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now, most of the explosions targeted shia neighbourhoods in baghdad. we'll go to our correspondent imran khan for the latest. the latest of the bombings, we have heard in the past few minutes - tell us what is happening in the capital. >> that's right. the bombs are taking place within the last hour. eight of them, as you say - one caking place in karrada, bringing the death toll up to 28, and 69 injured. this is a pattern we have seen in baghdad and across iraq - time and time again. it's typical of a pattern. a pattern affiliated to al qaeda. calling themselves an islamic state in iraq. we have seen a number of car bombs. the reason for that is these groups are affiliated to al qaeda. they want to keep the sectarian pot in iraq boiling. they want the tensions on the edge. when the attacks take place there's a definite pattern. you can see them taking place in homogeneous, shia and mixed neighbour hoods. these bombings took place on a day that is a holiday here in baghdad. it's been declared a government holiday due to rain in the country. the death t

what the baghdad operations command told us, and these are the people responsible for securing baghdad is in the last hour there was an attempted suicide bomber who tried to detonate his explosives at a checkpoint. he was shot and killed. what is interesting is the baghdad operation command says that this man was a pakistani national. if that is true, that's the first time we heard of someone that far afield coming into iraq to take part in attacks here. we have heard of afghan nationals taking part in attacks here. that hasn't happened since 2011. i have covered security in pakistan. i have said that they have enough jihad, holy war in their own country to send fighters this far afield. we are looking into this allegation that there might be a pakistani national. as you say these took place within the space of an hour, targetting busy marketplaces. these car bombs are not made with heavy explosives, but are made with household equipment - make it it hard to detect. car bombs have been brought into busy neighbourhoods. it's difficult to protect against these attacks. the security force

one of many attacks in baghdad. >> imran khan with the latest from baghdad. >> all right. lots more for you coming up - including a set back for the nigerian president with the defection of several governors. why an economic slowdown in russia could make poverty worse. >> arsenal look to grab a place in the championship knockout stage for the 14th year running. >> every year thousands of desperate migrants risk their lives on a sea journey to yemen. half a million travel by sea to yemen since 2006. many die on the way there. the north-eastern somali city of saso is where the migrants meet the people smugglers and start their journey. our correspondent travelled there to hear their stories. >> they just keep coming. somalis who want to the make the hazardous journey flock to the port town. 23-year-old mohammed and his friends are from ethiopia. >> for the four days i have been here, i've been washing cars to raise a fee the smugglers need from me. i have to make the journey. i won't go back. >> this is a sea of humanity. not only are these towns the original inhabitants. be

more from baghdad. >> another night of violence in baghdad as five car bombs go off in different neighborhoods of iraq. two in sunni neighborhoods, two in shiia neighborhoods and one in a mixed neighborhood. so far, we have heard 18 people have died and 45 have been injured. now, this is a pattern that we have seen time and time again here in iraq and particularly in baghdad. if you listen to the statements of people who have claimed responsibility in the past, searches kuwaited and its affiliates, they want to keep the sectarian pot boiling. that's why they attack mixed and shiia neighborhoods. we have seen from officials their language has changed. one city military officer said to me, the baghdad, iraq, now faces an open war. >> that's a very stark statement. now prime minister nouri malkey has been to washington, d.c. more help for excuse me equipment for security forces that sifrnltforth coming yet. so far, iraqi authorities are closing off streets and investigating exactly what happened but this is happening time and time again. many people are wondering if it will ever come to an end. >

baghdad was besieged. people were not able to move from baghdad to the provepbses of the west or north or south and in baghdad some of the regions were controlled by the terrorists. and there were many talks about dividing iraq, internal strife and civil war and we had militia that is were abducting people and killing people and we had al qaeda and there was a huge battle going on and we had on daily basis 25 car bombs, beheaded people, unknown corpses, destruction of the infrastructure. everything was about to collapse and mainly the social structure and the national unity of iraq. so our main achievement was to reunite the iraqis and to start again work base on our being iraqis not based on our confessional and sectarian allegiances. some of the people still believe in their confessions but we are not thinking like curds or soon niss because iraq comes first and this is our main achievement. and the second best achievement is defeating al qaeda in iraq because al qaeda wanted to make transform iraq into

