giant corporations rule the day. recap of this week's top stories the official report of last april plane crash that killed poland's president and scores of the country's political and military elite blames pilot error there's been angry political reaction in walsall wherever with accusations that the investigation is incomplete but another probe being launched there won't find anything new says western aviation experts. two of the world's energy giants joined forces as russia did b.p. swap billions of dollars worth of shares in a deal to jointly explore the vast undiscovered oil and gas riches of the russian

arctic where the partnership plan was welcomed to both london but criticized by environmentalists over b.p.'s a ball in the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster last year. also the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington nears final approval as russia's parliament passes the agreement in the second of three readings the deal between russian and american nuclear arsenals by a third was given the green light by the us senate just before christmas after months of wrangling. well up next our special report of the start of the vietnam war movement in the u.s. in the one nine hundred sixty s. that altered the course of history. when you meant a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even he got to the point where you could even till what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive death or handshake and he definitely could tell if you within your company because

everybody knew everybody had to do what he did. you know the problem but i'm glad to see him i don't i don't know or they just check back. with you know we got to come. by. snap is ready to swear that first just that high and low down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you're around right. there you go yes it happened and i can recall the blood's oh it's best known to bases big a big big big hit they've been going to jail for the power would be just what we did to other things as well we believe that even going to jail the dog just don't. belong in jail was it just deed and well being it was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of bouncing in this prison

a lot of stuff people would and we both pretty dire situation. a group of the inmates got together and we decided a new good excuse for this place. but happened was is that the result was alone be. a lot of. cost to go. down the jail and he was just made. by the people got killed. i'm surviving so. i was going to survive the metal would get ready to come to the deceased and. you know when you're laying on your back and you can't move for day in and day out you have a lot of time to think soon and think about what you did you know what you've done and things that you've done to the people that you kunal people that are.

i mean there's always something that reminds you. that you can be here and i think that you see then. your accuracy what i saw what was going on in the states due to running down the streets and wearing the same kind of uniform that i got. there in memphis where. they've beaten up on people. we made it we were over here beating up on people over here and at the same time you guys were in the same identical uniforms that i am. and you're beating up on. black people dong the runner near where tanks are on the street. in the summer of one nine hundred sixty eight army and national guard troops were sent into american cities

as thousands of black people rioted following the assassination of martin luther king. that spring troops were used against antiwar demonstrators at the pentagon. then in august soldiers at fort hood were told they would be sent to chicago where antiwar demonstrations were planned for the democratic party's national convention . we just come back from fighting the vietnamese not i want us to fight the americans. the night before the troops are supposed to leave there was a meeting of blood as they gathered up in a parking lot in the first armored division section and they were out there all night in a parking lot talking to you know. really why they were opposed to going to chicago where making it clear that it was a genocidal thing is going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black g.s. and the straight feel brothers came up and really started to point it on the end

about you know discrimination and unfair treatment not getting the right you need it about what was happening with the war as the meeting stretched into the night fort hood's commanding general showed up to talk to the g.i.'s he said i'm just a two star general let me go and talk to my boss and i have an answer for you in the morning so you know we just relax you know went to sleep i was cracked up said to hit me i said here. you know you know what they had to go i know m.p.'s all around this man you know what are you going to be ten m.p.'s you know they came at us with us and i got you know you would have been. and in the area every now and then you open this formation up and grouper in peace come in and grab a brother and take him back in the back and beat the shit i. hear screaming in the

bed you know. see. and they were court martialed brought up on various court martial charges but it scared the hell out of the military then they want to round and went through a roster of all the units who were supposed to go and took off who they considered to be quotes of vs. so a number of people myself included. one of the most infamous events the nine hundred sixty s. chicago police brutally attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic convention although the army had sent a contingent of riot control troops to chicago from fort hood that kept them on the street. was no longer certain which side the. the military had a problem on and it was about to go from bad to worse. we were in. the practice line i believe it was a long line of

a sudden we see this commotion kind of started to being in the line and then start come up towards us and we could see people like one guy would turn to the guy behind them and they there be this excited conversation and then that guy would turn to the guy behind him and finally the guy in front of me got the noose and he turns around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who is killing women and children the vietcong and he said no we are. sixteen thousand nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division entered the village and me life twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women and children lay dead brutally and want to leave murdered in cold blood around the world to me live massacre would become the touchstone in fact of the vietnam war. for over a year the american military covered up to me live massacre claiming only enemy

