. >> nouri al-maliki dug in his heels. >> this is a government under siege. no sign of sharing power. >> a video shows abu bakr al-baghdadi making a rare public appearance. >> he's confident, secure, in control of territory. >> the ukranian government says it's retaking more cities from rebels. >> after recapturing luhansk. >> the focus is on donetsk. three bridges blown up. >> the white house prepared to ask congress for $2 billion to deal with a crisis. >> it's our view it's unlikely they'll qualify for humanitarian relief. >>> we begin with an escalation in the middle east where hamas is vowing to avenge the killing of nine fighters struck by israeli gun fire. it was a response to the firing the rockets into israel on the weekend. the rockets and the air strikes is the latest chapter in a conflict pouring over. six israeli settlers have been arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old palestinian burnt alive. it was reportedly retaliation for the deaths of threeize raily teenagers murdered in the west bank. prime minister binyamin netanyahu called the family o

nouri al-maliki is not sharing power. it's a crisis for the united states. i don't think we can ignore the islamic state. abu bakr al-baghdadi is clearly very, very ambitious in carrying out a strike in the united states is something they can do in the future. how do you see the conflict in iraq playing out and what administration. >> it seems there's a stalemate that the fighters from the islamic state have not been able to take more territory. there'll be suicide bombings, they can continue to produce the videos. that propaganda joins more young men to join abu bakr al-baghdadi and his forces. i don't see abu bakr al-baghdadi taking back what he has lost. >> thanking for coming on the programme, david rhode. good to talk to you, appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> now for more stories from around the world. we begin in nigeria, where 63 will ip and girls returned -- women and girls returned home after escaping from boko haram captivesful they were kidnapped on june the 18th. their escape is welcome news. boko haram is still believed to be holding 200 schoolgir

levels, and they want to get out and see for themselves what the military them. >> you bring up nouri al-maliki, the iraq parliament is supposed to meet tuesday to start the process of electing a prime minister. is nouri al-maliki still expected to win a third term. there's a lot of push against them. he's been very sectarian, hasn't included the soupies and the kurds. heats has the largest block of parliament. >> he has the largest block of seats, he's a long way from a majority. we are hearing that his participation collision partners are not willing to play. certainly the sunnis and the kurd will not accept any government with nouri al-maliki, and a lot of the fellow shi'as said they don't want to make a government with them. we are hearing that a couple of other names, shia leaders who might come forward and topple nouri al-maliki. >> lots of developments there seemingly, by the days, and by the hours. rod of the "new york times", plarure to have you -- pleasure to have you with us. thank you for joining us. >>> for more, soim joined by washington d.c. by the former director of the countert

how much pressure will it put on nouri al-maliki, the call for him to stepdown? >> well, he's already an embattled prime minister. even though he's won an election, technically speaking, many dismissed it as not being free and fair or having the right amount of credibility required for him to go on with a new political mandate. nouri al-maliki has large swathes of the country which is un the control of armed rebels that people know little about. he has a kurdish region that all but threatens to tear away. he has in baghdad sunni communities disenfranchised and do not want to partake and cheea opposition to his -- shia opposition to his premiership. they have been vocal in the past few days with the deputy governor, a shia who came out resigning because of the total airian rule of nouri al-maliki. he is under a lot of pressure. but he still enjoys the support of international powers. he enjoys the support of iran, to some extent of the u.s., and so long as he has that backing going for him, he'll battle it out. that's what many are telling us. that so long as the

now, ban ki-moon met with prime minister nouri al-maliki, and met with the speaker of the iraqi parliament as well as the acting foreign minister, trying to put pressure on iraqi leaders and the prime minister, but prime minister nouri al-maliki remains defiant, not only now, but before when president obama had made similar remarks with regards to nouri al-maliki, with regards to the iraqi leaders, that they need to sit together and inform an inclusive government that needs the aspirations of all iraqis. they all disagree on the prime minister himself. they have no intention of ending his aspiration for a third term. he made it clear that he wants to be a prime minister for a third term. >> they managed to pick a new speaker. the next stage is a new president, and the president has to be a kurd. >> the parliament session has started. there's 102 candidates for the presidency. now, with regards to the iraqi constitution, the president can be any iraqi regardless of his or her ethnicities. now, the tradition, the political tradition is that the president is a kurd. there are differences with

