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men which is controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish y. p.g. turkey considers as the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group. enduring so if this brigade are syrian kurds who say the white cannot be of the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kurds fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p. g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front lines the charge on affordable taxis. many people support the military offensive surrounded by the p.k. cambridge reinforces and the populations living in fear of more places and liberated in the white pigeon is gone because of a better business life this is a come out and it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of.
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turkey stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are not convinced and add funny. since we learned the u.s. will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join man military council to defend our city we will protect ourselves. of course we have for years now we live in peace with really perform our religion but when other groups can there will be corruption. day and night the turkish army continues to strengthen its forces inside syria sending a message that the offensive could start soon so you know al-jazeera northern syria the head of yemeni intelligence has died of his wings two days after a drone strike on a military parade five others died and forty five were injured in thursday's attack in the province. a legal battle is underway in the democratic republic of
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congo over who the next president should be opposition leader mohsen fairly who has been at the constitutional court to challenge the results of last month's election and he is calling for a recount after his rival felix was declared the winner. has more from the capital kinshasa. martin for ulysses he has evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run up is challenging the result in the constitutional court bring it down to the court we called the electoral commission to. the ballot papers because that's what. we are totally disagree with the results that. was announced there and they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix just a kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the vote his supporters if
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she accept the result. guys stop with we won it we don't she didn't she didn't we didn't make an arrangement. this is just the result of the polling station and we make sure what because we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges are due to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin faily says is evidence which proves he won last month's election if the judges say he has no case in felix's the katie will be sworn in as president the influential catholic church is rejecting the official result so too is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect
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the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. weather is next but still ahead on al jazeera and go on the streets against eleven on its caretaker government. and oil tanker tragedy in nigeria we'll have the details. hello although it's the rainy season in the moments right malaysia and indonesia it just doesn't look like it there all that many show us which is fine but the ones that are out there can be quite there's full typically over one hundred millimeters in this sort of line of just taking a line of of biggest collected rainfall to be honest but you can see this a lot of ground visible beneath so that the forecast a show green everywhere is probably an exaggeration we'll see a return of
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a few showers in the southern philippines will see quite a few in some moderate there was even rain is found also asked to care as far as tons concern but that certainly isn't the concentration as again i can say expect some more likely than rain obviously is still true in australia but what shows do develop can be no small this one up here looks bigger than it was reported as being but i think for anywhere in the north it's going to be typically one hundred babies at any of those thunderstorms late day sun still still producing cells in new south wales and queensland temperatures so it's a hard time should be the residual motion that proves that point adelaide at thirty seven always cooler still twenty five that suddenly breeze it won't get any warmer as you can see about how to get to tuesday we're hitting forty in adelaide that's probably what you might call a comfortable. rewind
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returns it can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of documentaries they had a number of reforms put in place since the program was still continues with us we were following orders we sing young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have them make life and death decisions rewind on al-jazeera. welcome back i missed on a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s.
