afghanistan is still just a beginning if anybody harbors terrorists or terrorist if they find a terrorist or terrorist if they has terrorist or terrorist i mean i can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world if they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations they will be held accountable. after this speech secretary of defense rumsfeld meets with general tommy franks at central command in tampa florida. franks controls a massive area from africa to asia and leads the war in afghanistan but rumsfeld has something else in mind iraq. he orders general franks to prepare a plan of attack. since its invasion of kuwait in the gulf war in 1991 large parts of iraq had been under an international no fly zone. despite iraq's defeat and the terrible

sanctions the were decimating his people saddam remained in power. in 1998 he drove u.n. inspectors sent to disarm him saddam was a dangerous man dangerous 1st to his own citizens and dangerous to the rest of the world. joe wilson knows iraq well in 1991 in baghdad he was the last american diplomat to meet with saddam hussein saddam was hemmed in he was not a threat he had been turned from a major regional power into a 3rd rate dictator. just over $100.00 days after the attacks of $911.00 still fighting in afghanistan america looks for another war richard powell publishes what is essentially a declaration of war. the same day franks visits bush at his ranch in

texas in front of journalists the 2 men speak of the successes against the taliban in afghanistan where taliban got the country secure the country stable we will destroy the al qaeda terrorist network inside afghanistan it will take as long as it takes thank you all. but in private bush confirms to franks the order to attack iraq. this change in priority worries the general who on february 19th 2002 confides in bob graham florida senator and chairman of the senate intelligence committee. after a briefing which was quite upbeat with the progress that was being made the general asked me to meet privately in his office and the 1st thing he said was we're no longer fighting a war in afghanistan i was stunned by that and i asked him what that he mean and he

said that some of the important personnel. such as special operations units were being moved from afghanistan to get ready for a war in iraq. bush's decision is fraught with consequences the fight against terrorism is put on the back burner in favor of a conventional war in the middle east not the most predictable region in the world . in early 2002 the military machine is set in motion all the trimmings is to convince the public of the need to go to war with a country that seems far removed from the tragedy that struck america. under base of each former army colonel and professor of military history. having made that decision to go toward the political necessity was to sell the war

to the american people that they had prepared a significant profit and operation to sell the war at a time when the press was very receptive to whatever the administration might be saying in its efforts to defend the united states against yet another attack and weapons of mass destruction seemed to people on the inside to offer the best mechanism to complete the selling job. w m d s weapons of mass destruction chemical biological nuclear for months this deadly arsenal will be at the heart of the iraqi deception the stakes are high in a power struggle between the proponents of war and those who oppose it i was listening to briefings detailed top secret briefings from the cia the defense intelligence agency and other intelligence organizations and they all believed

believed very strongly that saddam had multiple programs to develop weapons of mass destruction in reality there was no consensus on the existence of w m d's for years american intelligence has been monitoring iraq and has found nothing we spend billions literally billions of dollars a year with what we call national technical means which everyone knows are satellites and then not only take images but they have all kinds of other sensor data on that thing ok and guess what. not one w m d shite was found in iraq since 1991 the specialists of alec training espionage the n.s.a. the national security agency cannot find anything. william binney former technical

director of the n.s.a. was among those scrutinizing iraq there was no information collected by n.s.a. that that indicated that he continued his weapons of mass destruction program or even that he had weapons of mass destruction. this was no surprise saddam hussein's arsenal had been destroyed after the gulf war and. before $911.00 american senior officials had publicly stated otherwise is not about any significant capability to respect the weapons or abstraction is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors were. we are able to arm bomb him. once saddam hussein's fate is decided the official tone changes and washington portrays him as an immediate threat. this is

a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil and. no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people in the stability of the world than the regime of saddam hussein in iraq simply stated. there is no doubt that saddam hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. the existence of w m d's will have to be proven to help them the bush administration turns to i'm a child. in 1992 together with other opponents of saddam hussein in exile he formed the i n c the iraqi national congress. all of them had a common interest in being ex exiles in that they wanted to take over the government and understood that the way they were going to do that was by following

