welcome to happening now. i am jon scott. i am jenna lee. conflecting reports of who has control of the oil refinery by baghdad. the iraqi security forces are gaining ground. and syria is conducting air targets against isis. and iran is stepping up their involvement and sending drones and supplies in the country as u.s. military advisors assist iraqi security forces and get to connor powell. reporter: iraqi politicians are stuck in neutral as the defiant prime freedom malco will reject calls to step down or consowed power. he insists that it would go
convensial armies. iranians have no intention of mobilizing formal forces and they will rely on the militias that they have and on a shiite population that will deepen their dependence on iran. we have to be clear- eyed about this. iraq faces two large problems. number one what it is. and the difficulty of finding a balance of sunnis and shiits and kureds and it is surrounded by states like iran that are determined to dominate it or syria which don t exist in held hostam by sony groups. and this is going to be a long moving and i suspect we will
warming which is where we find him today. so many people fought and died for iraq, that will hurt him. i do think iraq could come back and bite him in a real way. he said in 2009 it was peaceful iraq, 2011 said that is one of president obama s greatest achievements. we are going to shift over to the midterm, beauty and braun creating quite buzz for one politician. stuart mills, who some are calling the brad pitt of the g.o.p., is getting more attention for his looks than his platform. he says he is more than just a nice head of hair. telling politico this is me, i am comfortable with it. it is a very serious campaign, let other people kind of promote.
fighting. extremist sunnis and shiits, what do you do? netanyahu s answer was let them fight. they have been carriful about getting sucked in to conflicts that i suspect they don t have solutions but just outcomes. we have seen consistent reports of israeli bombing in syria. and syria bombing in iraq and additional reports that iran is putting drones in iraq. and we are seeing it across the borer bombing and a lot of action quite frankly in the borders, how close are we to a region conflict, aaron? you are going to get across border terrorism. you can see that in isis from syria and across the border. there is no longer a border and a regional war and large
you can see the teeth marks and you can tell his reaction, the italian player s reaction to getting bit. it would be difficult to defend him. one of the word condenses. th referee whose nickname was dra cula and his resemblance to a television portrayal of that character. we ll see what happens with this guy. he will face trouble with the governing body of soccer. whether he gets ejected or suspended from the tournament is yet to be determined. thank you both. thank you. and president meeting with the outgoing president of israel. there is a mounting crisis in iraq likely to be in the top of