army's 3rd squadron, 3rd armored cavalry division are on patrol in mosul, iraq. captain conrad brown is on command. >> mosul was mostly al qaeda insurgents that had been pushed out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. >> it's the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buildings were difficult to see from the windows. narrow alleys leading up to those roads and those particular intersections. >> but on this day the major supply route for both u.s. and iraqi forces looks clear and the squadron decides to take it. >> i got it before every attack, that pit in my stomach. that's why i decided to take out the camera and start filming, just based purely on hunch. >> staff sergeant jason catrel is acting as lead scout standing up through the hatch of his bradley fight

across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. i asked my name is ahmed on about i'm a law student today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they have to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination else to do it my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and at peace it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection from the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no. regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises in the trial of stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and we're short of petrol and gas. were reduced to

police say forty one people killed in clashes between gunmen and security forces in the northern city of mosul earlier authorities said militants had take over a sunni town north of baghdad rising violence in iraq spring fears of more bloodshed and a wider sectarian conflict some local saying the country could be on the same road as war torn syria crushes between shiite dominated government and sunni gunmen along with separate terror attacks have left more than one hundred million own it's the worst spate of violence since u.s. forces left at the end of two thousand and eleven coming amid deepening political turmoil turmoil the government struggling to get keep power brokers to work together or she's losing kavanaugh has just returned from iraq and shared her take on the escalating violence there. iraq is a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here this is the largely sunni provinces over here is something autonomy is kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the latest wave of violence

turning our attention now to iraq where nearly fifty people have been killed in the northern city of mosul after fierce clashes between gunmen and security forces and that's on top of more than one hundred deaths since tuesday when troops storming a sunni protest caused unrest to spread quickly if there were a spate of violence since u.s. forces pulled out in december of twenty eleven and there are fears the situation could worsen the deepening political turmoil has left the government deadlocked in its efforts to rule a country made up of radically different groups. just returned from iraq my colleague take on the escalating violence. iraq is a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here this is the largely sunni provinces over here is the semi autonomous kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the latest wave of violence you leave your kook this is close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tuesday things came to a bloody boil

across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is after and about i'm a law student today is a festival of university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination of my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and pete it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises and. stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and were short of petrol and gas. were reduced to filling up on the black market at exor

. >> and mention the iraqi city of mosul and danger is probably the first thing that comes to mind. in the days since the u.s. invasion, there has been daily assassinations and bombings. yet, daily life does go on and one has even started a pair gliding club. >> this is not what you'd imagine when you think of iraq. people think of danger, but not from this. their blood and of the site of a mountain -- para gliding on the side of the mountain. for the members of this club, there was no where they would rather be. man.cularly this he is the youngest member and desperate to get in the air. , a former military pilot is the leader of the group. proudeel very happy and when people watch us flying through the sky and we bring them happiness. life on the mountain is very different to the realities of the day to day life. losel sees almost daily bombings and assassinations. -- almost daily bombings and assassinations. here, they are relaxed. it is not just an adventure for the boys. >> this changes every few minutes. >> this is one of 18 women in the hon. >> i think i would be afraid. i wil

little ammonia kirkuk mosul tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. of obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much of what we are rocky is a very happy not to see here anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they are responsible for the whole tragedy because we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and us over at all of us of the. journey begins on the mountains of iraqi kurdistan. an army of two hundred thousand soldiers called peshmerga watch over this rather particular region of the country. was. my first stop is an l.b.o. the capital of iraqi kurdistan is the only region of iraq today that is seeing peace and an economic boom the miracle of being made possible by the discovery of oil on kurdish territory. from. long time dominated by baghdad and saddam hussein kurdistan dreams of achieving autonomy. the first customer the first passenger on our trip is a

mosul no we haven't because this acute of the forces didn't want them to go to these places. turkey may be another step closer to peace with kurdish militants stoneworkers participated with drew the limits from turkish pitcher next week. at ending point woods ending the thirty it's claimed forty thousand lives as mary for national reports there is still distrust on both sides which is making a peace deal shaky. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died. younger son and man them and one of no one would go into the mountains without a reason voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run of in a harsh mountainous environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out on a milestone agreement between the turkish government and the p.k. k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but that won't necessarily me

mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places. iraq's military is also struggling to keep control over the north of the country were if faces harsh resistance from the local kurdish minority meanwhile neighboring turkey appears to be on the pass to resolving its own conflict with the kurds with peace talks underway however is more essential now reports distrust on both sides means the negotiations could any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. the guerrilla movement fighting turkey's military for the rights of kurds in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on but had died google owns youngest son among them he's angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives and. no one would go into the mountains without a reason no one would voluntarily sacrifice a warm comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run in a harsh mountainous environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out his second son was arrested in germany over links to the p.k. k.

