And i think you had some level of optimism. During that same trip, i got the chance to go to baghdad. Im not sure that i walked away with the same level of optimism about his willingness to reform, the reforms that he suggested have been fairly paper thin. We have been hearing for a very, very long time about a Sunni National guard. They cannot get their act together to begin. The military is effectively 95 shiite. There is no understanding how if we were able to take back ramadi there would be an effective multisectarian or sunniled military force that could hold it. The question i guess is for either of you. It just doesnt seem like we have the leverage with the body right now to get him to take the tough steps to fully integrate the military to give the sunnis participation in a force that would ultimately hold these areas once we take back. Tell me what we need to do in order to get a baddy to take the next several steps. Hes actually got to make a commitment to reform the military
Mali is that military actions alone cannot solve the problem. Okay. Must be a concerted effort to solve the situation politically as well. Thank you for that indeed and we will come back to you but for the moment we are there live and you join us at the top of the hour with our continuing extensive coverage of the hostage situation taking place in malis capitol bamiko and bring you up to date with what we know so far and happening at the luxury radisson blue hotel, very popular with tourists and officials. Three people have been killed and Security Forces have managed to rescue around a dozen hostages and now initially there were around 140 guests and 30 Staff Members being held and total of 170 and know there are at least ten gunmen involved in the ongoing situation and amongst the hostages are chinese, french, turks and nigerian nationals being held inside that building. Most of the gunfire taking place on the seventh floor of the radisson blue. This is located just west of bamikos c
Saudi arabia has announce aids new military alliance of 34 wouldnt cunts are yous with the aim of fighting what it calls terrorism in the region. The government says it wont just confront isil but will fight any throwing threat inning it its co linc, including turkey, qatar, egypt and pakistan. Translator terrorists in yemen, libya, mali, al year, pakistan, afghanistan. U. S. Second Ashton Carter is heading to the middle east. This comes as president obama stepped up his rhetoric against isil, Patty Culhane with more from washington, d. C. U. S. Pre president barack obama focusing on his National Security of defense announcing he was immediately sending had tomorrow middle ease trying to get country to contribute more in the fight against isil. The president is under increasing pressure to do more in a new poll, 60 of americans want more u. S. Troops sent to fight. 54 disapprove of how the president is handling the threat of terrorism, thats the worst hes ever done. We will prevail. Re
Sport including they continue their unlikely run on top of the English League and jose faces more questions about his own future. Hello again we begin in yemen where a ceasefire is an hour old and the week long truce is coinciding with peace talks between the warring sides in switzerland and halts eight months of the saudiled military alliance and Houthi Rebels and Coalition Fighting the rebels since the Yemen Government was forced into exile in march and we have a yemen political analyst and is live via skype from sanaa and the ceasefire is in place, are you aware of it . What are you hearing . Yes, im aware of it and unfortunately its not holding and there are clashes and grand fighting as well so basically this is why it has not helped. And we have been here before havent we and it didnt work that time either. What do you think should be done differently this time . Unfortunately even last time we warned that as long as there is no buy in from the forces on the ground the ceasefire
Station. The ceasefire in yemen has only been in effect for two hours but already there are reports of violations and Houthi Rebels have apparently carried out attacks in the north of the province and also in thai, the weeklong truce has been arranged to coincide with peace talks between the warring sides in switzerland and we are there with the yemeni political analyst and spoke to us via skype and says the sevenday truce is not enough to deliver the desperately needed aid. Its meaningless in addition to the fact the ceasefire is only a temporary hold and does not fix anything on the ground, there is a lot of people suffering from not having food, electricity and drugs, that is the main point of concern on the ground and dont really care much about the ceasefire and its a temporary hold and no real resolution to the war and need basic necessities like water and food and drugs which even during the ceasefire there was though discussion of lifting the commercial gate housed by Coalition