thank you. yes i'm a name that was and that was. fun sure. why i buy five. put it that was i mean i should go to some of the shuttle and new evidence. that it was. a. chainsaw needle to get their way in like. this some not that many well let's you also know if you did not know so we got to do is just to get money enough to someone who would soon as you're with them. i mean yes. it was a survivor. a quarter of the civilians on the island were killed in the american

invasion in one thousand nine hundred forty five and a fear of war has been passed for the generations. today those who witness these horrors live on the plane something extraordinary beauty surrounded by coring and the unique marine life. is here in her no kobe but the survivors of well war to sort refuge and it's this the now fighting to say. it's an epic struggle the pits these are among people against the greatest military power on earth.

this is the office of a former governor of. otoh my psyche what is done is create not some off from museum bought an appeal to the outside world to understand the resistance and to understand the suffering. to read its hidden history it begins in nineteen forty five when the americans invaded here's general macarthur arriving in okinawa. a second invasion happened ten years later in what became known as the bulldozers the beignets campaign american forces seize prime agricultural land farmhouse blues and kill livestock the dispossessed people of all chronometer march the

length of japan appealing for help this fall is devoted to a resistance in okinawa that never ceases everywhere people go on the island they're confronted by this sign it tells them they must not go ponce this fence tall with bob while these fences run like great ribbons across the island and the bases themselves cups ways across all canal but all around the people with this continuing demonstration this continuing resistance. and i have a message it's people of the world. from the u.s. or during don't force the bases around. you just. look. at

all. i mean i came on only i mean you can we call can only call a student any ties to have their temple i mean you don't want only people that you want today you just. got to give us a sense and i think to understand it it would do you mean a very nice there's only one of any jew bonuses that's going to such you'll. know this in. the good of thinking you want to be must so. and so that the good looking it is that we do go to good to you you are good in. all this will be lost where much of the berry becomes concrete runways for bombers at camp schwab the huge u.s. marine base behind this fence.

in two thousand and fourteen. elected a new governor to kishi or naca who won by a landslide on one issue stopping the new base at home no. this was election night outside the american base camp schwall. i still mean there's a. little i do i did yes i was. that was. was. somebody. that way and i'm not that it's nice. that you got yes but that right there i didn't i didn't have some action tonight i could never get what they thought it was.

i did it. was. that was the ha ha. it well over you. and i was of the it is the way that was a lot of the house ah. the celebration of the victory was bittersweet the government in tokyo resented this unprecedented challenge to its authority. the issue is now in the japanese courts. japan's prime minister shinzo abbey has also made clear

there were the backing of his powerful patron america he wants to reawaken japanese nationalism and reclaim its military power. while we were filming this ceremony outside the base on a day when people paid respect to that apartment loved ones giant american helicopters circled above us intimidating as away by. the threat of these low flying aircraft is a constant presence in okinawa teachers often come to each because of the noise and the fear.

this was the khan age when an american fighter crashed into a primary school off to the pilot had objected to safety. was terribly bund. going on on. this sort of. mess that's how the na. is gonna go it's you. that's in the middle of the don't think you. need a coke and i got that this is in the. and i still gotta. laugh.

so what do you. well i think still men who did. well. but. you. and me a good day do do it they do stuff. that. could be. ok or suffered throughout his youth and died from his injuries aged twenty one. thank you. another tragedy waits to happen on all kanawa u.s. military aircraft have been involved in forty four accidents on the island. the

latest threat is this hybrid plane the osprey notorious for its safety issues. wherever the military is based in asia there is a relationship with local people especially women that often breeds resentment. in okinawa this resentment ignited a riot in one nine hundred seventy scores of american g.i.'s pulled from the cause which was set alight. for washington and its compliant ally and tokyo it's this kind of insurrection but they fear.

during the making of this film a young woman was raped and murdered allegedly by an american military contract from one of the bases. it was the latest of these of cases of violence and it brought massive crowds into the streets demanding an end to the military occupation of their country. this is some nice misao designed to carry a nuclear warhead during the cold war the united states secretly installed nuclear weapons at this to launch pad in a one off. most of them aimed at china.

today the nuclear missile site is run by a buddhist organization the so-called god as a peace be seen. in one to sixty two who the. atomic weapon us out or on the missile almost launched. their almost alone should be according to the spokesman of this military base said they were all about to prepare them were shipped second order to stop it. one of the american servicemen whose job was to fire them a smith. has since revealed that china was a nuclear target during the cuban missile crisis in one thousand nine hundred sixty two. we were told that we had lost all of us but we only

had one missile headed over to russia and we did not see why was that involved countries suggested that everybody the doors open so. less time the loss of a vessel if the doors were cracked open. one of the launch cruise was on the point of firing them missing when the duty officer suspected the order was false they also shot at bayside sent two men over there forty five and issued a but tried to loss. no situation was is off and it would only take like fifteen seconds to run a distance between the two of command centers so those two men that whole crew it they. while we made a decision as what to do. and it was

a very long maybe two or three seconds later were very nervous major came over the intercom. issuing the. stand down order. then we just so. we could of starman a whole plan. the major who had given the moon was quietly cold. and dismissed from the air force. that morning is this is familiar to me it is clear as yesterday morning is this is fifty three years later and have clear blue the sky was and it was just some very light clouds and there was a perfect breeze boy perfect temperature i did not know what the temperature was but it's just felt perfect and we were all just taking in the smell of the air

the sea and the land mixture together everything smells so beautiful. this is very interesting because it shows is the cities in china part where these mice massage that yes which which ones do we have here this all can align. well then two thousand traumatized. you find taking obey gene. jew k. in hong kong shanghai thai ad to taiwan taipei and up till now north korea. we've been dar range missile.