them to seize power. >> we are getting reaction here to nouri al-maliki's word. there is only one wordic use to describe the reaction, and that is surprise. many politicians are wondering what the prime minister nouri al-maliki is referring to in his statement. there are no, they said to me, no islamic state or rebels in kurdish territory. they wonder where that came from. they say they're surprised that he went that far. who is he really aiming the statement at? thnow in you want to win the islamic state, you have to inlist the help of the islam, sheiks. they said they won't help until nouri al-maliki goes. they say he is partially to blame for the crisis that iraq faces, and they've been incredibly critical. it's likely to be aimed at them. this is also likely to be aimed at the kurds as well because they pursued a policy of looking a at a referendum. now they used to be very good friends. they fought against saddam hussein together. but their relationship has faded. 9 words we've heard is very strong. >> another heated debate in washington, right now senators a

nouri al-maliki and his supporters are blaming the saudis for the rebellion.or more on the divisions malic is a political analyst and he joins us now live from beirut. thank you very much for joining us on the show. iraq played by a lot of sectarian. now the shiite groups are attacking each other. are the shiite communities becoming divided. >> they are not as homogeneous as one thinks. iran has had - spread its influence after the american invasion to the shia community in iraq, but their interpretation of shiitism is not heeded by most. the the main maja is what is called a quiet maja. they don't really interfere in politics as much. we are seeing some disenchantment among young ayatollah, something like what happened a couple of days ago, a young ayatollah coming out and saying we are arabs before we are she items. we belong the arab world, we don't want to fight the sunnis. we can't overestimate what is happening, but, yes, there is disenchantment with the situation and the whom onlieny of iran -- whom onlieny of iran. they are taking small substance in th

opposition to prime minister nouri al-maliki is portrayed at sectarian. pitched against nouri al-maliki's support base. however, for many in iraq, particularly among shias, the sectarian divide came about as a result of problems and is not the reason behind them. strmpingts ali al-sistani believes that iraq's problems are not sectarian. just as there are sunnis, there are shia who oppose the government. they are brought subdivision and death to iraq. until a few days ago. this was the deputy governor. >> translation: through the past year in office, it became clear that nouri al-maliki's government was killing the people. as a politician i cannot be part of a government that kills its own people, or used to make our people suffer. >> he is in hiding following the destruction of his home. his followers belief this is outrage ours, and they say what he needs most more than ever is a leader that pulls for team work. >>> tensions are rising in eastern ukraine. russia is accusing ukraine of firing across the border and causing casualties, moscow says one of its

you have nouri al-maliki, the prime minister elect, a shi'a, trying to form a coalition. he is under tremendous pressure, not just from the americans who made it clear they would like him to go, but others in his own factions. the sunni tribes made clear that they will not support a central government in baghdad as long as nouri al-maliki is at its head. >> thank you so much. >>> joining us now is retired generated mark kimmitt and has return friday a trip to iraq yourself. we are hearing so many voices while you were away, talking about nouri al-maliki must go. as the parliament is formed here, what do you hear on the ground happening? >> i think we are hearing the same thing. all the concerns in iraq seem to be focussed on nouri al-maliki, but he should not be held to blame. parliament bears some of the blame as well. >>> is there an option coming to fore if that is the case? >> we will see. there's a lot of political horse trading in baghdad. i think we'll see tomorrow whether a government will be seated, whether the sunnis will boycott. if the government is ceded, thi

prime minister nouri al-maliki, whose sectarian agenda is glamed for fuelling the crisis told iraqis that fighting the islamic states should take precedent. nouri al-maliki offered amnesty to sunni tribesman in western iraq who fought with islamic state fighters and said he hoped the new government could be formed next week. for more information on iraq i'm joined by jessica lewis, research director, a former u.s. army intelligence officer in iraq, great to have you with us. with nouri al-maliki saying that a military solution needs to come first, is he trying to scramble and hold on to power that many including the u.s. want him to give up. >> i think that is possible. and i think that it's a tall order for the sunni population to which he is messaging with this amnesty proposal is clam as to -- callous to nouri al-maliki's proposals. i'm sorry how that will differ with the model of a new government in place. it's worth asking whether or not a new government is something that would achieve a different response from those who have taken up arms against the government. it's not likely

