during saddam hussein's rule, it was sunnis who were favored over shia. now, during the fight against isil, the iraqi government - dominated by shia - is receiving more support and weapons from the u.s. >> the u-s is stepping into an extremely bloody civil conflict and we're funding and arming kurdish and shiite militias to attack sunni areas. iraqis will not see this as a fight against extremism _ especially iraqi sunnis will see this as a fight against their neighborhoods. the us is only taking sides in a sectarian and ethnic conflict, supporting some extremist groups against other extremist groups. >> abu ali once fought in saddam hussein's army. he asked us not to show his face for fear of retribution from the militias. he said that shia militias that had formerly fought u-s forces in iraq are taking advantage of u-s backing to target sunnis. namely, asaib ahl al haq. >> the shiite militias that have been funded and trained by the iraqi security forces and now by the u.s. have committed gross violations. human rights watch has documented murders and c

they say they are targets of shia-armed groups. >> translator: shia militia men will not allow us tourn to our villages. >> reporter: the iraqi government considers these men volunteers who joined the fight against isil on behalf or as part of the shia, dominated iraqi army. government officials insist those same so-called volunteers will continue to support the army and police until they are ready to secure areas on their own. but for many sunnis, their presence is tearing their country apart. he explained how they should allow the 700 policemen from his town to return to work now thailz has left. >> translator: the people are the victims of all of these groups. we ask the government to send an official force. >> reporter: in a country with a history of sectarian conflicts iraqis are increasingly losing confidence in each other. security is what they all want. but for now there is no one authority that seems to be representative of all factionings, one that can hold this country together. >>> confronting isil is what military leaders from around 20 countries are going to be talking

and then these shia militias retook turk men shia town from isis. and of course the first to take his pictures in this liberated area. so, you know, at the end of the day if we clear the towns will go to their native people whether they're druse sunni or druse sunni or shia. and if we see it as of isis and then when we pass to them or the tribes, that to my mind should work. >> mike? >> that's good. >> ok. if you could -- the woman in the front row here. >> i'm penny. news.ns i wanted to ask michael. you said earlier about maliki saying to petraeus, come in and we'll do anything you want. we heard from the obama administration for a long time that the war -- he wanted to end the war, it was going to end at a specific time. and even with the status of forces agreement, we couldn't stay any longer. so what you said seemed to completely contradict that. could you expand? >> sure. we were the only ones -- back you have to remember 2008-2009 after the surge. we went from 57 attacks per day in baghdad in 2005-2006 to 10 attacks nationwide after the surge.

amnesty international accuses shia militias of war crimes in iraq. >>> strategic gain, houthi rebelseize a key sea port in yemen. >>> europe takes more precautions against ebola as a u.n. worker in germany dies from the disease. ♪ >>> now just a couple of hours from now, president obama will meet with heads of the military from the 20 or so countries who have joined in a coalition. we'll have more on that in just a moment, but first let's have a look at the spillover from the crisis effecting the region. turkish jets have attacked pkk areas. turkey says it launched the air strikes in retaliation for an attack by the pkk on a border post. we can talk to stephanie decker who is close to the border with syria. tell us more about this air strike, which could possibly place that peace deal under great strain. >>> that's right. well, that peace deal is already under strain because of what is happening in kobani. these air strikes hour, we heard from the pkk, targeted two of their headquarters. it can be seen as a message by turkey. there has been language coming out of the pkk that says be

