these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and that's. the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. run on al-jazeera. you're watching i was there with me so robin and top news stories the u.s. electoral college has formally validated joe biden's victory in the november presidential election elect has pushed joe biden over the threshold to clinch the presidency it's one of the last ups to finalize outcome of the event as election speaking in the last hour joe biden criticize donald trump's efforts to overturn the results this legal maneuver was an effort by like that officials and one group

of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the votes of more than 20000000 americans in other states and to hand the presidency to a candidate who lost the electoral college lost the popular vote and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse its position charge 3 we've never seen before but the action they refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution let's cross over to towns he's following events for us wilmington and what else did joe biden have to say. right i mean despite the efforts that biden was listing there he did say that this was an optimistic moment this showed that the the democratic system worked to the trump tried to use the mechanisms of american democracy to overturn the results and failed of course

the electoral college recounts and so on so he's trying to say look let's turn the page and he points out 83000000 votes. there is an enormous amount of amount of votes for joe biden what he didn't mention there was double troubles about 73000000 votes the good thing for biden is the polls suggest a majority of americans around 60 percent say look it's time to move on though the bad thing for biden is 80 percent or so of trump bush is about 73000000 feel that the election has been stolen so it's not over yet there are still those in congress who say they will make some sort of challenge on january the 6th when these electoral college votes will be certified and counted and that narrative will continue the reality will be joe biden will be president but that marriage of a stolen election will continue a sizeable number of americans will still believe trump will still have that power over his base but also over a republican party that's very frightened of that base we just don't know what trump is going to do with that power yes sheva townsend thanks very much

well staying with the u.s. the attorney general william barr is resigning amid double terms like he's ations that he hasn't done enough to investigate the president's false claims of election fraud he'll leave the post in just over a week's time on the number of covert 19 deaths in the united states as the past 300000 on the day the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history got under way medical workers an elderly care home residents are being prioritized cheering the violence. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russian missile defense systems increasing tensions between the 2 nato allies washington had already removed turkey from its f. 35 jet program because of the deal turkey bought the russian s 400 ground to air defense systems last year and insists it poses no threat to nato presence other one condemned sanctions targeting turkey's weapons procurements sector i need to get

there. from our nato ally the united states we expect support in our battle against terrorist organizations and forces they have plans for a region that's not think that we are never country that chases after conflict with tension with its neighbors or any other we are fighting for the prosperity of our entire region and the world but this situation does not mean we will remain silent against our rights laws and silver initio been trampled just like we don't want anyone's rights we will not allow anyone to take our rights either federal police in nigeria say extra investigators have been deployed to find hundreds of missing school boys they were taken on friday night when gunmen stormed a state boarding school in the town of concur in the northwestern cut scene the state the state governor says 333 students unaccounted for while the president's office says at least 10 boys were abducted those were the headlines a lot more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's rewind to stay with us.

hello and welcome to rewind i'm richelle carey. since we launched al jazeera english back in 2006 our library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year so here on rewind we've decided to revisit some of the most important of those stories once again today rewinding to 2010 and north korea for the past

several months or korea's deteriorating relations with us and the administration and donald trump in particular have threatened to plunge the world into the darkness of a nuclear war earth chris increasing military buildup and testing of missiles now presents an apparent threat to japan and beyond across the pacific as far as the united states president trumps belligerent response it even included the threat of overwhelming military action john yang's rhetoric is equally bellicose and though the regime claims that it needs a nuclear strike capability to deter the threat of u.s. aggression there is history here as well there are north korean still living who have personal experience of american bombing during the korean war nearly 70 years ago back in 2010 people in power travel to north korea to investigate claims that some of those bombs contained not high explosive but biological weapons insects deliberately infected with deadly diseases it's a claim that the u.s.

has always deny but filmmaker 10 tate had unique access to this extraordinary story traveling deep inside the country to talk to men who claim to be survivors and attack that american sis never happened his dirty little secrets. almost 60 years ago this peaceful lake was the scene of either a terrible crime. or a cynical hoax. each of these over is either a witness to the crime or a participant to not. what happened or never happened here tonight. in 52 is the key to one of the most intractable international disputes today. the korean war was the 1st armed confrontation of the cold.

