots of beautiful photos of lauren bacall. a nice obituary about her. many have been taking to social media to mourn the loss of both actors. there are some rules of twitter also being posted. one of them being, make sure the person your morning is actually dead. but -- >> certainly. the irish are playing today. but as is the fre

the other hand the government has asked the houthis to lay down their arms and participate in a national unityt. >> translator: they have their own agenda with domestic and external goals which they endeavor to achieve. >> reporter: fierce fighting continues. for quite a few months, houthi fighters and government forces have been trying to drive one another out with little success. more than 50 fighters on both sides have died in the last few days. a government delegation sent to negotiate talks fell back when nothing was achieved. >>> the red cross says a huge russian aid convoy could enter ukraine within the next 24 hours. russian trucks are being expected in donetsk. moscow is hoping to send the aid to civilians in the hard-hit city of luhansk. ukraine wants to be sure that the trucks are not carrying weapons for the separatists. >>> indonesia's high court has rejected a request to challenge the presidential election. police fired tear gas to protest the losing candidate. he wanted the result overturned claiming the vote was rigged. the election was won by the governor. steph has more now.

. >> yes, they seem to be edging closer now to getting a government of national unity in iraq which might go some way to beginning the process of sorting out this i.s. problem. we shall see. good afternoon. the iraqi ministry of defense has released footage of what they call air strikes carried out by iraqi and u.s. military planes against islamic state fighters in the northern city of mowms. anof -- mosul. footage of takeoffs and landing from the aircraft carrier george h.w. bush. over the weekend, 42 people were killed in car bombings, another nine died on nonat a shiite mosque in the capitol, baghdad and scores were also injured today as well. iraq's new prime minister designate is predicting a unity government by the end of the week and he says then groups like i.s. will not be tolerated. >> translator: weapons should be in the hands of the state. there will be no place for armed groups be they militias tribes or civilian volunteers. we will never allow any armed group to operate outside of the state. anyone who uses weapons should do so within the framework of the state and under the

where the two rival candidates for president have signed a deal agreeing to form a government of national unity. the breakthrough comes after emergency meetings between u.s. secretary of state john kerry and the two candidates announced the agreement to end the deadlock in kabul. >> one-time finance minister, ashraf ghani, and abdullah abdullah, both claimed victory in the election. the former rivals have agreed to form commissions to work on the structure of the next government but only one will be president when the results of a u.n. supervised election recount comes through. the u.s. brokered a deal aimed to defuse sectarian tensions over the presidential elections regardless of who leads in the current recount. >> this audit is not about winning and losing. it's about achieving the credible result that people of afghanistan demand and deserve. >> both candidates can now be certain that they will have a say in the government. >> from now on, i hope that the people of afghanistan will be more hopeful, will have much better sense of certainty. >> the agreed time line will allow western leaders

so it's a tense situation, and without national unity then that would be the biggest threat for iraq not the presence of the islamic state group. >> there is an important road that lies from bagdad to the modern city of mosul. nearby is the country's largest dam. now back in the hands of kurdish and iraqi forces with the help of the u.s. >> reporter: the u.s. launched the biggest strike since the start of this campaign. after that men like this pushed in with the help of iraqi counter terrorism units. it's an unprecedented cooperation between the kurdish troops and iraqi central government forces. the u.s. said it wasn't easy to put together, but in this case it succeeded. after 36 hours of fighting, they managed to take back control of this dam. the largest in iraq. the fighting continues to the west of the dam. there is a long line of vehicles. we're told it is the counter terrorism units in the lead. you can see them moving now. but they are backed by the kurdish forces that are doing the majority of the fighting on the ground. the next campaign is just over that hill to the west,

yes, to the national unity. yes to the palestinian firm united stand. yes, to the resistance. to the rifle. yes to defend our shrines and our land until we achieve this great history, the great achievement, great agreement, despite all of the injuries, despite all of the pain, they defending us, they defending our issue. and finally, brothers and sisters in front of every palestinian, we are still in gaza. we are still with the rockets. we are still with the rifles, and the artillery. we will continue. we will be committed forever until we can free palestine for the battle of alucsa, and finally let me tell you what has apped is not the end of the road. it's a round from too many rounds of conflicts with the israeli enemy. until we free our land, our people, our shrines, may allah bless you all. [ speaking foreign ] and peace be upon you all. [ speaking foreign ] >> that's the scene in gaza right now, just a short while ago, we were listening to the hamas spokesman, essentially calling the ceasefire that we know now has been reached between israel and hamas a victory for hamas