government is ceded, this has a long way to go. >> is it true we'll see a parliament ceded or mr nouri al-maliki named here. let's talk about the islamic state. let's understand what the islamic state represents to the united states. there's a question about whether terrorists. >> it would be. this is classic al qaeda by another name. al qaeda sought sanctuary and safe haech in ungoverned areas from where they can project power around the world. that's what they are trying to do, they've done it before in south sudan. that with would be an existential threat to the states. >> does it represent a change in what the former i.s.i.l. is reaching for, its aims? >> it's the next step. i.s.i.l. is a fighting force. the islamic state is geography. it's a geographical area, and it's an area where they'll set up their own government, taxation and sharia law. >> what does it represent to the rest of the region. >> it's a tremendous concern of the monarchies in the region, it offers an alternative vision to the sunni countries and the sunni population in the region. the people most concerned about the estab

the iraqi prime minister that they were harboring islamist tororists, going so far as describe nouri al-maliki as hysterical and urging him to stand down. nouri al-maliki said the northern region was a haven for islamist extremists, accusations that appear to dampen any prospects of sectarian reconciliation or political progress for the country. -- to talk more about it. tell us about this initial accusation on the part of nuri on maliki, that iraqi kurdistan was a haven for islamist extremists. >> we should note that this is not the first time that this kind of official accusation -- the iraqi army accused the kurds of alliance with the islamic state and with we shouldups, but note that this group does not need a haven. it controls the territory starting from aleppo in syria to frontier.n this is not true. we should know also that the ards are not homogenous as population, with only one political aim or aspiration. we can find shia kurds, sunni kurds, and, among them, there are some jihadi kurds. among these jihadis, some are in the islamic state, but this doesn't mean kurdistan as a state or

weeks later they share the toppling of the nouri al-maliki regime. beyond that they don't have the same vision for the future. the group known as islamic state of iraq and levant started a campaign to get rid of dissent to its rule. >> translation: masked fighters are looking for and arresting former barthist and officers of saddam's army and tribal leaders, exposing their own views on people, telling tribes to lay down their arms. we will not accept this. >> reporter: this former general prefers to remain anonymous. his former cousin arrested. >> translation: mosul, is where the leader of the self-dlarld islamic state chose to make his first public appearance. this video after he declared a calafat and demanded muslims declared allegiance to him. >> reporter: many sunni groups have in the heeded the call and that is why the islamic state has been arresting former bosses and tribaledliers, saying it's a -- tribal elders, saying it's a scare tactic. it's hard to gauge public opinion, the city is off limit to journal lifts and people are fearful to spe

nouri al-maliki was elected the new prime minister of iraq. >> nouri al-maliki was so unknown to so manypeople in the bush white house that they weren't even using his right first name. he finally actually had to correct them and tell them that they weren't using the right name. and i think it tells you about how little theununderstood about him when he first came to power. they were so happy to have somebody. >> narrator: maliki was so inexperienced, the president himself scheduled frequent video conferences in order to school the new prime minister in the art of politics. >> but the president wanted to help him be a leader, what do you do, what don't you do. >> the idea being to kind of mentor him, to sort of bring him along. this is bush teaching maliki politics. >> democrats took control of the house for the first time in 12 years. >> narrator: that fall, president bush was learning a political lesson of his own. >> democrats will have the upper hand in the new congress... >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> narrator: congressional republicans suffered an

nouri al-maliki is aggravating the sectarian divide by marginalizing sunnis, nouri al-maliki promised to fight the rebel group islamic state. people there are reports that an iranian pilot has been killed. this has thrown their role into the limelight. >> the reason the iranian role is secret is rainians are worried about -- iranians are worried about escalation, bringing them in will spark a further sectarian war than is already happening. that's the reason it's a secret. the real reason they are here is to protect the shia shreaps. iraq is home to -- shrines. iraq is home to some of the holiest shrines. it's a red-line protection. it is key. if they are not protect or hit by the islamic state, they want to the destroy them. it will spark a sectarian wore and close the region as well. >>ar being dropped for a week, a group of indian nurses is home. the women, 50 of them, touching done after boarding a special flight an friday. the nurses were stranded at a hospital because of ongoing voms in iraq. the foreign ministry says 40 instruction workers are being held captive. >>> in ukraine

