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On air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com the events in Northern Iraq have moved very quickly this month started with the iraqi army moving in to take over facilities and military posts but as of ninety minutes ago it appears total control of kirkuk is now in iraqi hands this is the response from baghdad after the kurds of course held the independence referendum last month we got these pictures they came in minutes ago actually from the center of kirkuk the iraqi army is there in large numbers along with the shia militias who are allied with them not so visible the Kurdish Peshmerga forces who were reported to have put up a little resistance as we said the people of kirkuk also left the city in their thousands and were going to hear more of their stories in a moment total control was declared when Iraqi Military forces took over the government building in the central city and Prime Minister hyderabadi ordered the iraqi flag be hoisted so. Lets take a closer look now what the iraqi forces have snatched up how they did it in pretty short time that government building i was talking about there it is right in the center of kirkuk and these arrows show the direction in which the iraqi forces and the allied militia pushed into the area from the south from the west as they did they took over there the k. One military airbase which is of course critical and then even closer into kirkuk city they took control of the airport in doing all of this Prime Minister about he said he was fulfilling his constitutional duty of serving the people and protecting the unity of the country lets face the threat of division due to the kurdish Leadership Holding the referendum as he said unilaterally in response kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said about his government was the only one responsible for this aggression and they would pay a heavy price for it while the u. S. Mission in iraq called for all parties to immediately cease military action and restore calm it said it supports the peaceful existence of joint administration by the central and the Regional Governments now here is how one kurdish commander explain whats been going on in kirkuk today. You who i dont know what is happening exactly because weve been in the fight since four in the morning in the area does a we have suffered casualties and now we have weve drawn to this position that some of the other kiddish forces have pulled out they didnt even fire a single shot we are holding our position here and on top of that some residents even picked up arms and said they were ready to fight the iraqi troops themselves. What ever only. We the residents of cook took to the streets to protect our city against already an attack on the shia population front they want to occupy our land and we are here to tell them they will not let them into the city who will resist them to the death but we still want peace and dialogue to save peoples lives. We took arms to defend the homeland we reject any deal with baghdad and we the residents of arms to defend our city and confront attacks by the she our Popular Mobilization front and the iranians and we will a victim as we did with isis. Or right his chance tribe he spent the day near witnessed that stream of people leaving is back and talk us through what you saw today. But what an incredible day for the history of this country and especially the history of this region and we saw thousands of families fleeing from the kurdish city all of killed cook sorry the city of kirkuk that oil rich city that has been so contest states for so long right now a lot of people very angry with this withdrawal as well theyre standing by the side of the road that. They were. Fighting is demanding. Their colleagues went back to kill cook and continued to try and defend it but there are a lot of very very frightened people as well a lot of people desperate to get out as quickly as possible i think was so surprising used the speed with which this is happened it took route about fifteen hours for iraqi forces to take control of the city we saw the first movements last night at around one thirty a. M. A push from the south towards positions an area actually that we visited a couple of days ago an area called el watered that at the time was heavily fortified a lot of deployed. Had been sent to that position we understand around six thousand peshmerga across that region that area had been deployed a warrant fell relatively quickly then we saw the vital k. One that military bases had been controlled by the peshmerga since two thousand and fourteen that fell then the airport and frankly it was all pretty much over certainly according to the Iraqi Military by around four pm the softer noon so it is taken everybody completely by surprise. Weve been speaking to people in the city in the last sort of few minutes and they saying that things are calm but there is a great sense of fear among some of the people who have remained fair. All the prizes favor of the actions that the Iraqi Military and the shiite militias have been accused all but denied accused of committing in the past so charles what does the k r g the Kurdistan Regional government do now it take it clearly isnt in charge anymore its military force the peshmerga has apparently melted away in the face of all this iraqi army coming in what do do they. Well this is this is the vital question isnt it i mean they the sense of surprise here one can imagine amongst the k r g government after this victory here must be quite quite incredible it was only last night at around this time that there was a meeting between president barzani members of the factions and the iraqi. President in his solo money or it was following that meeting that there was this this show of unity we will defend. Kirkuk we will not in any way nullify and make null and void the referendum results the controversial referendum that we saw last month here and yet as i say so quickly has killed cook fall and killed cook was of vital importance to this Regional Government a goodish Regional Government is sore kirkuk as being integrity to a future kurdish independent state its also interesting that were beginning to hear the blame game starting certainly according to one of burrs on his leading advisors. He says that he has evidence of one of the main shia militia groups thanking a group called a sible haq thanking members of the p u k party the kurdish party. All of their cooperation in helping with this withdrawal from the some of these areas around kirkuk that suggests huge sort factionalism within the kurdish Regional Government and could well cause lots of problems but at this stage one would think there is just a shock about what has happened to a city that many of them called their jerusalem. Good stuff charles drive ins in erbil great reporting today as well out on the road near kirkuk an interesting tweet have just had a from james denzel who is with that the charity save the children. He said its worth remembering this is important with remembering that one in ten iraqis already displaced from their homes before the latest exodus is being reported so so many people were already displaced and now this is happening it just adds to the misery doesnt it so that was charles we saw him and were also going to hear now from the who is a correspond with access to channel al jazeera arabic he is near to the Oil Installations outside this now. Were standing outside the oil fields west of cook city these are the fields Iraqi Government has demanded the kurdish region to hand over those fields stretch over a large area of land those to the left in