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president has denied accusations he conceal details of his meetings with russia's leader and the washington post alleges donald trump took back the notes made by his interpreter following a meeting in hamburg and twenty seventeen. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or has left the u.a.e. and is due to arrive in qatar in the latest leg of his visit to the middle east from pay i was calling for unity amongst its good its gulf allies is under blockade by saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain qatar really does deny their accusations of supporting what they call terrorist groups. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election says the vote has been full julien's loss and failure to do once a recount and is challenging the official results in court. thousands of people in indonesia will have to be relocated after their land turned into liquid when an earthquake struck the coast of in september the with or eighty's were reportedly
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aware of the risk of liquefaction as it's called but people living in high risk areas went warned step bason reports. under this pile of must i do remains of saw me as house it was buried on september twenty eighth after a happy earthquake suddenly turned soil into liquid houses cars and people were sucked inside hundreds of people disappeared and the bodies of her three young nephews and nieces have yet to be found. though if i think about my nephews and nieces i come here i have no more hope that we will find them but it helps me to cope with my sadness just to be here sami aboard the land in the one nine hundred eighty s. by then many houses had been built she remembers that it was muddy but she says she didn't think anything of it in two thousand and twelve a team of geologists found that seventy percent of bailo and its surrounding are at the high risk of liquefaction. meaning that if an earthquake happens water
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saturated soil can turn into liquid. we had informed them about the risk but that was all we could do because there are a lot of problems that area in a difficult economic situation also the information had not been spread. who's the movie star who was the paolo mayor at the time says he never received the information he says he only received a report about the high risks of earthquakes and tsunamis which you failed to pass on to his successor that is valuable minister but i do feel guilty even though i passed it on to my deputy but i feel bad that i didn't warn anyone that this could happen i forgot about it because as a politician i'm a busy man. sources tell al jazeera that people in high risk areas were not warned about the dangers of liquid faction because the local authorities were concerned riots would break out while the government was well aware of the risks of liquefaction here in this area you know how this was still being built followers
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growing and becoming more popular newcomers were moving into areas now called danger zones while it's too late for many the government has now decided that those who. s. of life will have to be relocated. some survivors have moved to temporary shelters built by the government outside of the city fathers are reluctant to leave their own neighborhoods those that argue terry if they send us out of town it will be difficult to find work we can only be farmers there here we can earn money by selling things at the market whatever it is if people start building again i will do it too. despite government instructions not to build in the affected areas some construction has already started horse stables have now been built on the land where hundreds of bodies are buried some say that if the authorities are not firm new neighborhoods will be constructed and the tragedy that happened only recently will soon be forgotten step fastened al-jazeera. by. a
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saudi teenager who fled from her family because she feared for her life in the kingdom has arrived in her new home country have mohamed al corn and a few from thailand to canada after she was offered asylum the eighteen year old one global attention when she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help mike hanna has more from toronto. the long an arduous journey from saudi arabia over the eighteen year old step through the arrival doors accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated state you know that everyone . else oh. i'm hearing free media towns from what's needed to leave it seems arrive at a new phone but she's had a very funny and they are interesting and so she would prefer not to take questions
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today so please don't see the theory crazy coming into the box and she is now going to go see her new home then rush. back through the doors to begin the first phase of her new life her wish to go to college and study architecture. the canadian decision to grandson tree is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in august saudi arabia severed diplomatic ties following canadian criticism of the kingdom's human rights policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to counsel a multibillion on's deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . to. replace. this time when.
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we were involved in this conversation says. antenna the plan to bring a. sumo wrestling team seem pretty blessed. and honored fifty two percent playing. it was this message from a hotel room in thailand that drop all couldn't century the power of social media confirmed and an example perhaps of those seeking their freedom. mike hanna al-jazeera toronto. the political limbo and in lebanon as provoking growing anger about the west wing economy the lebanese have had a caretaker government for eight months because politicians can't agree on power sharing protesters are accusing political leaders of intimidation to silence dissent saying a hot i reports from beirut. all marsh borrow is struggling to pay the bills for