region had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks in mosul in other areas north of baghdad in the anbar province and people feel that this was perhaps retribution perhaps basically just the straw that broke the camel's back with essentially largely peaceful demonstrations turning into now violent escalations and expressions of outrage frankly these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out that they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and be the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really see a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to go home now they want massive change. the same parties that oversaw iceland's economic collapse in two thousand and eight point four spectacular return to problem vote counting is in full swing there following saturday's parliamentary election the opposition's victory there is likely to put an end to iceland that session told from the europe

would be no attacking from turkey guided by this information we relocated the adnan division from the mosul region closer to baghdad that's fortifying positions of the troops around the city the u.s. counter intelligence suspected we had a source in the department of defense and was deliberately exposing tons of all sorts of information but we knew which of the information was true that we had information that the americans would invade as soon as they amassed seventy five thousand troops in the gulf about a month ahead of the invasion we sent to reports to the command staff informing them that the american forces stationed in the gulf had swollen to seventy three thousand in strength coming close to the benchmark for launching the invasion at the same time the americans were faking leaks to make us believe the invasion would start somewhere in april may but we were certain that this would kick off any day now. does that mean that the leaders of iraq actually had a chance of avoiding the war. we were positive that they would be war the american media propaganda machine had been blatantly ma

we'll hear from american musician then prominent street activist in mosul take me who believes that keeping a bit of vesey legacy will be a toss. he's not god you know to me he's somebody who was in a position of power who decided to troll the united states infinitely and very well in fact you know and really made his case in front of. the rest of the world and said a lot of things that they probably thought but didn't want to ruin their relationship with their foster daddy here to be a champion and gain venezuela chooses you president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible that is where that use after commandante self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes fourteen. russia is celebrating cosmonaut exchange marking the first manned flight into orbit by your agog erin in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and fifty two years later the country still has a big space agenda from building a spaceport from scratch to reviving the moon program details from a legacy russia. this snow only looks like a pit dug in the middle of nowhere but in just two years t

mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to displace iraq's prime minister has launched talks with the leader of the country's kurdish minority hoping to bridge the asking divide the kurds are also hoping to work on their differences with the governments in neighboring turkey however as marie is and also reports distrust in both sides means and go to collapse at any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son and man them he's angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives and it won't be no one would go into the mountains without a reason no one would voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh mountainous environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out his second son was arrested in germany over links to the b k k the third is the only one still f

mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places now and now there are divisions facing iraq is along ethnic lines with kurds in the north increasingly vying for autonomy the country's prime minister is set to meet for talks with iran or on money for a full solution meanwhile neighboring turkey appears to be on the past or resolving its own conflict with the kurds peace talks there are already underway however as maria said also now reports distrust on both sides means the negotiations could crumble elements. all three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. guerrilla movement fighting turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died. youngest son and man them he's angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives. no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we h

mosul no we haven't because this acute the forces didn't want them to go to these places. are cities and lizzy caplan off has just come back from iraq and is keeping an eye on the developments there you can get the latest minute to minute details by following her twitter feed . euro skepticism takes over in iceland on saturday opposition parties known for their anti e.u. stance that won the majority of votes in the country's parliamentary election the victory of the center right is likely to result in iceland calling off its plans to join in the trouble bloc country has been steadily recovering from the two thousand and eight financial crisis and many say it is because rain event is not part of the eurozone and that is why it is done so well robert director of the bruges group think tank believes other debt ridden nations would only benefit from exiting the single currency there was a bit of a wobble in terms of icelandic public opinion of the two thousand and eight financial crisis where of course icelandic banks one off to the other fell like dominoes but course of. sinc

mosul no we haven't because the security forces didn't want them to go to these places iraq's prime minister is known to talk to the leader of the country's kurdish minority i think to bridge the ethnic divide the kurds are also hoping to overcome the head bitter differences with a neighboring turkish government with national reports on why distrust on both sides is the negotiations could collapse at any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died. youngest son and man them and if no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh mountainous environment what okey treats the kurds with respect we had to stand out on a milestone agreement between the turkana k.k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but that won't necessarily mean families are united they c