in 946 the united states unilaterally divided korea along the 38th parallel. when in 1950 north korean forces backed by the army of communist china crossed the border to unify the country america persuaded the united nations to support military action against what washington saw as the global threat of international compact. the fact that the furthest have invaded korea is a warning that there may be similar act of aggression another part of the where. over the next 3 bloody years an estimated 2000000 soldiers died over may. at least 2000000 civilians were killed or wounded and millions more were made homeless. but early in 1952 north korea claimed that villages throughout the country was suffering

unprecedented outbreaks of bubonic plague anthrax and typhus. is accused the united states of bacteriological warfare dropping germ bombs containing insects shellfish and feathers infected with plague as well as anthrax and color. america angrily denied the claim. than just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges of germ warfare in korea and ever since the germ warfare allegations have been dismissed as communist propaganda from an isolationist rogue state that was broadcast by the communist propaganda machine throughout the world. today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the planet. yet over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young

secretive rulers. hired by the i don't call us. shows how was i not already saigon orders and president of that all of us so they must. now mari has persuaded p.r. nyang to allow our cameras to follow him through his latest visit it is an unprecedented step foreign journalists are routinely banned from entering north korea we will be working under strict control told where and what we can film and accompanied by government officials at all times. yet we will also be taken deep into the heart of this most hidden country to meet men who claim to have witnessed america's use of germ warfare firsthand.

in the center of pyongyang the korean army maintains a vast museum dedicated to documenting its version of the war with america. inside professor morey examines a room given over to what north korea claims to be direct evidence of germ warfare by the united states including specimen jars filled with flies mosquitoes and fleas all allegedly infected with deadly pathogens is it the has what the disease typhoid cause there are pests like this a heavy disease is injects like a small boy says into the insects and the thoughts inside leg to small and drops into the ever decides not. according to north korea american pilots dropped specially adapted bombs these carried no explosives but split open to release the

infected insects which would then pass on the diseases to the local population so this is to joan joan long as it is i'd like to speak bombs they put some insects. i mean this 34 kinds of insects. 'd 'd in a separate projection room mari is given a private screening of what north korea claims is news film shot in 1952. the footage appears to show masses of insects crawling on snow covered ground beside the bomb casings a highly unusual phenomenon. and also logic in your new. concerto that isn't even any. and all songs i sent out i didn't notice and.

that there i don't i. have any data and i want out of the rest of this but humans from which country would these insects drop by american pilots or placed here by north korean propagandists is this evidence of a war crime or is america claims merely crude propaganda you don't need you want you to meet. him and us must get him so he call it. cairo or cut out ever she will kill me i wished he was going in show he'll miss things that are serving us sick i know that the. court orders less than issue no. committees and commissions that you know. some of his in a camp and out of you so you must send in the hoga you know to quit a hockey star they're. connected to you nor does so arjan.

the. dawn of a pyongyang. at 7 am government sirens wake the city summoning its people to begin a new day's work. mari massa tucker is leaving pyongyang and heading out into north korea's rural hinterland. in search of people who claim to have witnessed and survived germ warfare. but the very nature of this country means that he is completely reliant on the p.r. nyang government to provide his transport and to put forward his interviewees. on the outskirts of one g.

a village 45 kilometers east of pyongyang 2 elderly farmers are waiting to meet him . you can chan been an toxic loss their fathers during the war both claim that an american plane dropped a german bomb close to the village turning you. finding it or is it then you go. and you know new york. going in there still 100. percent over you must go ahead call it global kill you bitch out of need to go. has another such only don't work well in the him go danny. imv you can do it they're going to use your own family you now own you. mind your making you play probably 27 tomorrow might keep you on. your mate

during the war captured american pilots made filmed confessions in which they admitted dropping bombs filled with infected insects on north korean villages might never be greener but not coming up many would knock. it on the chin a bit of it. didn't see any or don't don't you donna you're wrong madison or you're. giving me my thoughts go give him and he paid out here sonia. gandhi kid didn't hear them and now you. to be there when i am or and there could be. and then when. i have eyes in the arm of. i'm going

