in your remarks, you mentioned that turkey would be for a self-determination, but within a unified iraq. i'm a little bit confused. can you clarify that? also, i have other parts of the question. just for the general panel here, can iraq be saved as we know it? will maliki go away completely? and finally, the minorities that you referred to, are they better off under the present government in iraq? thank you. >> self-determination, i mean, in europe, in different nation states, we have different groups that demand more rights in terms of culture, in terms of political representation. and independent of that, it translates into your self-determination. in the case of turkey, for instance, the turkish kurds are demanding more rights. turkey is giving them more rights to develop powers through local administrations. of course, in the case of iraq, it's a different story. there's already a federal unit. and then the recent discussion, especially coming from the krg leadership, they're more trying to push towards independence, to reflect on their own self-determination. turkey, as i understa

i know you said that turkey still prefers a unified iraq. but there's been a lot of confusion recently, because we heard from a spokesperson for the akb party that a kurdish state is no longer a cause for instability. that's what he said in an interview with my publicatiopub. so my question is, if, like, push comes to shove, will they accept an independent kurdistan? and you mentioned something -- you said iraqi federalism. you said that should happen. and what do you mean exactly by that? i know the kurds are calling for a con federation, which means more power to the local authorities. and we just saw joe biden writing an article in the "washington post" mentioning a functioning federalism. and he also referred to not having national guard for every region. is that something turkey also wants to see, more power for local governments like the kurdistan regional government? thank you. >> thank you. >> about the first question, u actually, i was in d.c. for another conference and there was another question about him. i know what he said. it w

think i've friend is fundamentally right -- at the end of the day, the responsibility for having a unified iraq without the presence of isil is the iraqi government. they need a government that includes sunni, shia and kurds. thehould not see supporting kurds as an alternative. we need an iraqi government working with the kurds to get rid of the cancer in their midst will stop >> the arguments for the withdrawal of u.k. passports -- given the strong evidence of israeli war crimes in gaza -- we've heard about 500 children killed in a terrible bombardment there, will risch citizens fighting in the idea each reading in the same way as those returning from syria and iraq? >> i don't think that is a fair or reasonable way of describing the situation. the loss ofid, civilian life was unacceptable and it is right these matters are properly investigated. the rockets raining down on israel, israel has a right to defend itself. comparison between a soldier fighting in the israeli defense forces and iteris returning from syria, i think he will look at his words and come to regret them. >> in the 50 day co

. >>> an unified iraq is a necessary part of the presidential strategy against isil. the result, iraqi and kurdish forces are left battling isil without government support. >> this convoy of recycled russian artillery and tanks is not enough to hold a line for much longer. in a bunker on the front line we talked to the field commander for the area of operations from mosul all the way to the syrian border. the general is worried. [ explosion ] >> reporter: this peshmerga forward position is 10 kill matters from the gate, the area from syria to the road of mosul and the direct route to the sinjar mountains, but they say they're battling against a much superior force. >> as an army we need everything from a to z. everything from uniforms, rockets, body machine guns, tanks, night vision goggles. even if they send us mortars we don't have enough night vision equipment. beneath the whole package. >> can you win the ground without other fighters. >> no. >> after the head of the u.s. military revealed that he could really recommend the 1600 american advisers currently in iraq

a unified iraq, less sectarian than under maliki. and a syria which purges itself hopefully of both assad and of isis. >> the facts on the ground about the iraqi army after all these years are not encouraging. and is there any reason to believe that that army's going to perform better? >> the hope is that a new government, which is not sectarian, the way maliki was, will have the support of an army unlike the previous army, which was not willing to support a sectarian government in baghdad. >> senator, do you believe that there's -- that the president is actually being drawn into another conflict or is intentionally being drawn into this conflict by isis and related groups? it's something that sort of they want for their strategy? >> they might want it, but they won't want it after what they are going to face. it's hard to psychoanalyze people whose mentality is on a different planet from my perspective. they may want it. they may want death. a lot of people who say that these folks want death. they want to be killed. they want to ge