>> smith: 60 miles away in baghdad, iraq's shia were organizing their own demonstrations. here and in other shia cities throughout iraq's south, people encouraged maliki. >> (chanting) >> they were supporting him. he was popular in the streets, he was popular in najaf, he was popular in basra, he wasopular in babil, popular in baghdad. and when he moved against sunnis, he found himself getting more popular. so there was no real disincentive at that point to discontinue doing what he was doing. (explosion) >> smith: back in syria, al qaeda was steadily gaining ground. in its early months, the group relied on donations from wealthy sunnis in the region. >> the saudis, the kuwaitis, the emiratis, all of the gulf states and a whole variety of other countries began to provide support to a whole variety of sunni opposition groups, and they weren't terribly careful about which groups got the aid. >> smith: and soon, al qaeda needed fewer donations. as they gained territory, they became self-sustaining, robbing banks, running extortion rackets, seizing syrian transportation routes

percent shia in the last four years. all the militias have been deputized. they are now part of the iraqi security force. shia militias are now part of these national guard regional units that we're supposed to stand up and fight isis. the problem is that these militias don't differentiate between a sunni military ishmael and the insurgency. and isis is counting on that. so they push into baghdad and the baghdad belts, they're fomenting a violent response from the shia militias who are legitimate iraqi security forces. so as the army divisions try to reinforce seventh iraqi army division primarily sunni in al-anbar, there's no trust there. and the sunni military is falling. and that just legitimizes baghdad's chrns that we can't trust the sunnis and the iraqi security forces. they will not fight these guys. >> we spoke before about the appointment of general allen. positive t auguster things for american policy in iraq? >> the selection of general allen, the anbaris were begging him to come back to restart, to help resta

they see the area dominated by the shia.n point i would one to make is, this is not war that stretches from the borders of iran all the way to lebanon to baghdad. this is a commendation of many different local wars. and if i want to go -- >> do you think there's a military solution here? >> to be honest, i don't think so. are that used solution. you can bomb the cities and i can assure you they will come back in the next three or four or five years and will bombs again. i was bombed for the first time in our six result by the iranians and bombed again by the americans. this is the same cycle. a redistribution of wealth, a social solution, solution that assures the sunnis of iraq, you know, you're part of this entity. you like it, you don't like it, you're part of it. otherwise, we will continue the cycle. the sunnis of iraq -- what i call it is a tragedy of the sunnis. the shia have managed to consolidate their lives. the kurds are pushing [indiscernible] tell me how the sunnis of mosul managed to get rid of isis without des

tens of thousands of shia volunteers have been trained and armed to protect the capital and other shia holy areas in cities. iran definitely would not like to see baghdad falling to isis as well. the united states is carrying out regular air strikes. they are advising iraqi troops on the northwestern perimeter of baghdad. so it doesn't look like it's going to happen. serm the problem is bombs going off on a regular basis last night more than 40 people were killed and twin car bombings today, not in baghdad, but not far from it, another triple bombing as well. that seems to be what worries iraqi security officials the most. >> incredibly unsettling and clearly isis still has plans, and they've tin over now about 80% of an bar province. i want you to stay with us because we're going to be bringing in barbara star from the pentagon, also host of cnn's state of the union, candy crowley, and kimberly who joins the conversation. stay with us. s was the first modern airliner, revolutionary by every standard. and that became our passion. to always build something better, airplanes that fly cle

he says the iraqi government, its shia muslim militias and the u.s. coalition won't be able to win the fight against aisles unless they have the support of sunnis like him. >> translator: the people of mosul prefer isil over shia militias link today iran. people are afraid if these militias enter the city, they will carry out massacres, so they won't fight isil because that means giving mosul to those militias and to the u.s. >> reporter: like him, many in the sunni opposition say the security forces are dominated by shias. and what worries them even more, is that the shia militias leading the iraqi government's battle against isil are believed to be supported by iran. sunni opposition leaders say they won't take up arms against isil until their demands are met. they want a new army that is loyal to the nation, and not to a certain sect or individuals. but that will require time. and so in the interim, they want the government to approve a plan to create the national guard. the idea is for a national guard to take the iraqi army off the streets. each

