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into the joint united front, it will be difficult because of the hotline unionism and that we've seen in the last 2 years. and the temptation on nash the site to be pretty hard line as well. and there are no good speeches. the new 1st and deputy 1st ministers both committed themselves to co operation and to respect for the other side. they both also know to the landmark nature of this moment in northern islands, long and trouble of history. one that still costs a shadow over its post conflict politics. are you suppose it out just your belfast? and suppose news defending champions and host nation casa a through to the semi finals vision comp. yes, they don't talk is beckon's done. it was a penalty shooter, not somebody is on the game in the one 0 offsets for time. and they face iran in the most and the radians but best both in the semi finals with a dramatic win against japan. so now how much was that not getting to a
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party at the state ahead of kickoff, as education city stadium, japanese bands with the star attraction as local residents and even rainy, and fans lined up to take photos ahead of the quote. the final step brought together the 2 highest rank size in asia somewhere i moved to city just before the holiday, the the muscle morita with the goal for the full time champions. despite the bright start from japan, iran kept himself in the game. mohammed will he be good to equalize it 10 minutes off to the break? the match looked like it was heading for extra time, but in the final 2nd time to see that the penalty is done box is pulled from the spots to rock up to one when it was iran supposed to be 3. 0, but depend in almost 20 years,
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it was still on expected and it was amazing. like honestly i was so happy the one that 2nd goal it was like allows me to go try. like we said, we are calling you to bring to the top. we don't accept the big, we didn't the pond on it on, we didn't expect it onto end because depends on a strong team. so when you're it on wins are bundled with the name of the next day or the sending 5th type. so they just like another date, you said you that's it from a nick log. the bottom line is coming right up the website. the or what constitutes exempt. so we can talk to a see,
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i want you to start with just the facts as to what happened as independent. we won't be, we want the education my wants to read them. we don't have to lead them in the policy of it's going to get 50 percent representation and accountability and benefit no $1000.00 service this placement and then you're saying you don't have any reports for that. i should just trust that unity often as i find the cool that used to produce outstanding gentleness and elders, the integrity in the pursuit of higher. i'm steve clements and i have a question. will biden's uncompromising support for israel cost him the votes of anti war americans? this november, let's get to the bottom line. the to after pay indicate that the majority of americans are dissatisfied with abiding
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administration is handling a v as really scorched earth campaign and gaza. the international court of justice is found that israel is possibly committing a genocide in gaza, but more than a 1000 palestinians had been killed since that ruling. and the shortage of food of water shelter caused by israel siege of gaza is getting worse every day. many americans are protesting administration as it not only starts the supports the war, but it supplying the weapons and providing the diplomatic cover for israel to pursue its plan. now there's talk of a temporary pause mediated by the white house, but no permanent ceasefire. so with the elections 9 months away will bite and be punished at the ballot box for his support of israel's war. today we're talking with independent presidential candidate, cornell, west, one of america's most prominent philosophers, an activist for racial, social and economic justice. let me just start out, dr. west, you are running for president of the united states. you have launch a new political party. i'd like to just start out and say if you were president,
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you were in the white house. how would you approach the israel palestine crisis right now? what you see, i'm deeply concerned about trying to find a space for morality and spirituality and political courage in a world of overwhelming bulk parity and beach geology. and so i'm running to be head of the american empire in order to dismantle the american empire. america should be a dignified and decent nation among nations and not an empire of the nation deferred to. so what we have in the mid. ready these right now, and especially in gosh with my precious palestinian brothers and sisters, we've got a level of psychic spiritual military, physical violence that is just beyond description. and that's usually the sign of an empire in deep decay and decline and dissolution in this integration. because when you get a shift from one imperial sensor,
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it once the americans being the center, you usually get certain forms of intense, intense file, of like the genocide gives us brothers and sisters. the price of june 1940. in the early 40, that was a sign of the decline in the case of the european empire, then a new euro was in the making. in that new year, it produced the soviet empire and the united states and power right now. because in many ways is a pivotal moment because there's a sign of the lack of credibility. the lack of legitimacy of a world has been dominated by the us. in part and i speaking as one who comes out of the files of the american imperial beast. that is to say black people like indigenous people, have been the under side of the american empire. deeply committed to morality and spirit to ality, telling the truth about the american empire. and it's i like satellite countries
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like user it. keep me track of the crimes against humanity, keeping track of the war crimes keeping track of the crime of genocide. and so to be in a campaign, which is nothing but a moment and a movement of what people keep in mind, my dear brother, 1953 was black. who brought the united states to the united nations and said, we charge genocide. that was a great paul. ropes, that was a great william paterson. that was a great w. b. dubois, these are towering figures in the history of the american empire, but anti imperialist critical of the empire and is various forms of domination in the relation. so for me, it could not but be a choice to be in solidarity with any people who have been victimized by the us empire. it could be over going bought them all over throwing iran or with roy