one of the key topics here, a unified iraq.ecretary kerry's goal in this security council meeting today? >> reporter: his goal is to start looking and gathering as much support as possible for an international coalition to move against isis in support of the iraqi army and maybe elsewhere in the region. shades of past years, iraq and the security council, and a major meeting at the ministerial level. we see secretary of state john kerry be flanked by the british ambassador. the goal is getting as many countries to support the u.s. which is not seemingly going as smooth as it went for george herbert walker bush. there are concerns about u.s. involvement, military involvement, where are boots on the ground and what's the overall strategy and also lurking iran. there were talks on the sideline regarding iran's nuclear program perhaps there could be some traction achieved there to get iran's support. the u.s. is very lukewarm on that idea for now. the meeting looks like it will start. there are no votes. it sets the table for next

seriously any expectation that the united states has an ability at this point to form that cohesive, unified iraq guess what? we tried. it failed. >> woodruff: richard haass, i want to come back very quickly here as our time draws to a close on this question of boots on the ground. we heard susan rice tell gwen that boots on the ground have proved counterproductive. then we heard committee chairman congressman buck mckeon say they are going to be essential, that it's inevitable. who is right on this? >> well, the only american boots on the ground for the most part are going to be special forces in places like syria and then you'll have some trainers and advisers, but you are going to need boots on the ground. i think they're going to have to come from some of the arab countries or from local tribesmen or kurds. it has to be local. it has to be seeny. you can't do this from the air alone. >> woodruff: michele flournoy, what about that? >> i think the principle boots to be ground have to be from iraq and syria, but those should be enabled by our intelligence assets, by our special operations forces

in the region that when we use air power, when we support the iraqi forces, this is to create a unified iraq, an iraq that will meet the needs of the people, that there are no unnecessary casualties. the people involved in this planning this, they've been going through the various scenarios for a matter of about four to five months, they have taken the lessons of what happened in the first iraq war very much into account. i think that it is important to remember that what happened there was a decision made to essentially never look at what we call stability operations. that is, what happens in the country after saddam falls. the original plan -- and in fairness to bremer -- was that we would begin to leave with all of our combat units in 30 days. we had no plan to deal with transition. we had no plan to deal with the economy. the only contingency planning was when saddam burned the oil fields, which he didn't do, or break down the rationing system, which he didn't do. as a result bremer was confronted with years in which they had to improvise and try to deal with the political vacuum and the

the idea there will be unified iraq and stamp out a couple months a new unified iraqi army that can takes a dream illusion and nonsense. you look what men fight for and people what used to be iraq are not going to fight for the baghdad government. they will fight for their homes, their turf, their tribes. they will not fight for the baghdad government. martha: thank you very much. good to see you, sir. >> thank you. eric: nfl commissioner roger goodell coming under fire for not doing enough to investigate the ray rice case. so the question today, how can that website "tmz" get a video the league said they could not? coming up we'll ask the man in charge, harvey levin. >> why didn't goodell go to the casino or his people and say, hey, we would like to see the video? we are told by people who worked at casino they never did that. he is doing some irassaults to explain why he didn't go to the casino. work with equity experts who work with regional experts who work with portfolio management experts that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. [ inh

we're interested in a unified -- iraq, actively engaged in international affairs. be agreed byhould iraqis themselves, since they are responsible for the future country. fixes will be futile. inbelieve that the extremism its bloodiest manifestations is the main threat to the region. eliminating this through collective efforts should be a priority for the international community. however, there must be no adherence to the approaches or double standards, dividing terrorists into the bad, who need to be destroyed, and not so with whom we can supposedly selfishe to promote national interests and regime changes. ifwill go around in circles we bomb in one place while sheltering them in another and readying them for change. we need to have courage to learn lessons from the past and we the decency to recognize this. isil didn't gather power overnight. radicaltions of islamists rose as they were promoted in neighboring syria. some capital capitalists looken at this with satisfaction. weretial relations testing, which ultimately also create fertile grand for the wide scale r

in the absence of a unified strategy across iraq and syria, it's far from clear whether more bombing will have the desired result. >> the bbc is in baghdad for us. that is the question that gabriel poses, is bombing going to have the desired result, and also, is the iraqi army really up to this task, because america says it is bombing in support of them. >> reporter: well, according to the iraqi army itself and according to the leaders of this country, all they need is significant air support. that's what they are saying here. and of course now we had the expansion, if you like, of the american mission with last night's air strikes on targets south of baghdad here for the first time in this part of the country. they were, of course, two areas that were targeted yesterday by american air strikes. one in the north and one in central iraq nearby the capital baghdad, aiming clearly in the second case of preventing any more expansion of the militants' activities towards the capital baghdad. the target of last night's air strike was about 30 to 40 kilometers southwest of baghdad in an area