to do it isn't there. a. human that here in monotone that is a human being to me ask me me. it's often said i'm the 2nd guy. and one goalie i love you more i never want to participate in your money. i guess you might say oh i want to. know i can do a double. in their filmed confessions the american air force officers expressed apparently genuine remorse for their actions can i go back and take my family and them alive or. how can i tell them me thanks but i am a criminal and i love you man. but when they returned home at the end of the war they all retracted their confessions. so where does the truth lie for professor

mori at least the north korean witnesses are the more convincing there are thousands on or he will kill them in a code of medicine that is gonna. kill. is own study kill any time of the. night but this is also when you can aid in this. yeah i believe i'm a judge in sox terminal kinetic and you talk to sawgrass and it over to him not in any court. mores mission is taking him deeper into north korea's rural hinterland and into the areas most heavily bombed during the war. over here matter and village in the east of the country he meets cheik young stock

in 1982 he was in his final year at school. of the camera he could have been home building moved on from hong kong you knew reasonable water. taken going a little too but again what it is. to me the thought of it but now. there's a. pod jonathan. came yamani to the needs that i would in a death are going to get a lot again. in march 952 this peaceful rural area was heavily bombed by the u.s. air force. by then the war ground to a stalemate and. american military chiefs had already dropped thousands of tons of napalm and were considering a nuclear strike. but the people of mataram village

claimed to have been the victims of a very different weapon. he going to be able could help me he told me he wouldn't even. have been able to get to put in there. who would make it something could look incidents he got. on it would have you would have been there. to me wouldn't have if they saw. you didn't book me you could tell me you don't have or do need the why will you take it in the. long cause. if you get there. then. no no no no it isn't. home she said she. according to the villages within days many of them fell

sick and began to die the symptoms apparently consistent with bubonic plague a disease with no recent history in korea. and they're already killing your one. thought a lot of people who like a lot. more to 100 more normal for parking people from people who are more part of what is also what a whole lot of the last long. term goal. i'm going to law. goes all. the time to work through. who want to rule we're not talking about. a special car to crush a. little bit but. they'd be ok in just saying thank yous and here you are. playing music on the playground with us no. no

no no no no it's not up. so you coming out of you're with us now that i. but the clear state decides why he isn't. but mari knows that testimony from north korean citizens will not be enough to convince a skeptical world that the united states used germ warfare in korea says your hire staff so i just saying you know chores are a heavy he i going to need in. he joins. us. in fact within months of the allegations being made the north koreans did invite an international commission to visit the country. composed of scientists from france italy sweden the soviet union and brazil and led by a distinguished if left leaning british embryologist it toured the affected areas interviewed the sick and the dying and carried out

a detailed analysis of their infections. the commission's $600.00 page report included results of post-mortems on the victims these identified plague typhoid cholera and anthrax. it concluded the germ warfare had been deployed exactly as the north koreans claimed but despite its wealth of scientific evidence it was dismissed by america as communist this information. moment excellent doesn't have anything i got changed and as you know i had. no. dice in the interest of. the. whole are talking to what are you doing. today at the 38th parallel korea remains divided north and south korea remain technically at war every hour of

every day the border guards square up to each other across the symbolic dividing line under the constant gaze of american forces. but because search for information about biological warfare in korea will take him far away from this disputed border. harbin northeastern china. in the 1930 s. and 1940 s. japan occupied this part of china. inside these brick buildings a division of the imperial japanese army unit 731 carried out grotesque human experiments as a result japan became the 1st country ever to perfect the technology of biological warfare. agents in this.

chair and. the. fate of. color to me. the trash the japanese experiments exposed to bare living. victims insects or shellfish infected with plague anthrax and cholera while weapons experts created unique bombs to deliver these pathogens to their target during world war 2 japan dropped thousands of these bombs throughout northern china infecting towns and villages with plague cholera anthrax and type for you to see they're filling up often lead. to.