the leadership of moment nouri al-maliki. there was a stable situation left to him 2010-2011, and the security situation was relatively good, and there was an opportunity to move towards political inclusion. the job was not finished at that point in time, and prime minister maliki's sectarian authoritarian agenda undermined the opportunity to bring that country forward. >> we're going to take a short break. when we come back, you know, colonialism has created lines around the world. in some places it has led to successful states. in many others it hasn't. we'll talk about the middle east that came out of the first world war at about the time the world is marking the 100th anniversary of the beginning of that war. this is inside story. stay with us. >> welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. the newly elected iraqi apartment met with a goal to form a more inclusive government. after an hour of debate sunni and kurdish representatives walked out and lacking a quorum the session was ended after just a week. we're looking a

in a statement on iraqi stv, nouri al-maliki vowed to continue to fight the armed group, calling itself the islamic state, until it's defeated. nouri al-maliki's coalition of shia parties has been accused of stoking tensions in iraq by marginalizing sunnis. >> a police officer has been killed in a blast in bahrain. the explosion took place in east dakar. there are no claims of responsibility. bahrain's government faced regular protests by people demanding more right for the shia majority. >>> the price of fuel in egypt has gone up by as much as 78%. the oil ministry announced a major price hike in an effort to cut $6 billion in energy subsidies. half of the population lives below the poverty line and relies on subsidies for wheat and fuel. the deficit stands at $35 billion. 20% of the budget is suspend on energy subsidies. the government is planning to raise trist yit prices. -- electricity polices. sammia is the founder of democracy for egypt and says rising fuel costs is not the way to increase the economy. >> the economy is number one for abdul fatah al-sisi's survival, if he has a c

many mps want nouri al-maliki to step aside. he insists op staying on. i can't iraq's former foreign minister asked nouri al-maliki to apologise for saying the kurdish authorities in the north were sheltering extremists. he was removed on friday as he, too, is a kurd. the dispute comes at a time when kurdish fighters are battling sunni rebels in areas bordering the semiautonomous region. the video tape shows them engaged in a fire fight. meanwhile, the oil minister of iraq's kurdish region says the area will general enough revenue to be self-sufficient by the end of the year. kurdish forces took over two fields near the city of kirkuk. it's seen fighting between the iraqi armed forces and sunni rebels. the kurds say they are trying to prevent the fields falling into rebel hands. >> it's self-sufficient in terms of revenue, yes. baghdad made the wrong calculation. they thought they'd strangle us by cutting the budget illegally and constitutionally as a punishment. they have miscalculated. they fight back and we will live and match that expectation that we

want to return once again to ,he crisis unfolding in iraq where prime minister nouri al-maliki is coming under increasing pressure to give up his bid for a third term in office. there are growing calls to find a new candidate for the post. al-maliki has repeatedly refused calls to step aside. his government has failed to halt the advance of isis, which is pushing towards baghdad. in the capital, troops and volunteers are bracing for battle. >> these young men streaming into a police station in baghdad are determined to stop the advance of isis. they are among thousands who volunteered to fight the sunni jihadists. first, they have to learn how to use a firearm. >> i responded to a call from our spiritual leader, grand ayatollah ali al-sistani, to join the forces. we are determined to expel the .errorists from our country >> the main goal is to keep the militants from reaching baghdad. 100 kilometers north of the capital, soldiers are piling up sand to assist in their fight against militants. in the increasingly important governmentrit, forces said they had beaten back an attack on an air