a unified iraq and a syria which purges itself hopefully of both assad and of isis. >> i mean the facts on the ground about the iraqi army after all these years are not encouraging and is there any reason to believe that that army is going to perform better? >> the hope is that a new government which is not secretary arian will have the support of an army, unlike the previous army which was not willing to support a sec tearian government in baghdad. >> senator, do you believe that the president is actually being or into another conflict is intentionally being drawn into this conflict by isis and related groups is something sort of they want for their strategy? >> they may want it but they won't want it after what they're going to face. i mean it's hard to psycho analyze people whose mentality is on a different planet from my perspective. so they may want it. they may want death. a lot of people say that these folks want death. they want to be killed. they want to get to heaven faster, if that's their wish we should try to help them achieve it. >> speaking of psycho aanalysis, could you

a unified iraq, less sectarian than under maliki and a syria which purges itself, hopefully, of both assad and of isis. >> the facts on the ground about the iraqi army after all these years are not encouraging. is there any reason to believe that that army's going to perform better? >> the hope is that a new government, which is not sectarian the way maliki was, will have the support of an army unlike the previous army which was not willing to support a sectarian government in baghdad. >> senator, do you believe that there's, that the president is actually being drawn, drawn into another conflict or is intentionally being drawn into this conflict by isis and related groups? it's something that sort of of y want for their strategy. >> they might want it, but they won't want it after what they're going to face. [laughter] i mean, it's hard to psychoanalyze -- >> yeah. >> -- people whose mentality is on a different planet from my perspective. so they may want it, they may want death. i mean, there's a lot of people who say that these folks want death. they want to be killed, they want t

in the absence of a unified strategy across iraq and syria, it's far from clear whether more bombing will have the desired result. >> leaders attempting to build an international coalition against islamic state militants have said it won't include iran or syria. a short time ago i asked the bbc's middle east editor jeremy bowen, who's in damascus, if that was realistic. >> not according to the syrian government. they say that any attempt on i.s. that does not include the syrian government and their iranian allies and russian backers, for that matter, is not going to work. actually at the moment the syrian government and iran-backed shiit militias in iraq are both fighting islamic state and they are engaging them i think in places quite fiercely, especially in iraq. you know the thing about all of this, the paris conference was something that was designed to bring more legitimacy to this process, what the americans do not want is for it to look as if once again they're about to start bombing a lot of arabs, a lot of muslims. but i think that the other countries involved in this partic

♪ this is the news hour and coming up, in the next 60 minutes trying to unify the divided country and iraq'srime minist minister. suicide attack in the afghan capitol kills three people and also some are nato soldiers. >>> i'm at the nuclear base outside of glascow and what happened to defense and policy if an independent scott land appears to withdraw nuclear submarines. >>> one movement is trying to stop corporations from controlling the global food industry. ♪ so we begin in iraq where parliament is due to debate who should fill two of the top jobs in government, crucial and bringing back political stability in iraq and with it what is needed for reconciliation after years of ex clusionary problems. the promise of an inclusive government and trying to overcome the distrust that feel for the government in baghdad part of the legacy of the predecessor maliki who was discredited in sunni like nanbar and that is where isil made gains with sectarian rifs and recapturing territory that is improbable if divisions are not fixed under a unified government according to politicians and we are live i

we actually have a central government in baghdad that is actually undertaking effort to unify the nation of iraqand unify the nation security forces -- >> with, among others, the vice-president, nouri al-maliki. >> he is the vice-president, but there's a new prime minister, new president, and there's a new speaker of the parliament, and all of them are committed to the cause of uniting the country. it has never been more in the interests of iraq's political leaders to to uite the country to take on a threat. they're facing a threat from isil and i think we can have more confidence in their commitment, at least to fighting for their country. the question is the cavablity and it will be enhanceed that's getted a identifies volunteer american military personnel on the ground and conducting actions. it won't change the equation overnight. but it will have an effect on their able to take the fight0s= isil successfully. >> if you're a gang of well-hardened, well-equipped, well-funded, thugs, and gang members, running across two nations and taking it over, and you do not want the world's only super po