one people have been killed now in clashes between gunmen and security forces in the northern city of mosul earlier iraqi authorities said gunmen have taken over a sunni town north of baghdad rising violence in the country spurring fears of more bloodshed and wider sectarian conflict some locals say the country could be on the same road as war torn neighboring syria clashes between the shiite dominated government and sunni gunmen along with separate terror attacks both left more than one hundred dead in the past several days alone it's the worst spate of violence since u.s. forces left at the end of two thousand and eleven and it comes amid deepening political turmoil with the government struggling to get key power brokers to work together middle east expert lawrence davidson blames the u.s. though for sparking the crisis by toppling the iraqi regime with no stable alternative. two thousand you're really where we remove saddam city as the darling what is really bad guy. nobody was go they do all. their area and szell by words or very very you know and you remove. the you know it's really wa

mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places. that of iraq is along ethnic lines and increasingly vying for top of me the country's prime minister is set to meet for talks with the leader of the minority on monday hoping for a peaceful solution meanwhile neighboring turkey appears to be on the path to resolving its own conflict with the kurds the socks there are all run away however as more if an arson or reports distrust of both sides means the negotiations could crumble at any moment. the three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement fighting turkey's military for the rights of kurds in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have die. younger son among them has every that his boys are going to terrorists in the country where he lives and. no one would go into mountains without a reason voluntarily sacrifice of the comfort of life for a disturbance on the run up in a harsh note in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we have to stand down on his sec

mosul no we haven't because this acutely forces didn't want them to go to these places turkey maybe a step closer to peace with kurdish militants the kurdistan workers party is preparing to withdraw elements the next week which will be a key turning point towards ending the city a conflict that's claimed forty thousand lives has written off new reports for the next still distrust on both sides and she's making a peace deal shaking. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son and man them and if no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice a warm comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out on a milestone agreement between the turkish government and the p.k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but tha

protests have images television about the millions who were in the streets in ramadi fallujah gooks mosul no we haven't because the security forces didn't want them to go to these places turkey may be another step closer to peace with kurdish militants the kurdistan workers' party is preparing to withdraw from turkish territory next week which would be a key turning point towards ending the thirty year conflict this claimed forty thousand lives there's riff notion of the still distrust on both sides which is making the peace deal shaky. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the guerrilla movement trying to turn to military for the rights of kurds almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son and man them and. no one would go in mountains without a reason they were voluntary secular so warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out a milestone agreement between the turkish woman p.k. includes a cease fire fighters woul

this is on the line from mosul combine crowds of textile workers bund cars and clashed with police in bangladesh over a massive building collapse this wednesday they demanded harsh punishment for them both says let people want that while knowing it was unsafe they story fact trick came crashing down on more than three thousand people mostly women authorities say the death toll could exceed three hundred fifty people rescue teams i want to stop putting survivors and quilts is from the rubble almost two and a half thousand people have been rescued so far police were ordered to arrest the owners of the factory which had been illegally incident prompted a fresh wave of criticism of western companies for placing profit before safe say a nation known for churning out low cost products global trans and lift the general slanty says any standards that just. it's an international trend that we see growing more and more as profits are put before people people who are more expendable so that it's just a lot of talk with you year from these companies in the west for example that say they watch the

it's spreading to other cities where sporadic violence in cities cities don't care law cities like mosul where you have. areas where it's been controlled by gunmen and there are various tribes and various groups even al qaeda isn't got so they are various elements and you can't just brush it in one with the same brush so as the core as the cause of the trouble kind of morphed since the that the biggest american presence left over when when american troops were there they were blamed for. provoking the militancy if you like that was the cause of the trouble then well we're saying now is something different here. while i was in iraq has a. problem it's since two thousand and three i mean if you if you get a past and we go everyone knows what saddam did and our problems then but since two thousand and three the legal process in iraq has not been working. without the three major factions in iraq we have the kurds and then you have the sectarian within the sunni and shiites the sunnis have always been in charge of it for a long time and the marginal i this year us and the one in two thousand

in iraq nearly fifty people have been killed in the northern city of mosul after fierce clashes between gunmen and security forces that's on top of over one hundred deaths since tuesday when troops storming a sunni protest camp caused unrest is spread quickly and is the worst spate of violence since u.s. forces pulled out in december twenty seventh and there are fears this is rationed could get worse deepening political turmoil has left the government deadlocked in its efforts to rule the country made up of radically different groups loosely conflict has just returned from a rug gave my colleague my treasure her take her take on the escalating violence. iraq is a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here this is the largely sunni provinces over here is the semi autonomous kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the latest wave of violence really began new york your kook this is close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tue