the bottle that they don't already unit 731 was run by japanese scientists and led by general sharon. despite clear evidence that unit 731 used biological warfare on such an industrial scale after the war now the shira she nor the leaders of his germ weapons team was ever prosecuted for war crimes or to say all what they. say you'll see on the air. we are. we are the cotton ball a dollar bill. says saudi and they end all hurt all weather for so. the techniques and the germs used by unit 731 match exactly the details of north korea's claims of american biological warfare and today chinese officials at least

a convinced that there was a link between the 2 may. there was. show you all less details. yet the u.n. . should. just ship. for professor mari the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit 731 is deeply shocked. when i told a snail they can i you know or she should or innocent young innocent japan khaleda doing a snare. on interest there. and some of your kind us had some english continuous. but i see. no. nonsense and i know from.

some of them another. says ones i saw last fall are. particle to knuckle their knee so nor know that the. how could he she escaped justice did america really use his pioneering technology to wage biological warfare in korea. or were the convincingly detailed confessions of american air force pilots actually extract it under communist pressure. the truth may lie in another country thousands of miles from here. to in kolkata culture of knowledge openness and clear alyssum worldwide and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity the shape come out award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and

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seeking caleb's combined with the most toxic substance in the world would have been a manmade invisible threat on al jazeera. your child is there with me so horribly in doha a reminder of our top news stories the u.s. electoral college has formally validated joe biden's victory in the november presidential election and that does push joe biden of the threshold to clinch the presidency it's one of the last steps to finalize the outcome of november's election well speaking in the last hour biden criticized donald trump's efforts to overturn the results this legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials

and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the vote more than 20000000 americans in other states and they hear the president your candidate who lost the electoral college lost the popular vote and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse its position charge 3 we've never seen before appreciation they refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution u.s. attorney general william barr has resigned and will step down next week he angered donald trump this month by failing to support the president's unsounded claims of election fraud but in his resignation letter barr said the allegations would still be pursued trump tweeted that their relationship had been a very good one. the number of covert 19 deaths in the united states has the past 300000 on the day the largest banks nation campaign in the country's history got

under way medical workers an elderly care home residents are being prioritize joining the rollout most european countries are struggling to contain a new wave of covert 19 cases germany's president is warning the covert 900 situation has become bitterly serious but all essential businesses will have to close in germany from wednesday until january the 10th in london has been moved into england's highest level of restrictions. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of a russian missile defense system increasing tension between the 2 nato allies turkey bought the russian s $400.00 ground defense system last year and insists it poses no threat to nato. federal police in nigeria say extra investigators have been deployed to fund find hundreds of missing school boys they were taken on friday night when gunmen stormed a state boarding school in the northwestern state of kant sina those are the headlines about with more news in half an hour to stay with us.

november 2009 and the president of the united states issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. north korea behaves in a provocative fashion. and then. is willing to return to talks talks for a while and then leaves the talks seeking further concessions and there is never actually any progress on the core issues. while in pyongyang north korean officials insist that talk about nuclear weapons depends on resolution of the 58 year old claims that america used to biological warfare in the korean war and. be. coming and. your money if you thought you money

korb you will be the future you don't care you days or whom we're not going to go door to where are you piers hanging in there are none really. terrible mark go pradhan with young call bew cancer and i.v.'s are. always handled and. but while professor morey's inquiries continue in north korea the search for the truth about whether america did use biological weapons there moves halfway around the world. in the u.s. national archives just outside washington d.c. 2 documents reveal a disturbing relationship between america and she is she the mastermind behind japan's biological warfare program unit 731. this show that after the war american military intelligence shielded the leaders of unit 731 from war crimes

trials in return for their expertise in advancing america's then embryonic germ warfare plans information procured will have the greatest value in future development of the u.s. b.w. program so we decide that we're going to trade in this sort of of deal. we trade issues non-prosecution for his seconds which is small out our and so the deal is made the trunks of of raw data arrive and in a sense we've sold our souls because we need to know that they were able to develop weapons that were capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people these once top secret documents reveal that to speed its program the united states paid ishi and his top germ warfare scientists handsomely for their cooperation they were assisted by direct payments payments in kind food miscellaneous gift items entertained.