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why we need the people themselves in iraq, in syria, to support a unified unity, inclusive representativeovernment in iraq to help them do that. the sunni tribes are critical to this. what has allowed so much of this to happen, senator, as you know, as you visited many times, the last government in iraq over the last five years have actually exacerbated the effort and intentionally destroyed the capability of a unity government to bring in the sunni, shiite, kurdish populations to a go they could trust, that they could have confidence in, that they knew would work in everyone's interest, so your question cuts directly to the overall effort here of what the president talked about in a new inclusive unity government, which we have some confidence in, but we believe that the body will do, and so far in his appointments to his cabinet, we have seen evidence of that inclusiveness. >> thank you senator nelson. senator whik -- wicker. >> thank you. here is how i view it, president obama rejected the advice of many of his top military leaders to leave a residual force. our administration did not

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. >>> to iraq now where the new prime minister is trying to form a unified government.has chosen his nominees for the last two empty posts in cabinet, the defense and interior minister, but they haven't been approved yet by parliament. he is trying to overcome the mistrust many sunnis feel for the government in bagdad. it is all part of the legacy of his predecessor who was ultimately discredited by the collapse of the sunni army. that's where isil has made its greatest games. recapturing territory appears improbable if iraq's divisions aren't fixed under a unified go. imran khan is live for us in bagdad. first of all, imran, let's start off with what has been happening with the no, ma'am -- no, ma'am makes of those powerful posts in the government? >> well, what has happened so far is the parliament meeting that was supposed to ratify and vote on the positions of the ministers for defense and int r intier -- interior has been postponed until thursday. this is a huge blow for the prime minister. one of the reasons they weren't accepted is likely to be because the minist

a unified iraq, less sectarian than under maliki.tself ria which purges hopefully on both assad and of isis. >> the facts on the ground about the iraqi army after all these years are not encouraging. and is there any reason to believe that that army's going to perform better? >> the hope is that a new government, which is not sectarian, the way maliki was, will have the support of an army unlike the previous army, which was not willing to support a sectarian government in baghdad. >> senator, do you believe that there's -- that the president is actually being drawn into another conflict or is intentionally being drawn into this conflict by isis and related groups? it's something that sort of they want for their strategy? >> they might want it, but they won't want it after what they are going to face. it's hard to psycho analyze people whose mentality is on a different planet from my perspective. they may want it. they may want death. a lot of people who say that these folks want death. they want to be killed. they want to get to heav

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and eliminating this organization can only be achieved by forming a unified global front. we in iraq determined to cleanse our land from isil. we would like to stress to you that eliminating terrorism in iraq will be an important step in the direction of protecting the world and ridding the world of this danger. >>> i'm joined now by al jazeera's senior political analyst. we had iraq's president there also echoing everything else that other global leaders have said at the u.n. general assembly, and that is that there is a need for a global committed fight against isil. >> that's true. and clearly the american leadership on this has nudged or pushed so many more than hundred countries to join in. clearly there is a western urgency because of the foreign fighters who hold western passports and they could be coming back home to root. and that poses a danger for western countries. and there is a sense that while so many leaders are coming on board is this remains to be a western agenda, that at the end of the day the syrians and iraqis are dying not only because of isil, but because of t

there's no iraqi identity left but obama keeps believing in this unicorn of a unified integrated everybody loves everybody iraq. then the last part has come up in different form. one suggestion leaked that the president might not get to syria. that next president might have to address the heart of darkness, the heart of the problem. if that is the case -- and i hope it would not -- that would be one of the dastardly cowardly low points of this presidency. you can't kick that can down the road. you want to do this right, you go into syria and you do it with a lot of smacking power. >> he's been so wrong so often. the jv team comment, but also when he pull out of ire, he described it as stable, self-reliant with a representative government. his comment the tide of war is receding. i would argue the bad decision supporting mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood and giving them f-16s and tanks and money. he doesn't seem to understand radical islam. we keep getting back to that. are we at war? has he watch the beheadings? do you think these are questions we'll get answered tomorrow? >> no. this is a president who

wants iraq's government to show a unified front against isil, today another example of weakness. today they named a new interior minutminister because of infigh. >> if there was in fact a formal meeting, it suggests two things, that iraq is accepting assad's invitation to cooperate on this effort. and it's suggesting tha iraq ist listening to the u.s. and their allies when they say that al-assad is part of the problem, and not the solution. it's unlikely that the u.s. and other western allies will allow this to happen and not interfere, that they will hold their noses and allow it to happen. it does suggest that iraq is willing to cooperate with the assad regime, and it marks a step to his changing the view of the international community in the effort to tackle isil. >> that's john henry reporting city. >> a baghdad correspondent from the washington post, he now sizes on the new york times editorial board. and ernesto, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> what do you make of this today? >> . >> i was struck by his option of deploying combat troops. putting it a

