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winning journalist sebastian a young girl tells us about the fate faced by war reporters and who really needs them. r t is sitting down with sebastian younger an american author journalist and documentary and his two thousand and ten film was nominated for an oscar and his most recent book war illustrates the human bonds that are formed between u.s. soldiers even amid a climate of conflict and killing sebastian thank you very much for sitting down with our well pleasure ok so your book war does illustrate. the realities of war why did you decide to focus on the character of the characters and the humanity of just u.s. soldiers. well war is a very political thing i mean it has to be it has to be argued about. and there are

dozens and dozens of great books that have come out in the past ten years that have gone over that morality the politics the strategy of the two wars that we've been in i didn't really want to add to that i felt that the one thing that was dropping out of the way of the national conversation we were having about these wars was the experience of the soldiers themselves i mean newspaper reporting you get a little bit of you know so and so from just out of illinois his father has this and you know little mini bios of soldiers but you don't really get into what i came to think of as the emotional terrain of combat and what i realized in the five was that i spent this little outpost was crippled in the korengal valley of eastern afghanistan huge of out of combat very isolated place what i realize is that the guys were not fighting for flag and country and they were not you know they would have joined up for reasons those sorts of reasons well once they were there they were fighting for each other and it was a completely kind of fraternal arrangement that had very very little broad kind of

like conceptual like go to vacations behind it you were asked about the death of some of them on the assassination of the line and what you thought that may mean to the future of afghanistan and to the u.s. soldiers there and according to what i've read most of the men and women who are fighting our wars right now are starting to have a distant relationship with the event that triggered it meaning september eleventh and that you thought the more immediate concern is what's going to happen on the ground in afghanistan because you say that most of the soldiers i meet those that you were embedded that were maybe nine or ten years old when september eleventh occurred i don't think that's going to lot and whether he's alive or dead now that he's that matters to them i think i think it does matter to them but but it's using increasingly i mean you know i'm a new yorker and i'm like you know i was in my forty's about a lot of us through the night on nine eleven remembering a very very painful memory you know someone who was nine years overnight eleven.

towards the army you might not have an emotional. that that attack might not have a real emotional content like you would read on but i think they understand the importance of killing him and the other stand the consequences of killing them killing him for themselves which is conceivably that they are in this danger do you think so i don't know but there's i'm sure this is a debate they're having a lot of these small outposts like are there going to be revenge attacks or are we in less danger because he was this sort of kingpin and now it's all coming on a column for ok i mean i don't know no one knows what they're probably discussing that when you were on and that is with these soldiers you were with our good friend of yours and partner and i want to express my condolences to you because i know that you did this as frank and a probably haven't thought he was in libya right and proper how does that shift your focus on what you do and how involved you will be moving forward. or

is there to complete some conflicts i've been covering wars is the age of ninety three and i've taken there about the risks in those twenty almost twenty years until his death really pretty much knocked me flat and. i think it made me realize i mean he's been dead a month today's been a month and it was a powerful moment and i made maybe realize like if i get killed. i'm going to be doing that what i feel right now to the people i'm closest to my wife my family my friends and i'd never quite thought about it that way and i think. well to believe that the decision i came to was that there is going to continue working i'm going to continue covering countries that are in transition in conflict but i'm not going to continue getting shot at like about that business according to what's being reported in the absolute very well known is that most journalists have retrenched

many overseas players have closed and this is the sessions are decisions are being made are you know by networks cable stations what do you think is going to happen when it comes to foreign news correspondents in the future if a lot of networks are pulled up here it's actually a great opportunity for religious you know back in the ninety's the eighty's and ninety's when the networks had tons of money in the newspapers had euro's all over the world you had to be like certified you know like stamps you know as a reporter correspondent to have a job overseas and the scraps that fell from the table went to the freelancers well now those jobs are going up lately the agencies can't fund them so now that workload is being undertaken by freelancers and so you know you go to libya you know to c.n.n. and whatever but zero b.b.c. but probably eighty percent of the correspondents on the ground are freelancers who

are working for news agencies they can't afford to pay a salary to a person who's there can afford to pay the insurance and so you know young very courageous young and somebody inexperienced reporter step in and that's how they learn that the next generation of reporters is more do you think the media itself us media is. concerned with more and conflict as it used to be because we see so many of the salacious stories some leverage often stories that. take the headlines you know i think those stories of always going around i get most of my news from the newspaper i really don't get when you're from television and so if you're referring to t.v. yeah the sort you know this sort of celebrity scandal kind of stories that i think we've always been there is that the reality is that nato intervened in libya because of the. just avalanche of horrible images and information that was coming out of eastern libya as khadafi is forces assaulted the rebel positions in benghazi

