pulling its weight, come out of criticism from britain, estonia, and complaining on twitter, yes, some do communicate by twitter, ukraine is grateful to germany for support in 2014 and diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict, but germany s current statements are disappointing and run counter to this support and effort. the statements he s talking about were reiterations by germany, by law prohibited sending war materials to ukraine and won t allow countries like estonia to reimport german-made armamentes into ukraine. they will not let weapons go across germany into ukraine. in effect, they said you are on your own and what president has done, despite the flapping around and the ice cream and all the rest, he s basically said to ukraine, you are on your own, too. without american-german
the shi ite militias has been invaluable for a lot of these offenses. they have proven to be the shi ite militias the most effective fighters. iranian advisers have been able to give them weapons training ammunition as well as we re hearing help with artillery and rocket fire as well. the u.s. has acknowledged they have been instrumental in taking this and helping defeat isis. the question is how much influence will they have afterwards? it looks like and as we have seen, a bit of influence. ian, let s ask about the iraqi military. we know the armamentes that they turned around and left humvees and walked away. is the iraqi military doing a better job here? reporter: we are seeing them fight in a more cohesive unit