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elicit the multi-ethnic society to live in harmony and just. one wish for god to be told to. be the weight of chains on our. own welcome to our to his newsroom i'm a nice now and tonight a new cold war for the us obama says he doesn't rule out anything when it comes to the terrorist crisis in iraq could troops and fighter jets already be on standby and the o.s.c. had visits a ukrainian refugee camp where he's forced to hear the truth about civilian attacks in the east and it's not what kiev wants him to hear plus the scandal that got scar the johanson slammed when she settled for soda your in the now.
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john is in iraq are taking advantage of the best u.s. military hardware left behind after the invasion sweeping across the country's north and successful offensive and baghdad apparently now in its sights but help might be on the way. my team is working around the clock to identify how we can survive the fact that. i don't rule out anything. bomb invade leave and what do you get take a look at what's happening in the country as fighters from the islamic state in iraq and syria have successfully advanced in the north capturing entire provinces here's the border with syria just oil refinery push south and took the city of to create all the recent media reports suggest the army did manage to drive jihad is back out to crete is only one hundred fifty kilometers north of baghdad which the
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group is believed to be closing in on here is marina port with more on the developments in iraq and what's fueling this mess. what we're leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later. the people america left behind are running away fleeing for their lives on hold a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul off the i.s.i. al forced the army to retreat reports a gunman have also seized a nearby oil refinery town iraq's prime minister calling for a state of emergency after hundreds of gunman took control of strategic parts of the northern city of mosul by wednesday militants had seized the turkish consulate in mussel kidnapping the head of diplomatic mission and two dozen staff members some thirty thousand iraqi soldiers reportedly turned and ran as militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria known as isis moved in unleashing an all out
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assault on the city they've taken control of hospitals police stations they have taken control of ammunition dumps and weapons stores that the fleeing government forces of what they've left behind many of the abandoned weapons and military hardware now in the hands of hard line terrorists were imported into iraq from gas where i think you all are aware of the shipments that we've provided that include the delivery of three hundred hellfire missiles millions of rounds of small arms fire thousands of rounds of tank ammunition helicopter fired rockets to the iraqi security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents riding and inspecting the vehicles driving them across the border into war torn syria critics call it an unintended consequence of the u.s. war in iraq coming home to roost there weren't any real sizable organized militant groups in iraq until al qaeda of the mesopotamia rose hearing to
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fight back to the u.s. invasion to help the army we've trained them for eight years and that didn't seem to work bush dismantled the original iraqi army after the u.s. invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s. war any. iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars in the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the u.s. was looking for w m d's and spreading democracy. the unified and competent iraqi military that was allegedly established has buckled weapons that were made in the usa are now in the hands of america's enemies and the country left to fend for itself in a state of crisis. r t. well that of human rights watch didn't hesitate to share his thoughts on the situation in iraq only kenneth roth faced some backlash on twitter after his words were taken as sympathizing with
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isis and blaming the fallout on iraq's prime minister joining us in the now is michael o'brien also are of america's failure in iraq he was a department of defense contractor in the country thanks for being with us obama saying that he can't rule out anything when it comes to helping iraq fight insurgents how do you interpret this. well that's an accurate statement you know he cannot. obama cannot rule out anything but i don't really have all high hopes that but that much is going to be done beyond a. fighter support the united states air force so you don't think it means that the u.n. was going back to iraq. i would wager that the chances of the united states sending ground forces back to iraq are very small but that's today. it's such
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a political hot potato because obama. will be part of his reelection a couple of years ago was that al qaida is is gone it's all but dead doesn't exist anymore which was all you know pio in the sky but you know it really would be an admission that the united states effort starting from the invasion of two thousand and three up to the present day has been a dismal failure which it has now an example was that it's just say michael how much warning did we have could we have picked up on that iraq would fall apart after the invasion. did speaking for myself this doesn't surprise me in the slightest this is absolutely totally predictable as a matter of fact i'm surprised that it took so long but now for the first time with the with the insurgents taking over with or al qaeda taking over the city of mosul
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you now have instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed and know it's going to the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now if they're taking actually land there they're actually controlling land they're taking over a city they're there they're they vote for all practical purposes running and our province they're taking over the country now but this is all predictable and all this stuff about the united states wringing its hands in the state department saying oh well you know what can we do what can we do we only thing you can do to stop it is to send a couple hundred thousand u.s. forces back and that's not going to happen how much responsibility supporting the iraqi government here. well you are actually governments incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's
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a lousy way to live but. you know on his horse day things like this never happened i mean let's face it it's saddam hussein was hung on a charge of ordering the the execution of like forty people in a village i mean half of you know i say half a million iraqis are dead since our invasion of zero three so i mean the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam i mean you know i'm an american and you know i hate to say that but saddam did keep a lid on things and the only way you know you can avoid a dictatorship like his is for the u.s. to go back in there and occupy the country. what about syria the isis has
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a branch in there it's restless in the country just over the border does this essentially guarantee a constant flow of reinforcements and a threat to iraq. i would say so iraq is right smack in the middle you sunni sunni to the west shiite to the east you've got syria to the west you've got saudi arabia to the west you've got your ran to the east and everything iraq is right smack in the middle of everything has been since the you know cradle of civilization so to speak and it's still there now and it's really a tragedy what's happening and one of the speakers earlier before i came on. said that you know the top referred to paul bremmer for the united states but it was paul bremmer disbanding the iraqi army that had been in existence for decades and when i was over there from zero six to zero seven we were supposedly. getting