a u.s. army which was dispensing with the current government and with saddam hussein. overlooked by bill clinton allied himself with the president's political opponents the i.o.c. . managed to develop a clear and significant strategic relations with people in among the neocons and in the republican party at large and it with some democrats also to get support for america to do something about saddam. in january 2001 approach unity presented itself for the iraqi exiles so when president bush came to power. all those people who were advocating supporting us came to power with. after $911.00 the collusion between the iraqi exiles and the bush administration

becomes cooperation. that american administration so that specifically asked us to see if we can introduce them to people. oh can provide information on the value of these. china be complies enthusiastically he introduces the americans to iraqi defectors endless sources of revelations about saddam hussein's deadly arsenal. the people in child his group wanted to get rid of saddam that so they were looking and searching in trying to come up with things that would help justify to us what our people wanted to hear that is we wanted to hear something would be weapons of mass destruction so we could justify it's going to work with them. a shrewd politician and strategist chalo be also introduces his defectors to the press and through their provocative headlines the journalists lend credibility to all the allegations against baghdad

opinion in washington is divided and it was clear from the very beginning that major institutions in the united states such as the cia and a large part of the state department were opposed. to this they had no confidence in us they kept that criticizing us they kept calling us exaggerated liars despite everything the pentagon refuses to question the revelations made by the exiles the idea that chalo be had information that he knew to be false and he presented it knowing it to be false is has never been established in any of the inquiries in there been many official inquiries into the activities the intelligence activities before the war. but the skeptics must be countered and to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon creating

a power on those services the office of special plans and initiative by paul wolfowitz and douglas feith. the office of special plans this was quite a quite a mess monstrosity they were set up as an alternative cia. the cia gathers information from a multitude of sources in general it's analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a 1st in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need and. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i have one of those hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him 3

white folders where materials about the some 550 sites in iraq where allegedly there were no weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it for. the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exiles provided information packets was accurate and the answer was 0. the exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. the collective effort by all those groups involved became a fabrication that became the policy of the united states and it was used to justify a war. further information was provided by friendly nations. in

rome a dossier from the italian military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. it eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by major. the german secret service offers its support as well. it provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile laboratories. ship date as. the war to liberate iraq weapons for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the country into a war. in august and september the drum beats of war in iraq

started get louder and louder and there were some indications that the president would soon be calling on congress for an authorization of war against iraq. a mere formality as bush holds the majority but bob graham will try to stop. this race too. and one of the questions was we'd like to review the national intelligence estimate on possible war with iraq and the answer was there isn't a national intelligence estimate. what graham is asking for is a top secret document an estimate of what every intelligence agency knows about a particular threat. to be told that here we are about to go to war and no national intelligence estimate has been done was astounding and we ask that it

be done what happened was they kept their heads way down you know they didn't want to do an estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq because they're honest understand so was there any. good in london player comes to the aid of his friend bush's publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. the intelligence picture they want to keep they can be deployed within 45 minutes and iraq is seeking uranium from africa to develop an atomic bomb but in congress graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central intelligence agency was very reluctant and said we don't have time to do this i said we don't have time to know everything we need to know before we commit u.s. troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. looks like the jig

is up we're going to have to do it estimate and the white house says ok mr tenet 2 things number one you have to do it in one and a half weeks usually it estimate takes 3 or 4 months and number 2 it's got to come out exactly as vice president dick cheney said it was. time it will once again due to the president's orders. bob kerrey is a u.s. senator and former navy seal. well i think it's a fair accusation to say that both president bush and vice president cheney put pressure on the intelligence community to reach a conclusion that they had already reached vice president cheney at one time went down and sat in cia did sat down at a in the chair next to the analyst looking at the data saying what do you have on weapons of mass destruction will lead kind of puts the pressure on the intelligence agencies to come up with something. perception is validation we believe want to be seen but in one life time