killing four and last week i see clinic was gunned down as she left a mosque in western baghdad. sunni religious leaders have not publicly accusing it of being behind the attack. however the ongoing violence between iraq's shia and sunni muslims have spent twenty five people dead the latest tensions have increased after the poem read by security forces to stay according to the united nations statistics nearly five thousand five hundred people had been killed even though many of the car bombing attacks clean out the militants targeting the shia sunni muslims are being killed in retaliation attacks. use. it's a sleeping bag and is great eats and eats the stuff that people are thinking of making his brow. now from the thousands of people walking through the day. a sixteen inch fact that many people. it's a tool to fight the tears came to see in the ministry of immigrant absorption several schools with such happiness and to provide people with more information on the pink and black. it's now a staff of the eighteen thousand people from around the wild and agree to extrapolate idea me

sunshine already in place for baghdad. we have a little wet weather making its way towards central parts of turkey and, indeed, into syria. it will fizzle out. brighter skies across here, and by saturday generally fine and dry. we have been affected by the heavy rain. i am sure you noticed it with the thunder storms rum blipping away. 18mm of rain in 24 hours. many of the roads around qatar have been flooded as a result of that. the wetter weather will make its way across the uae pushing into a good part of eastern areas of oman. it'll go by saturday. >> now, still to come after the break - why men age faster than women when they are out of a job. we'll tell you what the canadian government has done to present young people becoming victims. >> in sport - a boxing brawl four days out from the bout. >> hello there, this is al jazeera. these are the stories making headlines: afghan president hamid karzai says there's mutual mistrust in the relationship with the u.s. he was addressing more than 2,000 elders who gathered to dec

apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. and then on a van trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement, about 20 minutes later. >> to me, the most shocking part of the video comes at the end. >> i'm going to come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. you're clear. >> there's some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, let's hit it with a hellfire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile, at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy just randomly walk into the scene. they don't say, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, don't fire. they shoot off the missile anyway. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business and then one second he's there, one second he's not. as far as i can tell he was vaporized. i don't think his family ever knew what happened to him bec

. >> how safe was baghdad in your estimatation. >> well baghdad is a city of 6 or 7 million. and when this is political violence of this sort it's not everywhere all of the time. we were under the protection of the ministry of defense. and we had a tan tank outside or hotel and i think it was perfectly safe. thithere were the woke i week ie 22 people died in bombings and attacks across the city. >> it's a worrisome situation. it's not as bad as mexico it should be pointed out or as colombia. but it's a bad situation. and it could get worse and the government is fall down on the job with regard to counter terrorism and the political deals that may tamp down the violence. juan cole thanks for joining us with that back drop of the north campus at the ys university of michigan. >> there is more evidence that the launch of the new health website is rockier than first feared. on the first day 3 million people tried to use the website and six people managed to get thank you anthank youthrough an. the site is one of the key ways that people withhel with health insurance are supposed

first, the bombings south of baghdad - what do we know about them? >> what we are hearing is two suicide bombers hit a procession in a small town outside of the south of baghdad killing seven and injuring at least 25. on tuesday there was a bombing in diyala. it killed eight people. this is a pattern we'll see over the next few days. the bombers can't get to the big processions in the major cities because of security operations. they are going after the smaller towns and processions. what the special forces counterterrorism forces told us is they have mounted several operations. despite all of that, all the courtyy -- security that is goig on smaller towns and processions have been tarted. >> the security situation - has it deterred anyone from coming to mark ashura? >> well, the iraqi authorities tell us this is a record number of people that arrived here today. i'm going to get out of your way and show you the scene behind me the the focal point are the two miner et cetera, the shrine of hussain. nearly 4.5 million people arrived here. the security

