Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150315:17:10:00
Supplied by iran firing rockets artillery and mortars and lines of snipers firing into the isis fighters who are trapped in that city's center. that is or was a pretty intense feet. i say was, because iraq's defense ministry say they have stalled or stopped their advance. they are looking for reinforcements. they say because isis planted hundreds of ieds in tikrit and hundreds of snipers and that they are all ready to die. quite why you need reinforcements if you've got 24,000 men beseething the city is another question. for now that assault has stalled. the other battle front is here in erbil...