i think, it is not the right policy. there is baghdad, there is era be a, eve got another state. all of us, we must work to deal with the new state. >> could the recognition of this for the kurds to have a better future, there has been a change in thinking, so we have felt that from other members of the international community. it is not about the changing of personality. we have other parties in baghdad. behind closed doors, they tell us you have the right to receive your budget but we don't want that to be behind closed doors. we want that to be in the public in places like this to put pressure on baghdad. we would like the international community and united nations to put pressure on baghdad to provide the budget in a timely manner. therefore, there has been a change. six months ago, a month ago, the reality on the ground on june 9 the international community has to adapt to that change. >> thank you. i'm a palestinian journalist and i had the honor of meeting both in and dad and my question follows on the same feed. it rack, for all

it would not be reliant on baghdad for revenues and we've seen over the furthers that baghdad has used money as a form of--as a political weapon in an attempt to stall the curbs when ba baghdad is not happy with its present position. >> what does it mean for outside countries like the united states as we watch the kurds work towards independence. >> looking at the oil we should go deeper than saying this is a matter of being oppressed by the kurds. there are some serious legal and political issues that remain. anyone who is interested in getting this oil out, and i think we probably all are here, having it be conducted through the legal mechanism so there are not boats stuck at sea because there is litigation with anchor, and despite these disagreements, encouraging the kurds to negotiate with baghdad would the best solution. >> that's the end of inside study. thanks for being with us. i'm libby casey. >>> on "america tonight" - trouble where you'd least expect to find it. >> i remember growing up in miami, every school i went to was in fested in gangs. it's not something i considered

>> there are a lot of ways to do the accounting and the math. baghdad claims the kurds owe them money. the kurds claim that baghdad owes them money. and in that -- in that space is where a deal lies. and i think that's going to be part of the conversation informing a new government. >> if it is true that baghdad owes them as much as $6 billion, would the u.s. support the kurds' ability to export oil and obtain that revenue so they can keep themselves going? >> we want to get as much oil on to international markets as possible from all parts of iraq. and that's something that we very strongly support. we worked very hard over the last six months to get a deal on the table by which the kurds would have exported as much oil as they possibly could through some of the existing arrangements with the revenue-sharing allocations that exist. and that deal almost succeeded, but it ran up again the election time frame. once in the election, it was very difficult to close a deal. i think we'll be able to get that back on the table. we want as much oil from iraq, no

, would the isf be able to defend baghdad. that was our critical first question, especially given the size of our mission there. and i think one of the early things that we saw as we got on the ground was that there was a stiffening of the iraqi security forces in and around baghdad to protect the capital, which we thought was critically important. we certainly weren't aware until we got on the ground. i do think some of the early indications are frankly mixed. that there are some very capable units that have high morale and that are willing and capable of fighting and there are other units where morale is lower, where there may not be as much capability and willingness to actually fight. and it is sorting out the details of that that we're working on right now. >> and if you were to surmise after you do this assessment, what do you think the range of options will be that will be presented to the president relative to our activities, militarily, in iraq? >> yeah. i think without crowding any decision space, all of the military

were, in fact, part of the baghdad government. it was made worse by successive iraqi government which tried to fit into an arab quality which they do not fit. by the time we got to the 1970s we had in fact a fascist arab ruling the party. which if you are a curd therefore not an arab it's very difficult to consider yourself a part being a citizen of an arab fascist state. of course, it's the same fascist party that ruled iraq and ruled the arab of syria. in the 1970s no one would have thought to divide up iraq. well, in fact, starting in the 1960s and even before that in the 1930s the kurds had been in rebellion, and were put down quite brutally in the 1970s by saddam hussein. the problem is we have failed to create in iraq and i dare say in syria and other country in the middle east regardless of ethnicity and back ground, do they feel they're invested as full citizens. failure to do that, and i agree that nouri al-maliki has exacerbated those problems in iraq over the four or five years. the failures are something that makes ever

is iraq still on the verge of disintegration? we will go to baghdad to speak with journalist hannah allam of mcclatchy newspapers and patrick cockburn, author of the new book, "the jihadis return: isis and the new sunni uprising." it would look at the iran nuclear talks. but as i said, we have made progress and there still work to do and we believe there is a path forward for my soul let's see what happens in the next hours and days. deceive you.nt to serious differences remain and they need to be overcome. >> filter prize-winning journalist turned immigrant rights activist jose vargas is detained by border patrol in mcallen, texas. he was released after being ordered to appear before an immigration judge. vargas traveled to the texas border to document the crisis of thousands of immigrant children from central america fleeing poverty and violence. >> these children are not illegal. they are human beings. they are not a national security threat. the only threat these children pose to us is the threat of testing our own conscience. >> after reporting f