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his mother's cancer treatment the twenty seven year old is not receiving help from the state that is why he joined this protest against the caretaker government which is not making important decisions access to free and proper health care is just one of the many problems lebanese face. and i cannot afford to hospitalized my mother every month they didn't admit her in the hospital also she needs four different medicines and the ministry of health only provides three i have to choose whether to eat or pay for her treatment but protesters have rallied outside government ministries demanding what they call their basic rights because. nobody cares about it. move it to the ministry of. because. the fault of hospitals it is hard to attract
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crowds in a country controlled by sectarian political parties many lebanese rely on them for jobs and financial support and it seems intimidation tactics are being used to keep people silent we were distributing brochures about. to us and try to. stop us from from syria to. the world bank says seventy percent of the population of six million people earn less than ten thousand dollars a year many find it hard to make ends meet because of the high cost of living public anger is growing as economic and. fiscal reforms. needed but that is not has been without a functioning government says elections in politicians are fighting overseas but many here believe even if those politicians agree on the government's formation little will change the same political elite remain in charge nonsectarian civil
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society groups are trying to make a difference to the system has been here for decades that's true that's correct they were very powerful they know how to play within the system they know how to turn things into their advantage by paying on sectarianism we will never accept defeat we will always make things the same pressure we always work on next and next and next elections we will get somewhere for now the balance of power is not in their favor they can only hope their appeals for change are heard santa. fe route police in nigeria say at least twelve people burned to death. a fuel from an overturned oil tanker the spill and explosion happened in the town of arctic pani in the southern nigerian state of cross river culture judge and reports. this scene is unfortunately too familiar in nigeria fuel tankers like this one crash or pipelines leak and the poor in africa's most populous country rushed to the scene
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those who survive are scarred for life some have lost limbs i suppose to be dead people many people died of. these burn victims risked their lives in the southern state of cross river trying to collect the leaking black gold and this has become a record and it's. events in our society every year an average of one hundred twenty fuel tanker accidents are reported in the country which is africa's largest oil producer this is partly blamed on roads that are overcrowded and poorly maintained witnesses at the scene of this latest incident say an electrical generator brought in to remove the spilled oil set off sparks igniting a fire an explosion but also a lot of money looking for. people called collecting spilled fuel fishing and it doesn't just happen when tankers overturn thousands have been killed
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fishing for fuel when pipelines leak or are vandalized in october more than fifty people were burned to death while scooping fuel from a pipeline that thieves busted before it caught fire and exploded in two thousand and twelve more than one hundred people were killed in the oil hub of port harcourt when an oil tanker tipped over and scavengers were trapped and burned alive when the vehicle exploded according to government data more than one thousand two hundred people were killed trying to steal fuel from vandalized pipelines during the eight years preceding two thousand and eight the country's worst accident happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight that's when nearly one thousand one hundred people were killed when a leaking pipeline they were fishing from exploded policemen that anytime that you see to face the self is efficient. to run away while nigeria is often touted as one
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of the world's most promising economies a recent report says nearly half of its hundred eighty eight million population live in extreme poverty and when black gold is spilled some of those struggling to put food on the table can't help but try to scoop up as much as they can no matter the cost paul chowder g.i. . zero. in the study attained doha and these are the top stories the u.s. president has denied accusations he conceal details of his meetings with russia's leader of that impression the washington post alleges donald trump took back the notes made by his interpreter following a meeting in hamburg in twenty seventeen why not release the conversation that you had with president putin in the house thinking along with some other stops that might involve. bruce or the whole lot of them world you need i would i don't
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care i mean i had a conversation like every president did you sit with the president to various countries i do it with all countries we had a great conversation we were talking about israel and securing israel and or lots of other things it was a great conversation i'm not keeping it is getting under wraps like couldn't care less u.s. secretary of state to my qualm payer has left the u.a.e. and is due to arrive in qatar in the latest leg of his visit to the middle east pump a it was calling for unity amongst its gulf allies qatar is under blockade by saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain qatar really does deny the accusations of supporting what they call terrorist groups the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the cut it's rebel strongholds of men binge syria's government has deployed soldiers on tenor and tanks to the northwest suburbs of the city as u.s. forces prepare to leave and correct considers the kaddish y.p.
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a terrorist group those are the headlines the news continues here to rewind. every. breaking story and of course there's donald trump. that's right out of the script that calls for the in iowa of israel that is not what that phrase. as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine. on al-jazeera.