and the government is meant to be one of national unity. mr. abadi will need to bring every interest together basically and satisfy everybody which is an impossible task. and mr. abadi's brothers and sisters within the state of law as well as within the house of shiite would be asking for the lion's share of positions as well as authority or say, um, the government. and they are by no means united. they're by no means easy or make it easy for mr. abadi. and, of course, the -- mr. abadi's biggest challenge is to bring the sunnis on board as well. so you would think that given that the sunnis are in the poorest state in their power base and their constituency has been taken by isis and they are in desperate need of they, they would be in the weakest place. but that's not correct. their hand is now stronger than ever. everybody now strongly believes that defeating isis in iraq and liberating the major towns and cities of the sunni triangle will require their active engagement. you need to be engagement of sunnis on the ground. everybody insists th

urging both canada and to speed up the audit process and work together to work together to ensure national unity has been postponed while the votes are recounted. u.s. officials are involved in ongoing talks over arms nuclear program. this a in a clear program as for energy purposes only. united states says it is also for developing atomic weapons. five other countries are working on an agreement that would reduce nuclear activities and exchange for weaker sanctions. the group extended the deadline for a deal to november 24th after it did not reach a deal last month. >> when our goal in virginia president obama sign that legislation passed legislation after reports of poor care for veterans including long wait times to book a doctor visit. provide the facilities and new staff. >> problems at the a made national headlines with some when some patients died. >> a contractor who is wanted for leaking classified information will be able to stan russia for a few more years. the request to remain there was granted. will be allowed to live in russia for least another three years. as a silent expired. st

you need national unity and recognize sill chris between t reconciliation between the various groupswe know there are a lot of grievances in the iraq sunni community. they feel that the see shia-led government by nouri al-maliki has been targeting them and marginal icing them. this is not just a question of replacing a man, this is going to be a question of reforming a system in order to get all of iraq's political factions on board. >> yes, and the pace of those political developments really not keeping up with the urgency of the humanitarian situation there in the north. we've got a u.n. expert warning that yazidis could face a massacre within days or even hours. >> reporter: exactly. the u.n. is warning of a potential genocide. we understand up to 20,000 i can't seeyazidis are strand odda mountain top. nobody is able to help them. we understand that the u.s. has sent more military advisers to erbil to try to draw up some sort of a plan to assess the humanitarian situation. will that involve men on the ground to be able to evacuate these people. it's still not clear. the u.s. actio

unconditional but he said kiev continues to demand they get conditions so kaleb robbed line that national unity is key to resolving the crisis he also commented on the alleged movement of russian troops and machinery along the border say russia's taking whatever measures needed to secure its territory. in terms of armored vehicles and weapons that are own territory i'd like to stress that there is a war on the other side of the border and it's being waged with heavy artillery military jets rocket launchers and according to some reports even ballistic missiles and it's just it's is if not hundreds of meters from the russian border shells from territory more than once we have every right to secure a border however we think is necessary. meanwhile doesn't seem all that bothered over the whereabouts of a russian photographer missing in the country for two weeks now the interior ministry has said it doesn't want to be bombarded with questions over andrei stand in the earlier it did issue a search warrant and blamed anti government forces for holding him captive ukrainian officials have repeatedly go

but he said kiev continues to demand vague conditions also so get off it off on the line that national unity is key to resolving the crisis. in the meantime doesn't seem at all ball that actually over the whereabouts of a russian photo journalist missing in the country for two weeks now the interior ministry has said it doesn't want to be bombarded with questions over andree stand in although earlier it did issue a search warrant and blamed anti government forces for holding him captive and ukrainian officials have repeatedly gone back and forth admitting then denying that they had him stand in disappeared on august the fifth in eastern ukraine he was covering the military crackdown on the region you can get all the details on understanding on his work as well at r.t. dot com. thanks for joining us today still to come a bit later in the program america steps up its offensive in iraq u.s. warplanes support kodesh forces an assault on the country's largest dam and that's while the british prime minister calls for even more involvement in the fight against the hottest. and they say that lightni