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panama. we've got a long history of us imperial interventions in the world, haiti, and so forth, and so on, killing limone, but in the congo. well, right now we have israel and the united states is a wind in what and it may blink of an execution of the crime of genocide. and so i run as a presidential candidate and being very honest and say, joe biden, you're criminal, you are a lady, blame the crime of genocide. comalla harris, lloyd austin a blank in sullivan, kirby. i speak to you as an american citizen, to american citizen, but also as a jesus, a loving, free black man who's trying the fried moral and spiritual space of the world over wyoming beach, geology in ball barren t. that's what i sing in gaza corneo. i want to play
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a clip for you of president biden, talking about the $100000000000.00 aid package that he's wanted to direct military support to ukraine to is real and to taiwan. let's listen for a moment. and when we see use the money allocated by congress, we use it to replenish our own stores, our own stockpiles, with new equipment, equipment that the faith that defends america and is made in america. patriot missiles for air defense batteries made in arizona, artillery shells manufactured and 12 states across the country in pennsylvania, ohio, texas, is so much more now he's talking about the economics of war and the jobs that are connected to the bombs that are going to israel to drop on gaza, i mean your thoughts as well. you can just see how morally bankrupt that he is. he's trying to appeal to my fellow citizens in terms of their economic interest
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that not a moment we're about more principal or ethical integrity or the damage done to precious human beings in those parts of the world. it's another, it's an example of trying to somehow hide and conceal the ugliness. be under side of imperial policy by appealing to people's economic interest at home. we already know of it and we really want to tell the whole story. at this point is $0.62 for every dollar that goes to the military. industrial complex united states is not be clear in a more based on its congress since world war 2, every military incursion has been proceeding out of the executive order without congressional approval. and that's been democrats, republicans across the board. but that's what empires do like the roman empire,
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like the autumn on in black. we can go and i know the military overreach abroad, corruption of the lead in america. that's the case of both parties. citizens feeling desperate citizens feeling. yeah, but that helpless, hopeless, and usually to come to some neo fascist 5 by 4 in this case, the case of, of donald trump, but also feeling is that the only alternative that neo fascist pfeifer is a war criminals in the democratic party. who after this they want to save the soul of a nation and yet enabled just to act as if they want to defend democracy and are anti democratic within their own party, anti democratic in terms of those bombs that they failed that are dropped on children. what does it now? $13000.00 price was precious children. adults posted in children have
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exactly the same value as much exactly the same value as white children or chinese children. you ronnie and children. and so for, that's the entity and a of a freedom fighting project that tries to provide some moral and spiritual space where political courage can be enacted to raise our voices. and we keep track of the in this crime of football, bear at the nbc ality. and that's what we're seeing right on our screen every day. and i think that for this channel these you will continue using america, the court with media as turned away from the beach, the bulk barely, every once in a while, there's a story now on gaza as if there's not an ongoing genocide. what kind of a country is america that is worth any perio project concern with nero, economic interest and concern with geo political expansion. what is america at his
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best mom does it can jim edwards, a rabbi, abraham, joshua hatcher dorsey day, martin luther king malcolm x. we can go on and on, and i'm trying to make sure that america tries to stay in contact with the best of itself. well, let me ask you something that may be happening in america right now. is it younger vote or is seem to be turned into the crisis in gaza that their support for the democratic party and for joe biden has declined? i don't know if they're going to rush to donald trump. they may run to a 3rd party. they may want to you, but i'm interested in the fact that they are paying attention and you feel that this is the moment where many of those people are going to read jets and both of the major parties and go elsewhere. oh, that's it. that's very true. my dear brother, i mean we shall see, but i do feel that. and as you know, i do 4 or 5 events every day and i've done over 500 and some interviews and i can
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pick up the guy so i can. so pick up the spirit of the empire and spirit of the nation. the young people are tired of the lives that hide the crime in. this is true a month, a wonderful young jewish brothers is just look at is not now do as voices for peace and even many us voices beyond those organizations. they're tired of the lives and primes that have been lives total and the crimes here. and they've been told to them by their parents and their grand parents. and so for we're seeing is more and more a month every day. young black, brown, indigenous ages, young people. and so very much like $196.00 days were both in the american empire linked to crimes in vietnam. people are awakening. but as a waking, they go far beyond the narrow talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion,
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which is part of the right wing a tool kit, to attack progressives in the united states. but we're not talking about diversity equity and included in any narrow since we're talking about troops. and the condition of truth is to allow staffing to speak. we're talking about justice and justice is what love looks like in public in what can this feels like in fluoride? it is a human affair, much deeper than skin pigmentation, but deeply religious identity, much deeper than national affiliation. that's why my solidarity with mike palestinian bonuses as in dog. i do then as a priest, just as a black man, as a citizen of the us into a republic. why? because the humanity always cuts a deeper it has said on many occasions that there were a palestinian occupation or palestinian prime of genocide against jews. i would be