we're not want to be baghdad. we want to survive with our values. i predict we will. it is going to take hard work and we will work at it and the fisa courts will have to be a little bit different in the future. scoops. down to the there are about 500 queries a year. it is hard to spike. it is not because he has read anything, he just knows. we will definitely make it. some good probably be business to be done along the way. do you want to close it? >> yes. only with the comment that these seminars are meant to be the beginning of a discussion. not the end of the discussion. hopefully we have stimulated your thoughts and your desire to be involved more on hopefully that will lead to greater involvement with us and greater help on your part in informing the public and keeping the discussion going. it is only through that process that we can resolve these issues. a queue for coming and your participation. i hope you'll come back. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> on our next washington thenal, robert rector from brookings institute and isabel saw hill will talk abou

iraq there have been several bomb explosions targeting shi'a muslims. 3436 people have been killed ner baghdad. and security is tight in the holy city. they are commemorating the death of hussein 1300 years ago. he was the grandfather of prophet mohammad. bring us up-to-date on the other bombings. >> that is right we have seen at leave five bombings across iraq in the cities south of baghdad. so far we have heard there have been 54 people that have died and 115 people that have been injured. the big cities here have been secure. there have been very few ins ins incidents. and there have been a massive security operation where i am at the moment. they have started to attack the smaller cities and the rural towns and that is where the brunt of those bombings have been happening. >> the place behind you looks relatively festive. you say it's difficult to underestimate the security situation there. what sort of precautions are they taking? >> here in the holy city there was a massive operation. 35,000 troops were deployed for the two days. there was a massive intoll intee operation. the iraqis mad

in nineteen ten and fifty six thousand lived in baghdad but anti semitism rose steeply soliciting new restrictive lines and popular killings of . today iraq's jewish community has all but disappeared. however now iraq's diplomats are trying to project a different image of their country's attitude to judaism by being open about iraq's troubled relationship with the jewish community. it's important that people in the sun. no secrets to keep away or not the facts not to share with you. so the more projects to be out of this type. we are you tell lies lies and the view. and i hope in due time. the exhibition will be donated to the fact that increased history. it's roddick has helped ensure the preservation of iraq's jewish heritage. but these items are only temporarily on display in washington in two thousand and fourteen milk had gone to iraq. ha creations returned to their place of origin. i'm rebecca foster for j and one in washington the chinese state media has reported that eleven people have been killed in the troubled far west region s and jang when a mob armed with axes and knives

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well time here on the program some other global news for you in brief to baghdad we go away if a bomb attacks has killed at least twenty four and wounded eighty seven in the iraqi capital this morning the blasts hit commercial areas of baghdad in mostly shia districts the deadliest explosion was in the central neighborhood after a parked car bomb went off right next to an outdoor market of violence in iraq is rising to levels not seen since two thousand and eight with almost a thousand deaths in october and over six thousand since the start of the year. disputes over a u.s. afghan security pact forced the u.s. secretary of state john kerry to personally phone president karzai and acknowledge mistakes have been made during the twelve year war america wants to ensure its soldiers can continue night raids and have immunity from legal jurisdiction inside afghanistan washington also plans to leave around ten thousand troops behind after the pullout but the afghan government wants president obama himself so personally issue an apology saying that is a crucial part of any deal. and to egypt

iraqi authorities have found corpses of eighteen man shot dead in a sunni area close to baghdad the victims were about were abducted from their homes by gunmen wearing military uniforms just before. just before earlier this week police discovered thirteen other bodies of men executed by sectarian hate squads in two separate locations around baghdad twenty thirteen as iraq as deadliest year for six years with eight thousand people killed. china has sent fighter jets to retain the patrol its newly declared air defense zone over disputed islands in the east china sea this comes after japan and south korea all held up own military flights over the air in a challenge to beijing the disputed threatens to overshadow u.s. vice president george a job on his trip to the region next week washington maintains a robust military presence in the region trying to contain china's growing clout. in argentina construction workers clashed with environmentalists protesting against the building of a plant belonging to a food tech giant old santo police had to use tear gas after a union members attacked and aroun

