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download the official application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. it's not required to watch arts here all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. footage kevin sites filmed with his video camera was not only unwanted but completely unsuitable for army propaganda. the invasion in iraq was to be i can ised with images of an overthrown tyrant. as the american troops chose that particular statue of saddam hussein because it was right
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across the palestine hotel there were hundreds of state use in baghdad but that they chose it because they wanted it to be fair amount to nothing while it was not like in paris at the end of world war two when the parishioners were out in the streets because they asked to be welcomed into liberation forces on the streets of baghdad who are empty they use their not only in that square there was a motion. all journalists to criticize the bush administration war plans got into trouble and some of them even lost their jobs in vietnam had resisted criticism kept the job gulf war one had resisted criticism and kept the job by gulf war true criticism i'm gone the recipe for military press briefings that was established during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one was also used in the two thousand and three war. the main difference was that this time hollywood type sets were built and millions of dollars were spent on the image making. that can take
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movies write stories something like forty thousand. the public affairs officer working for the pentagon they don't need the job was to be more. but remains will it's impossible no matter how hard they try to hide it it's true friends. it's inherently dramatic we love the visuals and it always gets us viewers but combat is the smallest part of any war it's the smallest feature yet we define war
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by the guns and tanks and yet collateral damage. the destruction of civil life is the longest lasting and the largest portion of every war but as you know i cover what i'm not scared we've been living in denial when you are that scared but you do it we can to cover a lot of the outside of the story we were the only witness to what was going on not of. you know when i went to baghdad in march of two thousand and three i was determined not to treat war as a spectacle but rather treated as a backdrop to a very human story not of no story of suffering a story of isolation the story of agony or of long. and time and again i saw the stories and the people that i met in baghdad and those that. this is an up or you know war you see the best and worst of human being and i consider myself lucky being able to see all the most things happening before my eyes the things that i can photograph of so i am able to show others all those people see blissful ones
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what reality is like down there used to be normal people. up because the war they have turned into monsters. even today in iraq people who leave their homes to get work don't really know if they will return safely. bell lives are threatened anytime anywhere by the suicide attacks of al qaeda or other terrorist groups. cohen.
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but even for those who survive life is not the same anymore. in iraq we die a hundred times every day we die in various circumstances in the street gatherings but in crowded places when explosions go off when blind attacks take place mostly by religious groups our profession faces constant danger and death every where death is more than a possibility in this job. since april two thousand and three more than three hundred people working for the media have been killed in iraq most of them where
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iraqi victims of executions obama attacks from al qaeda and other terrorist groups a minute some of the journalism all over the world is considered the king of the profession. in iraq it's called a disastrous profession or a deadly profession. because wherever journalist goes death is always lurking within. the us it is an obvious one will it be a one shot on the. plane with it or you. know
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it. for you wreckage journalists reporting and surviving on dramatically connect. the shocking thing is that i've seen that the person who. can make this explosion or his as a pleasure was in my jacket and then afterward i have notes that i've been injured in my hand but. i was worried for my assistant because his brother also killed and. in those days by some killers you know the sad thing in this point that my cameraman. was saved in this accident he got killed after six months in his place in his home.
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many iraqi journalists lost their lives because their killers did not agree with their views and as a tragic result sometimes in the streets of baghdad coffins passed each other by. independent journalism faces both friendly fire and the blind fanaticism of terrorists and journalist giuliana sgrena victim of abduction herself returns to iraq after four and a half years. no more to death follows us no matter where we are no matter which side we convert to make you look to most of this absolute blind to violence religious hatred and fanaticism that was my case when i was an abduction victim by a group of fanatics. i survived but many of my colleagues were not that lucky. and so by danny was one of them. fifty six year old italian journalist and zabadani
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was traveling with the italian red cross convoy towards my job carrying provisions for the wounded. here i just saw for our concern is to deliver medicine is on water to the wounded of the city and of course to be able to come back safe if for nothing and i thank you and i send my regards to all italians of the you get me i know now talk when it's world peace that meds of a convoy you know his car with him and his driver was in the middle of the convoy you know. on their way back from not just a mine exploded causing his car to turn over this but. in zabadani was abducted on the spot by an extreme insurgent group an al qaeda branch called islamic iraqi army analysts in the spirit of solidarity he all notes with his thoughts and actions in that spirit we ask of you having to let us hockey team again and i became the what they're like i have
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a touch of evil. babble. daddy at the bit of peace from a whole family. non-optimal did then we didn't have time to organize any demonstrations if i did it in money because that's when ever i want it would all of course we have the support of citizens organizations and political parties yankees and it would sure to sort of god we have no time to act because they killed him after twenty four hours. trees are. gone he was unlucky in many ways mainly because better risk on his government had no experience in matters of negotiations and instead of trying to buy more time immediately rejected the ultimatum secondly because the abduction which happened in august a holiday month in italy when nothing really functions and also because his abductors wanted more than anything else blood on their hands. six months after
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enzo baldoni is deaf giuliana sgrena is in baghdad university she is there to interview refugees from fallujah who had found shelter in the mosque of the university thanks for holding back on terrorists and abducted. when i was kidnapped the first thing is to realize i get not being you because from these say you can decide if i is out there they need to know their leaders so from that they really depend on your child to be free or not to be. true immediately contacted diplomatic sources journalists to organize press conferences addressing merely journalists and use agencies from the arabic world into the trunk appear if we want to make them realize that she really and i was just a journalist and not a secret agent as some people might have thought that it. i
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had no no what i couldn't. know what that i would was. because. they they kept also my my watch and to beginning to ask because i didn't they had that i do what i meant was and then they said they need daddy as a proof of my life. and. so i was all is waiting for the day but i just don't know what it was. i went to bed but of course i couldn't sleep at all and just they were thinking out they would kill me they would kill me cutting my throat and i will if i
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open that they really am a woman and they really are the tools and not that way thank you out the window you are going to take me out of here nobody must come to iraq because all foreigners all italians are treated here like an impasse.