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hello and welcome again to rewind i'm dating. back in two thousand and six when we launched al-jazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldn't do and here on rewind we're revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about and the story behind the story today we're rewinding to two thousand and eight just serving film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked international outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march one thousand nine hundred sixty eight charlie company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of new lie near the northern coast of south vietnam the platoon believed vietcong
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forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet five hundred. four innocents women children and old men were brutally dragged into ditches and machine guns in the special film reporter josh rushing a veteran of the marine corps himself took a former member of charlie company back to me live for the first time to meet survivors of that horrific atrocity and now fifty years on from the massacre itself today's rewind is a moving emotional return to the scene of one of the most shocking events of the vietnam war from two thousand and eight here is heart of darkness. killed all of. the banks. they ordered all of the families to sit or stand in the did then they shot and after five minutes they shot the second time they heard
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weeping they shot a third time. about the end of my six year old son and i we lie down and use their rights to cover. three or four bodies were found on the. backs of that day march sixteenth one thousand and sixty eight when the. army photographer captured moments of a bloody assault. when the story would have been leaked out more than a year later there was an investigation twenty five members of charlie company and their officers were charged. with murder there were few trials only one person. was found guilty he was never punished. charges against most of the soldiers were eventually dismissed. the what is no is the war that remains an open question. some of them who slaughtered villagers want to buy their memories.
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for those who crawled out of. that crush of blood and bone the horror is still fresh and. i'm the only one left wing i was eleven years old farm kong is reminded of the dead every day it's his job not only does he bear a deep for all from a bullet that narrowly missed killing him he's the director of the museum dedicated to the victims of the massacre and the caretaker of what is left where they live. kong takes us to the place where he had with his family in an underground shelter a place where they all lay dying how long did you stay down in the shelter. from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon surrounded by his memories congress spent years wishing for a way to understand why the soldiers committed the crime that has devastated as
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a life. what would it be like for you to meet a soldier who actually participated in the killing to come back and it meant that here. i would ask him a question. why would he kill ordinary people women and children and women with babies in their bellies we condo's it know it now but he will soon get the opportunity to ask that question kinchela still cherishes the beta snapshots of the day he left home to join the army it was all he ever wanted to do he was a skinny very young looking nineteen year old that was october one thousand nine hundred sixty six six months later he was in hawaii eagerly learning how to be a soldier and six months after that he was in vietnam. part of charlie company first battalion twenty of the fintry charlie company was assigned to task force barker a special unit created to search out and destroy be a car operating around the central coast. it had been
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a dispiriting couple of months for the u.s. military the tet offensive the c. to k. song surprised the power that it was going to for charlie company the losses have been personal booby traps a mind to take on a third of the comrades one of them the day before so in the morning a mark sixty helicopter machine guns lay down suppressing fire in three people two with orders to kill everything that moved fanned out across the rice paddies and into the hammocks that collectively made up the lot. they encountered no resistance whatsoever but perhaps a desire for revenge filled their hearts and clouded their consciences perhaps as a military command that measured victory by body count. perhaps it was a mentality that regarded every vietnamese as less than a person really an enemy an embodiment of communist. they've created sidewalks here where you can get a sense of what was going on that morning he was
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a bicycle tracks. and bare feet fling away. and then that is a distinct print of an american combat. one of the men who wore those boots is about to set foot here again. i'm josh rushing. kinchela is returning to me live. never before has a soldier who participated in the massacre come back. almost forty years after he was charged with murdering nine be timmy's villagers here he will face is past we landed on the west side but when we pushed into the village we took the the east side where how far off would. we land too far away i was on a first left dan and. we secured. probably the northern part of the predator so you would come right along there too has trouble recognizing the village today even locating the rice paddy where a chopper landed in
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a little bit further to the south this day stuck with. the incident has forty years ago when you were on the helicopter what were your orders hours before we came in was to kill everything in a village and so as you approach the village what did you find and find you know it was quiet i saw a lot of people running off to the north. and i really didn't understand that he has forgotten or blocked a lot of the details. remember the the ditches the canals you know i never saw a canal i never saw this that i never saw it in the village really you know. so like a lot of the stuff i was describing never saw no not at all i never even dreamt about. dickinson's he would like to go inside the museum were photographs of me
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life the time might bring it all back to know or not oh yes. i still pocket hodges there's a corridor. with her and she's ok when you have a kid's name. i noticed stuff all faster when you went past this one it's not hard for you to say no really what really bothers me is this one. not so much of this shooting but this one point out there for a woman but i want to because. i saw some things that i really like and. to me look for the word. dehumanised. and. i just don't like that.