abdullah and haqqani telling them that they have to reconcile and figure out how they will build a national unity government. if the crisis continues it can be days that you will see taliban operating conducting more attacks. even if there's a reconciliation by the political bigwigs in afghanistan afghan taliban in south and east infrastructure is quite -- in the case of pakistani taliban but problem is much larger. i think there's a huge impact on the election conducted in may 2013. the pakistani taliban in some ways had a more devastating impact on pakistani politics than afghan taliban. as i mentioned there are no short-term solutions. >> thank you dr. hassan. i teach at the department of defense strategic studies and i'm currently a visitor at carnegie. i have two quick questions. one about your recommendation on the sufi tradition as a solution or radicalization. as much as i remember there was a long discussion and a lot of talk on building pakistan and there were efforts to spread the sufi tradition. i'm not really sure what exactly are the concrete steps that states can take in terms of c

you're going to have to reach out to these men if you want to forge national unity and national reconciliation in iraq, and that is what it needed, political reconciliation for the security situation to improve and if a national coalition is to be built to help the government fight the islamic state group. the u.s. airstrikes have helped the kurds, as well as elements of the iraqi military take over the mosul dam and christian villages, but they are not going to expand their operation until they see that iraq sunni's and shiites are united. >> ar the city is not at peace. forces have taken up arms against the shia led government in baghdad. more often than not, the civilians die. 700 have been kid in government attacks since january. >> the situation is terrible, many people have been killed. we want to go back home, but we don't expect a solution, because politicians are just fighting for their seats. >> this is the country's dominant soon any province. the government has enemies in an bar, but also friends. some soon any tribes have sided with the state. >> those alliances are the only thing

speaking about what the president mentioned yesterday or the day before about we should rely on a national unity government in baghdad. the judge is getting information now to confirmed reports there's a coup attempt in baghdad now. maliki is sending units around the presidential palace. there are firefighters. baghdad is not that stable to bank on it. as the general said what we can and should do because we have 200,000 civilians, as you just said for the past few days, they are now under stress. we need to make sure isis can the go up the mountain. air campaign we need to do again in the providences that were emptied by isis. we need to make sure isis is not comfortable. there is another threat that could happen. isis may bring reasinforcementso the area, bring settlers, bring new population to the area so it would be impossible to bring them back later. time is of the essence. air campaign and push back isis out of muss sosul. >> it seems to be the president said he won't do anything until they have a nunity government cn you see them coming to the united states. >> i don't want to be an alar

abdullah and to rani telling them that they have to reconcile and figure out how they'll build a national unity government because if the crisis continues it will not be weeks but days that you will see taliban operating in a very effective fashion conducting more attacks. even if there's a reconciliation of the political big wigs in afghanistan, afghan taliban are also going to stay as a big reality because in south and east the infrastructure is quite intact. in case of pakistani taliban, the problem is much larger. i think there are a huge impact of pakistani elections of may 2013. all the progressive parties couldn't campaign and there was a devastating impact than afghan pal tan on the afghan government. and for that as i memgsed there's no short cut or no short-term solutions. >> we have time for one last question. >> thank you so much. thank you, dr. hassan, for such an insightful dialogue. i teach at the department of defense and strategic studies and currently a visitor at carnegie. >> great. >> two quick ques. one about your recommendation on spraying sufi solution as a solution for t

the new prime minister has until september 10 two put together a new national unity government and he has to make very transparent and generous moves. they have got to undo eight years of maliki's divisive sectarian rule and he has less than 30 days to do it now. it is off to a bad start because the sunnis have walked away temporarily after his sectarian massacres this weekend. >> the u.s. joint chiefs chairman, general martin dempsey, says that once he has determined militants in iraq have become a threat to the u.s. homeland, he will recommend the military move directly against a group in syria where it has been given sanctuary. what would that military action involved and would america's allies in the region join the effort? >> i would think he would have to be some kind of regional effort. they said today that they would look negatively on unilateral u.s. military intervention in iraq -- in syria, and we are talking airstrikes, and airstrikes will hurt isis but they are not going to change the force on the ground. it is the first part of the brick -- of a bigger solution. >> what