isis is not a neighborhood watch to protect sunnis from assad and the iraqi shia-led government. isis is a transcendental regional force, devoted to extraordinary violence and extremely successful, that was rolling toward the azidi and kurdish areas of iraq and kobane with the intention of slaughtering or converting those people as part of a global jihad and they have to be stopped and there's only one way to stop them. diplomacy is working, and that's why wthey are supporting us wite peshmerga and not making a to do about the dropping of weapons, which would seemingly be in other circumstances our enemies. so there has to be a political side to this, and that's what i did for 35 years. but i learned if you don't have a military component, you're nowhere. that's where we were from january 1 until two months ago, and we watched this happening. happening in syria and iraqa. >> a response before the break. >> it's very important that we recognize what the cia has recognized for itself. that it has never worked when the u.s. tries to create proxy armies, by airstrikes and a military

the iraqi security forces went from 55% shia, 35 percent sunni to 95 or greater percent shia in the last four years. other militias have been deputized. shia militias are now part of these national guard regional units that were supposed to stand up and fight isis. the problem is, these militias do not differentiate between the eight sunni military-backed can't the insurgency. and isis is counting on that as the push into baghdad, a violent response who are now legitimate iraqi security forces. as the iraqi army divisions try to reinforce the seventh iraqi army division, there is no trust. and the sunni military has fallen which just legitimizes baghdad's concerns that we cannot trust the sunni and iraqi security forces. >> if i can ask you, we spoke before about the appointment of general allan so does that auger positive things for american policy? of. >> the selection of general allan, they were begging him to come back and not to restart cannot help restart the wakening because he is a credible figure. the thing with general patraeus, in there were from the very sunni that we need to

militants, i shia arab militant presence along the greenline to hem hem the kurds in.turning quickly to the question about the ideological risk of -- and why more isn't being done. i agree with there's a lot to say on the subject. the focus need not be on the gulf and its ideological influence. in addition to that i would say al-baghdadi was not made. he was made in samarra and baghdad. altered money was made in the turkmen territories of iraq. al zawahiri was made in -- so these leaders of at least -- is present in iraq are iraqi productions. these are homegrown, iraqi militant leaders and their revenues need not come from the gulf. i am sure it benefits them but there was a multiyear period in iraq where we were fighting there where there were a great many al qaeda iraq revenues came from being able to siphon off of the northern oil sector into the millions of week to extort northern iraqi businesses and to tax the local population. now that they hold those territories outright they are able to draw a great deal of their resources to sustain themselves on that. i'm w

biden came up with the idea, the shia, sunni and kurds, there were millions of shia living in the sunni areas and vice versa but now unfortunately you can't, years of ethnic cleansing and killing each other and pushing each other out the lines are becoming much more clear in iraq. >> let's go down the line, some of the things you found. from the u.s. perspective any fighters willing to battle i.s.i.l. would seem to be the good guys in the conflict especially the kurds but again in the clip we just saw, these are kurds supporting in effect as you said ethnic cleansing. >> well, what the u.s. has seen is crisis. every other group on the ground has seen as crisis, and opportunity, the peshmerga, we went along the line, we saw pkk fighters, listed as terrorist by the u.s., shelling with artillery an iraqi town. we saw peshmerga, small groups of iraqi armies, that you would think u.s. would never support. all those groups were on what you might call this side of the front line, the u.s. might be reported as the good guys. but these are guys that the u.s. are not normally allied. but if you t

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we report the rise of the shia militia caused its own problems between sunni and shia militias. >> onront line near the front lines, these soldiers battle against the so called islamic state. they are not the iraqi army but a volunteer militia. they are fighting really hard to stop the advance of the so call add islamic state militants just behind this hill. there's a force on the ground. the role in this conflict is controversial given the fears of sectarian tensions in iraq. >> for nearly four months now, the brigade has been stationed here. there are many other shia volunteer groups too. their reputations vary. some have been accused of human rights abusers. they are backed by and relied upon by the new shia led government following the retreat of the regular army from large areas of the country. other religious groups particularly sunnis fear persecution and worry these shia weapons might be turned against them when the fight against islamic state is over. a brigade commander asked us not to reveal his identity told us such fears were unfounded. >> we are filling in the gaps in th