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italians shocked by screeners adventure and hit the streets demanding her liberation. after a month of secret negotiations the italian government comes to an agreement with liberation. nicola calipari a top executive of the italian army secret service takes over the mission. you'll recall doing i remember he was a regular nice man trying to be doesn't look like rambo or some movie character. because pickle is a man who knew his job and he was good at it before charlie good things about him when he took over our case. but he kept telling me look i can't guarantee anything . and i'm convinced that all three hearts we're following is the right one. partially i mean they're going to. push the charity to the first time. but he
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was in my kidnappers left me and. they came to pick me up and first of all i heard the voice of the body and told me i have nicola calipari i am friend of. the ward we now it's all finished he brought me to another cat and he was sitting it was sitting beside me because you thought they were to be close to you also did you feel you will feel secure you would feel the way in. the car of the italian secret service driven by on the bunny with good manners passengers in the back seat heads for the airport meanwhile in rome ben was gone he invites under-secretary johnny letter head of the italian secret service. and juliana's partner peer to his office. the nickel a polaroid comes out of the woman order to called baghdad again to make it possible
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for me to speak to juliana on the phone book with him prima. spoken with him earlier and almost immediately comes back in shock shouting they are shooting at her. seven hundred fifty meters from the baghdad airport entrance the italian mission comes across an american patrol who opens fire against the italian car is hit by. fifty seven bullets. body lies heavy on me i managed to move him a little and to hear his last breath his debt you know no. man to man has had me freeze that. and he died in order to protect me it was like my freedom and while it was about to begin. it's a terrible feeling sad just to feel a man dying on. this is like a part of yourself is dying a fat after all these tremendous gunfire i cannot understand whether i'm still
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alive and i think i'm dead or if i'm dad and i think i'm still alive you are such a see i do i when they told me about the incident i thought it was a bomb your pants up on a bomb your prints out my mind went to the iraqis saw only after i heard what exactly had happened i mean i realized that the americans had shot at the car of course i was confused i don't bite out of me got any honor let me be mad about i don't understand how was it possible. to be hit by americans.
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with his last. body gave meaning to values it's become more and more rare in our day self-sacrifice and self-denial. although the report showed clearly that the bullets from the american patrol were not fired as a warning the case never reached courts as the american command had legal jurisdiction in the area the americans were eager to close the case now we are still to it that it was an accident but when she learned what i actually reason that the case never went to court it was strictly personal drug it was said from the italian side that the court had examined the case and also the supreme court that the americans had exclusive jurisdiction in that area trial would have helped me but the high court's decision we didn't give us
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a chance to get an answer for our case in the court rooms but look at have a trial would have helped me. laugh and then thought about the hard court decision didn't give us a chance to get an answer for our case in the courtrooms and i'm not arguing that. u.s. soldier mario lozano was the one who opened fire against the italian mission he tries to appease the public opinion putting the blame exclusively on julian as. you know she went out there she wanted to go with the terrorist and all that and then she gets caught now we have to say that we have to say. goodbye to go after this one person that knows that she put herself in the situation so it's her for this is happening now by for all investigations conducted by the u.s. army acquitted all the soldiers who opened fire against the italian mission in
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italy spain and great britain judicial investigations stopped due to the pentagon's refusal to cooperate now all journalists need to be on the spot. just as that we need doctors and nurses on the spot to care for the wounded just as we need people on the spot to provide assistance to the. community the civil society that are also affected by conflicts but that work of journalists can't take place if they're going to be treated as competent if they're going to be targeted i think it is a struggle. generally speaking not always generally speaking for the right to tell the truth but those who saw their colleagues die. the memories will never affect. the crime committed at the hotel palestine will never be forgotten so there must be justice. was it a mistake somebody will forget to give the information
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a criminal negligence personally i will never forget that day and. the response of should pay for that negligence plus a bad ass. deadly malice in it so. why so much death. so much pain so much and. dad meekly weapons fire at the journalists they need their right to the information and the home of my son didn't die in a car accident. no he wasn't killed in the strata he didn't die from cancer or some other disease but he was murdered. that's why i'm asking and i was keep on asking in front of the american embassy for an impassioned investigation now i'm
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sorry for those individuals and i'm sorry for the families believe me i have i prayed about it didn't churchly try to hurt no u.s. army did not try to change the or anyone there is ok but that's one of the as we say the casualties of war ok. i wish you would have never happened but it has happened. but there was no battle that means there was no excuse but you. as you have proved it to be you are while for it you gave the order to them and thomas gibson you put literally all three when you knew there you were killing innocent people in this you know but he did it in a way badly damaged. do you honestly i feel no hate not anymore my
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sorrow is much stronger than hate it or see what i crave for justice and i want you still to see that you're in a courtroom there in a fan trial like the one you tonight my son to defend yourselves that's going to be as crucial to what is this i. guess plays if it is a circus but i want to see you murderous and to a criminals condemned but i know personally. you belong with my deep and eternal condemnation. but my sorrow i do to my son to the mothers in iraq and to say and above all to mothers. because there is no greater pain than to give birth to murderous.
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more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operation to rule the day. interpol started. going global and now pulling viral.
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