baghdad government loses control over much of the country washington is calling for changes in the regime all the while the region's borders are set to be redrawn. clone welcome to our team's news room i am my niece and now a great to have you with us tonight john kerry is on a not very surprising surprise visit to baghdad as america tries to compile the isis fighters takeover of the country look at their warfare on a different battleground the internet and whistleblower edward snowden marks a year and rush up with his asylum expiring soon we'll look at what's next for the former n.s.a. employee was artie's office in the west bank has been raided as part of israel's operation to find three missing teens in the now we ask has taleb you've gone too far.

first tonight we want to bring you some news just in anti-government forces in the east of ukraine have agreed to a cease fire with caves military this comes after accusing the government of violating its own cease fire with fresh offensives give though blame the rebels for the failure of the truce which was agreed over the weekend this video claims to show that the government broke a cease fire it was shot from inside russia not far from the border and so military shelling from positions of the ukrainian national guard civilian casualties continue to grow at least forty children have died in eastern ukraine since the start of kiev's campaign. when the crisis in ukraine has triggered tens of thousands of people to seek

shelter in russia but washington doubts the massive flow of refugees across the border really exists. in terms of the refugee numbers we've looked into russian reports of large numbers of refugees fleeing russia and seem to have it instituted we know pretty. early for. that very thing to russia and have seen no evidence to substantiate. yes no evidence to substantiate lines of people women and children ten set up in makeshift refugee camps just across the border in russia no evidence says the state department and that's despite u.n. officials in the region claiming there isn't a fact a humanitarian crisis well iraq either you act now or collapse iraq faces an existential threat and iraq's leaders have to meet that threat with the incredible urgency that it demands that's clear is day to harvest

from the islamic state of iraq and syria are powerful and they don't want to rock to exist as it is the army is failing to stop them radicals have taken control of a vital dam and captured all border crossings to syria and jordan an airport has also fallen. obama promises to help a country america destroyed in the past kerry surprisingly appears in baghdad but so far it's just words joining us in the now tonight is also it is from his award winning writer on international politics thanks for being with us the u.s. says it wants iraq to be stable kerry claims that we should act now we should stop it how much is the u.s. interested in mideast peace. i think in order to all i think the u.s. is the number one force for destabilization than in the middle east and the way they've done it with iraq is mainly by invading it quiets and i think this is the

isis invasion is the third one the third us invasion and this time they're doing it by a proxy. or when the u.s. took over iraq in two thousand and three there was nothing but instability between the sanctions and the invasion about. three million iraqis died so you don't me if genocide is stability then of course and for what the us doesn't iraq's stability otherwise obviously it's not how does our usa then we're gonna fail that from from instability in iraq whether just take this case of the latest invasion the isis invasion they don't like the fact that maliki is getting close to iran the few that they have lost influence in iraq it's moving to enter or iran's orbit they want to get rid of him so that the big can keep grabbing iraq's oil and keep dominating that area and. that is why this invasion is

taking place the people of isis are all financed by saudi arabia and qatar and these are u.s. property states so it is the u.s. backing isis in order to diminish or eliminate completely iranian influence how successful could they possibly be what's your forecast isis obviously is very powerful maliki is not looking too much so right now. no and this is the u.s. replacing one puppet with another because if you remember about it he was their puppet to he just got out of their control moniker he was. put in power by the. us ambassador to iraq and he was not. a lawyer and politician he was running a butcher shop in damascus and the american just put him in power then he got too close to the iranians so now they want to put in another proper that's more dependable what the benefit they get from that is eliminating iranian influence and

the other thing they want to do is they want to split and balkanize iraq into three parts one shia south the other is the northern chords in the center they want the sunni kind of republic so that all these parts will be too weak to withstand us domination there will be no national entity to create any problems for the u.s. especially in terms of becoming a regional rival israel obviously we can't talk about isis without discussing syria i'm going to have to ask you to be brief but we have breaking news essentially out of syria syrian chemical weapons were apparently completely destroyed that's according to the two chemical weapons officials organizations what does that mean for the war and international attitudes towards the syrian government. that the syrian government has you are saying they have destroyed their chemical weapons that's right that's according to the watchdogs which we're following the

process right so if the syrian government has destroyed destroy the chemical weapons i think they're just of fulfilling their the promises they made. me following international community moves forward with syria especially taking into consideration what we're seeing with isis in iraq. right this is the u.s. plan they don't care about chemical weapons or whether syria has them on or that's just an excuse to intervene and try to overthrow assad know with the invasion of iraq the u.s. is going to be more encouraged to replace a so they would say look these fundamentalists everywhere so we must invade syria as well and they will try to use this as a pretext to take military action against. all right assist me award winning writer on international politics with us in the now tonight thanks so much thank you