from 1947 behind this security fence at fort dietrich in maryland the u.s. army began work to expand issues use of insects to deliver bubonic plague anthrax cholera and typhus not very far from any. one in historic frederick maryland on the biological warfare laboratories. were working on delivery systems from planes and from nestle's and from other paratus of both fleas but primarily mosquitoes it was a very active program a well funded program a program in which we in fact were testing some of these delivery systems clowder biological warfare agent can be generated so successful was fort dietrich in perfecting the technology of biological warfare that in the late 1951 as american

forces were bogged down in korea the u.s. joint chiefs of staff issued a top secret order to begin testing germ weapons on the battlefield large scale field tests should be conducted to determine the effectiveness of specific b.w. agents under operational conditions. at the time america was fighting only one wounding korea if the order by the joint chiefs of staff was a bait and it was only one battlefield where biological weapons could be tested in movies and video testimony given as he was dying by a japanese technician who worked to unit 731 suggests that these trials may have been actively assisted by the original masterminds of biological warfare who consider tours joses 0 day he's only. solo.

doesn't take being conned the only. one who isn't those who is alive. and she's on governor's on. tour says his own niece is the. according to north korea america began dropping bombs filled with infected insects in january 952 near the end of the korean winter. in support it cites what it claims is contemporary newsreel footage showing scientists examining insects surrounding the remains of bombs on snow covered ground like a bomb casing from a standard leaflet bomb that was used to deliver pamphlets and that sort of information we showed this film to entomologist and biological warfare expert professor geoffrey lockwood it's really difficult to say what that is there's

there's no scale so i can't tell what the size of those insights are given that appears to be snow i would guess that of the big they could be something like stone flies crawling around on the snout but for professor lockwood the problem is not with the insects the bombs or the snow it's with the veracity of the film itself it has to be almost certain that what we're seeing here is a a recreate of what the koreans saw or claim to have seen the possibility of getting a camera to film crew to an area where insects at this sort of density have been dispersed in time to actually film that converges on 0 so what we're seeing is what they said they saw and this is probably as close as they can come to that does that necessarily mean that it didn't happen no it doesn't it doesn't mean that it didn't happen it's simply that this is not evidence that it did happen so this is is is i would gather this is their attempt to simulate the sorts of things that they that

they saw in 152 united states representatives took to the floor of the united nations it is no exaggeration to say. that that problem group is run now from the world. they denounced the north korean evidence as a clumsy fake and a lie. but in doing so they told their own lies undermining the credibility of all american denials of biological warfare some of the denial was just absurd almost laughable when when for instance one particular u.s. official says we did not have any development of insight vector disease research in the united states at that time it's simply an absurd and bald faced deception it's a lie working up to functions against chemical biological and radiological warfare is the responsibility of the army chemical corps were insect dropped over north

korea and parts of china my sense is that there were incidents that involved. probably quite limited but very very important u.s. testing of biological materials and how will the issue ever be laid to rest once and for all i don't know of the issue will be later i mean how would it be is with the smoking gun with with with definitive testimony from a u.s. official who was involved in the program and can say yes we did it. the key to the mystery may lie with the american at force offices who originally confessed to dropping bombs. very few are still alive today. but we tracked down one of the survivors to this peaceful senior citizens community

near houston texas. kenneth enoch is 85 years old today he enjoys a comfortable retirement sharing wartime memories with his wife barbara these are supposed to be bombs over here is that right those obama service they. and i think this is this man under given food. but from 1950 on would left tenant kenneth enoch was another gates on u.s. air force b. 26 bombing missions over north korea all but one or 2 most missions we flew at night i favorite target was trains we were like trains you know sometimes the one would almost hit the engine. and actually if we drop napalm on the engine you know to try and discourage them i guess it was the you could feel the napalm go off on january the 13th 95253 night bombing missions the next plane was shot down and he bailed out over north korean territory

unleaded and the parachute spilled and i found a corner of a rice paddy. and it was snowy there were quite a bit of snow on the ground and i saw a dark spot over there on the corner and so i thought well that's a good place for me to be but in less than an hour kenneth enoch was captured by north korean and chinese soldiers it was the morning of this 27th birthday they mark me down a house and i had a place to sit. and they had a guard there and they handed me a piece of paper in english. said. don't worry. we're going to send any anyway you know they don't want to trouble for awhile least but anyway. so i was. left an empty knock would be held captive in north korea for the next 20 months but what happened to him and what he did during his time as

a prisoner of war would prove to be one of the most bitterly disputed pieces of evidence in the allegations of american biological warfare. that. there. was. the fact. that there. was. on april the 1st 952 kennedy naca made a detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. on film and over 8 closely written pages left tenant he not described his biological weapons instructions. or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that they have. never read but. they and the code word assigned to log them on his return rate. for. ordinary.