we cannot see everything that we would lie and he experiences of others and the legacies of previous generations. of that testimony if we let you know very little . with this documentaries that open your eyes and his ear at. the big breaking news story it can be chaotic and frantic behind the scenes. people shouting instructions if you're trying to provide the best most accurate up today's information as quickly as you can. it's when you come off air on things thinking you realize you've witnessed history in the making. but the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment. where there

was a will there is a way. from a state of the art tossed better covering over 77 countries probably every especially since in fact every little to pakistan one man's passion provides free treatment for over 1000000000 patients if you go. to cuba revisited which is iraq. hello i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the headlines for you police have cleared the streets of hong kong after a 2nd night and day of protests and violence officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd and activists retaliated with makeshift weapons of their own dozens of arrests were made as the groups battle for control of the

streets for hours rally had started as a peaceful march with tens of thousands of people voicing their anger at police and mob violence as well as chinese interference as strikes are intensifying in syria's ablett province despite u.n. warnings that war crimes are being committed the town of ari how was targeted again on sunday morning when a market was bombed killing at least 4 people syrian government launched an offensive to recapture the last rebel held province 3 months ago with the help of russia. now remember very international no money to civilians we have nothing to do with those whose rule children women old people and young people are not terrorists muslims in arab nations they're bombarding us every day every day strikes killings blood the blood covers all streets we're swimming in books as many as 65 people have been killed in a suspected book of attack in northeast nigeria a raid happened during a funeral in borno state book around has killed thousands and displaced millions in

the region over the past 10 years i sure as president has condemned the attack and i'm going to go higher he says he's deployed an air patrol and ground operation to hunt the attackers down. a powerful explosion in the afghan capital has killed 2 people and injured at least $25.00 including presidents running mates the upcoming election the afghan interior ministry says the attackers were targeting an office in a busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning the presidential vote. trailed russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been moved to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes he said to have suffered an acute allergic reaction valley was arrested on wednesday after calling for saturday's an authorized anti-government demonstrations and sentenced to 30 days in prison is spokeswoman says he's never suffered from allergies before according to an independent monitoring group almost 1400 people were arrested during the protest but were later released many of them without challenge. well have the news out for

you at $2100.00 g.m.t. that's in about half an hour from now to join me then i found out. in an ordinary week doctor event attire at the heart a sergeant at the only functioning hospital in town in north eastern south sudan and his team operate on around 60 patients. the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestige just nansen award which he won in recognition of his work and incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since 2013 the war has divided the country along ethnic lines 200000 people most of them refugees from sudan's blue now state even this remote town and looked about bad hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer almost all the way

including my local hospital was stewart living there in the process of you know vision of the mother to work into the capacity that they are supposed to. in only a job or 2002 in the u.s. congress a resolution authorizing the war is put to the vote the cia finally presents its estimate on iraq classified as top secret it is not until 2015 that the estimate is made available to the public it isn't a steerer text 95 pages long the dissect saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction program most notably however the estimate is exceedingly cautious citing doubts and conflicting opinions coming from the core of the intelligence community. to keep these drugs from being taken into account the white house symbol taney asli publishes

a shortened version of the estimate on iraq 25 pages embellished with color photographs and maps. they had a very clever sanitized version of the us. a myth which if if a sentence said we think it possible that saddam hussein had this then to take out the possible this version makes official the allegations that have been circulating for months baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles saddam could get his hands on a nuclear weapon within a year the sales campaign that took place i would characterize as aggressive deception there's no question that the headlines leave a different impression of what's in the document itself the october 2002 in i.e. is not conclusive. it is the headlines that will sway congress bob graham knows

this he votes against the resolution to go to war. by taking that action according to our own intelligence reports i will tell you friends and i would encourage you to read the classified intelligence reports which are much sharper than what is available in the classified form we are going to be increased the threat level against the people of the united states i found the document to be a very unpersuasive and it was a significant part of my ultimate decision to vote against the war in iraq. october 10th 2002 that. congress approves the war right roll touring the course of history for out of jackson. the deception is successful. american officials bear the responsibility of having allowed questionable evidence to dictate their decision and this for political ends this photo was going to be taken