why is this warfare has spread far beyond the battlegrounds of iraq and syria the extremist or social media pros who can compete with fashion bloggers inside videos hundreds of thousands of likes on facebook and i'm sure it's millions if we had other jihad as profiles of c.e.o. followers on twitter and those accounts subscribe they're pretty scary themselves that's not mentioning you tube where radical store videos of their cold blooded executions and again thousands of you try to strategically use social media to outline their global ambitions take a look at this map it's popped up on pro isis accounts showing that the radicals want to dominate africa invade parts of europe russia kazakhstan and this might also appeared on twitter it suggests they might also try to get all the way to india and indonesia pulling them under its black banner was also reported that there was even a google play an android app created by isis the i would post pro ice is tweets from social media accounts once

a follower signed up scary stuff but who gets the most likes and research areas online chats write a twitter user who apparently is a jihad is fighting in syria tweets cats with rifles cats with guns and cats with hand grenades. this is no joke i find this popularity ridiculous given that the us has all of these social media sites under its thumb they can spy on us but they can't help control the spread of extremism why don't you fight harder on you tube twitter and facebook that you don't have to strike against iraq and speaking of u.s. methods to fight terrorism we have drones troops web spying and even toys it was revealed that a decade ago the cia created osama bin laden action figure whose face could peel off and turn into a red faced demon such toys were meant to make their way to the markets of pakistan and afghanistan so you spew kids and their parents there for some reason the

undercover plan was dropped i wonder why i. this day a year ago n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden landed here in russia his asylum and next month and it's not clear what's next for him but for now his whereabouts are still shrouded in mystery as he's worried that the white house won't let him go so easily there's artie's a group is going over the look back at his arrival in moscow. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board. these doors

were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones some were broadcasting the life pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. this whole place was swarming with journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere in every corner in every bathroom in v.a.p. rooms even under seats but no one could find him but soon information quickly spread that it was inside the capsule hotel right here in the transit zone that the former n.s.a. contractor was in. this capsule hotel is really only called capsule because in reality these or almost like regular rooms just in a regular hotel there is

a decent bathroom here and the beds and even a t.v. set just no window that's pretty much the only difference the plans that no one guest in the end it became known that snowden and his advisor had been checked in for a flight to cuba so naturally dozens of us rushed to get on that flight some even coughed up the cash for business class hoping for an exclusive interview but once again the former contractor. let's cross out our team who is aboard the flight so you're gore you're joining us by phone tell us what you can see on the plane is snowed in there or is there no sign. we. just watched the doors of the plane which were actually now taxiing onto the air strip we're about to take off very shortly and i can tell you with one hundred percent one hundred fifty percent. not on this plane the plane packed with journalists took off with

the two seats allegedly booked for snowden and his advisors still empty so what we thought might be the end of the russian chapter for snowden was actually just the beginning after spending weeks in that transit zone the whistleblower finally received temporary asylum in russia where he is today but even a year on security and safety concerns mean exact whereabouts are still shrouded in secrecy is going to moscow. here's some of what we learned from snowden census leaks went public last year america's national security agency collects thousands of e-mails per year britain's spy agency spied on every facebook google and twitter user and even german intelligence used the n.s.a. spying program. and joining us in the mountain line is robin kerner the editor of watching america dot com a contributor for the huffington post thanks for being with us noton he certainly changed the way we see the world and spying but how much has he really changed the way it all works. oh goodness me the way it works probably probably as of

now i imagine not much the big impact of snowden certainly being in the culture by taking a political kind of abstract political discussion about river city should not have been to have struck but i guess it was and mainstreaming it obviously those who are in the intelligence business are going to be resisting any lock down of what they can do and until much more severe laws to do so to constrain intelligence services are passed that have been passed. they will have been affected much less than people like me would like them to me what could be some of his options asylum here in russia runs out very soon do you think i'll ever go back to the states or even to a close ally possibly. well ever is a long time anything can happen you know what i think that probably is the answer to your question anything can happen and certainly i imagine that the slogan is

working with lawyers and maybe even talking to friends family who are giving him advice that i have no way privy to so i don't know what the future holds for snow but if it doesn't come back to us. i have to hope that this won't go away that as the years and maybe i hope not but maybe the generations roll along here is the lack of resolution of this situation the lack of a final as it were spawns coming to terms with snowden by the nation of the united states i hope will be a stone in the shoe of the united states this congress will forever i don't think what do you think washington is going to try to do to make sure this plays out the way it wants it to and again the answer to these questions are always to be found the answer is always to be found behind closed doors the problem with we the media is that all we can do is draw lines between very sparse points you know kind of

create these narratives but really really we don't know i think this is the problem i think it's important that those of us who care about civil rights you care about the constitution the bill of rights just keep pressing we need to keep pressing we need to keep i'm not just as it were. the idea of smoke live but the issues alive that he would have he wants attention that's right i agree it's our job to make sure this doesn't go away robin kerner the editor of watching america dot com a contributor for the huffington post thanks so much for being in the now thank you my pleasure. paul ince foreign minister has been secretly taped describing washington in warsaw it's time. as if the two were in well a sexual relationship guess who comes out on top a polish magazine claims it's obtained

a leaked recording of the diplomat calling the alliance with the us worthless used i think the saying goes the transcript of the league details have him saying that warsaw gave a b.j. i can say it if he can to america and got nothing in return all for an illusion of safety yes it's costing poland its relationships with europe and russia well i can think of a handful of countries in the e.u. that might share the same sentiment about getting screwed by washington but you know what. the e.u. will be right back stay in the now.