in all 36 american air force officers made written or filmed confessions of dropping germ bombs while in captivity. but when they were sent back home at the end of the war the us department of defense woman them that they could be brought before courts martial to face treason charges subsequently in response to identical questions each officer made a carefully worded retraction just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges or germ warfare in korea and the so-called confessions of captured u.s. airmen each retraction was filmed by military cameras and handed to television news reel companies in it it is. an authority that you have been there but the basic so-called germ warfare bombing the overnight. if you care to make

a statement regarding the. if left in and kenneth enoch's retraction was typical. movie we're recording interviews. were forced upon me that johnny. said that due to my park humor due to my confession which was absolutely. in my confession i would now be branded by the people of the world as in fact a war criminal you describe the method used by the time that. you get your statement. yesterday they use both physical and mental pressure they pushed me around. me attention for a long period. forced me to sit at attention. finally i could see

that there was no alternative insanity or death they they threaten me and threaten me again that i should never leave alive if i didn't cooperate but nearly 60 years later kenny enoch now denies he was ill treated by his captors whatever actions these were very brutal no no no no no. no no no. but here i lay there one time they had me and i did the stay in the same place all the time and i can't recall one particular thing but. maybe maybe they wanted to move somebody else you know how whatever they do so i got transferred to another building another house not home and it was cold and the so my room wasn't quite as big but it was it was all i needed you know.

but they came with because it was so cold they came with. a pot full of charcoal you know lay it. and they put it in the room to keep me warm the 2nd reason flight left tenant he not gay for making his confession was mental pressure also forced to read their propaganda. make they were both comment on it that is their their russian publications and so on on communism today once again his story changes try to let you. know if you want to be that really hurts. you know i mean. i don't think so for dockery they had all kind of books or if you want to go i guess and if you bought one you didn't like you know it just over here so why then

did he make such a detailed confession today he claims that it was a deliberate deception there was 4 days false and then else i could think of he says that he booby trapped the document giving his fellow crew members the names of american cartoon characters and there was a fellow named dick tracy dick tracy you know dick tracy over there yeah richard tracy what. you know and i was going to put a junior in there to you know if we're doing a trick. you tell you only does this make you always like. yeah. but they were there i wanted them to be recognizable so i got tracy and jr that would been great except that. you know you can't put too many people on one of them or it's worse or it would have been a real dandy probably would have had a president from where. the difficulty with this story is that many of the dates

and places detailed in kennedy knox confession have since been confirmed as accurate. the only mention of anything approaching a cartoon character is a passing reference to his gunnery officer sergeant tracy. and then nearly 60 years on kenneth iraq seems to make at least a partial admission that the united states did deploy bacteriological weapons 1st of all i think you have to understand what what this. biological warfare or whatever or car is a pretty big deal and it's health what you've got specialists and evil doctors and all of that nonsense but but there's the people who deal and they're don't have to go high and so as fairies we deal for them you know but they send us send it when

you nevertheless he still denies that he personally played any part in the affair i thought what you words you know i don't know were the same errors fly you know i was just a. passenger. official records of bombing raids over north korea held in the u.s. national archives one way to clear up the confusion about kennedy knox confession and subsequent retraction would be to examine the flight logs for his missions over korea but they were removed from the files by the us air force on march the 23rd 19522 months after he was captured and one week before he made his written confession. and after the war the u.s. military imposed a top secret classification on all documents relating to biological warfare in the far east. many of the flight records for korea have never been released.