in october of 2002 just a month before the november election so there were a lot of people who felt that from a political. standpoint. they didn't really want to know too much because they wanted to be able to tell their constituents this is what the president said was the right thing i accepted his judgment the vote by congress is a rezoning victory for the bush administration. and the iraqi exiles and it leaves the antiwar proponents with a bitter taste of defeat. with a vote of congress secured it is now time to rally public support to do so they have a dossier on hand. remember that dossier from rove the one that conveniently emerged from the archives from the italian military secret service sees me. and so bianco former minister of the interior has closely followed the extraordinary story

of this dossier mill yet chad on document the wall up at the u.s.c. it caught on a limb introduced the college where money in it left plays an elephant that made it a key but they will tease out. that food soldier is rocco martino a longtime sees me agent informer to french british and american secret services he is the one who circulated the seemingly explosive dossier among his so-called clients. this is it it contains official looking documents that allude to a sale by me zhao to iraq of concentrated you renia or yellowcake. the yellowcake dorsey he finally lands on the desk of vice president cheney in february 2002. when dick cheney saw this report from the defense intelligence agency about yellowcake iraqis seeking yellowcake in darkest africa and asia where.

he asked the cia briefer or you think about this this year briefer said well i'll check it out and to verify it the cia summons joe wilson on february the 19th 2000 . to wilson is familiar with the 4th largest uranium producer in the world he was posted there earlier in his career when i got there the 1st person i went to see was a u.s. ambassador. and she said to me we have already looked at this. and we have determined that there is nothing there will soon returns to the united states and gives his report to the cia the amount of uranium that was being talked about represented about a 25 percent increase in annual production levels and any such increase would have had to been approved through the consortium that ran the mine you could not hide that. wilson's conclusions are related to cheney who ignores the vice

president is sticking to his dossier from italy. and yet the italians gave the americans fair warning the documents in these areas yellowcake are false. and zubin young co has been demanding a commission of inquiry for years. if i took it to seal it in opposed to the 80 foot up but then into it it says if it's cases come to that then that it can be . a question for what should it not on the course that he put say negative at all. the event that you get the one the. family the anything in it will david's out that the costs read it they'll be better at them in the fall save for the maturity to not respond or not elaine that is the last battle that is to be in that case ducts

suspicions that the program or camp will ignore for them the yellowcake dossier is a godsend it fuels a fundamental fear that of a nuclear apocalypse the only weapon of mass destruction that truly. is a weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear with chemical weapons and biological weapons are battlefield weapons but a nuclear weapon and as a society altering weapon. fear of the iraqi people reaches its pinnacle in september 2002 the new york times publishes a headline about the threat from baghdad it eludes to aluminum tube was seized by the americans that were to be used in the production of centrifuges to enrich uranium from africa and finally to make an atomic bomb it all adds up. at the end of 2002 the media campaign in the united states works like a charm according to the polls almost 80 percent of americans believe saddam has an

atomic bomb or is close to having them in the end the yellowcake dossier will have a remarkable fate president bush himself will get behind it the british government has learned the saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa pronounced by the most powerful man in the world this little sentence is an unequivocal condemnation and yet bush had been warned when the president when the state of the union address was being fair the cia told the white house you cannot use this code. laim that saddam attempted to purchase uranium from. there. to proceed to despite of the cia's reluctance the white house attributes these revelations to the british who spoke of yellowcake in their september report . with respect to iraq's attempts to acquire nuclear material in the