soldiers were killed and when the truth was finally brought to light by journalists the highest ranking officer blamed to prosecuted was william calley a lieutenant. in a cramped detroit hotel a new organization vietnam veterans against the war held an unprecedented investigation that exposed a much deeper truth i think the winter soldier investigation was to try to point out it wasn't really in defense of cali but it was in going after the notion that the policies of the u.s. military created things like me lie ok but it was a policy it was both a written and an unwritten policy and the truth has to be told you can't duck away from the truth you can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say oh this is a the words they used back then an isolated instance of aberdeen behavior you were just coming home saying i'm against the war you're saying this is what we did this is how we did it this was a crime this was wrong helped people to really cross the bridge and to see us in

a way that i think the anti-war movement had not seen g.i.'s before america went through went through a choke ok because they didn't want to believe that these things occurred in the name of the american people supposedly is supporting freedom and liberation and democracy throughout the world and there is this terrible slaughter this turmoil in aim slaughter so i think the question was. why are they going after cali where callee was doing precisely what we were all told to do when we were in vietnam essentially ok which is kill them all and sort it out later. city i had a friend who was it was an advisor with an organ group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village there was no you with it see how they act so i went with them and. they didn't find any enemy but they found a woman with bandages so she was questioned with about she was questioned by six

wives and the way they questioned her was that she had bandages. they shot her she was in about twenty times she was questioned. of course dead. this guy came over who was you knowing him he was a former major he was in the service or twenty years nic you got hungry again and came back over working with usa id aid international development and. he went over there and rip the clothes off into the night and. got from regina all the way up well just about up to her breast and hold her organ down completely out of a cavity. and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel every bit of skin off her body and left her there as a sign for something or other and i went and listened to three days of testimony and absolutely came away from an emotionally drained and floored by i never grasped even up to that point how powerful was the genocidal

plans and strategy of the us towards the vietnamese people on every level. you know whether was agent orange and the dow chemical and we can figure it in the napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to that the enemy skin enough. i mean that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality. this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and bands like the recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation opana observances one thousand g.i.'s marched the first year. they told people limits and they told

people. were putting up plywood coverings on their windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change it. because you know we thought making fun of your enemy was. the second year nine hundred seventy one. three four. very conceivable indicate our army that now remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse but individual units avoiding or having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. and dispirited were not.

by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers. in the face of the term an unprecedented antiwar movement and the military here. collapse the nixon administration announced the policy of vietnamization and effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army while american jets bombarded north vietnam from the sky. nixon promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace enters from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker not a dozen trucks the first captain a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody back in the room knows you were out here . like. two batteries or a tourist poster the grocery with nobody we don't even exist. we just need

a miracle ships we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army tonight was that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there were no american troops on the border. it would be fighting for democracy. why no or if you all like to go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base it's planned so it's like you know. this is we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing for order think he's. going to try to hire a hired man they don't have to go on thursday just send us out into the captain crowed in order to six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission because he sent six guys out against two regiments and they said we're going to do it when going to go and the only option it was was to get word

out to the outside world and they wrote a petition at the ready we are under siege and firebase pace we are faced with the decision of whether to take a court martial artist a fate an offense to grow up in the event of mass prosecution. very unit our only hope would be. nixon was so afraid ordered that company pulled out they sent in another company they'd heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company knows troops would be willing to fight they said look we're not going to fight anymore. there are more problems to winding down the vietnam war than just holding the enemy at bay and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the morale of g.i.'s who know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced plenty grit

insubordination shooting of officers by the wrong men and a definite practice called fragging to a purpose my mind was he did to get me or intimidate to myself and all others in authority in the company and battalion sergeant saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the violent attacks on authority have come to be known as fragging and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is fragment as we call pigs. by picture talking about your senior enlisted men in your officers that's correct the most common terms. forced to