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welcome back your in the now israeli troops raided artie's office in the west bank wrecking equipment and seizing records our staff there is now trying to salvage as much of their work as possible the assault was apparently part of a crackdown on local media centers in a broader campaign against the palestinian authorities whom israel holds responsible for the abduction of three israeli teenagers but we asked the israeli defense force for an explanation about the raid they said that it was actually meant to target a different channel we told them that it was not even in our building that channel nine representative then names another channel and when we asked why our tears of quitman was eventually seized here is the answer that we got because the entire media complex was targeted but this media

crackdown is nothing compared to assaults on palestinians as the search goes on israeli troops shot dead two palestinians one of them a teenager bringing the number of deaths to five since the start of the crackdown on hamas who israel specifically blames for the kidnapping it's estimated from three to four hundred palestinians have been arrested in connection with this abduction and over a thousand homes and businesses searched. joining us in the now is our bear co-founder of the center for the protection of democracy in israel and we're going to ask you our audience tonight on facebook and twitter to tell us what you think about the israeli operation to find the missing teens is there human rights organizations are saying that israel is carrying out collective punishment for the missing teens outrage is certainly growing do you think israel's actions are only going to escalate the situation perhaps even making it much worse. yes if i'm looking on the last even critical point to feel

and that's what i like it and is ready citizen and as if. i have to give some in a fire situation so full corps and the israeli government. let's say that the government and rice it's and conform. with the stimulants danceable the stance is the base or. otherwise and our prime minister will give. and and. compromise all. freeze the settlements or something and doesn't want to do our primus our prime minister is very. right. right is their right. to set this. evening at the now and concept.

and. is saying no bark no speak in the palestinian side so such an event like. getting up in the three boys or. any other and. then. can give in and you. say i am right we have no five. now we are going to quote he. must experience that and then and the media i mean the. studios is one also the most important instrument in the august bryanston because the concept of standing in it with their. incitement against the state of israel so we have to stop didn't. you send

messages and said i did this six rules i'm going to interrupt you because i want to make sure we get to this latest news of this media crackdown as well arty's ramallah office was raided and part of a wider clampdown is this calm and what's going too far to protect israeli security as you see it. this is quite this is not the first israeli troops on their on. their necks in the territory of this thing and. as i say. they've been at the now using say minister raise from thank you time that you should feel that the students inside this is very important in. these messages these political messages it's not their instrument to say we have no partner in the side. they say that

otherwise you have to pay the price and they were the kind of. political crises very. well make compromises will make the states or the police to notice if you need. to give something for you since the since the ability to meet with the palestinians and this is kind of a. betray a right to write like we said. yesterday a co-founder of the center for protection of democracy in israel thanks so much for being with us in the now. well this weekend saw some of the worst violence in kosovo since the republic declared unilateral independence from serbia in two thousand and eight police fired tear gas and rubber bullets albanian rioters who hurled rocks and set. cars on fire violence broke out during

a protest by several hundred albanians over the blockade of a bridge by serbs in the ethnically divided town of me three gets on. well i'm not sure what kind of shoes i'll be wearing a freshman lawmakers passed their latest initiative to banff lacked and high heel shoes the official reason there are unhealthy you need a medium heel according to them but the real reason some russian deputies want to attract attention by creating ludicrous bills so banning shoes is stupid bill number one also among the latest no foreign words in the media like business launch or manager or gadget lawmakers also suggested that there should be less bad news on there just rainbows stars and ponies i guess then bird migration that's another one stop bird flu not sure how that's possible that will never turn into a lot of course but this one did in st petersburg people can be fined if their cats walk too badly after eleven pm they physically can't do that but it's

a lot cats don't make noise well it's not just russia the rest of the world isn't falling far behind by the way in saudi arabia for example you can get married no matter how old you are watch your step on money in thailand because you might just offend the king some owens know how to keep marriage strong they made it illegal to forget your wife's birthday i have to say i kind of like that one and don't dare go kissing in public if you have a mustache that's illegal in the u.s. state of iowa well as we wrap up tonight i want to share this picture with here take a look. don't make war make a law especially in light of the recent events in iraq in this case sushi no matter which camp you belong to. that does it for me tonight stay in touch you can write me at a now are to remember it's now or never see you tomorrow. because

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