. >> reporter: it's not, but there is a sense of horror here, unified horror over the beheading of david haines in iraqdavid cameron calling it a despicable act, a man he said who has had a burning desire to help others. this is a man we have learned that had given much of his life to help others. and it seems to have cost him his life: david haines, a father of two spent more than a decade carrying out humanitarian work. last year, he went to syria on behalf of a charity. he was kidnapped and ended up in i.s. hands. on saturday, his family had reached out to those holding him. the group now in control of large swaths of land in iraq responded by releasing a video of his murder saying it was in direct response to britain's support for kurdish military forces in the north. condemnation came quickly both in the from the u.k. and u.s. britain's prime minister convened an emergency meeting and described david haines as a about issue hero and i.s. as evil. he reaffirmed britain's commitment to the i.s. group. >> the murder of david haines at the hands of i.s. will not lead britain to shirk our responsibilit

iraq the u.s. believes if there is not an unified government all the efforts might be for not. >> okay, roslind jordan joining us live from washington, d.c. thank you very much, ros. >>> now foreign ministers of iran and saudi arabia have met in new york. they told local media that the countries could be influential in regional and global security. >>> and russian president vladimir putin has met with his security council to discuss operating with other countries in the fight against isil. there is no word on which countries those might be. russia has not yet responded to u.s. calls to join an international coalition. a video was released condemning putin. >>> groups advance has sent thousands of kurds fleeing for their lives. kurds now spread across large parts north. isil has surrounded dozens of areas it has been threatening the town itself. more than 200,000 people have fled from syria. >>> more than 130,000 rafaels from syria have arrived in turkey over the last three days. calling for international support to help the country deal with the crisis. >> this scenario was released by isil. it says i

iraq? would you agree that a unified solution is a good solution or would you see a division of iraq? thank you. >> margaret your question was about opportunity with iraq? okay. >> hi. margaret williams ipi. two very quick questions. the first one is regarding turkey. i meant you mentioned turkey a couple of times in your speech. i'm wondering if you could elaborate on how you think iran sees the relationship with turkey going forward particularly vis-À-vis iraq and what has happened in mosul and elsewhere and secondarily could you talk about yemen and how potential for dialogue of some sort between iran and saudi vis-À-vis yemen could possibly materialize? >> can you take this to? >> gamman is the easiest for iran and saudi arabia to cooperate compared to iraq and syria. definitely this is easier. iran and turkey have had cordial relations for 400 years and there is really no hostility between iran and turkey. they have had for 30 or 40 years and 55 years after the revolution, look at their economic relationship between iran and turkey and now it's between the top three. they are bot

one of the reasons isis has unified people more than say the iraq war is i think there was a consensus in the country after 9/11 that it was a legit object of national policy to go after al qaeda and try to prevent another attack. obviously the attack on bin laden was popular. i think people who support this or are sympathetic to doing something see this in connection with the war against -- or the fight against al qaeda, not as a re-creation as the old war in iraq. >> thank you all for joining me tonight. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, guilty verdicts in if corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. a wipeout for the mcdonnells. we'll have a report from when those verdicts were read. >>> and remembering the first woman to host the "tonight" show and the first woman to have her own late night talk show, joan rivers, who died today at the age of 81. >>> and later, how can you protect your private pictures and what legal remedies do you have when your private photographs are stolen as apparently they're all going to be sto

>> this again is why we need the people, why we need the people themselves in iraq in sear and yria to support a unified unit collusive representative government in iraq to. the sunni tribes are critical to this. what's allowed so much of this to happen, senator, as you know, as you've visited there many times is the last government in iraq for the last five years have actually exacerbated the fort and intentionally destroyed the capability of a unit government to bring in the sunni, shiite kurdish populations to a government that they would trust, that they could have confidence in, that they knew would work in everyone's interest. so your question cuts directly to the overall effort here of what the president talked about in a include inclusive unit government which we have some confidence in, but we believe so far -- will do we've seen evidence of that inclusiveness. >> thank you very much, senator nelson. >> thank you gentleman. thank you for your testimony today. here's how i view it. ordered by iraq w. bush worked. president obama rejected the advice of many of his top military leaders to lead a r