iraqi authorities have found because of a scene in a sunni area close to baghdad the victims were abducted from their homes by gunmen wearing military uniforms just hours before earlier this week police discovered thirteen other bodies of men executed by six terror in hate schools in two separate locations around baghdad and twenty so teen is iraq's deadliest year for six years with eight thousand people killed. in argentina contraction workers clashed with environmentalists protesting against the building of a planned belonging to food tech giant monsanto police had to use tear gas after union members are tied around twenty demonstrators in the central called all the province the building of a corner processing plant was hold it last month when protesters began disrupting supplies into the signs activists say genetically modified crops on dangerous but workers say their livelihoods are being affected. as the olympic torch continues its journey from the highs ties to the low is depths those were preparing to compete at sochi twenty fourteen and getting themselves in shapes in shape for the

i left baghdad in december 2005. so when it came time for me to write the book, i had a choice and i could do a memoir, which a lot of people have done very well. or i could go with my gut instinct and turn up the juice and make it a little bit larger than life and turn it into a novel. when i went over there, i knew that i would probably be writing about the war, but i didn't know what would come of it. it could be a short story or a play or a poem. or it could just be a novel. so that when i started writing has come i didn't know that it was going to be comic novel. i was just kind of getting out some of the things that i experienced and i think gradually the humor worked its way in and i did have a choice. i could stick with the facts and frankly it would be a bit of a boring book because who wants to read about a guy sitting at his desk typing at a computer 14 hours a day and not doing much else. or i could make it a little bit more exciting and comical than a little bit more tragic because when i am writing fict

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six months. it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out how deceived people's lives on the ground. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt at any moment anyone may be killed and it's ten or eleven years now that they're ta

iraqi authorities have found the corpses of eighteen men shot dead in a sunni area close to baghdad the victims were adopted from their homes by government wearing military uniforms just hours before earlier this week police discovered thirteen other bodies of men executed by sectarian hit squads in two separate locations around baghdad twenty thirteen is iraq's deadliest year for six years with eight thousand people killed. structure workers clash with environmentalists protesting against the building of plants belonging to food giant. police that. has attacked around twenty demonstrators in the central part of the problems the building of a corn processing plant. when protesters began destructing supplies into the site activists say genetically modified crops are dangerous workers say their livelihoods are being affected. as the olympic torch continues its journey from the highest highs to the lowest depths those preparing to compete at sochi twenty fourteen and getting themselves in shape for the winter games and the host city is working just as hard to make sure it is ready to be re

the two cities have accused iraqi security forces of the killing spree baghdad tonight in the hall the protesters urged president obama to come up support to the iraqi government. the former speaker of the us house of representatives to enrich address the protesters anomaly. why would he didn't work. twenty oh three and won by july. it has been rainy and almond. who is unworthy of americans and more. as you as the american remains reluctant to revisit the past two years have passed since the us withdrew its forces from iraq in any security gains that obama then proclaimed have now been reversed. bombings in iraq and increased in al qaeda rejui muslim insurgents who had been maintained during the us occupation the last out the americans left angered over widespread belief that students have been sidelined by rex shiite led government violence has escalated with the united nations saying that nine hundred and seventy nine iraqis were killed last month alone. demonstrators have taken to the streets of cairo to force their anger over the suspension of its popular political satire program h

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should iraq has long gone beyond sixty hours because it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help but besides general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment may face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed and. it's ten or eleven years now that the

hello again this is the welcome bond a series of deadly bombings across baghdad have tong's had crowded areas most of them in share neighborhoods twenty eight people were reported to have been killed and sixty five wounded violence is spiraling in iraq with twenty thirty and becoming the deadliest here since to silent and date let's not talk more and that's with john i want a journalist in extensively covering the issue mr white welcome to our cities good to have you with us so it looks like a deadly attacks happen in iraq almost every day from gil point of view. on that security forces able to do that if thing. well clearly not at this stage supported to because centers where your context this focus on this these horrific attacks in baghdad follow on from the double suicide bombing or the ending embassy in beirut yesterday this is part of a regional struggle. by sunni fundamentalists of selfies or freedoms whatever you want to call them intent on turning the entire region into a killing field on their way to. through the seventh century or so the upsurge in violence in iraq against shi