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right ken i don't get it but you don't get between killing. and dehumanizing so yeah it's just like. there's acceptable ways to kill people and there's ways that are. can claims he was mystified by the granite wall of the dead i never saw that many people in that village and that number in the middle there and it was listed on the wall the entire doki family parents and four children you don't hear. this moment no one knew that one child well that year old. had escaped horribly wounded she ran away and has never returned till now. ironically the only structure in the village has been rebuilt as an example of what
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was destroyed is the one the long tell your family. how can you think she will cope with having inflicted that kind of pain. he has to defenses the first is dark it's the moment it's the opportunity it's the knowing that. probably nothing's going to happen to me the second is familiar i was a soldier following orders. and i believe that's how i dealt with that. everyone you can find was unarmed. that are that's true that you have any hesitation about killing unarmed i people i def i have has days about kill i want to do. that i shoot. i say that i shot. until i realized what was wrong and when you say you shot you mean you shot
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villagers i'm not going to say whether i sat villagers or in a sworn statement given during the investigation of the massacre another soldier recall seeing ken firing at villagers while saying i don't want to shoot them i don't want to shoot them but i have to because were ordered to bring ken and cong together kinda face called sorrow kong to ask the questions that have tormented him all his life i'm march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight at six am u.s. helicopters landed on the rice fields of our beautiful village mr kong i was here that day back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when the helicopters landed . and when the soldiers came they started killing everyone was to kong i was part of the americans that landed here in helicopters and i want to apologize to the people of me. i'm sorry that it happened i ask
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myself all the time why did this happen i don't know. an angry feeling are rising up in my heart. the u.s. soldiers killed my mother my older sister and my younger brother. how did you feel when you shot into civilians and killed was it hard for you like i say the only thing i can do now is just apologize for. how many people did you kill that morning i don't know. i don't know i don't know. i don't i don't even know if i killed anyone. that's not a reasonable answer your soldiers put all our people together in one place and shot directly at them you said you don't know whether you've killed anyone i cannot accept it. i wasn't what that group i was an outside a village. you stayed back at the edge of our village but my house my family was
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located at the edge of the village so maybe you came to my house and killed my relatives. in vietnam we had the tradition that we let bygones be bygones but in our hearts we cannot forget if i didn't care i would have come back and i know words don't heal your heart but. that's that's all i can do now each man is deeply shaken. you should educate your younger generations your children not to do it again and not to make war anywhere in the world. well those are fine words. i wouldn't want war i would stop war today if it was possible. now that i'm older i can see this. but when i came to vietnam i was very young i have never
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acknowledged to any great extent that i was it me why. but i'm here today to tell you what was done here was wrong. i can't fix your heart i can't bring your people back to life. i'm sorry. he says he knows one reason charlie company could groups of unarmed villagers the training they got before we came to vietnam you almost didn't think of c.b.s. news as people. think it's a few photos of the party they held when the murder charges were dropped but they had little to celebrate in the years that followed many of us below soldiers members of the company have not survived self examination. and afraid to get out to the right turning out of the back turned to me and my meter and alternative route so make sure you are not there now when you're sure i want to know any. thing in
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direct order to shoot and if you know as sure as you can the shots of the last everything up front and i know i shot about five. and i went to answer you know when i was a baby and i. got her. first response for killing between twenty and twenty for twenty five. person. to cut no throats to scalp and. come outta here is a canard. i do. some like for nardo simpson could not live with those memories even medications could not hold them back i'm sit and talk to you alone. i can't promise that when you come again i'll be. because before you care my get out of this rufus of the sun for two thirds of. simpson committed suicide in one thousand nine hundred seven.