> well, this again is why we need the people, why we need the people themselves in iraq, in syria, to support a unified unity inclusive representative government in iraq to help them do that. the sunni tribes are critical to this. what has allowed so much for this to happen, senator, as you know as you have visited there many times, is the last government in iraq over the last five years have actively exacerbated the effort and intentionally destroyed the capability of a unity government to bring in the sunni-shia kurdish populations to a government that they would trust, that they can have confidence in, that they knew would work in everyone's interest. so your question cuts directly to the overall effort here of what the president talked about in a new, inclusive unity government, which with some confidence in, but we believe that a body will do, ma and so far in his appointments to his cabinet, we've seen evidence of that inclusiveness. >> thank you very much, senator nelson. senator wicker. >> thank you, gentlemen. thank you for your testimony today. here's how i view it. the surge in iraq ordered

to wear it instead of her school uniform, but the unified school district said it violates dress code policy and the student's father was a marine in iraq. >> it is very much an important part of the academic process but once you start making exceptions, you sometimes find it hard to draw the line. >> students are only allowed to where nonuniform clothing and september 11th is not one of those days. >>> and trooper alex douglas were both shot friday right across from state police barracks. are one was pronounced dead at the scene and another was critically wounded. they have all joined the manhunt for the gunman. he. >> we have a lot of vacant houses back here where they can go and hide. >> a spokesperson are getting a lot of tips but they are staying quiet to preserve the integrity of the league. >>> bakersfield ripped up his tourist visa saying he wanted a see lump. he wanted -- asylum. he wanted to experience prison life and miller was denied any chance to appeal his case. he is one of three americans currently being held in north korea. >>> a man was killed more than 150 years ago. alonzo's heroism during the battle of gettysburg be

iraq, they are embedded. they are far more of a unified force but they will tell us quite frankly, they need help.need weapons and arms and ammunition intelligence and they need training. so when we sat down with the kurdish president a few days ago, he told us that he would welcome foreign forces on the ground to help his troops here in northern iraq. >> ana, thank you very much. >>> and of course none of the foreign troops have been announced from anybody. >> and i want to bring in our military analysist, rick francona. and you jest heard -- just heard ana saying that dempsey said they are not capable and she is talking about how they fled and isis got those weapons. is there anything realistic about this, this hope that iraqi troops are going to fight this battle? >> well hopefully with the americans there now, we've had several months working with them. they can change the leadership. it was the leadership that failed. the troops can fight if they were led properly. the leadership left and the troops fled with them. >> so you think this is possible. there is a lot that needs to be done. but th

. >> and the topic likely to arise is iraq's long struggle to form a unified government. cnn's christiane amanpour asked haider al abadi about that during this exclusive interview with the country's new prime minister. >> i wonder if you now as prime minister realize the gravity of your forces, iraqi forces running away from these isis terrorists back in june and continuing to run away because, as one iraqi told me, they had nothing to fight for, they had no government to feel part of. >> at the moment i think they do feel there's a government. and some they did feel there was a government. there was a government before and there's a government now, although this government is probably more inclusive. we've worked very hard for it to be more inclusive. >> is that i a priority for you to make it more inclusive? because clearly your predecessor was not and you in a way have to clear up his mess. >> yes, i agree. these terrorist organizations, they govern by fear, they're governing by fear. they have a campaign of very fearful image and they're very successful in the media,

the other big topic of the nato summit is rise of the islamic state group in iraq and syria and cameron said unifiedn will defeat the fighters. >> what is required is action on the ground from the kurds, from a new iraqi government, from the neighboring states, all that pressure being applied and then, yes, of course there is a role that countries like britain and america and others can play and we are playing the role and arming the kurds and helping the iraqi government and employing over iraq and supplying humanitarian aid and americans taking part in air strikes which we support. all those things need to go together. >> joining us now live from erbil in northern iraq and we are talking about having some kind of collected will to try and defeat the islamic state there. but the people are trying to fight them on the ground at the moment need their weaponry. >> exactly, david. interesting to see the british prime minister david cameron saying they want action among other with the kurds and the kurds say we are ready for action but we don't have the weapons. we are hearing all these different foreig