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this holiday with my jewish brothers and sisters. it is a moral and spiritual issue, and that's crucial that they will have black people, latrene white people the way why people have treated black b. i would be a solid daddy with my vanilla brothers and sisters. it's a moral and spiritual issue. well right now, who is being subjugated, who's being degraded? who is humanity, is be thoroughly call into question who was being viewed as yesterday or less than human treat. it is not in the visit, the depths of all of those precious babies of children and women in man can be get tossed aside and you get some kind of reflection on narrow economic calculation of a job. i please please. i have no patience for that. i read and clicked of west and shallow about the church and the black panther party shake me as a teenager, and i will be true on to death. i'll be faithful on the death trying to tell the
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truth. it'd be a deep solidarity with the aerial people who lo press, let alone those undergoing such a vicious genocidal attack right now. you know, there is a movement right now, i think in terms of the upcoming election to frame this, that you, robert f. kennedy junior, jill stein, if you run, you could deliver the presidency to donald trump because joe biden does much worse if you're all in that. is that a fair assessment? the very notion of be cast as a swindler is part and parcel of the ways in which we have such a truncated narrative in place about american politics. you see no politician urns any sector of citizens result. he's got to earn it. when people vote for me, they're voting for me, it will for buying the vote for buying nicholas trump that goes to truck. neither one of those on that boat people are freaking and boating on their own. now i say
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this when it comes to my precious error, most of them about this is that the democratic party looked upon them as if they're just an interest group. they're just, they're, they're only concerned with a calculation of their own interest. and they don't understand that you've got a democratic party going in to the muslim communities, say, well vote for us because of our because of our economic policy it overlooked the fact that we as a democratic party have enabled genocide and the killing of your mothers and fathers in grandmother the grandfather and you're going to imagine most of them buttons, the suspects you have to have this thing is a, do you, these human eyes, us and that way that we become just a, a mom entity to be manipulated in regard to your manner back a valley and politics. we're talking about a mazda is we're talking about our fathers. we talked about on goals. we're talking
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about a mouse, a hospitals, our health system. we're talking about our schools, with what our civic struction is not somebody lift your political issue. this cuts very, very deep, and that's the way it ought to be, cuz this is bobby, on politics. when you're talking about empires, dissolving, we're talking about crimes of humanity when you're talking about crimes of just being and that, that right back. again, the issues of morality and spirituality, not narrow issues of michael valley politics and these hops in calculations of what kind of interest we haven't. how does it connect to our interest? that's what the democratic party does not understand. that's what the republican party does not understand. that's what my candidacy i think tries to bring to my doctor west if you were speaking now and you are speaking this time because we're watched. are there to both palestinians in the middle of this crisis,
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and to is riley's watching, what advice and counsel would you give them about their future? the patient here? i would say 1st, we must never ever look at the palestinian community or it is really community as moment listing, and homework genius that you're looking at human beings in both community. and there are human beings in both of those communities who do understand the vicious, missing ugliness of the crime of genocide. and i'm not just off talking about the non chomsky that america or to get in the leaves in israel. there's a whole way is really to understand what the crime of genocide is and they refuse to deny is not reflected in that government is not reflected even in the majority vote at the goodness it. same is true with palestinians, and people look at balance, then you want to see a whole left for a very rich, magnificently creative human beings. you shouldn't look and see pallets,
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and when you look at 1000, you shouldn't see only one group people. but people come it may as well. you must be pro home. ok as well. i'm pro humanity, i'm pro palestinian. i'm pro humanity. yeah. i'm pro, is really in the sense that any of those persons in those communities who are choosing freedom for choosing a quality. i'm a solid directly with the gears war crimes. no matter who commits it, it could be the terrorism of the idea. it could be the war crimes of how much it could be to. it could be the terrorism of the u. s. army or the russian army of ukrainian army. it's a moral issue, but it is very important that we understand that there's possible solidarity that cut across post in communities and is really community in jews and palestinians. not only must, but they will learn how to live together. and let's be very honest about this,
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but the 2 state solution is the israeli settler colonial expansion msm has under cover the 2 state solution. it is not feasible, it is not working right now. they're the one state and is a state of apartheid and ethnic cleansing with the crime of genocide taking place. that's one state that's from the river to the sea in is, is really imperial full. and what's the alternative either one state which is secular. what is the quality there must be palo spinning and dignity and power than any quality. just as there must be jewish security and your safety. there must never ever, ever be an now lation of genocide of either palestinians boys raises reyland or palette spinning. which means what the, either there's one state which is secular or there's one state was 2 nations,