you. also know the danger which. will show. us whether come up with a lot going on in a committee is someone you. wish is used in the. old order new kernel or. each time if you use a sage brush there definitely needs. more pull not nicholas until now they can usually do with a quick analysis no jew or not just look at. washington remembers the korean war very differently to pyongyang. the united states still owners its military men and women as heroes who fought on behalf of the free world to hold back the march of international communism. and yet when we asked both the

department of defense and the state department for filmed interviews to discuss the allegations of america's biological warfare program both refused. they also declined to respond to 10 specific questions about north korea's claims. instead a government spokesperson issued a 2 line statement describing the allegations as baseless and the disinfo mission campaign that refuses to die. just. one thing is clear. until those allegations are laid to rest. and america's innocence or culpability is established beyond doubt perhaps by an independent inquiry. one of the most enduring cold war mysteries will continue to haunt its relationship. with the world's most secretive

state. dirty little secrets from 2010 a persuasive story but one that has been consistently denied by every american administration for more than 60 years and north korea though this story contributes to a profound suspicion of the united states and its intentions and southeast asia i'm joined now from u.k. by professor hazel smith a korea expert from london school of oriental and african studies professor thank you so much for joining us so if all of this happened with you know deadly insects biological weapons if all this happened it was more than 60 years ago but having said that is this still a very real live issue for north koreans now the truth is about the korean war is that it was a very dirty war on all sides there atrocities by the north koreans by the south koreans there were many many people killed and many many orphans and many maimed

so the whole of the war still remains controversial particularly for north koreans and for south koreans because they've still got family members that have split since 953 once when the war ended there's been no communication between the 2 sides so the issues about alleged germ warfare a part and parcel of the discourse which takes place in north korea this is a controversial topic at the time in the 1950 s. remains controversial now this story no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesn't however form part of the day to day discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for 2 years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and. clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people. never raised once as an

issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were raised of course things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the 1950 s. in the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today for a brief moment there is a slight deescalation but obviously the tension is still there how do you see things playing out on the korean peninsula well there are different objectives the north koreans want to preserve regime security which for them means both territorial defense for prevention of military intervention from the outside but also security for the current government and for those in power it saw what happened in iraq to saddam hussein and in libya to gadhafi and their argument is that if those countries had maintained nuclear weapons program or

similar sorts of programs they wouldn't have been vulnerable to invasion from the united states and others although what's encouraging is with south korea north korea after all at the heart of the matter on the korean peninsula at least talking to each other now in 2080 in a way that they haven't been for 2 or 3 years there are some diplomatic channels which will at least at this stage allow for talks on more sensitive issues but there is a long long way to go before we can see an end to these conflicts thank you professor hazel smith for joining us and that is it from us to check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series irish al carry thank you for joining us so you can answer. thank you thank you. following 2 fatal crashes and boeing decided to brown the brand new 7 for 7 backs but this wasn't the

1st time them grounded a new aircraft back in 2013 the 787 dreamliner ran into trouble when a better record. but is out of the us investigative unit discovered both more to the problem than just smoking batteries. rewinded broken during the boeing 787 on al-jazeera. winter in the us is getting further and further south every day the last chunk sure whether this cold front here went through arkansas also unsurprising resource now

in colorado you were surprised that that is course a very high state that it came across nebraska and oklahoma than towards arkansas which you don't think of as a particularly cold state but there we are all the same snow on the ground that is now going eastwards and we've got rain head of it and it's chased away by that but is snow and the cold air that tucks in after was just have a look at these temperatures go way down to the south coast used 11 degrees atlanta 1414 all monday on those days it dropped down to 7 by tuesday the same time on the pacific coast the next storm system is making some inroads there displacing the fog has been hanging around in montana for example bringing rain factory down towards california the same time the next tranche of cold as it shows itself a drop ronnie's temperature $4.00 to $14.00 the iraq stays at 70 and there's more snow on its way raleigh should be around about trophy. greece so it's cold here too this cold eventually leaks out of the gulf of mexico if not on tuesday then on

wednesday when it does so it hans's the rain in the yucatan peninsula beyond that it's quite quiet. it's a position sarge 3 we've never seen before but ition refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution joe biden criticizes donald trump full falsely claiming that fraud the electoral college formally affirms his election victory. u.s. attorney general william barr is resigning and attention with president trump over his baseless claims of election fraud.

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