they're replaced by shia application ya men. publis. >> three pronged attack on the town's eastern side, kurdish forces are now struggling to defend it and there are fears for the safety of what could be thousands of civilians who are thought to be trapped there. more from jamala shayal who is in southeastern turkey. >> on the political front, there have been some sort of developments taking place. turkey's foreign minister in the united states issued a statement where he said there was some agreement between washington and ankara. bear in mind turkey has constantly said, the confrontation shouldn't be one dimensional. as far as turkey is concerned that means getting rid of bashar al-assad. so the agreement coming out from the foreign ministry here is they have agreed they will provide training for what they called moderate syrian opposition groups. what exactly that entails and whether they would arm them, we have yet to hear the details. turkey's insistence, must include also a strategy dealing with syria. that is paying off a

are no fans of the shia, they have all long said that the shia are a target for them. and they are using sectarian language and sectarian violence in order to be able to further their gains and whilst all of this is going on particularly in the month of maharam, we have gains in anbar province, moving towards the city of amarea if that city falls a base in which to attack baghdad. air strikes are making differences particularly iraqi air strikes in anbar province have beaten the group back but they are still a powerful force to be reckoned with there. they don't have the base in order to be able to attack the city and that's likely to be their next strategy, to get someplace that gives them a base to come inside baghdad. >> now, inside yemen. dramatic fighting, more than 60 houthis have died in three separate attacks. amen asala has more. >> an al qaeda stronghold and the fight against the houthis for the town is on two fronts. tribes men took up arms to fight any advance of the shia rebels. dozens of fighters on both sides were killed. houthis were forced out and arme

it had been blowing sunni arabs up and sunni mosques up, in addition to shia arabs and mosques.and so they were keen to get these individuals out of their areas. >> narrator: petraeus made a bold move. >> the biggest change petraeus makes, and the biggest gamble he takes, is he puts the sunni insurgency on the american payroll. >> narrator: in one clandestine meeting after another, millions were handed over to former sunni insurgents. >> i'm giving him 10,905,000. >> narrator: petraeus called his sunni paramilitary group the "sons of iraq." >> four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, seven-thousand. ten, 20, 30, 40-thousand. >> narrator: in exchange for fighting al qaeda, petraeus also promised the sunnis a role in the iraqi government. but inside petraeus's war council, it was not a popular move. >> our own commanders had concerns about this. i had commanders come to me and say, "hey, sir, we can't sit down across the table with these guys. they've got our blood on their hands." and i'd say, "yes, indeed they do." but that's how these kinds of fights typically end. you have the rec

that sent a message to the sunnis, we're beating isis by talking to your enemies, the shia. so we have to keep these things in mind and i don't think we are. we're just going to make all sorts of mistakes, visual or otherwise, and then we look at ourselves and say why is that happening? >> andrew? want to take a stab at this? >> i had the opportunity to go to moscow this year. i had a conference by the russian defense ministry. and very interesting. in what i think i learned -- fascinating just the messaging. they think that president obama is actually sort of -- some sort of master mind. very interesting. they think that he is -- that president obama is behind what they call the color revolution around the world, ukraine and syria, and that what he does is through this low, minimalist approach, he gets people to rise up against their government, and then it starts as a civil war, and then it's used as a pretext for u.n. resolution, which allows for american intervention, and then to flip that country over to its side, and that's the way it protect -- projects its power. org

the sunni/shia one is only one. you've got the gulf states have their own agendas, turkey is going to demand a huge price. it's, and all of these things are going to change. they can flip overnight. so how do you even plan a political advantage? and you put your soldiers in the middle of that? >> do we have a moral obligation? >> i think we have -- again, i'm speaking personally -- i think we have a moral obligation to do what we can do. i don't think we have a moral obligation to do what, to accomplish what we cannot accomplish. i think we have a moral obligation to our p own people and our own soldiers first, and i think there's a strong moral argument to say don't put them in a situation in which they will get killed or they will have to commit atrocities. because all of this is going to come home, right? it's going to come home in the periphery, the -- you're going to have military atrocities, degradations of -- [inaudible] degradation of military professionalism, you're going to have to strengthen the surveilla