addition to a number of fields ahead of us over there you can see a trench set up by the Peshmerga Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party we can also see some Armored Vehicles stationed in defensive positions not far from here stands a cohen military camp a few kilometers from here the camp was abandoned following an agreement between the Patriotic Union of kurdistan and baghdad to give up the strategic positions as demanded by baghdad including camp till awad the Industrial Area and military air strip all these positions were seized by the peshmerga under orders from the Kurdistan Regional government following the withdrawal of the iraqi forces in two thousand and fourteen with the arrival of eisel after us will defeat and seizing control of the city by the iraqi forces and the Peoples Mobilization forces baghdad demanded kurdistan province to hand back these positions as of now the Kurdistan Democratic Party refuses to hand over these positions but Patriotic Union of kurdistan had an agreement with baghdad to hand over these positions without fighting so lets hear the view from baghdad now. To us earlier an iraqi member of parliament who told us baghdad is constitutionally allowed to impose his rule in cook. One of the suburbs of. Now under the control of the Iraqi Security forces. This is this is certainly the whats happening here people should not forget that. There was and there the control of the government of iraq and the two thousand and fourteen when. Stormed the three provinces not to knock out who read the book was it the world of the occupied by the peshmerga and theyre trying to create a new fact or a new reality on the ground and. This was this was it so did it clear to me that liberation after have been undone by about Islamic Council after presenting the Iraqi Parliament has brought iraq at the right the Prime Minister the commander in chief. Deep deploy Iraqi Security forces all over the country all over that its of it in iraq gook or the or whatever this is the constitutional of the Prime Minister and the commander in chief. To impose to implement the rule of law to implement this sovereignty of the government. And thats what you doing now in other developments since weve been on air turkeys cabinet has decided to close its airspace to kurdish controlled Northern Iraq and its also working to hand over the main land Border Crossing to baghdad the central Iraqi Government has hashim a whole barren areas and im talking on the turkish Syrian Border in the scheme of things today hashing with whats been going in this is a pretty Major Development its sort of tightening the noose on the scottish region. Yes come out indeed fast moving developments here with the turkish government saying that hes going to close the space to flights from and in to. This regional. Region but the same time that the government is going to work other details of handing over the Border Crossing to the Iraqi Government there are three Border Crossings on the border between turkey and iraq through of them under the control of the the Iraqi Government the turkish government is just in the harbor which is the main Border Crossing is going to be and of the control of the government the deputy Prime Minister who was making a Statement Today was asked about whether the military is going to be turkish weird is going to be deployed to the area to secure it but he didnt further elaborate but then come out if you see the the referendum in kurdistan is creating a new political realignment in the region weve seen now the turkish government took a sufficient visiting iran and also senior military commanders in iraq visiting turkey and talking about coordination in the future that the referendum has created many concerns in the region it was described as a huge mistake and threat to National Security and this explains why were seeing the turkish government taking a similar steps along with the Iraqi Government to put more pressure on the kurds in iraq to try to back backtrack on the decisions they made were gonna have those days when the Iraqi Government with the International Community to put more pressure on the turkish government to pull out its troops stationed in or near. Mosul now the narrative has changed the Iraqi Government and the turkish government talking with somehow similar tone when it comes to. Iraq thank you hashem for that update from an taqiyya bear. Where should we go live pictures coming in right now people out celebrating on the street i can see a few iraqi flags being held they will sit me down in the bottom if time corner of your picture is struck the told us before this happened quick this is a fifteen hour operation basically by the iraqi army starting off with taking the important military in Oil Installations and look what happens fifteen hours later they are in control that iraqi side you see the man holding there has also been hoisted above the government building in kirkuk the iraqis it would seem firmly in control were going to talk to them now whos a kurdistan native but is also the director all of American Kurdish Information Network and is in washington d. C. For us thank you for your time. As i just pointed out this is happened really really quickly today what does it mean for the kurdish Regional Government now and what can it do. Kurdistan Regional Government is not going to go away its going to stay put they have lost. It may have lost their coke to Central Government i think in two thousand and fourteen Central Government was curved to fifteen. Hundred something state cut roads the problem is not who controls the problem is what to do with the kurds in the middle east they want political space and they constitute the majority in the city of kirkuk saddam tried to ethnically cleanse the city changed the name of the city to out i mean. It didnt address the issue hes there now and the Central Government needs to find a way to work with the kurds until and unless there is done today a complete maybe in the hands of you know. Arab forces in iraq and tomorrow it may change hands again tony let me ask you a question which is coming from one of our viewers we have people watching on facebook life has written and said if the iraqi army has full control then why are the people of iraq or in the states cook why are they fleeing is it that they fear the iraqi army or they were just why dont you explain. Well for the last one hundred years ever since iraq was put together by the british colonialists the kurds have had nothing but troubles from the Central Government they have been gassed their language has been banned their culture has been you know viewed suspect they have been viewed as you know a tradition like representing backwardness this is the kurds want equality you know this referendum was not about separation this referendum was about. Walking talking there you know that there are differences with the Central Government. Is the areas are called disputed and the iraqi constitution that was put together in two thousand and five article one for he says there should be there should be elections in two thousand and seven two years after the constitution was passed seven ten years have you know ten years have passed and theres no there was no implementation of that article and then there was this monstrosity called ices that came about and then when they left the city the curse took over and now they wanted to resolve their differences with the Central Government or that they havent currently sorry to interrupt because i had another comment from one of our viewers on Facebook Kevin you made the point it said the kurds seem to do pretty well basic you would cook they have def