it's what understandpins these attacks, an attempt to destabilize the government and show these things. one of the things to note in this is that this football match was organized by one of a former shia militias now under the command of the iraqi government security forces who were extremely controversial and certainly a target of i.s.i.l. >>> if i.s.i.l. is behind the issues in the area, is it too early to say that the caliphate is beginning to shrink? >> reporter: not too early. if you look at the land mass, huge areas of territory that i.s.i.l. rolled in and controlled with armoured vehicles and complex attacks, if you look at those, that has shrunk by up to on 40%. there are clearly losing territory, including major citi citi cities. what they have not lost is the ability to adapt and the ability to launch attacks that destabilized the iraqi security forces. right now the prime minister is fighting a political challenge. he is to head off a political crisis by presenting a new cabinet. at the gates of the green zone, there are foreign emback ees, there's huge protest camps set up