. >> iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki said that the attacks are a threat to all the middle east. this comes as john kerry met with kurdish leaders. what will would it ultimately take for the obama administration to send in the airstrikes that the iraqi government has been asking for for a couple of weeks now. >> reporter: tony, i have to tell you with each passing day it becomes more and more that the united states government in the form of obama administration is going to insist that iraq form th the inclusive government and do it quickly or there will be no airstrikes. each passing day leads us to believe that you look at this insistence by the united states after the first parliamentary session broke down in acrimony after two hours in baghdad. this insistence. you can look at it as an incentive to get it together, come together and form a government, that tholed be bluffing. if it ever came to the fall of baghdad itself then the united states would come forward with airstrikes. this is the question i put today just a few hours ago to the press secretary josh earnest. >> the v

on wednesday prime minister nouri al-maliki accused kurdish politicians of taking advantage of the turmoil to capture new territory. >> this is unacceptable, rented. the issue of article 140 is not over. kurdish politicians say maliki has no one to blame but himself. >> the president described the situation, the reasons behind that. the failure of the policy, the system, making sure that he has been ruling iraq in the last eight years. his military responsibilities fell out of mosul and the other areas. >> that was echoed inside perimeter, who insisted there was no going back for forces, after taking control of new areas. >> strong words from you'reed kish legs -- kurdish legislators, adamant that they'll move forward, despite words that nouri al-maliki will not recognise a referendum. inside the perimeter, the flag of iraq coming out of the semiautonomous region are hoisted. if the move goes ahead and a referendum is held, it could be a matter of time before this iraqi flag no longer stands. >> let's take you to our correspondent, imran khan, standing by in the capital baghdad. what has b

the government suspended its participation, they suspended their participation prime minister nouri al-maliki's government. in response prime minister nouri al-maliki appointed a new foreign minister, a man known for his very close ties with iran. a clear demonstration that the prime minister was not going to back down under the pressure that the kurdish politicians were trying to exert. they say that maliki is to blame for the current chaos in iraq. they said to describe the eight years in rule is a failure. the prime minister on the other hand the kurds have been trying to be opportunistic in light of the crisis, in light of the surge of armed opposition fighters and the sunni groups up north by taking more land. he points to the fact that the kurds just in the past 24 hours or so took over large oil fields in kirkuk. they took over those oil fields because they have credible intelligence that the rebels fighting in maliki's army were planning on moving in on them. the situation remains divide: they have been giving statements that have been scathing of prime minister maliki. all indications

nouri al-maliki vowed to retake the land. a few days ago the iraqi army used lanes to target the neighbourhood. three missiles landed in a residential area. two people, including an 11-year-old girl were kill. >> we are afraid there'll be more air strikes. the government offered an apology, but that is not enough. >> kurdish officials, however, are confident that iraqi forces cannot return to this region. >> yes, it is a threat. we take it seriously, but nouri al-maliki doesn't have power, and the islamic state group is between us and them. he should attack them first, and then us. >> but kurds do have other enemies on the ground. this is an ethnically and religiously mixed district. a double car bombing targetting a kurdish checkpoint close to a marketplace two weeks ago. people blamed the islamic state group for the attack. that group, and other sunni factions are controlling territory less than a kilometre from the district center. for now the kurds are holding their ground, homing to include the region in their future sta

. >> in iraq iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki warning that the fighting in that country threatened the entire middle east, and urging the u.s. to up the ante and send in more help. secretary kerry in a meeting this morning. libby casey, the whole world is watching, what is the u.s. commitment so far? >> reporter: u.s. forces are working along two tracks, security and assessing the situation on the ground and working with the iraqi government fighters. they're bracing for any inroads that fighters for the islamic state might make. hundreds of additional u.s. troops are now in baghdad securing the embassy and the city's airport in case the group calling itself the islamic state enters the capitol. >> if the security situation deteriorated rapidly that a quick extraction of american personnel could be conducted in a way that would insure safety and security. >> reporter: with a steady increase of security forces arriving in iraq another kind of help may be coming from the air. bloomberg news is reporting that the obama administration wants to sell iraq hellfire missiles in addition to

