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off the charts that's how the u.s. president describes gun violence in america after yet another shooting admitting his war with the powerful gun lobby it's becoming the norm for incidents in three weeks in oregon high school a crazy couple in las vegas a seattle college and last month a college in california the numbers are shocking or at least should be since the horrific shooting at sandy hook a new town elementary school in twenty twelve or twenty six twenty six year olds were shot dead there have been seventy four incidents seventy four in a year and a half. well if you dig back before the newtown school shooting which killed twenty eight total the same year twelve died and seventy were injured in

a deadly theater rampage after every mass shooting the gun debate columns and then quickly goes with promises of change but no real action even after the fort hood massacre where a former army major killed thirteen and injured thirty not much has been done schools and universities are the most well known incidents possibly because that's where fatalities are the highest like virginia tech thirty three shot there and twenty three injured in two thousand and seven this is a problem how many shootings need to occur for a true wake up call and why wasn't columbine back in one thousand nine hundred nine to start a desperately needed reform to stop this insanity america we should be ashamed of ourselves and not just for the inability to act. just an ordinary day that is until now. crazed gunman have entered our schools prepared to kill our children and teachers when these calamities occur our children are most often left

helpless and afraid they are instructed to follow standard school practices that depend merely on hope that damaging weather or those who want to do harm don't find them even with our schools best and for its most still lack comprehensive security and genuine protection. that is until now. that's the answer not addressing gun control or clamping down on the gun lobby but making a profit from the trend companies can cash in on the never ending danger of madmen attacking schools and children and mass killing sprees joining us in the now is christopher j. ferguson a professor of psychology at sussing university also contributes to the huffington post and time thanks for being with us is this exclusively an american problem with put this question to our audience what do you think. well that's

a great question what seems to be happening is that there are more of these types of incidents in the united states than in other nations it is certainly not an exclusive american phenomenon other countries have had mass shooting events there just wasn't one in canada in the last couple of weeks for instance so it's not exclusively an american phenomenon but it does seem to happen more frequently in the united states than in other industrialized nations for sure it seems few people would argue that america has a gun problem why can't the government curb the lobby and how much of that has to do with gun violence because obama himself says politicians are terrified of the n.r.a. do you think that's true. i think that certainly is part of it i mean it's obviously a very complicated issue and you know i'm not a constitutional lawyer to be sure but. certainly there's a facet of the american culture in american politics where gun ownership is you

know is in trying our laws and trying in our in our culture so it's a very difficult issue to tackle united states relative to other nations so compared to other industrialized nations we tend to have relatively liberal gun laws compared to say the united kingdom war australia or a nation such as that. and that has made it a bit more difficult to tackle these issues related to gun violence now now in fairness it's important point as we're talking about this issue that gun violence in the united states actually is down it actually is quite a bit lower than it was even a decade or two ago but it seems to be that these mass shooting events tend not to be following that trend for reasons that are not very well understood but certainly the difficulties that we have politically in tackling gun violence is a part of the issue are gun control is a part of the issue that we're facing where does mental health come into the picture. mental health is certainly

a big issue i mean when we look at commonalities between mass shooting events we find really three things you know first mass shooters tend to have a history of anger or rage or anti-social tendencies they also do tend to have a history of chronic mental health issues either suicidal depression or psychosis in some cases and they also tend to be what we call injustice collectors which means that they tend to blame others either certain groups of people or society at large as being responsible for their problems so we see that constellation of issues as almost a universal set of criteria events it's important to point out however that the vast majority of mentally ill individual or non violent do not engage in violent acts in fact the mentally ill and much more likely to be victims of violence than they are perpetrators of violence but we do see among these types of events a commonality where mental health is an issue so i think in the comments that the president said yesterday he kind of hit things on the head when he said that mental

health issues are not unique to the states of course but where we do tend to see a problem is where we have this intersection of individuals who do have mental health issues who are able to get easy access to forearms which you don't see in other nations a great example this is china for instance which has had a rash of mass knifings over the last few years which kind of points out that some of these mass attacks are not an american phenomenon but what we tend to have is with the easy access to forearms the homicide count the body count tend to be much higher then when you have a mass knifing attack some people may be injured some people may be killed but you don't tend to get thirty three victims as wood or thirty plus victims as in virginia tech and some of these other shootings and christopher j. ferguson professor of psychology at university thanks so much for being in the now . thank you for having me on today.

