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It's been a wild one. time now for one more thing. i'm up first. i love the military. i love big bad you know what vehicles. so guess what. this is going to save lives and whit the butts of our enanies. the new jltv osh kosh read out lockheed martin to get this contract $6.75 billion to be able to protect our military. it's lighter, provides superior protection against mines and road side bombs. less injuries and fatalities to our precious troops. greater range and durability to transport the troops and the gears. i'm telling you, feast your eyes on that one. it is a beauty. >> hopefully they'...

Israel remains openly disdainful of the iran deal while beneath diplomatic nice tis, gulf region arab allies remain deeply skeptical of im. a jordanian official overheard on wednesday expressing a concern during a benign photo op with a reporter. db sometimes it's difficult for us to [ inaudible ] -- >> reporter: here in baghdad carter found some encouragement. 3,000 coalition-trained iraqi troops have now joined the battle to remake ramadi and have shown courage according to u.s. advisers. one unit advancing six kilometers towards ramadi in 24 hours despite numerous road side bombs planted b...

The growing risk of secretarian violence. john huty is live in jerusalem. >> reporter: there are also reports coming about about the iranian-backed fighters burning down the homes of sunnis where the fighting continues. there are growing calls for the iraqi military and government to prevent this secretarian violence from continuing and concerns it is going to get out of control in parts of iraq and syria as well. that said let's talk about what is going on here. iraqi security forces have surrounded isis militants held up in the center of here. they have been fighting back, isis with road sid...

Over the islamic state. jon? >> reporter: jon, this is the largest ground offensive in the fight against isis in iraq. and the iraqi forces are pushing deeper in tikrit. and surrounding isis militants that it are held up in the city center. isis is fighting back and trying to resist the advances by using road side bombs and sniper fire to take out those iraqi troops and shiite militia fighters as you mentioned, jon. >> they are pushing deeper in tikrit. and at this point iraqi fighter ares have taken estimated 80 percent of the city. and this is an important fight as we talked about because of...

Doing it with american assistance. the iran revolutionary guard is fighting to take back that city from the forces. john? >> yeah and jenna iran is involved onap operational and a combat level. you mentioned iran's revolutionary guard, it is involved. and iranian backed shiite militia and special forces. they are fighting alongside iraqi forces in the offensive to retake tikrit. 20000 iraqi troops are involved and isis is trying to stop them using road side bombs and suicide attacks and this is an important fight because of tikrit's location. we have talked about this. 140 mimes south of mossi...