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six months. it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. in anyone who walks in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they'

in two thousand and three chooks and trunks worth of molding damage teaching text were discovered in baghdad. in the basement of saddam hussein's intelligence headquarters. the relics of iraq's once thriving jewish community. experts from the national archives it's been years preserving the texts they are finally on display to the. us soldiers were trekking through hussein's flooded basements looking for weapons of mass destruction. but they found something else entirely history of one group of people voting in water and left to rot. periodically in our line of work in foreign affairs. we have the opportunity celebrated to accomplish that doesn't happen all the time. but in this case from the rubble of war we have recovery and preservation of a sample the iraqi jewish heritage that flows from the historic to the mater preservation is from the us national archives were flown in to assess the situation. the materials or frozen to protect them from further damage. when he arrived back in washington that's ten years carefully cleaning and mending the two thousand seven hundred bucks and tens of

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thirty people have been killed near baghdad. security is it true in the holy city packed with worshipers commemorating the death of imam hussein, the grandson of the prophet muhammed. we are there. bring us up to date with the latest on those attacks. >> that's right. there have been several over the last 24 hours, a understand what we've heard, there have been 54 people killed and 115 injured. now, they haven't, the attackers haven't managed to get to the big cities, which have seen and unprecedented security operation. they've targeted smaller towns in the province south of baghdad, using car bombs and suicide attacks to get to these shia processions that are going on. take a look around me. ashoura's been going on for 24 hours. there is a huge cleanup, you can see the trucks going past me here. there's been a massive supreme court operation, the biggest mounted in 10 years. 30,000 troops are out on the streets. into the city, it's basically a ring of steel with several checkpoints you have to go through. also, there have been

we have the very latest from baghdad. we'll get to that a little bit later on. let's hear it now. >> the parked car bomb was outside a cafe in a very busy marketplace inside the province. it's the second attack in six days there, the first taking place during the religious festival of a kura just six days ago. a live address is given every week on television. he did this late last night. he didn't speak about the security situation in the country, instead referring to the bad weather in baghdad and how that was being used by his opponents to try and attack him. he is under a lot of pressure. i've spoken to several political and military analysts as to what he can do. they say that he he does need help from the international community and that's really the message the iraqi government are trying to get out, they do need help in intelligence gathering and equipment to try and fight the one of of violence that baghdad and iraq have seen since january. nearly 7.5000 people have died. why is this occurring? a lot of it has to do you with the conflict in syria and spi

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond sixty area and while it's just it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists are targeting all spheres of life. last week mr morley met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of hope would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how deceived people's lives on the ground. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment may face a car bomb hit with a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten o

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six hours as it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists are targeting all spheres of life. last week mr morley met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of hope would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. anyone who works in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they're tal

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six. because it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help but besides general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment may face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they're talk

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six months. it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. in anyone who walks in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they'

i left baghdad in december of 2005 so when it came time for me to write the book i had a choice. i could do a memoir which a lot of people have done and done very well, or i could go with my gut instinct and turn up the juice, make a little bit larger than life, make a lot larger than life and turn it into a novel. when i went over there i would probably be writing about the war but i didn't know what would come of it. it could be a short story. could be a play, could be a poem for a novel and certainly when i started writing "fobbit" i didn't know it would be a comic novel. i was getting out some things that i experienced and along the way gradually the humor worked its way in. i had a choice. i could stick with the facts can do would be kind of a boring book, who wants to read about a guy sitting at his desk typing at a computer 14 hours a day and not doing much else, or i could make it a little bit more exciting than double more comical and a little more tragic because when i'm writing fiction allows me to really go outside myself, and it allows me to have more freedom to tell

in baghdad some of the regions , were controlled by the terrorists. there were many talk about dividing iraq in internal strife. we had militias who are in -- abducting people. killing people. we held that -- we had al qaeda. there was a huge battle going on. we had on a daily basis, 25 car bombs and beheadings of people and unknown corpses. destruction of the infrastructure. everything was about to collapse. our main achievement was to reunite the iraqis and to start again based on our being iraqis and not based on our sectarian allegiances. some of the people still believe in their concessions, but we are not taking -- talking sunnis and shiites. iraq comes first. this is our main achievement. the second-best achievement is defeating al qaeda in iraq because al aeada wanted to make iraq into the islamic state of iraq, but it failed. people resisted and got stronger. we would have defeated them have -- had the situation not deteriorated in syria and libya are those of the vacuum i mentioned following the fall of the regime. when al qaeda was able to