air the. the british intelligence official the head of british intelligence at the time to this day insists that that information was correct and no one can say with certainty that it isn't it isn't true in fact the british white paper was simply circular reporting it was our story that ended up in a british document it was the same story. the french government which essentially controls the exploitation of the rainy of minds looked into the yellowcake affair and concluded it was fraudulent. dilla sub was the diplomatic advisor to french president jacques chirac at the time said i felt you know ok you wanted a cool extra morning. experience. that you feel much oily you know that. i don't fully understand us you want us to show each to pretty

under to some of the recommender extra. went early 2003 the american government decides to present its case to world leaders. colin powell who stands before the u.n. to deliver a scathing indictment of saddam hussein he repeats the accusations already presented during debates before congress he stresses the existence of mobile laboratories for producing biological weapons these are the revelations made by curveball the iraqi defector who spoke to german intelligence. finally he accuses saddam of wanting to get his hands on an atomic bomb and he speaks of the r.u. minium tubes that for months have been presented as a refutable proof. we watched colin powell and we said whoa this is

really theatrical well done and we gave him an a for presentation and a c. minus for content. of the league and. it would. be just under 6 on request or more policeman the vile that. general powell put. nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which they named carl. curveball whose real name was rough fede ahmed as a knobby would later admit that he made it all up so he could stay in germany. richard powell who had superficially defended the idea of going to war has no problem admitting that many of powers allegations were unfounded the mobile laboratories that were described in that intelligence report that turned out to be

completely false there were no mobile laboratories the aluminum tubes which could have been part of centrifuges. turned out to be aluminum tubes for launching small small rockets colin powell now is lying yes he did. why did he do it because the president told him as though it taking their case to the un the american seek to justify their actions in front of the international community weapons inspectors return to iraq but have yet to find w m d's but washington applies an indisputable logic to saddam hussein in the case that he has weapons of mass destruction that he is violating united nations resolutions then we will know that saddam hussein again deceive the world if he says he doesn't have any and i think that we will find out whether or not saddam hussein is saying some of the we believe will be verifiably false. fronts wages one last diplomatic battle

. on february the 14th at the u.n. dominic to fill pan states the french position preserved in a fox news suit if you. eat a young you know you've done it even again and on march 7th director general of the international atomic energy agency mohamed el baradei i denounces bush's claims about the yellowcake from africa bailed on analysis by you has concluded. with the concurrence of outside experts that means documents which formed the basis for the reports of release and unit the iranian transactions between iraq and these areas are in fact not authentic. we have therefore conclude that the specific allegations are unfounded. well we know it's a forgery now and we know that our country suffered the indignity of the. a director saying before the u.n. security council it took us a day and

a half our experts but we looked and internet and really looked elsewhere we hired experts and we found out that z's documents were not authentic. in paris. announces that he will veto any resolution in favor of war. related i get it was all appeal to solution the americans will ignore the advice of shit like the conclusions about a guy and the opinion of the un. the night of march 19th the war begins 3 weeks later columns of american tanks roll into baghdad saddam hussein flee his. from the outset of the operation in iraq american soldiers search for saddam hussein's awesome they find nothing the politicians blame it on the intelligence community you know intelligence agencies frequently make mistakes intelligence

organizations by their very nature are working with imperfect information with conflicting accounts with things that it's impossible to to interpret with a high degree of certainty the cia which had been so suspicious of the collaboration between the exiles and the pentagon will be forced to take the blame notably for the most blatant lies that little sentence 16 words in all spoken by bush about the african yellowcake and the documents that inspired it i no one knew at the. time in arthur but maybe someone new down in the power for the agency but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery this insistence on defending the official lie finally gets the better of joe wilson's discretion. it was at that time that i fully understood that the

government was not going to do it their it that it lied to the american people and therefore i had to write the story myself. in the new york times he publishes the truth about his mission tunisia and the fact of the white house was well aware of his conclusions. given the structure of the consortium that operated the mine it would be exceedingly difficult for niger to transfer uranium to iraq. the cia must once again shoulder responsibility and george tenet releases a statement. the 16 words should have never been included in the text written for the president this was a mistake a small price to pay for a very lethal lie at the white house the issue becomes a subject of humor official inquiries will denounce the incompetence of the intelligence community for the erroneous information about saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction this was fraud and i can't say that often enough no mistake