could this be a turning point for peace long awaited talks between the syrian government and the opposition may be held as early as this week but it comes after rebels been forced out of their one stronghold of homes which has been the so-called capital of the revolution for the last three years but across the border in iraq the situation is spiraling out of control in the north of the country al qaeda fighters have seized yet another city to create that's after extremists took mosul a key city in the north home to the country's largest oil refinery this is truly a turning point jihad is now control major portions of the country four key cities you can see the border with syria here they also hold the oil rich care koop province and the city of full lucia a quarter of muzzles two million population have already fled their homes soldiers

picked up and just abandoned their post in fear of the radicals believed to be the al qaeda splinter group known as the islamic state of iraq and the well militants have also reported overrun police stations and captured the city's international airport it also freed more than a thousand prisoners from jails a decade of war millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent this is the iraq we've built america with the help of some friends of course in britain not to mention its iraq east who paid the highest price only to have this instability they are paying for with their lives blamed on the current government not those who divided and conquered the country or the chaos in neighboring syria but here's what a us congress antiterrorism adviser told us. see that has been a critic by many here in washington to the obama administration and twenty eleven we have told make sure that there would be a coalition of moderates among shia sunni kurds christians others across the

country with a national unity cabinet before you withdraw and when he wanted to withdraw because of political commitment to the withdrawal on time what happened is that an iranian influence came and their reaction to it and then a car influence came and at this point in time we have a sectarian fight in iraq and that's the most difficult thing to fold unfortunately look at syria for example but bush era officials are more extreme in their assumptions. i think. they. probably fall within the area of war current private american security contractor blackwater notorious for shooting dead more than a dozen iraqis seven years ago may actually be held accountable for their actions in the country four guards from the former security company will go on trial for crimes ranging from manslaughter to weapons violations is more important with more . there have been many years of cover ups and inappropriate grants of immunity to

these former blackwater guards but back in two thousand and eleven a three judge panel of the u.s. court of appeals ruled that the prosecution against these defendants could proceed and now we see that jury selection for the trial is beginning and the public of course is being reminded of the horrible stains some of the horrible stains america has left behind in iraq let's remind our viewers that it wasn't september two thousand and seven that a blackwater security team was assigned to the way of diplomats traveling through western baghdad now blackwater blackwater company the guards at the time claimed that the convoy was ambushed and that they fired at the attackers in defense but the iraqi government and the police investigator concluded that the killings were unprovoked now the defense lawyer has said and continues to say that it's not fair to do hindsight analysis in a room seven years following the news source square massacre that left one thousand

iraqis dead and more than eighteen injures injured but the families of those victims as well as human rights leaders and citizens around the world want to see justice for the killings or at the very least the perpetrators to be put on trial and held accountable for their actions that episode was a devastating blow to america's reputation in the middle east and it ignited a wave of criticism out about the u.s. properties of contracting private companies mercenaries for wars and occupations of foreign countries let's remember that private companies like blackwater don't have to play by the same legal rules that u.s. soldiers follow now if convicted the former blackwater guards could face anywhere between thirty years to life in prison. coming up find out what the mayor of london gets in return for his new gift to the city stay in the now.

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he have has admitted that nineteen children and almost three hundred people have been killed in its military campaign in the east although they haven't done anything to prevent innocent deaths other than make promises there's still no humanitarian corridor being set up for civilians moscow's offer to deliver humanitarian aid to the area was rejected by kiev and also wants to close the border with russia which serves as a safe haven for many ukrainian refugees ok the ukrainian government is ignoring the will and demands of those who live in the east but kiev army is also being ignored we're going to go there for not coming up want to go i want to go up there i don't come on my own where you don't have a voice here but you come back almost all the notes to me for barack obama will suck literally you know when you can even you will to because you will bring to the one the most loses all of my love no wonder why ukrainians are harding up to join

the ranks pulse leader reports now from the region. six weeks on and with more than forty soldiers did he have his military operation continues the army is in a pitched battle with anti-government activists but it's also struggling to keep itself together. that's a tough one but now they're sending me to war calling on me to kill people in their own bias and just like me more and more soldiers are refusing to obey orders and despite a kid's full military mobilization in march bookwork mint has all but dried up whereas once they used to before drafting officers into guns today there's only one and it's quiet they won't let us inside with the cameras i spoke with a clock and he said there hasn't been any kind of recruitment here for weeks i asked to speak with a person in charge but was told that he's taken early retirement.

last month then acting president turchynov signed a decree calling on all men aged eighteen to twenty five to enroll those who did not list in jail but this young man is prepared to risk even more he's not only ignored his call up he's now fighting against the very army in which he is meant to serve. but go to draft lesser on the third of march that said i should go to the army i refused i didn't even go to the drafting center i'm not going to fight against my own people we have spirit ideals patriotism they don't have that they're only good orders and money but others did on said the call to serve a decision they now have a great maria's son is twenty years old he was drafted a year ago and is serving in western ukraine she's what we thought because he comes from the east he himself will be seen as the enemy of the here pretty horde i want