the truth is that because baghdad is now the shia capital of iraq, there are lots of shia militias and army is militia. they'll fight until the end. and iraqi army even in its reduced state is several hundred thousand. icesis may have 10,000 to 15,00 people. iraqi army weapons are much better and they have will to fight because they want to preserve the shia control of baghdad. >> love having you on, fareed zakaria. thank you so much. >> pleasure. >> thank you. coming up next, we are talking about ebola and dealing with the waste coming from the ebola patients and their homes getting rid of the biohazard material key to trying to prevent the spread of ebola but now this one state scheduled to receive some of this waste from texas says no. can they legally turn it away? >>> the president dealing from multiple crises, ebola, isis, how's he doing? the next guest called him disappointor in chief. is that fair? we'll debate with someone who used to call president obama his boss. 's largest variety. like new spicy siriacha shrimp, or parmesan shrimp scampi. as much as you like, any way you l

they are fighters belonging to shia armed groups.rs who have encountered them say they act with impunity. >> translator: the shia militias do whatever they want. they make problems for the drivers, especially the kurds. they blame them for the way the kurdistan government treats arabs in their territory. >> reporter: many taxicab drivers tell similar stories. this man has no choice but to take the risky journey. her children are in bagdad, because as arabs they need residency visas to enter the kurdish region. >> translator: this there should be no difference between aranswer and kurds. i have no choice but to go back and forth. >> reporter: shias in the south and the kurds in the north can no longer travel to the isil-controlled cities, and while there may still be a road that links the north to the south, it seems this country has already been divided. >>> israeli police force says three officers have been wounded in clashes with palestinian protesters in jerusalem. there have been protests for days against restricted access to the

and then sheeze shia militias retook turk men shia town from isis. and of course the first to take his pictures in this liberated area. so at the end of the day if we clear the towns will go to their native people whether they're druse sunni or shia. and if we see it as of isis and then when we pass to them or the tribes, that to my mind should work. >> mike? >> that's good. >> ok. if you could -- the woman in the front row here. >> i'm penny. i wanted to ask michael. you said earlier about maliki saying to petraeus, come in and we'll do anything you want. we heard from the obama administration for a long time that the war -- he wanted to end the war, it was going to end at a specific time. and even with the status of forces agreement, we couldn't stay any longer. so what you said seemed to completely contradict that. could you expand? >> sure. we were the only ones -- back you have to remember 2008-2009 after the surge. we went from 57 attacks per day in baghdad in 2005-2006 to 10 attacks nationwide after the surge. and after the sons of iraq were i

that's where the houthis come in, pro-shia militants. they are using the houthis to fight al qaeda, in sanaa and other provinces. the idea of spreading the houthis around the provinces, and the southern provinces in the weeks to come, to be the lead fight, while the government takes the second step and helping them with the air strikes. >> you say it is o strayed by the president for the fight against al qaeda. >> this is orchestrated by many countries, they cannot defeat al qaeda. it doesn't make sense that sanaa couldn't be handed over to the houthis. you have ib province, and other provinces all without clashes and fighting. the only explanation, and from what we got from the presidential office is that the president is giving the banner to fight al qaeda to the houthis, hoping that they could defeat them. this - the worries is that this could cause sectarian tension in yemen. yesterday there are hundreds of tribesman joining the lines of al qaeda, not because they like or support al qaeda or are loyal to them, but they are against th