speaking about what the president mentioned yesterday or the day before about we should rely national unity government in baghdad. the judge is getting information now to confirmed reports there's a coup attempt in baghdad now. maliki is sending units around the presidential palace. there are firefighters. baghdad is not that stable to bank on it. as the general said what we can and should do because we have 200,000 civilians, as you just said for the past few days, they are now under stress. we need to make sure isis can the go up the mountain. air campaign we need to do again in the providences that were emptied by isis. we need to make sure isis is not comfortable. there is another threat that could happen. isis may bring reasinforcementso the area, bring settlers, bring new population to the area so it would be impossible to bring them back later. time is of the essence. air campaign and push back isis out of muss sosul. >> it seems to be the president said he won't do anything until they have a nunity government cn you see them coming to the united states. >> i don't want to be an alar

. >> we are urging iraqis to forge national unity and strong security forces and good governance.hat will ultimately be part of the hands of terrorists. reporter: he countered that the president needs to lay out a plan that directly takes the fight to isis smack those of us that it will up the situation, the concern that we have is bad we have seen a country fall apart and they were not ready to defend themselves. it is more brutal than any we have ever seen or met only a few weeks ago the president denied pulling out of iraq was his fault. >> what i find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was my decision. tour today to the american legion, the president took credit for withdrawing. >> we have removed more than 100 30,000 troops from iraq. it was the right thing to do. reporter: as for syria, tim kaine is demanding a strategy to go after them followed by a debate. something the white house has so far not committed to. lou: ed henry from the white house syria and iraq later in the podcast. we will be talking with terrorism analyst doctor wal

it's a difficult and complicated situation, and without political reconciliation, and with out national unity, that would be the biggest threat for iraq and not the president of the islamic state group group. >> and this report from jane at the dam. >> reporter: yesterday, this was being fought over. the u.s. launched the biggest airstrikes since the beginning of the campaign, pushing back the islamic state group fighters. after that, the peshmerga pushed in with iraqi counter terrorism. with the peshmerga and the troops and the iraqi forces, the usm wasn't easy to put together. but in this case, it succeeded. after 36 hours of fighting, they managed to take back control of this dam, the largest in iraq. over on the ridge, west of the dam, there's a long line of vehicles, and we're told again, it's the counter terrorism vehicles in the lead. and you can see them now. but they're backed with the kurdish forces, doing the majority of fighting on the ground. the next is 60 kilometers or so to sinjar mountain. the point for the islamic state group, the home of the azidis, trapped on the mountain

you may be able to get a government of national unity and actually begin to push isis back. that means rebuilding the army. making sure that the army is well integrated, the kurdish rebels who central state has been reluctant to call on because there are quite a few among them who want to leave iraq. what is going to be necessary is to get sunni shia and kurds together in a political solution. and then at that point the international community can begin to participate as well. the united states has said it will step up it's actions once maliki is out or once maliki opens up it's regime to other groupings. >> james galvan, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> president obama has said the airstrikes in northern iraq were launched to help ydaidis under attack from the islamic state fighters. thousands are trapped in a mountain in northern iraq. roxana saberi got to know many yzaidis last year. >> they told me it is the oldest religion in the world. i visited their holy city in iraq last year, the same area where many are now fleeing. as fighters with the

what is a national unity of the country?o right now is to do the minimum intervention to stop iraq from breaking apart because for the country to break apart, it then creates a regional crisis and regional war and no one can afford that. >> you have more and more of the vulnerability minority populations stranded. >> this is not only a minority, iraq was known for having all kinds of religious and ethnic minorities coexisting together. the community is one of the most ancient community but also the christian community truly targeted, as well. it is the shias, the kurds. everyone right now. >> we're looking at the yazidi faces. incredible. you say minimum force required and calls to the contrary here. let's listen to the responses on the hill. >> we can't wait for malaki or the iraqi parliament to fight isis. we start with massive air attacks. >> we have to have a sustained air campaign in syria and iraq. we need to go on offense. >> i would be rushing equipment to erbil. launching air strikes not only in iraq but in syria ag