, would the isf be able to defend baghdad. that was our critical first question, especially given the size of our mission there. and i think one of the early things that we saw as we got on the ground was that there was a stiffening of the iraqi security forces in and around baghdad to protect the capital, which we thought was critically important. we certainly weren't aware until we got on the ground. i do think some of the early indications are frankly mixed. that there are some very capable units that have high morale and that are willing and capable of fighting and there are other units where morale is lower, where there may not be as much capability and willingness to actually fight. and it is sorting out the details of that that we're working on right now. >> and if you were to surmise after you do this assessment, what do you think the range of options will be that will be presented to the president relative to our activities, militarily, in iraq? >> yeah. i think without crowding any decision space, all of the military

the assessment assessed every unit around baghdad. without getting into the details, some units are infiltrated and dangerous. some are very capable and effective and have close relationships with us. >> i wanted to get to a broader question. you touched upon it in your statement and do more so in the written statement you submitted. here is the question we get. people are outraged by what's happening, especially reports about the different things isil is doing. by no means is this a group popular. americans understand this is a terrible, radical group of violent individuals. that being said, public opinion polls and just from the phone calls we get in ours of officee attitude of the american public, it's a mess, let them figure it out. i personally said this is not about iraq but the long-term security of the united states and the threat that isil poses to the u.s., especially if they are able to establish a safe haven of operations similar to what al qaeda did. even worse than what al qaeda was able to do in afghanistan. i was hoping

>> there are a lot of ways to do the accounting and the math. baghdadclaims the kurds owe them money and the kurds claim that baghdad owes them money and in that space is where the deal lies and i think that will be part of the conversation and reforming the government. >> if it is true that baghdad owes them as much as $6 million with u.s. support the kurds ability to export oil and retain that revenue so they can keep themselves going? >> we want to get as much oil onto the international markets as possible from all parts of iraq and not something we strongly support. we worked very hard over the last of six pounds to get a deal on the table by which the kurds would have exported as much oil as they could do some existing arrangements with the revenue sharing allocations that exists. that deal almost succeeded but ran up against the election timeframe and once you have an election is difficult to close a deal. i think we will be able to get that back on the table. what we want is north to south onto the international borders as soon as possible. >> i

citizens from the radical extremists advancing on baghdad the jihadists to cloud an islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country are moving towards the capital ongoing violence aspersion up the divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan in the north pushing for independence the regions deputy pm is already urged the central government to move some power to the regions threatening that kurds will break away from baghdad's rule if that doesn't happen but a lot is polevoy the reports now there are some western companies who could do very well out of the chaos. with iraq on the brink of all out civil war oil giants such as b.p. and shell pulled workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month but north of kirkuk the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and smaller british oil companies are reaping the benefits take for example canal energy run by former b.p. boss tony hayward the company recently started pumping oil from its brand new k r i pipeline which runs from the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan over to turk

that has caused a major spat with the central government in baghdad over oil sharing, but with the insurgents, baghdad is in no condition to dictate what the kurds do, because they're holding off the offensive. and the trade in i'll and in the autonomous zone gives them more oil independence. baghdad may look besieged by the central government still controls the majority of iraq's oil output, which is in the south of the country, and despite the violence, iraq's oil split have not been disrupted for the most part. they still export 2.2 million barrels of oil a day, and that makes it the 6th largest in the world. baghdad and central iraq still have the economic wherewithal to hold out, despite losing control of much of the country geographically. the surgeries in the west appear to have the biggest hand economically. anbar province is mostly impoverished and air add, but under is a potential oilfield. it may look like child's play in the south. two years ago, a korean firm built a gas it facility near the syrian border, and this week, the iraqi forces abandoned it. it's not clear if the insurg