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the iraqi army back up on its feet which basically was you know a pipe dream it was pie in the sky they're not going to be back on their feet any time soon and of course the proof to the putting is thirty thousand iraqi soldiers throwing down their weapons in mosul and high tailing it outta town to save their skin they're not they're not they're not up for the fight. like over an author of america's failure in iraq he was also a department of defense contractor in the country thanks so much for being in the now thanks for having me america's intelligence agency is on a mission to improve its public image with and holding its first ever public conference starts he's going to camp. cia director john brennan was upset with the media with how as he said distorted the narrative is with regard to the work that the cia is doing all these reports about drone strikes edward snowden's revelations about the u.s. government trampling on civil liberties all of this is not to john brennan's liking
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his mission is to restore the public's trust and not only of the american public but also of the public globally foreign governments are becoming embarrassed of their cooperation with the cia because of the bad perceptions that are out there and that worries john brennan have been dismissed. the narrative seems to be. the narrative may have been skewed. in that. after nine eleven a lot of trust was put in the cia then as the director said it one other way he obviously did not focus on how the agency managed to squander that trust either by providing flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in iraq or maybe due to the drone operations which reportedly killed more civilians than terrorists or due to how the agency managed to miss the boston marathon bombers even though they had the warnings john brennan was not there to talk specifics journalists were not
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allowed to ask questions only the participants of the conference and those were scholars georgetown foreign service students intelligence professionals the questions that john brennan received a very general character and this was the first cia conference on national security by the way they were not allowed to film anybody in the audience the cia has just launched this twitter account and all of this is a result of john brennan deciding to engage in more public appearances to fix the tarnished image of the agency. coming up we explore a new film on an israeli soda factory that took the spotlight after a hollywood sex symbol found herself in the middle of a scar the scandal surrounding settlements stay in the not. to genetics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an on
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committed to trying i was a terrorist to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology they don't stop at just sterilizing yet not going to now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. the interview. a few.
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but. i. think they would never go but if. they do you. see a little who who. still. live. over the head of the o.s.c. will now make a difference and spread the word on what's happening in eastern ukraine images coming from the war zone are raising some eyebrows russian media are citing anti kiev fighters who say that what you're seeing on screen now is an army shelling an
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area in the east with phosphorus bombs going here is unconfirmed and it's also unclear whether this is in fact a highly toxic and internationally banned chemical weapon as one expert told us that it could be phosphorous mortars which are legitimate of fuel to be used as a smoke screens and also compare them with images of two thousand and four full loser balmy you can clearly see a resemblance well the alleged attack is not a story western media is picking up instead they're focusing on kiev's claims that three russian tanks have crossed the border into the country something russia says is an invention ukraine says it's unacceptable but no one is asking where are the tanks that. they wanted to sink the soda king. to the sky.
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sorry ok topsy. history but it said that shiny and sexy ad starring gorgeous scarlett johansson resulted in a scandal both for the company and the hollywood actress soda stream has an embarrassing background of keeping its production on illegally occupied palestinian lands women and that's why it's finding itself under fire and we're also going to unfolded in january but it's only now that a movie has come out about the foundry itself. and i just all. joining me live to talk about the movie and the scandal itself is the film's
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producer peter somewhat nick thanks for being with us live from los angeles how did you come up with the idea for this film why make it well it was a very big story here in united states everyone of course you know scarlett johansson and it became a proxy battle for a much larger debate about the israeli palestinian conflict coupled with the fact that we thought that all the coverage of the soda stream controversy was sort of absurd and in our point we decided to send a crew in there and do it the way that that status media does it so you think that soda stream is an illegitimate target of pro palestinian activists what did you discover when being there. i don't know if i would call illegitimate i think that what's fascinating about the whole story is that the conflict is internal. this is about palestinians who are very happy to have what is by all accounts a very good job in
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a place an israeli company in the west bank where they do not want to work so there's a there's a contradiction there there's a there's a tension on the one hand they have families to support and they are very grateful for for their jobs at the same time yes they feel very very torn and i think. our main character of dollar really gets it and and exposes that tension and it and there's a poignancy of the poetry and at the heart of it is you get to go further outside of the factory and see up palestinians are treated outside of of that space in the occupied land sure look what we were all around and and you know we had very intentionally cobbled together a team of filmmakers who were both israeli and arab and jew who really could appreciate this story in a very comprehensive three dimensional light ultimately we decided to focus on the factory itself there is very little footage of people who are not directly tied to
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the factory. the idea being that we would try to evaluate the factory in terms of the people who are there who work there and so trying to view this them some distant ideological prism that's got the johanson of course famously quit step down as an ambassador for oxfam she chose soda stream the contract instead what do you think about her choice. i don't really have a strong opinion about. johansen's decision to be a part of soda stream or or leave oxfam what's much more interesting in my view are the people who work at sort of stream of the factory. as i understand soda stream is not the only company that keeps its factory on on disputed lands that palestinians pro palestinian activists are criticizing to have a chance to find anything about other factories which are we know that there are hundreds of operations in the west bank in what they call area c.