you know stuff. without the person there nothing would have happened and so somebody is paying attention i mean if your strikes so. yeah i mean it's working it doesn't i don't think every person in the country has to watch those images for them to have an effect and you say that war is not going to go out well that's you know one of the reasons i decided to write a proof that you thought the war from the point of view of the u.s. soldiers but. i mean if that is enough to say war is not going i'll go away i mean maybe the u.s. or other countries that our crating wars launching wars or for whatever reason justified. try different approaches because these wars are not going away but some would argue that they're not making circumstances any better afghanistan many experts call it you know a quagmire you know afghanistan is at the lowest level of civilian while it's

million deaths in thirty years the highest rate of economic growth and that whole part of asia is in afghanistan. five times the number of children are being schooled compared to ten years ago with under the taliban one third of them are girls according to you i'm sorry for my future according to unicef afghanistan is the worst place in the world more info no it absolutely but can you measure would be like without international assistance yeah it's bad it's the poorest country in the world but it's actually so much better than it was and i think people really realize that is we're going to go away it's been with us since the stone age so no it's not going to go away it is illness and you describe it like these are afflictions of human society but we fight you know as we fight crime. should we fight against one thing the wars well really well you know there were i mean there were there are wars i mean more some we could argue will work to rwanda we probably should have fought a war to end that war you know there was no military intervention in rwanda and

a million people died so if someone goes to me and says are you against war i'm like yeah i'm against war do something rwanda sent a force in there together to stop because you know like area sierra leone yeah of course everyone's against war so what do you do when there's a war you know what do you do when there's a war in liberia you sit here in the united states and watch it unfold and hundred thousand people die or you send in. a country's military and stop it and that's what happened and it ended the war so it's like yeah it would be war has to be dealt with but sometimes you have to deal with war with war based on what you saw in your experience do you think any question i read here the soldiers didn't talk much about why we're in afghanistan i mean they are in afghanistan because they join you like they don't want to go to afghanistan lives and when they don't. they were quite psyched to be in combat like they joined the

army most of them. they joined the army and they got into the once every thirty airborne a really kind of hard core unit precisely because they wanted to understand what combat was like and so they didn't debate why are we in afghanistan very much it's like well i don't live and you know this and they took three thousand americans were killed by attacks coming out of afghanistan. and we had to we had to go to that country and fix it and find the people who killed america or american brothers and sisters and that's about the extent of their analysis freshener thank you very much for your time.

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to data and dozens injured in a bloody war to stay out of range as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and calling for president saakashvili his resignation. the world's wealthiest nations marginal worktime valid ground to fresh out today's conflicts as the g eight summit gets ready to kick off in france. to us judges are convicted of dishing out dodgy disappoint making millions of bytes throwing teenagers into private prisons for only a very minor offenses. also they have lived here in our time now for a sports update and reform and joins us in the studio. seems like it's been a french open for russia so far thirty days

a very big names rule surviving at the moment so they survived two rounds on michael mcleod have a junkyard match and today we've got these clips and i look back at yesterday's games coming. hello death thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines. i'm innocent he says potential new leader being the man who hits back at bribery claim. top spot until scar leave the russian premier league after three nil window below you career . winning failing djokovic racks up his forty victory in a row as the big names make grand prix at roland garros. but first the man hoping to unseat sepp blatter as the president has hit back after being accused of corruption football's governing body is investigating claims of bribery against

muhammad been a man just days before the presidential election he along with faith of vice president jack warner are accused of offering cash in return for votes for the elections on june the first free for executive committee member chuck blazer has made the allegations saying bribes were off the jury in a meeting ben-hur man and warner had with caribbean football leaders to lobby support for peds in ny wrongdoing believe the claims are an attempt to derail been a man stayed to be feet as new president so-called appeared before the speaker at its committee on sunday just two days before the presidential vote where you are a man in charge that blatter here is running for a fourth. now the thought police to skim off a top of the russian premier league the army men rising to the summit after beating chris the get off three nil in somalia this got off to a perfect start is the secret honda gave in the sixty's men the lead after only seven minutes with wonderfully taken free kick i am

a japanese midfielder double to disguise advantage on the stroke of half time to make it seem real capitalizing on a dreadful mistake in the sonora defense before firing past the keeper. and proceeds then struck another super free kick five minutes from time to make it to scar now top the league on gold this instead of lock them eighty three a pop at the table after the third successive defeat. meanwhile castillo now had arrived in london a day earlier than planned for saturday's champions league final against manchester united the original problem was. steven travel chaos on thursday but they decided it was better to fly in early because of the potential disruption due to the volcanic ash cloud from iceland the final will be a rematch of a thousand and nine decided on the likes of eagle messi and the rest of the squad man united under the same pep guardiola of the three month united don't have the same trouble concerns and they have no major injury headaches either but manager

sir alex ferguson does face a few select from di lam is i'll have to decide how to stifle barcelona playmaker being on message. there's always a solution to a. very disillusioned for. all and. also good to have all the group. is. such a. secure it. now let's go to the tennis standard at roland garros today a resurgent maria sharapova and russia's other hopeful in a cloud of agenda are in action both facing unseeded opposition as they bid to make the third round one home to emulate yesterday's trouble free day for the topsy world number two now that djokovic recorded his forty first win in