nouri al-maliki, of course, there was the election in april. they met yesterday. it resolved in acrimony. now they're trying to form a government. now the u.s. government is loathed to get involved unless they can pull a rabbit out of their habit hat, and it is clear at this point they're not able to do that. until there is unity with iraqis, it is very unlikely that these airstrikes would go forward. the question i pose today to the spokesman today, even if baghdad were to fall, and remember the pentagon said that the isil forces are pressing from the north and the west, would the united states still stand by that? here's what he had to say. >> the vulnerability of one particular city in iraq is one that is difficult for me to assess. but suffice it to say the reason why i called it an existential threat is not just the security situation on the ground but because of the broader conflict that is being played out here. that what isil was doing is that they are perpetrating terrible acts of violence, and they're also trying to play upon the old sectarian divisions

you have nouri al-maliki's forces fighting at one pint, some years ago. this is something that needs to be inspected, but will be minimised because the greater threat is the break-up of iraq, and the forest of militant sunnis, the i.s.i.s. or the islamic state of iraq and levant. that's the biggest challenge. >> i want to go back to nouri al-maliki for a moment. many are blaming him for the violence in iraq, and for the division. even if he were to step aside, would that solve the underlying subdivisions across iraq? >> absolutely not. there'll always be divisions, but the point of ploouristic constitutional processes is to resolve the differences peace reply, constitutionally and democratically. you'll have ideological differences, differences among different parts of the country. self interests were locally driven, but you will have a minimum of agreement op who to name as the prime minister, and to prevent the break-up of iraq into sunni shiite and kurdish reasons that might become independent, as in the case of the northern kurdish region. they'll hav

al maliki. we have the report. >> reporter: he says he's a target because he is a sunni, and those from anbar feel particularly betrayed by the government of prime minister nouril maliki. this former officer once served in saddam hussein army. they won't end until the rights are restored. >> translator: we will continue the war. we are ready to deal with modern shia leaders, but iranian influence has to end. maliki has to leave power. >> reporter: for many months of people of anbar protested in the the streets. the government viewed the demonstrations that spread to other sunni areas as a threat. the government responded with force and said it was fighting militant groups. the province is a battleground since the start of this year. armed groups pushed the iraqi army out of the sunni heartland in early june, but opponents of the government say the rel bellion started months earlier in anbar. some 300,000 people were displaced by the conflict there. around 30,000 of them live in the kurdish region in northern iraq. many of them stay in motels. it has been six months now. families have spent most of the savings and have no choice but to return to anbar. they lef

elsewhere in the shia-dominated south, there's disagreement about the future of president nouri al maliki, a shia. the leadership is not united on the issue. the biggest is the concern of the islamic state fighters in vast areas of northern iraq and syria. it has already taken mosul and is fighting for control of tikrit. saudi arabia said it deployed 30,000 troops to the border of iraq. iraqi troops have left their posts. that's an accusation that iraq denies. we're in irbil where the kurdish president gave his speech to parliament. >> he has two main messages to the parliament here in the semi-autonomous region. the first was disputed areas like kirkuk which find themselves under the control of the kurdish forces after the withdrawal of the iraqi army following their retreat after the advancement of sunni rebels in the north. those areas barzani says will remain kurdish areas, a direct response to statements made by al maliki on wednesday that says because iraq finding itself in a conflict with militants in the north, it is no excuse for the kurdish politicians to take this as an opportu

prime minister nouri al-maliki is said to be hysterical and unfit to govern. are accusations by humala key that the kurdish region is harboring jihadist militants. here is more. >> accused of harboring terrorists, nouri humala key, -- binary al-maliki, -- accused of harboring terrorists by prime they are firing back. >> we cannot endure anymore this kind of behavior. these kinds of statements. >> a move that could prove to be largely symbolic, since the absence of this block in the parliament could be yet another obstacle on the road to forming a unity government. the kurdish president called maliki hysterical and said these remarks were particularly hurtful since they had provided action for the iraqi prime minister in the past. now those civilians escaping violence in the north of the country are turning toward god taunus region seeking refuge. -- turning toward the autonomous region seeking refuge. >> we have helped them in times past and we are helping them again now. we have never harbored any terrorist, now or ever. >> but close to the region's borders, r