one people have been killed in clashes between government and security forces in the northern city of mosul earlier authorities said government had taken over a sunni town north of baghdad rising violence in iraq is spurring fears of more bloodshed and wider sectarian conflict some local saying the country could be on the same road as war torn neighboring syria clashes between the shia dominated government and sunni gunmen along with separate terror attacks have left more than one hundred dead in the past several days alone it's the worst spate of violence since u.s. forces left the country in two thousand and eleven and comes amid deepening political turmoil with the government struggling to get keep power brokers to work together let's get more on this from artie's lucy cough and joining me here at the desk you've just come back from iraq now you if i understand right we're in the northern part of the country tell us more about what you saw there i was actually in bad that this most recent time and i also went to the the city of fallujah in the anbar province province which has been the h

little ammonia kirkuk mosul tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and. a road map of the iraqi tragedy. of obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we're archy's a very happy not to see it here anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they are responsible for the whole tragedy of them and of course we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and us over of all of us of the. journey begins on the mountains of iraqi kurdistan. an army of two hundred thousand soldiers called peshmerga watch over this rather particular region of the country. was. my first stop is an l.b.o. the capital of iraqi kurdistan is the only region of iraq today that is seeing peace and an economic boom the miracle of being made possible by the discovery of oil on kurdish territory. from. long time dominated by baghdad and saddam hussein kurdistan dreams of achieving autonomy. the first customer the first passenger on our trip is a member of the new kurdish parliament

mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to do to go to these places so why should they be responsible i mean if i i would read here what the high commissioner of of human rights navi pillay i said on the nineteen a brew she. she said. because there was a there have been mass executions fifty or so this month and she said executing people in but just like this is obscene it's like processing elements in a slaughterhouse now this is not all to see though said this it's the u.n. high commissioner for human rights i mean there is another one from the committee to for the protection of journalists and they say iraq's impunity rate is the worst in the world how this was a civil war we mention we we started they said by saying it's only about the worst close to civil war. well i think it's. a war between the people of iraq and the government of iraq. this is you know there have been elections last week so-called elected but one third of the provinces of the provinces that they could not vote because of so-called security reasons now i mean. how can this vote in the

we had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks in mosul in other areas north of baghdad in the anbar province and people feel that this was perhaps retribution perhaps basically just the straw that broke the camel's back with essentially largely peaceful demonstrations turning into now violent escalations and expressions of outrage from these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and be the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really see a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to hold now they want massive change political analyst to dengate sprigs says iraq's current violence is easily traced back to the western invasion. i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was adopted about six years ago by the u.s. and saudi arabia in particular if you look

across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is ahmed on about i'm a law student today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they have to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination of a do it my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and peace it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises in the stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out better. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and we're short of petrol and gas. were reduced to filling up on the black market a

. >> sreenivasan: in iraq, more than 40 people died today in the city of mosul as sunni militants battled police. elsewhere, gunmen seized control of a sunni town north of baghdad. there was no immediate word of casualties. today's violence marked the latest clashes between sunnis and government security forces that have killed more than 150 people in three days. last week's disaster at a texas fertilizer plant brought out hundreds of mourners today, including the president. they attended a memorial service for the 14 people killed. a long line of fire trucks made its way through waco, texas more than a week after an earth- shattering explosion leveled parts of the nearby small town of west. firemen and other rescue workers from around the state and country gathered in tribute to their ten volunteer comrades killed in the blast. they also hoped to demonstrate that west is not forgotten in president obama's words from last friday, amid the boston terror attack that garnered so much of the nation's attention. >> ordinary individuals blessed with extraordinary courage. and a determination to

one people have been killed in clashes between government and security forces in the northern city of mosul earlier authorities said government had taken over a sunni town north of baghdad rising violence in iraq spring fears of more bloodshed and wider sectarian conflict some local saying the country could be on the same road as war torn neighboring syria clashes between shiite dominated government and sunni gunmen along with separate terror attacks have left more than one hundred dead in the past several days alone were spate of violence in the country since u.s. forces left in two thousand and eleven this coming amid deepening political turmoil with the government struggling to get key power brokers to work together more on this i'm joined by dan glazebrook for editor of antiwar dot com. so violence is only escalating in iraq so far there's fears it could follow syria path will take. i should just by now are not editor of antiwar dot com. the path is likely to take i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was ad

across what appears to be a dead sitting on the edge today mosul is in party mode. my name is on about i'm a law student today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and peace it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises and. stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and we're short of petrol and gas. were reduced to filling up on the black market at exorbitant