fraud. the man who was complicit in this deception refuses to be held soley responsible. have to believe that an exile organization with limited means can fool a major superpower the only superpower in the world of the time. with with bill tens of billions of dollars on sophisticated intelligence gathering into a war against saddam. is fiction. it will be 3 years before bush. admits that saddam did not have w m d's. the main reason we went into iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction turns out he didn't but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass but also talked about the human suffering or at. bush brushes aside the stated reason

for a war that has destroyed an entire country. in iraq the invasion turns into a bloody occupation. the downward spiral. started with the occupation the coalition specially the americans lost the moral high ground and they became the jailers of that if you people the bedlam the chaos the violence in iraq now it's a natural consequence of what bush and cheney did in invading iraq. iraq is quickly torn to shreds ripped apart by religious and ethnic violence. i think the most convincing argument was that in order to enhance israel's position in the middle east and its security the nation surrounding it

that formed an anti israel a bloc had to be broken up into smaller confessional a homo genius nation states so in the case of iraq a kurdistan a shia sanin a sunni stan. this objective was openly declared as early as 996 in this document. signed by richard perle and douglas feith a text that accuses iraq of posing a threat to israel. today the chaos in iraq has spread into syria entire provinces are beyond the control of baghdad and damascus. and the west has a new enemy the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis also known as dice the

united states bears considerable responsibility for the fact that the islamic state exists. but not because the united states intended to create the islamic state rather that the islamic state came into existence as an unintended consequence of this immensely foolish war the americans and the british had they not occupy the country have had they cut of corruption when it started we would not have that the violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of victims day to may and is up rooted 1000000 innocent iraqis in the seventy's you have hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving the area and nobody asks nobody asked what caused this what caused this terrible human catastrophe it was an earthquake it was a typhoon it was an invasion of a country that was reasonably intact when we invaded it. the iraqi deception has

cost americans almost $2.00 trillion dollars according to some estimates. much of this public money has been directed to the defense industry. he says bad for business war tension is always very good for business so money of course was a major factor so the united states finds itself today essentially engaged in a permanent war and it's a permanent war that that benefits some people there are some people and some entities that are making a lot of money. from this endless war. profits rarely mentioned relegated to silence as all the americans who have died in iraq like the son of andrew bass of which killed may 13th 2007 i think one of the saddest aspects of our iraq war is how quickly americans have chosen to forget it. there seems to

be an unwillingness on the part of the american people to acknowledge and to confront this enormous failure. we aggressive deception is totally incompatible with the fundamental principle of democracy a failure the result of a manipulation that has shaken the confidence of americans in their own institutions. the man who wanted to see the end of saddam hussein did not want to see the end of iraq and he was sidelined a letter said of president bush told me if you oppose the policies of president bush we will bring the full weight of the united states to bear against you i know that they're not as are going to target me. that there was a there is a and a finding of the national security council signed by president bush and april of 2004 and titled marginalise challenge.

10 hours after this interview. he was found dead in his bed. and autopsy concluded it was a heart attack. saddam hussein arrested and judged is hung december 30th 2006 george bush is reelected in november 2004 richard cheney remains vice president colin powell leaves office in january 2005 conda lisa rice replaces him at the state department george tenet resigns in july 2004 citing personal reasons douglas pfeiffer resigns from the pentagon in january 2005 paul wolfowitz is appointed president of the world bank in june 2005 donald rumsfeld leaves the pentagon in november 2006. richard powell divides his time between washington and the suffer from us.