, would the isf be able to defend baghdad. that was our critical first question, especially given the size of our mission there. and i think one of the early things that we saw as we got on the ground was that there was a stiffening of the iraqi security forces in and around baghdad to protect the capital, which we thought was critically important. we certainly weren't aware until we got on the ground. i do think some of the early indications are frankly mixed. that there are some very capable units that have high morale and that are willing and capable of fighting and there are other units where morale is lower, where there may not be as much capability and willingness to actually fight. and it is sorting out the details of that that we're working on right now. >> and if you were to surmise after you do this assessment, what do you think the range of options will be that will be presented to the president relative to our activities, militarily, in iraq? >> yeah. i think without crowding any decision space, all of the military

the cpa. >> we flew on a c-130 into baghdad. the thing that was striking to us was the fact that a lot of the buildings were on fire. >> narrator: baghdad had been burning for one month. >> there'd be buildings on fire. the fires would just have to burn themselves out because there was no fire department. >> there was no government. there were no police. the army was gone. >> narrator: as they drove into the city, bremer made a decision and promptly announced it to his new staff. >> i did one thing that wasn't very smart, which was suggest to the staff meeting that i thought we should shoot the looters, that our military should have authority to shoot the looters, which they did not have at that time. >> his point was you only needed to shoot a few of them to make that point and the looting would stop. >> it wasn't very smart to do because somebody on the staff immediately told the press that i had suggested shooting the looters, and we had a problem. >> narrator: military commanders refused to go along with bremer's idea. >> wel

citizens from the radical extremists advancing on baghdad the jihadists to cloud and islamic caliphate in the northeast of the country and are currently moving towards the capital the u.n. says almost two and a half thousand people were killed in june alone the ongoing violence is further open divisions in society with iraqi kurdistan preparing to hold a breakaway referendum as soon as possible the region's deputy pm has already urged the central government to move some power to the regions threatening the kurds will break away from baghdad's rule if that doesn't happen but that is police reports now there are some western companies who could do very well out of the chaos. with iraq on the brink an all out civil war for oil giants such as b.p. and shell told workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month that north of the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility and small employers to spoil companies are reaping the benefits take for example can now energy run by for my b.p. pass tony hayward the company recently started pump

the world. and we have given enough to baghdad. we have contributed positively to protect iraq in terms of the army, in terms of the political process. that was not reciprocated. what we want to see is that a new foundation if iraq were to succeed, then there has to be a neerw foundation. a new basis of this relationship. we cannot go back to prejune 9th. certainly, we have aspirations. we want to have more sovereignty. we want to have more economic autonomy and more political autonomy. this is the least that we can do. other people, weis have the rigt to serve the termination. but that doesn't spoke where we have to live under the mercy of baghdad for baghdad to cut our budget. it's over thatnd time. if there is will in baghdad, we are ready to be good partners. good partnersgo to build a new d a better iraq, but also to have a better kurdistan to enjoy good relations with the international community. with that, i would stop and welcome any questions. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm going to be looking for questio

troops at the baghdad airport. for whatever reason now -- >> two weeks ago, we ordered those 100 airport security personnel into the region, we kept them outside of iraq emma but we ordered them into the reason toause we had be concerned about the security of our facilities and our people at the airport. the situation has changed on the ground. it is not static. it's different every day. isis continues to pose a religion a threat -- a legitimate threat to baghdad. -- we watching this continue to watch the situation and we are monitoring it as best we can. we will have better information in a couple of weeks when we get these reports back. thatn you confirm a report russian pilots have been flying jets -- should we be concerned about russian forces operating aircraft over u.s. forces operating on the ground? it is myt confirm -- understanding that these aircraft were purchased for use by iraqi pilots. you would have to talk to moscow about what they're doing with airplanes and their pilots. concerns, i will go back t

directly from the region these small british players could be in store for massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not. r.t. london. now the kurdish breakaway from iraq has been already bought by b.s. really prime minister binyamin netanyahu believes the kurds have proved their political commitment on moderation and should be granted independence and ali made director of the institute of gulf a first sees the emergence of an autonomy as kurdistan is in the interest of western powers want to see kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly yeah and very clear in the action and the way that the united states government for example dealt with the kurdish takeover of kut coke the same has been done with the. saw foreign ministers from the united states and the u.k. traveling to kurdistan to meet with them a sword but a sunny in the new boss of court system. so they had not been an equal handed or even handed policy toward baghdad and could the stand receive favoritism to kurdistan that's going to stand actually has been getting way more than its share in terms of iraqi sources