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of the west bank and again all these companies tend to provide you know on balance good jobs that's why people work there. but you know. we deposit into or working there prefer to work in a companies that are owned by palestinians of course. that's about the choice thank you so much film's producer of the factory peter so what nic live with us in the now tonight from los angeles well taxi drivers have brought major european cities to offer holt's because of an increasingly popular smartphone app which they say puts their jobs at risk or she's probably boyko goes to see what london cabbies think about the tech takeover. it's a species that she rode the british capital for well over a century but is london's iconic black cabs about to become extinct says another
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beast encroaching on the taxis tough a smartphone app called. well the up works by tracking your location and showing you the nearest cars available so i'm just back to newbury my drive. once i arrived at my destination the app will tell me how much i owe and it will be charged straight to my bank card thought london taxi drivers say it's in legal for any vehicle other than a license taxi to be fitted with a meter that can calculate your fat is wrong in the next on the phone is a meta and therefore should be regulated by. the car he's one for if you can people do both you know for the diary or the former page for the cab for more pay for the profit. is for a pale. says competition is healthy the capital is mass says the black cab is part
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of the fabric of the city but there needs to be real technology that can try those protesting head don't want to be but in london they're not happy with the capital's transpose authority for allowing the app to operate now several thousand of them have gathered in central london and they brought traffic to a standstill google goldman sachs a lot of damage and become finished a billion is to scared of a rush one of the big louise of the brushwork bust only reason really the underdog lead to them the system can start looting and ends up night we were called we did four years on the knowledge and blood comes along but it's a four door car that's about golf i don't know why you guys are still sceptical but up there richard. isn't the first threat to the hackney carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was only saved by china's investment it is you know
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the quintessential kind of iconic london sauce everyone's. but the irony is that by demonstrating against the new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless published city for the very company they say is driving away their customers. r.t. london well that does it for us live in the now tonight will be back on monday which is of course the deadline for kid of to pay its gas debt moscow shifted the date three times and made multiple concessions including a discount but monday is the final date set after negotiations broke down with ukraine demanding it's their terms or nothing or menus will have more on that and what it means in thirty minutes i'll see you very soon.
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in london in one of the caring hearts of one of the capitals of loving liberal e.u. they've implemented a plan to finally get almost people off the streets at night so that they provide these desperate people with a jobs they could at least earn a few pounds and have some human dignity of course not they put down spikes everywhere on the ground so that the hobos have nowhere to sleep yes that is right they are laying down spikes to keep up the homeless just like dragon's teeth keep out tanks now if this happened somewhere in say bangladesh on a bad day i might say well that is their business but all the liberals in the e.u. just constantly cry from their ivory tower to the whole world about how we all need to be tolerant and be taxed to death to help people but as a guy who grew up in a bad neighborhood i can tell you that liberals never want to live near the people they claim to want to help you know henry ford was one of those guys who said that you should never give anybody any handouts so what he did was give the disabled and
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the poor decent paying jobs at his factory so listen up you liberal loony bin if you want to get those evil yucky print for people off the streets just put them to work it will read your city of its homeless problem a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion. is that you i'm a group and i've got a polygamous family i'm looking for a woman who understands me anyway and i want her to share my goal of saving our people from extinction. you know that i've had to found marriage chase and she's had one you assume your life changed how i to teach what's been a chemist marriage have decided to find a man to marry as. things we want to know women you could say you kids. get the gas. your money just to have let's say
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thirty to forty kids are going to do that with only one wife so what's impossible. country murray history of yugoslavia is formation as a prosperous and peaceful country was consider that so be a success story of market socialism and in many regards it was the most developed mom. whom was his teacher of democracy and market economy if any republic in yugoslavia wanted for the us a it would have to break away from yugoslavia and declared its independence ok it's not a conspiracy theory it's not my speculation it's not my analysis it's a public. opinion. and punish it
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harshly for every slight to let some unlearnt the serbs start a business war the serbs are legal riginal cause of the war they are the complete aggressors and wrongdoers. bomb confident. that. bombs more bad will bomb all of tofu kitchens six of them new explosions been so bad. to go assist in the multi-ethnic society to live in harmony and joe not. what was forgotten to be told you about yugoslavia the weight of chains on our teeth today and signs of more training more or less a secret based on. any minute. now tales from his friends where done all season long are you claiming that what if a secret. listen. awhile
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until our. estimate is eighteen thousand people including many women and children remain trapped in the young luke palestinian refugee camp in south and damascus it's been cut holes by sewer and rebels who more than a year now hundreds of relief parcels have managed to reach the calm for the funniest time in several months but that's too late for actually.
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