in the western side of tasmania it's been raining heavily there admittedly on the satellite picture you don't see very much cloud there this next streak of cloud will bring a certain amount with it maybe just drizzle if you're lucky some helpful stuff even on the mainland in new south wales and back to victoria where it is very much wanted but we could be breaking records down tasmania if you get much more rain

this winter now to the west it all sounds good out again it's warmed up in perth that 20 degrees is pretty good really 20 to come tuesday with the wind direction we're still in the low teens valeted in melbourne a city even sydney where the still lightly cloud and i think outbreaks of rain come tuesday hobart's attend the sun should shine at least for a good half of tasmania not of prospect you can enjoy or expect to enjoy at least in the south along with still clouds streaming off the high ground spot new zealand well there's some sunshine it comes out a little bit during monday but it will be largely a cloudy affair was rain set me on the western side of the south and rather less for the norse although or clint is likely to get some so cloudy and some rain hardly a surprise in between time as the japan you could almost to get a significant rain here but if you're in the korean peninsula the rains coming back .

america is divided like never before inside is so convinced that they're absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous people in power investigates how partisan politics are raiding the civil norms vital to american democracy every indicator shows america to be the least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy . one of the strange death of american civility on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes state television says at least 65 people it dead after an attack on

a funeral in northeast borno state. on called suffers a 2nd night of violence with pitched battles between police and protesters. and the opposition leader jailed for calling for saturday's protest in russia is taken to hospital with an acute allergic reaction. and on peace summit in doha with all the school to mold becomes the 1st colombian to win the tour de france more later in the program. welcome to the program we begin this hour in nigeria where state television says as many as 65 people have been killed in an attack on mourners attending a funeral in northeast nigeria now it happened near my due gori in borno state where boko haram has carried out many attacks over the course of the last 10 years

president obama has condemned the attack and ordered an air patrol and ground operation to hunt the perpetrators down. but in. the. future to work. let's get more now from a dress and in nigeria this was an attack on mourners attending a funeral gathering do we now have an established death toll. well basically merriam the figures he shows are walking with is actually 65 what happened actually was 24 people villagers were killed when the koran suspected boko fighters invaded the community and then as they went to bury them before they

buried them very retaliated by the way and the information we got was that they killed at these some of the attackers some reports are suggesting that as many as can fighters may have been killed and their weapons have been taken away and handed over to the border just and then as they went for the funeral the fighters targeted them waylaid them and then killed 200 people and there was also another report saying that some of the villagers angered by what happened chased the the fighters and as a result another set of people were killed by the fighters so that's the state we're in now 65 according to government officials in borno state 65 killed in the attacks. and president. has ordered an operation to track the perpetrators down what do we know about how that is progressing and the

number of attackers that might have been involved. absolutely over the last few months especially the last 3 or 4 months we've seen a speech of a rising cases of attacks by boko haram on. positions as well as isolated villages and the militaries of the region jerry cameron and china have conducted joint operations center some extent they have there was able to guesstimate the population or rather the numbers above qualify just on both the lecture side and on the some before fringe a subset of the supporters in the know the sort the country so the new directive by the president will probably mean that the military in northeast nigeria will step up their operations against these fighters eventually we will hear. moderates complain i'll go quite on 5 years but this is the rainy season by the way

and it's difficult to conduct military operations in some of these areas because they are waterlogged and heavy military vehicles can hardly penetrate some of these areas so the question is how much i have power can the government commit. aerial surveillance aerial bombardment of these places and that's one of the best options before the militaries in the region how to tackle boko haram these are these is the time but koran is involved and you in the grasp even most of the time they find it difficult to attack when they do 7000000 precautions in the region but they use the cover of foliage and all that in the rainy season and the fact that the military vehicle of the middle crew vehicles cannot make much progress in the terrain to attack some of the 1st when they could really use well thank you very much from kaduna nigeria on that interest than the latest on that story thank you

matt. on out or on the headline story this hour a 2nd night of violence in hong kong with police firing several rounds of take gas at protest as the rally began as a peaceful march with tens of thousands of people voicing their anger at police and mob violence as well as interference from china hong kong government has condemned the protest as accusing them of austin and putting public safety at risk sara crock has the latest now from hong kong. cinching hong kong was in chaos as police moved in to create tens of thousands of people rallying in the district. the demonstration began pace fully the situation quickly unraveled. despite numerous calls for police to disperse the protesters resisted instead they moved to the west and districts on hong kong island surrounding a major police station as well as the chinese government's representative office blockades was set up and police lines cordoned off the area protesters blocked some