in a statement, nouri al-maliki promised to continue fighting the islamic group. nouri al-maliki's coalition of parties has been accused of spoking continuations. imran khan joins us from baghdad. i want you to pick up on a line about the loss of an iranian pilot. it shed light on the depth of iranian fighting going on. >> that's right. an iranian pilot was killed, and has thrown into focus the role of iran within iraq. iranians officially don't have a role. hassan rouhani said the iraqis need to ask for help. but we do know that the head of one of the forces and a germ has been in and out of -- general has been in and out of iraq, and has been advising the prime minister's office and the iraqi milt on tactics -- military on tactics op how to fight the islamic state. the alcutes force is here, at least one contingent, helping to advise the iraqi troops, making them advisors alongside the u.s., also with those advicing iraqi troops. there's a big role. it's kept quite. the iranians don't want to the escalate what they are doing, but they are keeping a close eye on t

. >>> not a political solution, in iraq, nouri al-maliki says he will not stop down. the destruction of syria's chemical weapons. and world record, the grandson of jacques cousteau has emerged after 30 days under water. the lessons of his life under the sea could have huge implication for all of us. >> we begin tonight in southern california where hundreds of people in the city of marietta have lined up to literally block immigrants from coming to their city. residents and city leaders are trying to fight the transfer of undocumented immigrants to their city. they say it's an unfair better. jennifer london is in marietta with the backlash. jennifer. >> david this evening city officials here are holding a town hall meeting to address residents' concern and yes, the backlash over the government's plan to bring undocumented detainees here to be processed. and around town it's all anyone is talking about. every morning at vista doughnuts in downtown marietta, i joined them at how the suburban city halfway between los angeles and san diego has become a flash point in the d

today the prime minister nouri al-maliki lashed out critics. he insists that the battle led by the islamic state takes priority over forming an unity government that is acceptable to iraqs, sunnies and kurds. the islamic state found calipha. they have defined large swaths of territory and effectively erased the border between those two countries. in the meantime president obama is rushing out 300 more military advisers to shore up the iraqi army. that will bring the total u.s. advisers to 600. the united states has spent $25 billion to train and equip the iraqi military since it's invasion in 2003. iraq is not the only place in the middle east that is suffe suffering from ethnic blood letting, much of the region is torn by division, violence and meddling from outside powers going back decades. today's middle east have their routes in the states and borders following world war i which broke out is hundred years ago this month. >> the genesis of today's middle east map dates back to world would be one. as ally and access battles each other they a

so, yes, it's a big problem. >> does nouri al-maliki have any support at all in the u.s.>> i think it's basically a show at this point. i don't think he has support in terms of -- all i think departments agree hees not the right guy for the future because he is not reaching out to the other parties, and until the government can brokery deal with the sunnies, that will be the only thing they can use to take advantage of the fact that the isis or isl is losing popular support as they gain territory. they're losing support based upon the atrocities they're committing going to take a sunni leader to give them cover. >> president obama says he doesn't want u.s. boots on the ground but had ordered 0200 more forces in to protect the u.s. embassy now. we're closing in on a thousand. does it suggest that this inability, this failure, to keep any forces, residual force on the ground in iraq, was just a bad idea? >> it was a bad idea. and the blame largely goes to mall -- maliki for not coming to agreement on a treaty that i would woo allow u.s. forces to remain. there was a desire

. >> in iraq nouri al-maliki vowed to continue his push for a third term in office. a new prime minister leading a unity government may ease the sectarian violence. united states is trying to keep the iraq kurdish region aligned with baghdad. secretary of state john kerry met with the chief of staff to the kurdish president, after he called on a referendum for independence. the move is worrying arabs living in kirkuk. zeina khodr reports. >> reporter: those travelling from erbil to kirkuk have to cross a check point. it is guarded by the kurdish peshmerga and the iraqi police. there's two authorities, but it's been this way for years. the balance of power seems to be shifting. you needed an iraqi visa to enter kirkuk, outside the autonomous region governed by the kurds. the iraqi police didn't want to let us through. we entered. the kurds have the final say here. >> the oil-rich province has been disputed territory, claimed by baghdad. the kurd no longer feel obliged to april to the central government weakened by a sunni rebellion and plan to hold a referendum for in

