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causing fires across the us west coast. one is spreading in the san bernadino national forest east of los angeles. it has already burned more than 80 square kilometers of land. the after known for being the voice of star wars. villain. darth vader has died. james, earl jones was 93. his rich, deep voice had become familiar to generations of fans. frodo car looks back at his career, described as one of america's greatest actors, james earl jones, and 60 year career in film. and peter established him as one of the most recognizable voices in hollywood. mm hm. so it's easiest to do. so millions of film goers knew in best as the voice of star wars, given darth vader. the book, the trail blazing african american actor, took time to find his signature, deep baritone voice born in 1931 in the then segregated state of mississippi jones
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suffered from a severe stutter. owing to his difficult childhood, joan said a sympathetic teacher and the practice of reciting poetry helped him conquer his speech impediment. one day, the sun was set on my time here and he made his phone to view and stanley kubrick's 1964 doctor, strange stuff. but his 1st major center rose arisen great white hope. turning him an academy award nominations. 1970 i'm black and i'm hoping his dramatic range was undeniable in more than 100 performances over the following decades. field of dreams was the hunt for red october. and as the eagle snake caught leader, tulsa, do, right. and conan, the barbarian is paula. and the dramatic active was an eas, pivoting to comedy along side eddie murphy's and coming to america to us wait, right that our team as well as veterans so young on stage jones was politic
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thing, the type of role. and shakespeare is king lear and the fellow lenny and mice of man and truly max and in fences landing in one of his 2 tony awards are request what law is better say. i've got the, like you in 2022 historic court theater in the heart of broadway was renamed to james earl jones theater. james, earl jones, to man his powerful voice will resume long after he is gone. once that speech is a very important aspect of being human whisper doesn't congress the up next on alpha 0, witness and state. the
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knowledge is the width of the 1993. i saw this group, i saw myself working with a group of prisoners inside a prison. and there's the soldiers above us, pointing gun towards us. the soldiers not to shoot. everybody starts to get killed . us not to crime the green. and i woke up next to my wife in 2 and then 8 years later, when on in belgrade was sold as above as pointing guns i wrote back to my wife is that the only dream i've ever related to?
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good evening. so that i come, my name is martin beck. i am the outreach director for cage and advocacy group that fights against policies of the war on terra. i am a former president of the united states held at guantanamo without charged withdrawal for 3 years. and i'm very pleased to be speaking to you whole here this evening for me, but my life's work since my return from guantanamo has been about advocating for people in such a place as people that you don't know about. so there all these different groups of people, libyan saudis, europeans and so forth. and i wanted to know their stories, and i wanted to know how many of these guys could we could i do something for. and so i found this organization. i began to engage with it and, and joined and i've never left since the of the use of applying for a passport. i now finally have more of decided to go back to afghanistan.
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yeah, some people end of us talk to us say of a show you should want to go to a it's, it's a, it's a very, very, very personal journey. it's very, it's something that i have to speak to somebody about since that time till now. and i haven't talked often say that the experience for me was not as profound. this background was not given us. so if i promise cause of very, very tense, the
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case has been working on this case of my mother came directly, frankly 10 years, but incorrectly on the continent of cases since 2003 with all the, all the presence of how they without charter trust so here's this man, this off gun held in on tunnel with our charge to trial, to coming up to 22 years. and that really underlines my connection to this whole sort of cage and also being connected directly to this story of mentoring.
