in dollars in bribes were paid to senior politicians. and sadly to the african national congress the a.n.c. my own party. i was called in by a senior member of the a.n.c. is national executive council he said to me look angry this is a battle you cannot win because this money the bribes we used to fund our 999 election. and almost immediately i'm asked to make a statement to the press that says there's nothing to investigate. it's all over. and i looked at him and i said no it's not. i won't be able to live with myself if i stop this investigation but at the same time i'm also realizing that this is the end of my political career. the heads of government of the sales

people in chief of their countries large arms contractors. and this is the template used by large defense contractors around the world. companies might be a lot of the sort of effect would be part of a government but they're effectively above the law corruption is not merely a dirty little detail on top of the arms trade it's actually in a lot of cases what drives the international arms trade many of these deals would not happen if they did not provide opportunities for personal enrichment i would be offended if i thought. we had a monopoly on corruption. to pay more for the right 3 months we made a run to run for 20 years it was they paid $6000000.00 every year for mine off. as i was being dragged out right at the last 2nd i'm going to still fail

remind everyone that this guy is a war criminal can i just say actually called the record what he said about iraq and j.p. morgan is completely and totally untrue i've never had a discussion with them now i'm not suggesting that it was a phone call between j.p. morgan and blair that was actually what happened was j.p. morgan and the consortium of other banks didn't fact prop up the whole iraqi economy to the tune of about 2 and a half 1000000000 not 20000000000 other bit nervous that day then 6 months after he left office blair some a sign by j.p. morgan for $5000000.00 every year i was just trying to enlighten the public that there was corruption involved and not just bad decision making i'd like to find out how this. managed to access the coolant there must be a back door in because they don't want to tear time and there was a court room directly underneath the court room the player was in and it was left on not so i went through that run up 2 floors by the fire escape and then to the

door of the court itself by this time my heart was pounding like a really going mad and i actually lost my courage for the moment i went and sat down in a low in a bathroom i found a gent's toilet there i did actually bring my mother and said listen i'm here in washington do you think i should still go when my mom said you're gone you won't get another chance and i thought that's it i mean the man or. sustain. that hope has 2 beautiful daughters and courage anger at the way things are encouraged to see that they don't remain the way they are. when you hear. you can serve 2 sets of principles privilege and power justice and truth the more you make compromises with those who serve privilege and power point diminish the capacity for justice and trust. and. i think

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seen mr. george bush who'd been with darwin and the decay you say on the island on how the judge. who had not even died well i can now hold the hoof and. i know now if. so what if the guy threw a shoe at. and there me. my. going to be made a few. battles for you to come selves are. going to be my. own just said the. movement.

i'm going to reach is the sourcing of the l a times report paragraph one of us authorities say column one still u.s. officials say said one u.s. justice department counterterrorism official column 2 officials said u.s. authorities say u.s. officials said those officials said the officials confirmed american officials complained they said that u.s. officials. u.s. officials stressed column 3 u.s. authorities said jordanian officials said we got a slight. no laughter please we haven't finished yet several u.s. officials said column 4 u.s. officials said several american official said officials say say u.s. officials but u.s. officials said one u.s. counterterrorism official said i'm not joking there it is that is the journalism you're getting fed i sometimes think the l a times the new york times should be called american officials say. i denounce the cultivator or publicly

the new york times issued me a form. written reprimand which is what you get before you're fired under union rules to stop speaking out against the war i've been the middle east bureau chief and i've been in iraq in 7 years in the middle east. how can you come out of gaza not being very. what's being done to those people how can you come out of the sudan solider on dozens of other places i've been and not be angry. i've seen the bodies of a lot of children which i can't forget. you know especially having done it for 20 years and.

dostoevsky said i was the inability to love and that's what kills people. i fully get why people blow their brains out it's really you. and i don't use love as a kind of a hallmark small c n l we all gotta love each other. i'm saying that the only way you're healed from those experiences is by re-establishing a connection. with that kind of power with another human being and if you can't do that you don't survive and i have friends couldn't do it they're not here anymore. it's you know the power of love. to transcend time.

that looks like a ga you'd be too out for the $38.00 that we used to have on our loaches a mini gun that fired $4000.00 rounds per minute at one of the manifestations of the national security state especially in the in the sort of apple j. it's arrived at today is that it destroys diplomacy it destroys the will to diplomacy and it destroys the skill for diplomacy. if you're a small state like we were for 150 years in an essence these of these spain france england and even russia you've got to be exquisitely good at diplomacy you got to be able to talk yourself out of lots of things and make deals and compromises and

so forth but if you're the world's head human you don't deal with anybody you smack him you your military and you smack him. on may 3rd of 2003 the ambassador of switzerland to tehran delivers a letter from yvonne to the united states. in that letter the iranians essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency. the proposal came in i happened to see it's because a copy was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called rove. called rove called back he said that he found the proposal intriguing he wanted to know if it was genuine were a promise to put it in front of the president i would call karl rove a dear friend. i've seen a man of far sighted courage put america on a war footing. and protect us against a brutal enemy in