al qaeda fighters and describes men are confronting advance shia houthi rebels who took control of the last month. and for the first time since then, government forces have bombed al qaeda and trikes men positions it. it follows a number of u.s. drone attacks against suspected al qaeda fighters in a number of areas. trikes men and al qaeda fighters say the yemeni government the u.s. and houthis are in alliance against them. and that sentiment is only increases tensions and could turn in to a wider sectarian conflict. there is also fighting in the western province on the red sea. houthi rebels there are confronting tribes men from the movement who oppose the houthi take over of this province but the shia are remaining in control making gains and consolidating their positions. in southern yemen there is no fighting but an increasing separatist movement setting up a camp two weeks ago and is promising to escalate its sitting protest until the south achieves independence. the political negotiations so far have failed to form a government of national unity to end the fighting. yemen is faci

they say they are targets of shia armed groups. >> translator: shia militiamen will not allow us to return are scared to go back. >> reporter: the iraqi government doesn't call these fight ores militiamen, instead it conditions them volunteers who joined the fight against isil. government officials insist those same so-called volunteers will continue to support the army and police until they are ready to secure areas on their own. but for many sunnis their presence is tearing his country apart. he explained that the government should allow the 700 policemen to return to work now that isil has left. >> translator: the people are the victims of all of these groups. we want force that can protect us. we ask the government to send an official force. >> reporter: in a country with a history of sectarian crisis, iraqis are losing confidence in each other. for now there is no one authority that seems to be rep senttive of all of the factions, one that can hold this country together. >>> for more on this i'm joined by the senior crisis response advisor for amnesty international. your report says t

. >> in fact, you have sunnis in your film who run from shia militias, shia militias fighting on our side, and the sunnis saying hey, we prefer i.s.i.l. to the sunni militias, and you went to a yazidi refugee camp where thousands are living in deft it use after i.s.i.l. forced -- deft it use where i.s.i.l. forced them to leave. and you spoke to a bunch of people, including a 63-year-old father, who seemed as afraid of former neighbours as the terrorists. . >> so many reports of massacres of yazidi, women enslaved by the thousands. you tell a heart-breaking story of parents losing their children as they fled i.s.i.l. i get the sense from you that this hatred - we heard the yazidi man saying he couldn't live with arrows, shias, or with any of them. in the end, do you think that we are going to see a split upstate as you mentioned like joe biden kurdistan, a sunni land and a shia lapped. >> i know a lot of people in iraq would support that idea. it seemed to me the only people i spoke to that didn't support the idea were u.s. politicians, the executive brans has a one iraq -- branch has

about radical shias like isis.s the united states appear like fools because that history as you say that goes back hundreds and hundreds of years is not unfamiliar (?) to our ambassadors, our diplomats, our security team, many americans and certainly much of the world. so why is it that we resist knowledge and comprehension when it comes to foreign policy whether republican or democrat? >> well, to some extent it goes way into our dna, and we're a people who basically have an optimistic approach to everything, and that every problem surely has a solution. but some of these problems don't have any ready made solutions. and frankly, if it does have a solution, are we the ones to bring it to them. this is a tough issue and the world looks to america to lead. even though it's not at all clear where we can lead this place to. lou: and yet we keep trying to intervene if not lead. we keep trying to dispose if not point of fact resolve. and i don't remember a great deal of contrition on the part of diplomats, national secu

sending dozens of armed men and a promise to fight the shia houthi es. in the northwest new potential front are houthis. dozens march. chanting anti-houthi slogans. they want houthi out oh the second largest port on the red sea. >> i tell the houthies here that the port is a red line. and it belongs to us. >> some fear yemen might be heading to a civil war since the advance. and with the military failing to stop them many here believe there is a hidden agenda between the houthies and former president. >> we're talking about ibb, and we're talking about ibb and why it's important strategically? >> reporter: ibb is important because it is a predominantly sunni area. it has strong tribal connections there, and it is not far from the province of lamar which the houthies overran three or four days ago, so it is on the province there. >> thank you very much for the reporting there. >>> we're joined on the phone from sanaa, nick from the u.n. agency. it's easy to gloss over what is going on the ground for people who live there in yemen. give us a broad picture