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is or a sense of relief that you finally got to confront someone. so long ago. he tells us he's been a terrible night he drank he wept he was angry he was filled. with sorrow he visited the graves of his family and confessed his conflicting feelings standing there murmuring to my father my mother and my brothers and sisters i said that yesterday i met one of our former enemies who killed you but i could not do anything i could not beat him or strike him or kill him because that is against the laws of vietnam. qin shi knows he is not giving kong the answer he needed the why some of his questions the way he wanted to answer because there is always a one. way to answer and i was we were following orders
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just call it your job make it right no doesn't make it right in your mind for you murder you know. from your heart. no i'm not a murderer i'm our king shield told us he was eager to return to me lied to set the record straight about his unit me a lie was an isolated incident for our company. we didn't do that every village we went through he specially wants his grandchildren to understand that they were not evil that bad things happen in war and throughout our days there ken was defensive driving to break down and cry. but at the last moment. this is our crew was boarding a plane to a different destination ken who had to remain in the airport for
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a later flight did break down and cry. and our vietnamese translator who lost a brother in the war went back and talked. there is a cycle in war. aging soldiers expressed sorrow regret they apologized to their victims they say never again they say let us raise our children . to love peace not war but their sons and daughters are already engaged in the next the next killing. they're talking anger hate fear they're taught to kill. and they betray their own goodness and they too will pay. and they will say how could we have done this this. should never have happened. and never. is a cycle of war broken.
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heart of darkness from two thousand and eight a moving and very personal fellow well we're joined now from washington by josh rushing himself a fifteen year veteran of the u.s. marine corps josh thanks for speaking to us on a rewind can you take us back to the moments in the film when you brought together ken shiel along with one of his victims what was that moment like when ken came he came a belief i remember was like straight from the airport that's my first time to meet him you see it on camera me shaking his hands he gets out of the van. we had just planned kind of let's just walk around a bit see what you remember kind of put you back in the place and while doing that kong saw us and came over and started to enquire about you know who can was and where he was there in vietnam and it all started to unfold before our eyes and this really emotional moment that i would not have set up in such
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a way. because of the motions were so high but we couldn't quite stop it he really seemed to struggle though when you were questioning him he struggled answering your questions what do you think was going on through his head at the time i one hundred percent believe that in order for ken to continue to live his life that he had made a very intentional troy's to silo what had happened in vietnam he had the memories but there was no way that he was going to engage with the morality of it i just had the sense that he feels like if he started to even a bit he might not be able to control the flood of emotions and guilt and everything else that would come with it and at the time he was only nineteen years old and he was clearly believing that he was just doing this he was following
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orders so josh let me ask you this as a former soldier yourself how difficult is it when you're actually in the field in your order to do something that you morally disagree with i think. it's easy to sit back and and judge that situation and think that you would act differently but the reality of it is when you go through boot camp they they really break down who you are and they build you back up into this other thing for me it was this u.s. marine that was my identity and so you had this kind of ultimate trust in your leadership that you're not going to be given orders that are illegal and so of course you follow them then you take that person and put it in a place like vietnam where everything you ever learned about a moral compass seems to be thrown out of the window there and so you don't you lose a sense of what's right and what's wrong in that that kind of environment and yeah you end up following orders but i still think there's that bit of humanity in you
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that says that this is it right in the court documents we kinch someone testify that they saw him firing into a crowd of civilians while saying i don't want to do this i don't want to do this so clearly he was struggling with it but the thing about war as we sing young people to fight these wars who don't have the wisdom that we gain as as as older people you know there's a reason there's not a bunch of forty and fifty year olds fighting wars the entire marine corps one hundred seventy two thousand people if you take the average age including all the four star generals in the marine corps the average age is still just over twenty years old that's how many young people at the bottom of that pyramid and now it at my age forty five looking back at a nineteen year old kid that is a child and yet we give them weapons and put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have a make life and death decisions and i make a side note here that actually no are no survivors the village of me i wasn't even