. >> cnn's baghdad boys were still on the front lines even when the war started. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> we went on the air. and i was getting reaction from the pentagon to what -- they were all watching cnn. >> on january 16, 1991, for the first time in history, a war began live on television, and it was only on cnn. >> you can hear the bombs now. they're hitting the center of the city. >> i still believe that that was the greatest scoop in the history of journalism. >> to this day? >> to this day. >> ten years after launching, cnn had become the most trusted news outlet in the world. >> this is cnn. >> and ted was time magazine's man of the year. >> and i was only one of two people who has ever been on the cover of "time" magazine for one thing and on the cover of "sports illustrated" for another. >> did it ever enter your mind that you would have this enormous success? >> i'm sure i must have thought about it, dreamed about it. >> becoming a billionaire? >> certainly before it happened, i knew it was going to because the momentum was there. >> the momentum wa

. >> the type of attack this evening although not rare, is unusual for baghdad. there are multiple bombings go off in suburban areas or in the outskirts. but such essential area is very unusual. that means that the bombers were able to get those parts car bombs through but a number of checkpoints there are a number of concerns there for the iraqi government already. now, nobody has claimed responsibility for this so far. but judging by the type attack and the neighborhood it's been in, it's likely that this would be an attack by al qaeda and its affiliates and one group certainly that may well be responsible, certainly responsible for most of these bombings calling itself the islamic state. talking earl your about syria, one of the reasons the bombings are taking place with such number here in baghdad is because the iraqi government here is very close to the iranian government, who in turn support the syrian government, so we're seeing a big movement of those armed troops from syria into iraq to try to put pressure on the iraqi government here. >> thanks so much,

scores of people were killed in a wave of bombings both in and around baghdad, part of a growing insur jensy against the shiite led government. six people were killed and 16 wounded. >>> back in this country, the reverend billy graham has been hospitalized. he is experiencing a respiratory congestion issue, similar to the one that ailed him just a few weeks ago. as was the case then, we are told tonight the family is expecting he'll return home in a day or two. he turned 95 years old earlier this month. >>> now to a big scare for the woman who is arguably the biggest star of the winter olympic games in sochi. she has just come back from devastating injury. now there's word she's been injured again. just over two months until the games begin. >> reporter: lindsey vonn trying to find the perfect grip. in the high-speed world of downhill ski racing you have to be on the edge of a crash. she is no stranger to both. tuesday morning, the olympic downhill champion crashed. another set back for one of america's best hopes for sochi. her spokesperson says she sustained a mild strain to her righ

most explosions tarted baghdad's neighbour hood. the timing indicated they were coordinated and were the worst wave of violence in five years. more than 5500 have been killed there since april. >> sexual assault is a growing problem for the u.s. military. numbers are alarming. a study says nearly 30,000 cases of unwanted sexual assault among u.s. service personnel. congress is looking at changing the way the cases are handled. libby casey has more from capitol hill. >> well, while many senators are concerned about the problem of sexual assaults in the military, there are two camps on how much to deal with it. some support kirsten gillibrand say it should be taken out of the military chain of command. it should be left in the hands of the military to enforce their own codes of conduct. senator mccain on the floor today. >> i say it as passionately as i can to my colleagues, if we do not trust commanding officers who take our young men and women and battle a precious asset. if we don't trust them, we better re-evaluate our structure o