a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century no formal response was given to the iranians at all i'm grateful to have been witness to history. and the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the iranians even more could be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. in a way to sum up the argument however a principal in the bush administration said that we simply do not talk to evil. and as tony zinni said former central command commander if you like the rock you'll love iraq. that is a 10 to 14 year 3 to $4.00 trillion dollar invasion at the end of which the world western asia will look not much different than it does right now it will still be in turmoil and still be in chaos and 70 plus 1000000 iranians will hate living guts. i was in the pentagon and i wanted to see undersecretary difference

the idea is that wolfowitz shared with me in surgery cheney in 9192 packages to retool and went to the white house briefed people like president america needs a new strategy of force regime change. so here this idea springs back up again in 2001. i went through the pentagon in november of 2001 and one of the general said sure i got this memo on. we're going to go after 7 countries in 5 years. i said is that a classified memo he said yes sure we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i think it's highly probable the administration has already made the decision to go

to war against iran there are already u.s. troops inside iran want to repeat that there are already u.s. troops inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in a new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines who are operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report i've never read the article nor do i intend to do you have any. christe as to whether or not as the us ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s. marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have

teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces mostly commando unit it has been given executive authority by the president as many as 12 countries to go in and kill we're talking about high value targets. they're operating now and they go into a countries outside of the war zone outside of afghanistan and outside of iraq without telling the american cia station chief or the american ambassador they go in sterile and they kill people. we have to work to sort of to the dark side if you will spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies. thanks

. to. the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations lethal operations regardless of what international law says. what is president obama's response to that how is he going to deal with it he embraced the very covert shadow forces that a decade earlier had only been talked about in hushed tones in the pentagon not just as the implementers of a policy that said we should decapitate terror networks and engage in preemptive strikes but they became the policy itself. selfless act human bravery 10000 precious pieces of literature rescued

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marco polo travelled through. following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond today chasing the shadow. professor has traveled china defense with searching questions of how the relationship between east and west has changed . marco polo on al-jazeera. hello i'm mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is extending an invitation to north korean leader kim jong un suggested they meet when he visits south korea after the g. 20 summit concludes. we may go to the d.m.z. or the border as they call it that by the way when you talk about a wall when you talk about a border that's what they call

a border so i will be there and i just put out a feeler because i don't know where years right now you may not be in north korea but i said if care of german kim would want to be at the border and certainly we seem to get along very well i can tell you we seem to get along that's a good thing not a bad thing you know for the stupid people that say oh you gets along no it's good to get along it's good to get along because frankly if i didn't become president you'd be right now in a war with north korea you'd be having a war right now with north korea and by the way that's a certainty trump is now preparing for a crucial meeting with chinese president xi jinping their country is in a protracted trade war and trump ignored questions about the matter of china's jamal khashoggi when he met with saudi crown prince mohammed bin sama forces loyal to libyan war khalifa haftar have threatened to target flights and ships coming from turkey turkey supports the un recognized government based in tripoli who his forces have been fighting have to as for almost 3 months have to has accused of

meddling in libyan offense european powers haven't done enough to help iran avoid crippling u.s. sanctions that's the view of iran's deputy foreign minister after meeting with signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal and vienna the meeting was billed as the last chance to save the agreement a rescue ship that was stat stranded at sea for 2 weeks with 40 migrants on board has docked in italy a spokesman for the german charity vessel the sea watch 3 says it reached port on the island of lampedusa despite attempts by a police boat to stop it from docking the ship had been repeatedly refused entry as conditions worsen and on board the captain is now under investigation. the trump administration has turned up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro by targeting his son with sanctions the u.s. treasury department says he's been involved in propaganda and censorship and helping pressure the military to keep humanitarian aid out of the country well

those are the headlines and now it's back to shadow wild. thank you thank you. the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations lethal operations regardless of what international law says. what is president obama's response to that how is he going to deal with it he embraced the very covert shadow forces that a decade earlier had only been talked about in hushed tones in the pentagon not

just as the implementors of a policy that said we should decapitate terror networks and engage in preemptive strikes but they became the policy itself. president obama's administration have built up something called the disposition matrix is an algorithm for determining who should be killed or who should we seek to capture and one of the more sort of grotesque aspects of this is that there were actually meetings on tuesdays in the white house that have been nicknamed terror tuesday meetings where they're going through rosters of names to put on or take off the list maybe someone within that group has been in contact with someone that the u.s. is watching they went to the musée mosque is someone they keep ordering pizza from the same place as a taliban leader and you decide these guys are probably up to no good and so on this particular day we're going to remove them from planet earth that we're getting into minority report into the sort of size 5 world of p.j. did well as justifiable homicide even though it's for that that might take place in