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a meal i was name something else that was the meal i was a misnomer on an american map so that original village named in survive no one really survived to the village that day congo's a completely different human. that he was before that happened in that shape who we end up becoming the soldiers that we tried to get to go none of them really survived either the ones who didn't kill themselves there weren't really complete pictures of human beings that they would have wanted to be but those who do survive war and get old enough to realize it's atrocities and how wrong it is it's already too late because the next generation the next generation young kids will the there are ready they're fighting the next one well what i've done to me a lie i like to think i've done the right thing but. i don't know i will say they were heroes to come out of the lies well i mean i was stopped by an american officer or an officer you thompson who literally lowered his helicopter in between americans who were far machine guns into the crowd of civilians vietnamese and he
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told his door gunner on the helicopter that if they didn't stop fire the americans to open fire on them and that would've been the only case i've ever known of u.s. troops intentionally firing on each other but that's the level it was was that to to stop what he witnessed that day thompson was and his crew that i mean they were heroes to come out of that josh rushing thanks for speaking to us rewind and that's it for this week if you want to see a longer version of that interview you can check out the rewind page at al jazeera dot com but for now until next time by. rewind returns can bring your people back to life i'm sorry we've run you updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries. i was the floods and the like and the other rewind continues with children of conflict we'd love some peace in this word especially. children. right here rewind on
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allies on its strategy for syria after donald trump abruptly abruptly called for the withdrawal of u.s. forces as somehow better is live for us from the sheraton grand hotel in doha where pompei zero is meeting qatar's foreign minister so hashim a number of issues on the agenda what's. what are the what are they likely to get into their. well has him during the opening remarks both secretary pump and chair. of the two hundred thirty spoke about the need to further consolidate relations between the united states of america and qatar that we're talking here about the united states of america and qatar strategic a forum which is underway about the need to further expand. trade qatar has been investing more than ninety two billion dollars in the united states of america in different sectors others like to further expand that aspect the talk also about military cooperation and the expansion of the. military base this is where the
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americans have been maintaining a presence for many years they're also talking about political corp the united states of america is saying of the qatar is a key ally in the region and they're trying to explore ways to further tackle some of the issues in the region instability in war in your man instability in syria and also the fight against isis we haven't heard any thing yet from both officials about the g.c.c. quizes it could be there both are trying to figure out behind closed doors any opportunities that could be presented. to tackle the issue. so how might it realistically though hashim how much is is the u.s. secretary of state likely to achieve not just here in qatar but on this whole nine nation middle east particularly given some of the intractable issues that are apparent here. i mean the chances for
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a breakthrough are really slim i mean because when you look at the history former secretary tell us and tried. the u.s. on voyage to the region and zinni here resigned saying that he basically failed to bring all the parties to set aside their differences has him however. the interesting development is the surprise visit made yesterday by the ne who is the secretary general of the g.c.c. and there are many foreign minister use of ben i know we talk qatar we don't know whether this particular moment. if this is part of a new diplomatic effort by kuwait saudis by the members to try to narrow their differences and why now when you is in doha is this part of a broader effort by all the parties chaired by the notices of america to bring all the parties to end the dispute it could be because bomb player has been repeatedly
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saying that he wants a g.c.c. united and the americans said that they would like to establish a new alliance some sort of an arab nato to contain what washington considers to be iran's growing influence in the region and they know that. unless all the parties assault the the gulf this period it would be extremely difficult for the united states of america to tackle some of those challenges in the region iran war in yemen war in syria and also the fight against i said in the region for the moment to hashem about our life they're hearing that. director of the gulf study center qatari university joins me here now to talk more about this good to see you again so let's talk about some of those issues then first of all syria. we seem to be getting mixed messages once again from the u.s. administration that abrupt decision from president trump
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a few couple weeks ago about withdrawing troops from syria now they seem to be walking this back the u.s. secretary of state saying there's really no change here awards going on. let's not forget that this administration is suffering of the surface were they are making a decision regardless the implication on the ground i mean it was obvious that the secretary of defense was not in the in the favor of the draw and was drawing from syria so the president made the decision and now the star bushman to intervene to said by the way we are in the other troubles so that's the reason why the president says ok let's calm down let's try to think differently and that's what happened basically the stablish meant the. gone and the power of the state intervened and they said ok we have to take care of two things one our alliances the kurds secondly we have to take care of the the view from israel israelis are worried as world of the american withdrawal from syria so basically those two elements