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here we're turning now to the coming war on china. a semi tropical century of unusual beauty. is a world heritage site. the government of south korea declared it an island of world peace. but on this island of peace has been built one of the most provocative military bases in the world less than four hundred miles from shanghai. like and the marshall islands this is america's front line in it so cold

pivot to asia. hair in one sun spoiled again john village the south korean navy has built a base for american aircraft carrier is nuclear submarines and destroyers equipped with the aegis politik misato and aimed at china's defenses. china's lifelines to the world in oil trade resources depend on shipping that comes through checkpoints like this. the u.s. pivot and the asia pacific is really intended to create the ability to put a loaded gun to the head of china and say you know you will do as we say otherwise we will be able to restrict or we'll be able to shut down choke off your importation of oil and other resources.

that were. off. for nine years every day often twice a day these catholic priests have staged a mass the blocks the gates of the new military base on stranger while. i. was told her will open. in a country where political demonstrations can be easily buy and unlike powerful religions the tactic has produced the spectacle of resistance or you get more for marvel out there are you know pretty good we're pretty. far from our. you know or are are not on your normal radar our.

father moon jong hoon has led the fight to stop the base being built. and several times suffered serious injury i. think. i. said. ullo eagle over the river. i sing for every. american and a message in the man and gandalf for her savvy. to the defunct can't of song he's very few. of the writer and the composer is to me she show from this island that i love him very much and that he gave me that

song if i went. and i became a master but seeing that song because i practice everything he did through you was such passion. how do you love and there's still over all over. what will happen. if this space becomes operational they have destroyed the environment if they story the latest we should be we chase off the vent oppression violence what could they do they'd like the depression she gave every horny area right they'd like to make a trying to isolate it in this group. it be is his government one who will be in

power of this word. meanwhile a quaker call mr joins them with his own ritual of protest accompanied by an artist called wildflower. all tunes in the movie somebody data from alan. looking at. because her there. where we are much closer to her tears and when it. was a real. turn toward a bad mistake we are. told to punish really dumb time it doesn't occur to me. that some of which still. turns are all.

in the. bill gates hunting as it was in the care. of the not one hundred one joke turned into took such or all didn't deserve our troops. home the. home some. thought were all something bad to the children they paid to have been that similar some of what her. companion wanted to move them away to only to. come out of my dear person longer said i saw. you i don't come near me on some other hand.

this is the center of an empire but lever speaks its name whose power is represented in this extraordinary world map of american military bases. four thousand bases in the united states almost a thousand bases spread across every comment. the archipelago of empire the bases that we have around the world hidden in plain sight are the real territory of our empire but at the same time we maintain independent governments in japan or south korea or germany. they don't have autonomy when it comes to foreign policy so it's a very sophisticated and effective system. where whereby we pat ourselves on the back for helping to midwife democracy in japan and germany and south korea and

various other places while keeping the lid on in that we don't know what these countries would do if they were fully independent and the beauty of this system is that most people pay no attention to it at all they think it's just a natural occurrence to have fifty thousand american troops and japan and there's no country that has better and i'm sure he'll credit credit then the united states and we are not trying to recreate the glories of. the british empire we're arguing that the world is round we have a global policy and. all nations have global rights no ocean has ever been dominated the way the u.s. dominates the pacific navy air force. they claim in the pearl harbor headquarters of the pacific command they claim to be responsible for fifty two percent of the earth surface and when you look at their logo it shows

an eagle over the aleutian islands with one tail on coming down somewhere near seattle on the other coming down right over beijing so beijing looks at a network of bases a real archipelago of empire that's been built up since the korean war you have had and still have an aco of of bases that start in a straight go through your house if we have no bases in australia you have you have . and you have a new facility in western australia no to speak precisely we have no military bases in australia what we do is operate with and in australian bases but we're not in the basing business nowadays

there's a growing collection of what are referred to as lily pad bases these are bases that have typically three hundred troops no family members very few amenities and they're often quite secretive their bases that are frequently constructed within a foreign country's base to disguise it and generally are not referred to as bases . many of these bases have been set up to combat china's will wide economic influence. from these places the united states operates a secret nami you know hundred forty seven countries. if you're going to be a free country rather than a given every gangster regime in the world is going to have to take a risk because the gangsters they want to they want to eliminate good people in the world so they can. they have in china they want to dominate all over all of the far east they want to dominate just like japan wanted to before world war two their

goal was to dominate that part of the world today the because there's been no political reform in beijing these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet while it's andrew current benefits served on america's national defense panel so he's a military strategist and war plan as you've written that strikes a naval blockade have a role to play in punishing china. you've described the need for sea mines you've described the need for special forces u.s. special forces and missing. placed in islands. this sounds like a preparation for war. our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war and essentially what the united states is doing it and is responding to provoke kind of behavior on the part of china and just as we did in

the cold war the idea was to have a position of military strength such that your adversaries were not tempted to act in an aggressive ways or try to employ coercion to get their way and he just last week the u.s. navy sent a guided missile destroyer. in to the spratly islands and south china sea and what was different about this i think was that chinese fighter scrambled that sounds like an escalate well the again from an american perspective the escalation was the chinese being to militarize these islands in the first place moving its military capabilities doubt into that region engaging in provocative behavior against the commercial activities and military forces of other minor countries in the region that have claims of those islands.