why the international coalition is more unified in attacking syria and iraq. >> give me a hypotheticalat is the best case scenario from the air strikes, and on the flipside are there unforeseen costs that we are not seeing yet. >> well, the best case scenario is obvious. what you do is disrupt i.s.i.l. from setting up their safe havens, disrupt the supply lines, making them weak and don't give them the ability to come out of the strongholds and attack other cities. that is what we see in iraq. the problem is you don't get rid of i.s.i.l. they are in motorcyclual -- mosul, on places on the syria border and are in vast numbers. >> they are costing 16 million. how long do you keep this up without putting in ground troops, well trained ground troops and special forces to get rid of them. that is really the circumstances, the unfore scene circumstances. you are effectively dividing the country, and turning areas controlled by i.s.i.l. into no-go areas. and there are civilians in the areas. how do you supply them, get ad, water. what do i.s.i.l. then do. do they take the civilian population

unified action. we have previously warned that the situation in syria would eventually affect iraq and this major threat should be removed not only from iraq but from any other country. iraq has previously called upon your security council on the 25th of june, 2014, requesting assistance by the international community and, therefore, i would like to state the following. the military, economic, and financial assistance to iraq should continue to support its ounter offensive against isis, removing the threat requires the removal of all its fighters including in neighboring countries and any military actions against isis should be done in coordination with the iraqi armed forces. urgent, humanitarian assistance should be provided to alleviate the suffering of more than 1.8 million people including women and children. we call upon member states of the united nations to remain committed to the implementation of human rights council resolutions and security council resolutions in this regard with a view to drying up the sources of financing and military support to isis and to prevent isis from dealing in the

structure of the military aspect of what's going to be going on in the skies over iraq, and then possibly syria. >> it will be unified. it will be cohesive, and it will be under one single command authority. and so i'm quite encouraged that we will have a number of countries participating in various different ways. >> one of the outstanding questions here tony, you and i have talked about it over the last several days, the operations in the skies have begun. what about syria. a wall street article yesterday outlined a plan that president obama would sign off on each and every airstrike that would happen in syria. yet, they're not tipping their hand when those airstrikes are going to be expended against isil in syrian territory. >> the messaging from the white house is iraq first. iraq first. mike viqueira at the white house for us. thank you. in confronting isil one of the biggest challenges facing iraq's new government. government forces say they're encouraged by what they have seen in one central iraqi village. isil fighters took it over only to be pushed out by local sunni tribesmen. john hedron has more from bagh

but also to this stability of iraq itself, to the possibility of a reconciled unifying government and syria. there is a big difference. you don't -- no one expects in the world we are living in now that every threat can be eliminated. it is too disperse. power is too dispersed. but you can get to the point where the winning side is inclusive, participatory government and a reasonably secure environment. do i think that can be achieved in a reasonable amount of time? i do. >> does it require us either arming the rebels in syria? or would we somehow wind up working with the president there? >> that is now above my pay grade. the more i say about that, the more likely i am to cause trouble for the decision makers. i'm not sure i know enough to make an intelligent comment. i'll defer to the americans for that. >> let's turn to some of the things we've been focusings on the united states, the economy. and stock market has been going gang busters. a lot of people are feeling better because home prices are rizzs p. but at the same time we've seen the middle class stagnate. under your preside

be this optimism within the administration that the new government in iraq can turn back what happened under maliki and be unified that wishful thinking? it seems to be a lot harder for that to occur without a real strong u u.s. presence on the ground. >> definitely it's a lot harder to do these missions that you described without the u.s. presence on the ground. no doubt about that. because with the u.s. presence, you get the intelligence. you get to know people. you can talk to them. you can help them. you know, you mentioned before the northern alliance in afghanistan. one of the things that our special forces did is to help the northern alliance fill the vacuum. besides getting intelligence and targeting directed air power. ch so ground forces are very important, but the question is is doing nothing better still? i think that the president selected a metal option. it has its own risks that it may not do what he wants to successfully destroy in a reasonable time frame isil or isis. but it will have its challenges. >> and quickly, your thoughts on the ability of the obama administration to put together this ara