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together to push the station to say we have to take over taiwan their withdrawal and that's what's happening now basically there are they are. reviewing the whole process trying to look at options on the ground trying to coordinate with turkey turkey of course not happy with all of that because turkey was in favor of american with a drone now they are saying ok well you change your mind without even consulting with us so that again it's about this kind of chaotic situation in the white house was reflected everywhere in the part of its foreign policy as well and one of the headlines out of this. middle east for from pompei or as well is iran and this is. need to to show a united arab front or gulf front against iran what sort of reception is he likely to get on that here in qatar given that it has relatively closer relations with iran iran was at the top of the trump list when you was running for the
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elections and when he became the president he made the decision who will door of the nuclear deal and his now secretary of state is in favor of confronting iran and actually having a tough and on iran so this is you have the are doing now saying look we finish we will draw from the deal but this is not enough we need to push we need to push on iran more the way how to do it they need to isolate iran more economically and politically and to do so they need three things one to make sure the g.c.c. is coming together the members of the g.c.c. and they are working together against iran the second when they want to push the price of the oil not in favor of iran and secondly they want to make sure that international community and very very of the american policy towards iran so far in international community is not in favor the european union is not in favor of this approach at all so basically american are coming to the region to try to solve the problem the alliances of americans in the region they are not in favor of
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confrontation with iran basically they say there are other tools to tackle iran i think. and the fragmentation appears very clearly are on the front in the region and another issue of course as it relates to qatar is this ongoing a blockade by a number of arab nations against qatar which has been in place since june of twenty seventeen. where does the u.s. u.s. stand on that is that anxious to get that settled at some point again to show this united front again the message was clear they want to end the blockade because they want a united d.c.c. and there now how this can be done that is different we. we're hearing now the there is a clear message that you know the g.c.c. is trying to do so yesterday the foreign minister of man wasn't in doha trying to i think part of this kind of mediation zeani was here as well because the region or of the g.c.c.
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there is an effort is going on i think it's with the coordination with the united states i don't see it actually actually far away from of the american is doing but the issue is whether the united states is going to convince all parties to come to the table not convincing but there is already they are convinced that you know they are ready to discuss all matters as long as their sovereignty is not touched by any countries and i think the message was clear from the day one of the crisis what is not a clear actually whether the parties are doing what they want of all of this i think the americans have to push their parties to declare what they want out of all of this show that americans can achieve their goal of security stability and the g.c.c. as a region and in the middle east as a whole hour i can to get your analysis on this as always much of the way thank the syrian army is preparing for an attack by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of man syria's government has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the suburbs of the city as the u.s. forces get ready to leave
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a turkey considers the kurdish y p g which is backed by the us a terrorist group. turkish troops have already carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of that expected attacks in iraq as solo reports from northern syria. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army as hamza brigade their allies of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offensive on the kurdish out city of human bridge in northern syria these fighters say they will not be left behind to mom and ask with or without the u.s. withdrawals we will complete this military offensive that we are ready for leaderships order. men be just controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish why p.g. turkey considers as the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group enduring some of this brigade are syrian kurds who say the white
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cannot be of the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kids fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p. g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front lines they charge on affordable taxis. many people support the military offensive surrounded by the p.k. cambridge and forces and the populations living in fear of more places a liberated in the white pigeon is gone we can have a better business life this is our came out and it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of. turkey stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are not convinced that funny. since we learned the us will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join man.
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