personnel at the baghdad embassy and the airport. the u.s. has authorized 750 american troops to secure those locations and advise the iraqi army in its fight against isis. today, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu again vowed revenge against palestinian militants for the kidnapping and murder of three teenage seminary students. netanyahu was among the mourners who attended their funerals. more now from alex ortiz in israel. >> hundreds of thousands flooded into the symmetry to pay their last respects to the three teenagers. their bodies were found yesterday beneath the pile of rocks in an opened field. they offered a wave of grief across the country. earlier in the day at a memorial service when his mother said a final good-bye. we will learn to sing without you she said. we will always hear your voice in our hearts. just before the funeral, a recording how far a panicky cell phone call made to emergency police was broadcast by local tv stations. we're being kidnapped told the police. in the background the kidnapper yells keep your h

they are flying the - the americans are flying drones over baghdad, but are here for defensive purposes, for american assets in the country. if used, they are likely to be iranian or low-level iraqi ones. if the drones are used. it's likely that they are being used both for intelligence gathering and for armed purposes. it's very difficult to understand what technology, what hardware is up in the air. we know that the air strikes are ongoing, and are designed to really soften up the targets before a ground invasion - ground force goes in. like i said, there's no idea when the ground force may go in. >> stand by for us for a second. i want to run this by you. iraq's prime minister nouri al-maliki accused the kurdish city of erbil of becoming what he calls a terrorist base. >> translation: i will tell you truthfully. we will not be silent about erbil. it's a base for islamic state and terrorist organizations and those talking about working for unity should stop the criminals. >> we know there has been tensions between baghdad and the kurdish reasons. statements like that will not help to

the u.s. embassy in baghdad. he denied the claims.the war he was convicted and sentenced in a massive bank fraud case in jordan and escaped to london. there are also concerns how eb he would be as prime minister. during the war, chalabi who is shiia, headed up the effort to push top sunni leaders out of their jobs. despite that, a spokesman for cleric muqtada al sadr told us sadder's followers a key blocking in iraq's parliament believe challah bill is a viability candidate who who can be quantity quantity the government. james jeffrey likes chalabi, calls him courageous and says in the current spiral of violence, there aren't great alternatives. >> iraq is disintegrating before our eyes. this is a total emergency situation. the only way out of this thing is only chances of that is for iraq to find a replacement to the itch malaki. let's give this guy a chance. >> how does the obama administration feel about ahmed chalabi possibly becoming the next leader? the white house and state department says it's not the role of the u.s. to supp

the kurds. today they are tagging part -- baghdad. today they are not attacking the turks but tomorrow they will do that. today they couldn't reach the iranian border but tomorrow they will reach the iranian border so it's dangerous for all of us. >> for a long time we have had engagements with the united states and this is an issue we have made it clear that we are against terrorism and we will to fight terrorism. this is a threat and we want them to be able to be there to provide stability and security in the long term. >> on that sobering note i want to say is the kurds say -- mike thank you very much. [applause] i thank all of you and i think our guests very much for this very important discussion. [inaudible conversations] >> so i tell the story about how i, whose every aspect of whose identity is in one way or another a threat to israel. my gender is male, my religion is muslim, my citizenship is american but my nationality is iranian. my ethnicity is version my culture is middle eastern. everything about me sends off all the war

but also to protect the baghdad international airport. and the u.s. has been steadily increasing its presence here. just in the last several weeks, sending nearly 800 additional service members, some of the military advisers, some of them providing protection and possible escape routes. the u.s. has also been talking about maybe the possibility that there could be a political solution here. and u.s. officials have been speaking to and putting a lot of hope that the iraqis could recognize what a crisis this is, what a threat isis poses to iraq and the entire world, and come up with a unified political position. today, that didn't happen. it didn't even get close to happening. the iraqi parliament met under very tight security situations. there's an almost curfew-like security lockdown here in baghdad, with bridges closed, checkpoints in the city, and the members of parliament got together and after about one hour, members of parliament left, they started fighti ining amongst each other, and the only thing they agreed to was to have another meeting a we

quote in the article who is a sunni man who's married with three small children living in the middle of baghdad in a predominantly sunni neighborhood and he i quote him at length in the article because his story is so telling of so many sunni's now living as a minority population being persecuted by the maliki regime in baghdad and he said that we literally can't go north south east or west because there's fighting if we go north east or west if we can't go south because the area is completely controlled by shia militias that are basically hunting sunni at this point we have the mahdi army the badr brigade etc other shia militias that are literally going around trying to find sunni's the kill they've taken the orders of grand ayatollah sistani the basically the shia religious leader of the country and are banding together but instead of just fighting against isis they're trying to find any sunni . they can't so because of that sunni's living in baghdad and wanting to leave the country trying to find safety for their families can't go anywhere and so he said look even if we try to get a bus tick