a row albeit after victory and their spirits high although the rain was to set stand when he got injured and the win means joke of it will be the new number one if he makes the final but before that he'll face one not involved in the third round i felt that we didn't really play. it was. very first conditions. we both served quite world throughout all first so i sort of really world through the whole match so this is something that makes me happy for the upcoming rounds. but you know i think i could return a little bit better. well also through received roger federer a straight sets victory for him making smacks into here they were on court for just done an hour and a half six three six six to the final score and that place world number thirty to get tickets out of it. on home favorite joel fried to tsonga knocked out russian

eagle and beer but straightforward when the french win six three seven six six three the school the seventeenth see this through to the next round so. better news for russia's top ranked player in the men's room nico usually you see the twelfth and he wrapped up a straight sets win by because it stands me healthy crushed in there. but the women's number one caroline wozniacki is also through some canadian alexander was the x. six three seven six wasn't remains on track to minute past the quarter final stage at the french open for the first time in her career. just one match of the time we have to see how it's going to happen. in a thing of time great result from close so far this year. i'm feeling comfortable confident mcclary. bridges see her next match will be another tough one.

and joining her early next round is defending champion francesca schiavone she's raised past russian vessel i don't want dropping only three games along the way. and look at other matches the former french open champion spent a lot of christmas overcome all its remaining big six point six one score and that was rushed obviously this is of on of the over is also into the next round coming back from a set down against humans to be in the city and to see it probably change the one here in canada against germany on a barbell so good day for the russians of a bit if you've seen it that was stamped in straight sets by c.b.s. even began keeping. that in the end. dallas have reached the finals for a second time after beating oklahoma four one in their best of seven series one hundred one to ninety six the score last night i'm sure matty and combining for fifty two points and i can tell you dallas will face either miami russian cargo enough buyers so confirmation of that score. russian hockey fans will have to wait

until the autumn until a new season gets underway however but all the leagues players have managed to take their summer holidays yet a select few attended the competitions awards ceremony to decide who is the best in their respective fields over the last season or of a daniel has more. mistakes have been consigned to the locker room and no it's time to party like a chill third seasons a work with those on the ice putting past differences behind them however there is still one score left to settle who will be crowned the best of the best back is very intense and. physical sport sometimes you just don't survive to get to the show so i'm glad to be able to join a few it's always fun and big on. this return stanley cup winner sergei fielder of

is one of the most talented players the russian hockey has ever produced and he was one of the best men to ask who has emerged as the most promising russian player in the kid chill this year i think for a minute before as. part of this show i think good season good way the ideas are all well and you play those minutes not very big minutes but some hands exceptionally well on. your board also was rushing well so i wish him best of luck he's prediction came through it was bubbles the new up to earn the title of the league's best rupie a nineteen year old winger showed his worth in the playoffs scoring couple of goals as he held the still makers reach the eastern conference finals before eventually being stuck in the tracks by the government cup winners slovakia life nevertheless it's been a dream come true for the north to play with one of his heroes. their mystery for

the mighty made sygate father of has been doing his will to shay's vast experience with me during both the training sessions and games he treated me as an old friend that's great pleasure. moving from the opens to the netminders as there can be no getting without an outstanding man in between the pipes much of a. one success this season has been down to constantine burden and played a huge role in getting them to the bar in cup finals and along with proving to be the league's best goalie the twenty six year old managed to become the number one in the russian national team and the twenty eleven world championships to his family but he should never be satisfied with yourself every netminder still has some aspects to improve on i'm not different i will keep working hard with my personal coach to become an even better goaltender because it. was the mention inspired an average looking up one side all the way to the good decider although he

didn't manage to clean the cages biggest prize it was enough to claim the best coach award at cannes but. i'm glad i chivas success with the club where i had started my career in russia i had great support from everybody and i would like to share this award with every single player of my team and everybody who works flatlands. the fun award was the evening's move prestigious this isn't the most valuable player for the second straight year it went to slovakia less forward alex on the rubble of the season with a stunning ninety eight points. r.t. most to. congratulations to them now finally russian biathlon fans will get to enjoy three more years of watching olga zite subvert the two thousand and six and two thousand and ten olympic gold medalist backtracking on her retirement announcement saying she will keep competing until twenty fourteen as eyes of

a we celebrate it thirty third birthday last week was one of the few bright spots during russia's disastrous spankie berlin pics last year a gold medal in the four by six kilometer relay and the silver in the twelve and a half ton on the famous start were added to her collection in canada sizer said she felt reenergized having taken time off for a year. one of the most important practice was my desire to mentor and support the up and coming inexperienced stars is now i'm the leader of the team and it's really sad that i've still got plenty of individual girls in this sport i constantly found to trust to early to lead. and we got more sports in a couple of ass time makes that is they were. hungry for the fall so we've got to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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