the sunni/shia one is only one. you've got the gulf states have their own agendas, turkey is going to demand a huge price. it's, and all of these things are going to change. they can flip overnight. so how do you even plan a political advantage? and you put your soldiers in the middle of that? >> do we have a moral obligation? >> i think we have -- again, i'm speaking personally -- i think we have a moral obligation to do what we can do. i don't think we have a moral obligation to do what, to accomplish what we cannot accomplish. i think we have a moral obligation to our p own people and our own soldiers first, and i think there's a strong moral argument to say don't put them in a situation in which they will get killed or they will have to commit atrocities. because all of this is going to come home, right? it's going to come home in the periphery, the -- you're going to have military atrocities, degradations of -- [inaudible] degradation of military professionalism, you're going to have to strengthen the surveilla

. >> dozens of shia rebels were killed in an ambush by sunni tribesmen in southern yemen. there has been fierce fighting in albider in past few days a number of u.s. drone strikes targeted al qaeda positions in and around the city. let's go to omar al saleh, who joins us now in southern yemen in aden. where you are right now is in the south of the country. we'll get to the situation in that area in a moment. let's talk about the north where the government is attacking and are they loading their advantage? >> they are. since sweeping through the capital and went south wards, they were met with no resistance. when they tried to go out towards other parts in the south, they were met by resistance. it is coming from al qaeda affiliated fighters, as well as tribesmen. now what we see in the last 24 hours, and in the early hours of today on saturday, increasing number of fighting and tribesman uniting to stop the houthis, this is sensitive for two reasons. the first, there's a tribal element. houthis taking their territory and tribal position. this is sensitive. the other thing

shia medicalishas will be impor. they have held rallies like this one to show how read they are to fight but they make many sunni muslims nervous. they are afraid there could be a return to the kind of sectarian blood shed that nearly drove iraq to civil war a few years ago. dealing with that will be crucial. however, there is a more pressing concern. isil fighters are now on three sides of this city. >> and they showed no signs of slowing down. the capitol has always been in their sites and with each village and town they take, they get even closer, making people here even more nervous. imran khan, al jazeera, baghdad. >> still to come on the al jazeera news hour, a step towards sainthood for an old pope, but a step back for france's after bishop's welcome guy people into the catholic church. a college travels on a near-miss route to mars. >> come events, i thought they were insensitive, extremely sexist as well as racist at the same time. >> serena williams hits back at comments made by russian officials. she will

. >> more fighting between shia houthi rebels and tribesmen in ibb. they say that they have been marginalized. the heartland is in the north of the country in sanaa province in 2004 they began an armed rebellion. al-qaeda as a presence in the east and south. and also a threat to yemen's stability in the south. there are fears of fights between houthies and a number of tribes across the country could widen and trigger a sectarian war. >>> the town in the province of ibb between yemen's shia houthies and tribal fighters. many were the two sides were killed. in the city of ibb people are angry. they are against the recent houthi takeover in the city and the infighting that followed it. no to armed militias this banner reads. >> they should all leave. we don't want it here. this city is peaceful, and the fighting has terrorized people. >> reporter: tribal leaders in this mostly sunni province are mobilizing their force sending dozens of armed men and a promise to fight the shia houthies in. in northwest, which is also sunni, dozens of fighters march. thes

are no fans of the shia, they have all long said that the shia are a target for them. and they are using sectarian language and sectarian violence to further their gains. in this month, we have i.s.i.l. fighters making gains in places like ananbaue anbar province. that is a very worrying signs. the air strikes are making some difference, particularly iraqi air strikes have beat back people in various parts of the province. they are still a force to be reckoned with there. they don't have the base in order to be able to attack this city and that's likely to be their next track, to get somewhere to give them a base to come inside baghdad. >> the world health organization has declared nigeria ebola-free that comes as leading health officials and politicians meet in berlin to discuss the outbreak which has killed over 4500 people. nigeria's president goodluck jonathan said this happened because people took precautions. >> we must be mindful of handshakes, we should not move coughs unnecessarily. practice of and so on. practice in that period, then this shaking peek across