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very much like switzerland also we can explore possibilities. but the notion of a to a state now is nothing, but a mirage is a sub dispute. it's a refusal to engage in the 700 of thousands us settlers who have under cut the possibility of a 2 state solution. so when you hear that reference from by then you are p and lead is you could arrest be a sure they still are looking for is, is really dominated situation. and they will never be precious. jewel, security and safety predicated on the domination of pressures, palestinians, it will not more. and let me ask you finally, i'm interested in domestic blow back, though when you talk about the moral collapse inside, what is blow back look like. as you framed it domestically, most of my fellow citizens don't even look at american as an employer. i. when i
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use that language, they think that i'm you know, find time to really sky the crack pipe or something like that. no, no, no, no, no, we not just a democratic experiment, but some deficits ask our promises indigenous peoples as an american country as the rest of the world and 800 military units around the world in over a 100 countries and over spec, special operations in over a $142.00 country, the $193.00, cuz then the united nations. so the blow back internally as what denial lies. crimes hidden and concealed. that's why you let us other than jail. god bless it. so he revealed the crime america couldn't take it so much. what come up with a journalistic for you to know those lies and probably will not live ever to brush the earth will arrive again precisely because people will struggle. people will tell the truth. people live, people will die, but sooner or later it,
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the truth will surface check is come home to roost, your re what? yes. so, and so internally, the internal d. k. the distrust the power lower the attempt to make america great. again, that's already a sign of d. b k in decline is symptomatic of the disintegration. so america is not great now . well, when was it great when it was really in the driver seat of the world and we were the uncontested imperial power could do anything with no accountability and no answer ability like drugs itself, say anything, do anything with no accountability. that's exactly what is real. doing right now, say anything, doing anything with hardly any accountability, only with the exception. now of course, a voice is around the world and south africa that i'm very, i'm in very deep solid there do with south african, the other country bringing this crime of genocide to the international court of
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justice. well, unfortunately, we need to live, leave it there, presidential candidate and renown. american philosopher, doctor cornell, west, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, my brother, who's a, stella. so what's the bottom line? women and children are being killed in gaza at staggering scale. innocent man waving white flags and standing in and in the open and obviously on arm seeking to know the circumstances of their loved ones are murdered by his release neighbors. you're not going to see this on traditional tv, but it's on tick tock. it's on social media everywhere. no one can pretend any more that israel's war is just about hunting down and killing him off commanders and participants in the october 7th attacked by him. austin, israel. the world has seen this before. many times. i can't breathe. george ford said americans exhausted from the systematic discrimination, harassment and killings. a black man had to go on a campaign saying, black lives matter. what is that even mean?
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it means that many felt as if one set of lives mattered more than others in palestine today, especially in gaza. we're seeing the dominant power behaviors. if the lies administering folks, men, women, and children simply don't matter. we hear is really leaders reference palestinians as animals. this is outrageous and my guest to day cornell west is shining, a light on the principle that humanity is. everyone's no one is less valuable than the other. i mean, just as we see, has to stop. the palestinians can't read how sydney allies matter. and the bottom line, the a meeting of minds discussing the defining issues of our times in one year we source that change, it became clear at that point, but we really were in that kind of a new era of a nobel peace, slower. it's maria theresa and professor michael wooldridge explore the pedals and
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possibilities of walking fishermen, cabbages. it changes the way we think, and then the way we act out can protect ourselves. studio b, b, a. i series on a jersey the hod hitching into blues as a un, i'm back to the position given to you by or die. suppose you've described that is better than that in any thoughts, providing ons. my question to you. all that good cooks, i think, is the most difficult press than our part to answer facing realities. usb to in the security council. this is a may just something block is a problem. it access to if he of the story on told to how does in in depth analysis of the days headline this, how does south africa since it's accusations of genocide in this case, many genocide in hold across the scholars including his ravings con, confirm that space is a textbook genocide, frank assessments politicians need to be able to run for office without the sphere
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of a single jail term informed opinions when the us, since it's more shifted to the right, see it's not receive task protection, etc. that's complication inside story on al jazeera, as a, as well as on guys, a continuous bring you relate. we are on the grounding dollars a covering. the ongoing is raising apartments and the suffering, the people's tools that we lost displacements and block of resources. as well as district conditions here in and around the hospital and from public height is to return the call. the health data rate restrictions prevents freedom of rights to west tyler. we will continue our coverage of this route. will cabinet decisions, the kansas items, all the political decide from the west bank we've seen you reporting on the
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mileage is really raised with killing loss, dissension and destruction. stay with us for the updates and details coverage of the war. on garza, on al jazeera of the, [000:00:00;00] the hello i'm about to send in. this is the news our lives from dell coming up in the next 60 minutes. at least 2 children are killed and many people are injured in southern gaza, off to is really strikes fit, a city of tense, sheltering palestinians living in fear of and facing attacks. spike is really satler's palestinians and the occupied westbank demands

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