the future it's ok to kill from a distance without a warrant without a trial without a jury and the execution takes place off screen. where appropriate we will bring the terrorists to justice. and. when we. do you want to answer. why and. we went on. to. say this is fake there were groups on. the horse and the woman. is worth paying attention obviously i do not agree with

much of what you said the president is not implementing policies that we need to see change for example that he would stop the authorization of think interest rates which means killing people on the basis only of suspicious behavior that's led to the killing of many innocent people are posed the question on my facebook page and asked them what they wanted to ask you when a lot of them said that you were hurting your own cause because one you appeared rude to the president of the united states and 2 you just seemed. a little crazy well i think killing innocent people with carolyn's is rude i think not apologizing to the families of innocent people who are killed is rude there are a lot of rude things about our policies i want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties for the most part of they have been very precise precision strikes against al qaeda how do you expect to be vilified just are not to have and the american sentiment in and day out we had about doing that

act. more innocent than militants how do you explain that well i do not believe that. there is any basis for your comment maybe you need us money. go. to be stuck. at it so i didn't do. my money they apparently live above a lot of us were locked. up last month of blood enough for most of them to the astral collaterally. yet he does feel the make he said a little bit easier don't let us look the it. took for me a moment gotten a new human. on the he. gave me a groan and they said the lockheed martin boeing dime corp international computer

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the disease a permanent war the destroy the men always. islamic fundamentalism. in power all of those who profit from permanent war politically economically and militarily. make no mistake a nuclear armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained it would threaten the elimination of israel the security of gulf nations and the stability of the global economy. at risk triggering a nuclear arms race in the region and they are raveling of the nonproliferation treaty. and how close is iran to getting it let me show you. brought a diagram for. here's a dark room. this is a bomb. this is a fuse. where should

a red line be drawn. a red line should be drawn right here. the threat from iran is a political football what was interesting was that many israelis including people from the military said as long as there is an extensional threat somewhere somehow that is certainly helping us expand our budgets in ways that it's not possible to do in the absence on anything that can be defined as such a threat if you were iran what would you do i mean israel has what 3 or 400 nuclear weapons they're the ones who started the damn arms race in the middle east anyway they did in synanon player for a chetry they built this program in secret. india and pakistan then went on to do the same thing and iran would you did sign a new killer nonproliferation treaty looked around and realized they don't screw up your bomb administration wants to sell bunker buster bombs which can penetrate 20

feet of solid concrete to the u.a.e. the deal is the latest us arms sale to members of the gulf cooperation council 6 nations that neighbor iran i phone could be in a homicide case but i call bomber i see when i asked him what i mean why has become a commodity for several reasons one is because you need somebody to buy the stuff you bring us another us arms deal with saudi arabia is in the fight the biggest in history this deal alone just a pos is the time i close the lob sails already 57. saw that it does this enormous service a recycling. but was also a business in another sense there is a business that uses war to get its ends established the. says george orwell's 1904 is always going to be a battle and guess who's making out really well of course the weapons dealers and the people involved. the ultimate

manifestation of the national security state is that is not only seeks a perpetual state of war it will even go to all the ins to create that perpetual state of war i'm always reminded of a book at it long time ago called them is a map. and that book has a beautiful sentence. i am an invisible man not because they don't exist. but because you choose not to see prince friend do you know the ben lomond family this is ironic and mid eighty's if you remember we had been the one state who were supporting the mujahideen to liberate afghanistan from the soviets. bled then came to thank me for my efforts to bring their americans our friends to help us against the atheists he said the communist. when i last saw been lost in

this camp high in the mountains of afghanistan. with an air raid shelter built into the living rock of amount to 2530 feet high. camps built by the cia late as they tried to find cruise missiles and of course when you were it was they built it. no wonder but kept smiling no wonder he did. the american song review put $1000000000.00 each to give them arms training equipment we are the ones who cleared all those people to go we had you. there must be something wrong with the way we think that we can say that the grammar of the past is operating today we have been pumping money a great deal of money without congressional authority without any congressional oversight prince bandar of saudi arabia is putting up some of this money for covert

operations in many areas of the middle east where we want to stop the a shiite influence they call it the shiite crescent i think the arabic word is fitna civil war we're in a business right now of creating and some places sectarian violence. i cannot betray friend because we are trying to destroy and liquidate in mali of a crime to give ahmed training. in northern syria. it really is a world gone mad but oddly enough you have to be in syria to realize how mad it is . when you're angry and i'm getting around that you really think of the news coming out of washington like americans are living in a kind of fantasy world of no relating to a bit of where i'm going to reply i was. trying. to say.

today there are good terrorists and bad the bad terrorists those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good terrorists those who are in syria the joke here is we've been there before i mean if you consider the of the honest on story they have learned nothing. today if i see that the saudis are giving money to groups that are in syria that are not only a looser but also the. people who say you are a conspiracy theories or what i'm just trying to say is in the moment of the contemporary this is.