. >> a series of people killed in baghdad. the deadliestance explosion at an outdoor market. >> the supreme court is leading the texas abortion restrictions. it came as voters in albuquerque voted against a ban on late-term employment. >> the struggle some fame lis face putting dinner on the table. >> kobe bryant back in practice. when will he lace it up in a role game. >> i'm metrologist nicole mitcham. temperatures to drop in the middle of the country. we'll have that. >> aljazeera.com continues in 2.5 minutes. >> from our headquarters in new york, here are the headlines this hour. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> a deal in the senate may be at hand and just in the nick of time. >> thousands of new yorkers are marching in solidarity. >> we're following multiple developments on syria at this hour. >> every hour from reporters stationed around the world and across the country. >> only on al jazeera america. (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every new

whether or not followed was street names like mecca, and baghdad and the arab football team. the current teacher drew the depiction in 1980. we wanted a tough, snarling arab - tough and ready to fight some battles for you. but times change, and so might the depiction of the coach. we understand it's 2013, and there's different opinions about things now. we are willing to talk about it. the arab might get a culturally sensitive makeover. the other team in this game, by the way, was the. >> indio-rajas. >> more than 10,000 are dead three days after a powerful typhoon swept through the philippines. the hardest hit area has no communication or electricity. rescuers are trying to save families trapped in flooded homes. >> please stay with al jazeera for the latest news and updates on the storm. see you again at 4am eastern. about innovations that can change lives. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity . lindsay moran is a former cia agent, kyle hill is an engineer, tonight he's got the dirtiest job and the science that can revolutionize indians's dairy f

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baghdad blues. >> al-qaeda has still been affective and grown more active -- active and grown more affective recently. we have had discussions on how to push back against that organization that operates in iraq and poses a threat to the region and to the united states. >> iraqi prime minister met with president obama on an official visit to washington last week. with a shopping list in hand. he wants u.s. military assistance in quelling a sunni insurgency that has seen towns fall under sunni control. the iraqi death toll this year is 5,700. casualties are mounting at 1,000 a month. the items on his wish list are extensive. u.s. intelligence aid. apache attack helicopters, missiles, f-16 fighters and lethal u.s. drones operated by american personnel. this was the first white house meeting since 2011 when they announced the u.s. troop pull out. on that organization they held a news -- occasion they held a news conference and president obama praised him. last week's visit was muted. no news conference. adjust statement about the meeting. that way there were no questions from reporters about the

feeling unsafe to do anything in iraq october's record high death toll for the last five years causes baghdad to ask the u.s. for additional aid to combat insurgent violence.

the other was in the sunni neighbourhood of toorak, in southern baghdad. a family of five gunned down north of the capital in horia. >> the italian senate will debate whether or not to expel the former silvio berlusconi from parliament. we are live in iran. >> selling the iran nuclear deal the the u.s. secretary of state takes unusual measures to win over the critics at hotel. -- at home. >>> hello. once again david foster with al jazeera. let's run through the headlines. japan is backing the united states. after a challenge china's self-declared air zone in the south china sea. the u.s. flew two b 52 bombers from its base over a disputed area claimed by beijing and tokyo. >> protesters in thailand are holding rallies on the treats of bangkok for a fourth straight day. wanting prime minister yingluck shinawatra to resign. currently in thai parliament we are seeing a low competence vote which is expected that she will pin. persons have occupied several government buildings since monday. as many as 20,000 people have been moved to evacuation centres in indon

they stopped a couple of generals that wanted to go all the way to baghdad, stopped them and brought them home and that is the foreign policy, a restrained, focused realistic foreign policy, that is what we needed to do moving forward. >> rose: when you look at the foreign policy of niko's father, brzezinski, and he has written a series of books about america's role in the world today, how far from that are you? >> we have had some let's just sadie conversations on air about middle east policy. >> rose: so where is the difference? >> i think middle east probably. >> rose: he thinks we can contain iran. >> he does. >> rose: you don't believe -- >> no, i don't think we can contain iran, i have to say and i talk about middle east policy because that is the one area i disagree with him on. and i am in great agreement with him. i mean he is a tough realist, he was a cold war hawk, i got extraordinary admiration for the man. >> rose: against communism. >> oh, yes, he was -- he was a real fighter, he also showed, i thought, great character in 1979 when the iranians were pushing him hard to