. >> political unity shimmers ever further on the horizon -- but nouri al-maliki has started cutting -- pointing fingers. he accuses the kurds of hegeting terrorists, criticized that mr. the capital as a haven for those wishing to bring violence and disruption to iraq and its citizens. silent -- not be silenced -- if you want a real partnership you should give up the credibility to form a natural -- national stance. they are planning to carry out more operations. he has not shown us any evidence of national partnership. >> the help he is referring to -- and he has tapped the regional governor for what he calls a lack of willingness to form a true regional government. remarks like this are likely to stir tensions between kurdish and iraqi representatives within the country. they are scheduled to meet on sunday, and will be tasked with finding a consensus and forming the new government. this is a political burden that has left the country open to insurgency, with rebels overrunning vast swathes of the country. rebels have taken back of the north of baghdad which had been in the hands o

failed to nominate a new candidate for prime minister or endorsed the current prime minister nouri al maliki for a third term the sunni and kurdish blocs have stated they would not put forward their nominations until the shiites revealed there's now while the goal seems to be to create an inclusive leader government kurdish. hers are taking the opportunity to push for their own independent state masoud barzani the leader of the kurdish regional government told the b.b.c. quote everything that's happened recently shows that it's it's the right of kurdistan to achieve independence from now on we won't hide that that's our goal it's not me who will decide on independence it's the people barzani says he will hold a referendum on kurdish independence in the coming months with the parliament at a standstill thought i see this bringing down the necks of baghdad and at least twenty four hundred deaths just in the month of june alone many both inside and outside of iraq are worried that the country may be on the brink of collapse a collapse that many say has its roots in the u.s. military's involveme

if this is baghdadi in the mosque in mosul, it is proof in a nouri al-maliki has not been able to control and they would continue its advance to regain tikrit on foot. choosing a new unity government postponed in political gridlock. >> what does it mean to millions of, to be under the leadership of the man who appears to be caliph. it has not seen a caliph in a century. what does it mean for abu bakr al-baghdadi to claim that title. joining us our guests judith, let me start with you. from the time that the u.s. forces let him go until last friday, do we know anything about where he's been, what he's done, his m.o. how you end up in this position? >> we know very little about where he was expect to assume, i think it's a safe assumption that he was always in iraq, and he was rebuilding the movement which threatened to fall apart when zarkawi, his mentor and predecessor, was killed in 2006-07. there he was. i think he had to rebuild. he had a reputation being good at security, good at military planning, strategic planning, and i think that shows. a lot of these movements, what he has plann

today the prime minister, nouri al maliki tried to call up other groups. maliki called on other sunnis in this country to take a stand against isis. maliki's government is shia. he said that sunnis, even those that have had trouble with the government in the past will be forgiven, they will be given amnesty if they take up arms and take on isis. it's unclear if those amnesties are going to be listened to. isis responded by saying any sunni who doesn't join us is now our enemy. >> richard, the political versus the military solutions here, the parliament convened for i think half an hour. maliki has said that they have to solve the isis threat before talking about politics. many opposition groups disagree with that approach. do we have any sense on -- those are obviously competing but interrelated interests. do we have any sense which goes first, whether there's a practical reality there? >> reporter: a lot of this goes down to the personality of nouri al maliki. he's prime minister here. he's been prime minister for many years. there are growing calls for h

prime minister nouri al-maliki is trying to cling to power in the midst. provisions prevented lawmakers from forming a new government and facing insurgency. we learn more about the group's social media strategy. >> isil militants are fighting on two fronts. one is the dusty battle fields of iraq and syria. the other is the almost limitless arena of the internet. from twitter to facebook to youtube, the group is online and activ active. >> and the numbers are getting bigger and bigger every day. >> this is an expert how islamic militants use social media. he said their cyber tactics have changed with the times. >> first they use the internet for a message board. for propaganda. and they are shifting to social media. >> years ago bin laden and other militants started usininining vo spread their messages. they used the internet because it was free. the arab spring uprisings in 2011 further highlighted the power of social media. texts, photographs, videos, anything could go viral in an instant. isil militants know that well. they're constantly uploading conten