access points and targeted police trying to paint bombs glass and bricks any loose object they could get their hands on special place and the tactical response units moved in firing several rounds of tear gas in a bid to push the groups back. this is the 2nd night in a row where we've seen bottling clashes between police and practice it's a place of fired several rounds of t.v.'s and rubber bullets on the demonstrators but a lot does demonstrate is refusing to let. the tense standoff went on for several hours but after midnight protesters were eventually fails to retreat this rally began with tens of thousands marching in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that's now been shelves after months of rallies it's become a broader movement calling for greater democracy in hong kong and some fear the situation will only escalate we won't give up until the last war. we won't give up

until the child. trying to talk as it is. just in time it is a massive argument as a result of or government i don't think is going to. unfortunately is heading towards. escalation of violence. looking at possible. to use the fatality. on monday china's top policy adviser is expected to respond to the political crisis that's gripped the former british territory for months the hong kong government and protesters refusing to budge this rally is unlikely to be the last syrup clarke al-jazeera hong kong. as strikes are intensifying in syria's edler province despite u.n. warnings that was crimes are being committed the town of ari how was targeted again on sunday morning when the market was bombed killing at least 4 people this after

13 people were killed there on saturday syrian government launched an offensive to recapture the last rebel held province 3 months ago with the help of russia and the numbers i mean no no money we civilians we have nothing to do with this these are all children women old people and young people are not terrorists muslims an arab nations there bombarding us every day every day strikes killings blood the blood covers all streets we're swimming in book. well aid groups are calling the offensive a nightmare with schools medical centers and homes coming under relentless bombardment saida harder reports from istanbul. another lifeless body pulled from the rubble another syrian child a victim of the airstrikes by russian and syrian warplanes the town of a rehab has been repeatedly hit in recent days and yet again residential buildings have been targeted however hard you know you don't really know what could i know rebel places or fighters here this is a residential neighborhood look children live here why. is there crime the syrian

people are being bombed by planes and the un remained silent. opposition controlled towns across the southern countryside of it live and northern hama are under fire people there say they are being bombed into submission but that surrendering is not an option since they have nowhere else to go this is the last rebel held territory in syria are people going to. do all this year and people need to die so that she can stay in power is everyone at their wrist except we moved closer to the border with turkey but how do we know the players want to hit us here . the recent escalation in violence is worsening the displacement crisis according to the united nations many people are living in the open air because there is overcrowding in camps and reception centers more than 440000 syrians have been made homeless in the last 3 months how long then the. building was bones and all our

belongings are under the rubble we came out and didn't know where to go we have nothing there's no water no bathrooms no tents for the children there under the sun . many people have been displaced more than once and many towns and villages are now empty. in our house and kafirs ito was hit so we left a hoss and again we were targeted we survived but our neighbor was killed it was too dangerous to stay so we came here we hope this place will be safe. that will depend on russia and turkey russia which backs the syrian government and turkey which supports the opposition co-sponsored a cease fire and last year the deal collapsed when russia supported a syrian government offensive in april blaming turkey for not fulfilling its commitments to an agreed demilitarized zone around the province turkey repeatedly said it needed more time because forcing some will groups from the zone would have

put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be revived soon. i just want to be able to play i just want to go home i just want to go to school that is no longer an option for many children 7 year old son has become another statistic in the escalating violence and despite criticism by the un over the international indifference nothing has been done to stop the bombing campaign. has stumbled much more still ahead on this news hour from london a powerful blast injures the afghan president's running mate on the 1st day of the election campaigning ultimo it's back after president trump runs it disgusting and rat infested. out in sports are watching while german prefer the world champion and his team details those details right.