rely almost solely on the air war of one thousand nine hundred seventy two and the united states launched an unprecedented barrage of vietnam dropping more tonnage of bombs on that tiny country that were used during world war two and with the assault coming mainly for america. after sailors and airmen became the center of the g.i. movement on the u.s.s. coral sea twelve hundred signed a petition demanding the ship stay home and san diego california home of the carriers constellation and kitty hawk spawn the movement led by a group of navy officers and enlisted men. we truly believe what would stop that war was when the soldier stopped fighting it still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors and enlisted people as we sat around and brainstormed about what kind of a nonviolent action can we take that can actually touch sailors. around

and we saw the aircraft the biggest ship in san diego harbor the most precious and our. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship anymore it's really part of airpower and we used to attack as a it's it's a weapon of a boeing weapon of aggression. the original concept cain well let's do something where we allow the people on board that ship to cast a ballot as to whether or not they think they should go back to vietnam let's just hear their voice and then we said now this election should be held in every shopping center in san diego county and every safeway store ought to have a little polling booth outside and we have to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. today ok. ok

they say it will take all day living. eck i was a carrier qualified aviator and i gave me a lot of credibility with people earned or not or and even though i hadn't been in combat. people would give you a certain amount. treatments of course because i knew all whole lot of that out military function. yes dan. brown the question is why do you people have to look so weird like. you just look normal up. there was this inside out we would call it where we would where we were collecting more and more of the sailors to get them involved to give them up for you know if they want to end the war nation's war .

there's nobody from the captain of that ship to the mayor of the city's or did not hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folds to for that ship to stay we're still going without a guess though because that's a big ever the ship says well i know there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go but military is full of malcontents because it listen. while denying that the g.i. movement even existed the house internal security committee of the united states

congress held a series of hearings in one thousand nine hundred seventy one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly and deeply that movement had spread that same year the f.c.a. show tour de janeiro despite being banned from military bases worldwide. the show performed in japan okinawa and the philippines for over sixty thousand soldiers and every stop g.i.'s took the stage with them we can no longer remain silent about trustees and injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and all the petty harassment the servicemen and women i made two hundred day after day we demand this policy against firstly because there are a. lot of the many against first not just anti war g.i. because they do not agree with us policies. and media in

kosovo air and ground troops and cia agent vietnam as well as in korea open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama. i mean it seems unthinkable now that we could have done this. and that you could have a hall full of guys with their fists in the air song happy . that we had come to acknowledge their reality. and do you most. and refused to kill. you said no man will lose you and only. what he's hiding folders to be free i used to love to watch the faces of the g.i.'s when she sang that it was like this shell of tension would drop away and you would see the youth and the

innocence and the vulnerability underneath stone to. stand strong on closets. what do you. do. this for. this new day full of nine hundred seventy one just five years after how it levy and donald duck and flown acts of protest thousands of vietnam veterans against the war converged on washington d.c. and threw their medals onto the capitol steps. we had to fight to take this step. you know it's kind of a unique opportunity it's very it's very rare i think and in anybody's life that

you have an opportunity to really think that you are changing history that you're a part of history at first they couldn't boy protest in a war that the buddha or minds or we had a thousand years in one thousand so they thought they did not to react to that because they thought there were a bunch of them they got out there and. we all just thought it but i'm going to go farther i really learned so much so just spend a day after day after day you know just people talking about you know what it's all about how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we're really going to look forward change the world that's what we want to do for it would change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that didn't leave much room but to change the world you know people said we keep going back when you went back to get not just keep going back to vietnam because i tell you what the other side does they're always going back and they have to go back the hocks you know the patriarchs they have to go back because and they

have to revise the going back because they can't allow us to know what the what the back there really was don't you think about this shit and you say. gad damn. it i'm extremely. shocked. the government pushed me in two days she asked. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran if you're white you're a veteran or something. like. being. a veteran of the massacre at some place or another you know i. know there's no pride. and so don't talk about go away. so it's amazing to me that as many as many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam

actually there. then spoke out against it and demonstrated against it and i just. mean. that there was. and that if there had been one hundred i would have been made that there was thousands missis. incredible. brave people. would. last to. give the street. ninety. six percent of the council a body. saw accounting firms to track them to cooperate with.

us and. like. most parts of. business better because of the by. the way they deal with me that god is. not the thief so that we threaten me like. that now so.