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so this is, was the upper hon in kabul for me to return. who is going to the emotional intentions of this trip is to i put in to underline my experience with afghanistan for the whole story to come full circle and to see with the process, the change and impact in my life. so traumatic to me actually begin to go back to the cash the
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couples changed beyond recognition and the kind of runs back and i don't think anybody could have imagined the not the moment. okay. i know not the more so we came here yesterday. yeah. but i dropped tested on, didn't recognize it because it is so different that you have the desk on the side as me so. so the same me the same place of interest. 20 o d is late the
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the, the other end. okay. cuz some people give you the silver the the couple many by chance uh change the subject which came today. it could be just a minute and i'll give you the minute a minute to cut it up in the morning. i'll be, i might have thought, and i'll put that in and i'm ready. so so how i let me do, would you put uh,
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why would you say well putting it will split the uh hand. it goes to the board to come out of the he keeps going, that you'll be here, the changes that i was hoping was i'm going to use it both by today, but uh uh, so the american ministry gets out documented bucky and the lawyers will, that will uh, put you in case he has a look of a ian, what do you need to do with getting to be local to the house? cuz okay, well ma'am it's funny when the bus shared me, but the kids that have to all the sudden, well the computer you can watch it, the video of the she, the get the, the, the, the, the for the jerry's as we're always the goose
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front of you on the show. i think this is the road i used to live. i think my last day in this house was when the will, the bombing, the cruise missiles landed on the hill behind this way. we saw the crews themselves beloved and of the windows in my house, the correct from the of the shop. and we got the kids of the neighbors and the women and we hit in the basement and we covered the windows with mattresses because
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a wind mom under him gets released. that's going to be a victory. the hello james mazda. how are you? i'm fine. thanks. yeah, james, so thank you very much. first of all, for, for doing this. i know we've not spoken directly, but i know about your work and particularly in relation to tim, how much of him could you just tell me when was the last time you saw him and how he's doing i'm at one time. okay. now and i saw yesterday, he was in high spirits, he's a, he's a man who really tries to overcome his circumstances and keep a positive outlook no matter what. what, what does he expect? considering all the other half kinds of left continental,
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the frame is been held for over 15 years in guantanamo without any charges at all, without any opportunity to defend himself or disprove any allegations against him. he still doesn't have any charges against him and no opportunity for a trial. well, once he does have is an opportunity for a administrative board composed of members of the intelligence community who will assess whether they believe peace of danger to the united states. and of course, he knows that other people are being released. he knows that other people have been cleared. he does have hope. the team that we've been able to put together will be able to convince the members the intelligence community. what is obvious to anyone who knows rain, which is that he poses no danger to the united states is not an extreme. is there any way? he's not a radical i. he's a 57 year old man with severe health problems. who deserves to go on a thank you. thank you very much. indeed it's, i actually did know you were in guantanamo and you just kind of told me off the
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cuff, took me a little bit by surprise. but that actually is a good surprise, because you are the most appropriate place to talk about the subject can what's, what's the best way to follow up with the for you the now that i'm here many doors open. please say destiny has had to look to do it it feels like this was meant to be
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that's what i kind of kind of, i'm not huge in part of the mentorship. this the little for us, but when i, when i, when i was so, but definitely with that you've had it with us. well, this is what we wanted to see the, this is that's the marie, that's the full russian. i remember this one button to fix
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the the toilet to nasa. well, i love how you've played tennis at what arctic, what's the i'm, i'm the said that he was so good. the diamond particular model did wanna work in the 1st row. you didn't have to put the has when i loaded with the kid, but i must have the color. i'm not by not due to the lack of the same itself in the so i don't know the
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autopsy. and other than that, comes to you from about the foot, we bought it through us get through either and i can send messages back to form a personally. so i know we're here with me and say i worked in this place again and you know, the people that did the torture and abuse, they no longer here. and on this just complex the,
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i think there's different ways in which this country can hear. those who are in power have a fall, great to own this than anybody else to lead the way the lead the way by showing and proving that there's no retribution, no. 2 so now we're going to go and see the loss of can present it was released last you and hearing from him will be a different perspective because he's spent a huge amount of time in guantanamo and can tell us what it's like to integrate into the society. and to ask what had been started, you mean going to the middle of the sense of the job he, he loves understand a and this i had thought the let me let's see. so so the smoking noticed that the
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mythology is on the 5th of this some studies. yep. the body of us for that can definitely be this the fan of how and i'm the funding so that'd be enough most of the other way. and so he was definitely in this yeah, he goes a sort of why so some of them you know, associated with a small really well her cousin had been sent us and she was on monday and then. 2 with the, the one, the 2nd one is the library. we have for the one your storage, jimmy in the,
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in the, in to live with anger and bitterness of hatred. it, it each you up inside. and i can tell you that from person experience, you have to be able to let go to go for the journey was a great success. but there's no success until you've achieved the actual thing that you set out for. that is the release, at least of the one present of that we've been focusing on on a personal level, i think returning to this place as being the, it's just a dream for the background part that was a nightmare. so it's a nightmare and a dream come together that i think the dream has overtaken the night by the
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the latest news as it breaks, since the 1979 is evolution has been unable to bind the west and they have crossed because of the international sections with detailed coverage, more than 50000 homes and several villages have either been damaged or destroyed since june when the rains began from around the world. it's a mazda file called mostly suppression, is that your visual resume is with as much as i think most thing died for the president's delivering. who stays the nice and the address from his narrative to media was from propaganda to the changing face of journalism. i have never seen a leave media consensus change. so questioning what is reported and what is known.
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