him home as soon as possible we are missing him we are really missing him. the army is said to lack food and ammunition and a sense of purpose and casualty count climbs it will become harder and harder to convince young men they should put their lives on the line for a cause many don't believe in. eastern ukraine. almost six hundred thousand dollars seems like a lot but if divided between fourteen people and if more than half of this money goes to lawyers the money new york city will pay in compensation to occupy wall street protesters might not be enough. yet. was. that over three years you know we're going to really you. really. want to improve our you know

at least according to that video activists were peacefully protesting and police ordered them to disperse but when they tried to officers didn't allow them to go and arrested them but now many will have some cash to make up for this. a six hundred thousand dollars settlement it's the largest reach for the occupy protesters so now what do they do take the money and run let's ask one of the fourteen plaintiffs carrot o'connor he joins us in the now tonight live from new york garrett are you happy with the settlement. i am very happy with the settlement . for upholding the law. and for respecting the right to protest what about your fellow plaintiffs who say they're not happy with it that this is sort of an attempt to whitewash what happened and sort of set them up. i

mean i can i can speak for them what i can say for myself is that i think that this is a step in exposing a bigger problem there are. throughout the occupy movement there have been many similar instances and people who have gone through similar events even outside of occupy wall street so i can understand that the criticism of. whitewashing events but i think what this really is is opening the door to be able to do more to reinforce our rights and protect our right to protest what does this really mean for furthering the occupy movement i think it seems clear that we're hearing less and less about it at least outside of the states that had a huge bang in the beginning and it seems like it's sort of winding down. and really for me i think that that's sort of a misconception. for a lot of us even within the occupy movement when asked similar questions we talk

about people having moved on to different areas of activism and i don't think that that should be in any way underestimated there are many people who did come into the occupy wall street movement as their first real experience with activism and with protest and they have moved on to professionalize themselves to hone their skills and to become more disciplined in the way that they go about protests go about activism and for all of those people i think anybody who participated in the occupy wall street movement it's i don't think you'd be able to find one who could say that with that whatever work that they're doing now that they don't bring occupy with them i'm a labor and community activist and i definitely i bring occupy wall street what i learned with occupy wall street with me in whatever i do it's always there and i don't see so much that the movement has diminished as that the work has been a bit more dispersed and i think you know this is not the end of mass protest or mass activism in new york or the united states or the. right at my person garrett

o'connor with us in the now thanks for that. thank you. well london's mayor boris johnson is also apparently a man with an iron fist when it comes to street protests he's going to give a new president to police of the u.k.'s capital three water cannons. how would you like being sprayed by one of those monsters mr mayor. certainly prepared to do anything to show that there's a within within reason i know i'm not quite sure whether whether whether i want to stand up for what can i look like i'm doesn't exist to deserve it of course you would never deserve such treatment unlike your very own citizens but the idea of soaking boris johnson with a water cannon hasn't dried up it was soaked up in fact by max kaiser he is raising

money to buy his very own water cannon and wants to aim it at london's mayor joins us live in the now from london max why did you decide to step it. i know it's a nice to be at the again well boris johnson is very nervous because the u.k. has become the most unequal country in the world the spread between the top and the bottom is wider than anywhere else in the world because of the click to crash see that in power including boris johnson the mayor and he's going to go out there and buy three water cannons because he predicts there to be social unrest this summer so we're going to crowd fund on my crowdfunding platform start join a project that was created by a blogger named script and i were going to buy our own water cannon except it's going to be the people's water cannon and we're going to go and we're gonna show up wherever boris johnson is he's not hard to find all you have to do is look for something like this and there's boris johnson and whenever he uses his water cannon

we're going to use the people's water cannon to hit boris johnson so it's a water war coming this summer so it's crowd funded the people's water cannon anyone can participate in this put up a pound five pounds ten pounds it just launched today by script tonight a blogger on start join dot com so i think we're going to few weeks we'll have this fully funded and the water wars are on seriously max it's a common thing i mean with the water cannon certainly across europe what's wrong with that. well i think that what's wrong is that the government is not fessing up to the fact that they have been instrumental in a wholesale thieving of the savings of this country they've destroyed the job market in this country and they've served to cut the cracking class in this country that is unfortunate resulted in austerity measures that are completely unnecessary and these water cannons are a symbol of this entrenched old guard believe trying to assert their

domain in over the people so i mean i'm getting ready i'm getting armed these are this is b. c. boris johnson and we're going to get an army of people armed with a water weaponry so the seaborne in his office you see boris at his home if he uses his water cannon we scored him in the face we're not going to let him get around town without getting drenched it's quick it's tough for tat to want a war horse you hit him with you hit it with your water get it you're right back that's why we're funding this people's water cannon and start joint dot com anyone can participate we're launching our own cryptocurrency start point today so it's all indoors bring it on right max the war is on just be careful you don't get a restraining order set against the max guys are live with us in the now from london thanks so much care thank you for being in the now always send us your comments on facebook and twitter we'll see you soon it's now or never.

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