the assessment assessed every unit around baghdad. without getting into the details, some units are infiltrated and dangerous. some are very capable and effective and have close relationships with us. >> i wanted to get to a broader question. you touched upon it in your statement and do more so in the written statement you submitted. here is the question we get. people are outraged by what's happening, especially reports about the different things isil is doing. by no means is this a group popular. americans understand this is a terrible, radical group of violent individuals. that being said, public opinion polls and just from the phone calls we get in ours of officee attitude of the american public, it's a mess, let them figure it out. i personally said this is not about iraq but the long-term security of the united states and the threat that isil poses to the u.s., especially if they are able to establish a safe haven of operations similar to what al qaeda did. even worse than what al qaeda was able to do in afghanistan. i was hoping

directly from the region these small british players could be installed from massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not. an independent kurdistan is something the israeli prime minister has already voiced his support towards binyamin netanyahu believes the kurds have proven their political commitment to moderation and should be granted independence the director of the institute of culture first sees the emergence of an autonomous kurdistan is in the interest of western powers. they want to see the kurdish state separate from iraq and that's very clearly. and very clear in the action and the way that the united states government for example dealt with the kurdish takeover of coke you see favoritism to put the stand that's going to stand actually has been getting way more than its share in terms of crew sources and power structure yet nobody's talking about the conditional or the negative conditional in what happened in the past two weeks basically allowing and accepting the first take over the oil of course because kurdistan needs that oil to be a functioning state that's one one of the

and constitutional right to export their own oil with canal bypassing the central government baghdad however isn't happy about it refusing consent to canals planned exports and even stepping in with an arbitration suit to stop the first batch of oil from being sold on world markets the iraqi government is accusing the cordage. national oil. companies who are operating in one way or could be. that process analysts say that iraq's crumbling all authority could be beneficial for smaller british oil companies which don't get a look in on oil fields run by corporate giants in southern iraq too small to really consider the. oil fields in iraq so what about a bet even getting around. to getting away with never. never. can now energy isn't the only british oil for operating in kurdistan gulf keystone owns several sites in kurdish north iraq the city now in production with their oil and canals pipeline that runs directly from the region these small british players could be in store for massive profits by the baghdad likes it or not fully boyko r.t. london. an independent kurdistan is something

directly from the region these small british players could be in store for massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not. r.t. london. also lots more news and views online waiting for you including. instead of the usual barbecues and fireworks two time u.s. presidential candidate ron paul has invited his fellow citizens to celebrate the fourth of july in a slightly different manner by opposing the government which he considers to be ironical about why paul suggests this course of action on our web site and also their. release eight three to see him a sign like a new vacuum cleaner but it's actually what scientists have named the planet which in their opinion is the most earth like yet they find this super earth and how it might be able to support life i don't know. japan's ruling parties have agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on overseas military operations for the first time since world war two this decision to change the constitution provoked a wave of protests the following footage contains graphic scenes one even went so far as to seven self on fire he's currently in hospital while t

being about he's been seen in government forces in the private primarily sunni neighborhoods of baghdad as well as in towns. allusion to detain sunni's and holding them in secret prisons a lot of this is come out over the years many years since he's been in power human rights watch has done reports on it as has amnesia and the senior national on his secret detention facilities around baghdad and this escalated to a place where beginning in late two thousand and twelve sunni populations in our province as well as parts of baghdad and much of the rest of iraq every friday started holding demonstrations against the government they were peaceful demonstrations but maliki decided to start sending in the military and security forces and actually killing a lot of the protesters. isn't that where the by the middle of last year we had attacks against government forces start in these same sunni areas they weren't able to keep a lid on the resistance that was growing within the sunni population and so that escalated things to a point where we had a very large amount of the sunni population that wa

directly from the region these small british players could be in store for massive profits while the baghdad likes it or not polly boyko r.t. london. japan's ruling parties have agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on overseas military operations for the first time since the second world war the decision to change the constitution provoked a wave of protests the following footage contains graphic scenes one of us now one outraged man even went so far as to set himself on fire he's currently in hospital on the latest rally outside the prime minister's office in tokyo gathered around ten thousand people and even led to clashes with police the protesters criticize the government for failing to hold a referendum on the issue. that change may of fact of the balance of power in the region as japan could now help its allies fighting overseas not at the same time the u.s. is deploying more troops to the area washington now has eighty thousand plus military personnel as more than forty bases across the pacific region while some experts don't see the new change as particularly serious others want it coul

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