now that we have an iraqi government of national unity in the making i think would be capable of engendering sunni arab support. there is that big if. this has to continue. a body has to complete the government and we probably can't do a full-bore support of that until he has completed that task in the coming weeks, i hope. but provided that ibadi does that and he wants our help and the iraqis support it and we play a supporting role. i think we have no choice because we've seen what happened in the absence of our role in syria and in sunni arab iraq. thanks. >> let me just quickly add that hillary clinton's comments, whatever you think of hillary clinton, i'm not passing judgment on her, on this comment, were taken out of context. she was talking about blowback in afghanistan and that's been misconstrued to u.s. support for al qaeda and there have been references to the u.s. support for the free syrian army that's been twisted around in the u.s. support of isis and has been manipulation of information rather than any sort of admission by hillary clinton or anyone else. i would invite -- unl

the new house of representatives has called for a national unity government as an effort tend to the the transitional government is offering at the core to put in all pressures. it will produce an balanced situation in libya. >> reporter: the instability caused libya's oil production to drop below 450,000 barrels per day, well below the 1.4 million it produced a year ago. britain is the latest embassy to close its doors and pull out its diplomatic staff. the u.s., france, and other countries had done so days earlier. libyans and foreign nationals crossed the border in to tunisia to escape the fighting. but thousands remain trapped. they are stuck on the border as tunisia has restricted those who are leaving. the egyptian foreign minister and tunisia prime minister have agreed on a plan to evacuate those who are stranded. >> translator: we don't have a precise estimate of figures considering there are still many more citizens blocked on the libyan side. we can say there are about 5,000 to 10,000 people. there are some difficulties to move them to the tunisian side of the border. >> re

the new house of representatives have called for a national unity government out of the way of the current crisis. >> translator: the transitional government is proposing an urgent vision, the core of which is to put in place all necessary solution he to reserve security using all means possible that will produce a balanced situation in libya. >> reporter: the instability caused libya's oil production to drop below 450,000 barrels per day well below the 1.4 million barrels it produced a year ago. britain is the latest entity to close its doors and pull out its diplomatic staff. the u.s., france and other countries have done so days earlier. libyans and foreign nationals continue to cross the border into tunisia to escape the fighting but thousands remain trapped including these egyptians. they are stuck ton border as tunisia has restricted those leaving. it insists that only the those who will leave for egypt can get in. agreed on a plan to evacuate those who are stranded. >> we don't have a precise estimate of figures considering there are still many more citizens blocked on the libyan si

>> sure, the formation of a national unity government including sunnis, shi'as and kurds is crucial to meeting the threat posed by i.s.i.s. that political process will proceed on a different track and pace from the actual war itself. that is usually the case. each if they were to get an entire new cabinet put together today they'd be several weeks or months away from dealing with corruption in the security services, getting the right material in the right places and turning the tide. that's unfortunately the reality that nouri al-maliki left his country in after four years of misrule. >> that's the political tract. you said there was a couple. let's talk about the war. go ahead. >> i was going to say that will be clear than the war track, base i.s.i.s. will determine how and where and when they attack. >> let's talk about is, can you compare and contrast fighting is compared to fighting al qaeda? >> sure. there's some pretty important differences here. in many release, i.s.i.s. represents what al qaeda hope to become, a transnational self-sustaining insurgency that is able to fund itse

he should use the national unity against isis.e should pay -- the country should pay for it financially, not run up the debt. we should see the southern border, because there are reports these people could be -- that solves that. as pat said, do keystone. become even more energy self-sufficient and independent at a time when putin is turning off the spigot and the middle east is blowing up. all of this -- and instead, what is going on? he's having al sharpton fly up to martha's vineyard for a secret meeting with valerie jarrett. >> can we talk about that for a minute? i was reading this week. i didn't get the sense this was any sort of a secret, right? >> well, we know about it, so it's not that much of a secret. but it's a bad priority. >> but this idea that the white house might have asked al sharpton, who is a network-paid host -- >> as well as a rabble-rouser. >> to come and consult. just your thoughts on that. >> i'd like to hear doug on this. he's a new yorker. >> given that the reverend sharpton yesterday organized an anti-