iraq says terrorists have seized nuclear materials in the country and could use them to make weapons of mass destruction. but. world promises to ramp up its a war against hamas rocket attacks killed more than seventy palestinians inside gaza half of them women and children. degrading spectacle and deeply shocking german politicians weigh in on the u.s. spying scandal that comes after a second government official within a week is accused of working for washington this time it's a military mole. hello

this is our team to national thank you for joining us this morning you're with me tom would say terrorists in northern iraq have seized nuclear materials that could be smuggled out of the country and used to make weapons of mass destruction that's according to an officially a rocky letter to the u.n. obtained by reuters it comes as jihad is bolstering the grip on the territories in syria and iraq which the colleague the islamic state of france has the latest. what we've learned is that in a letter to the united nations iraq announced insurgents have seized nuclear materials from the university according to iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed al hakim at least forty kilograms of uranium compounds were stored in the university said the materials obtained can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and warned they could easily be smuggled out of iraq

a u.s. government official told reuters news agency the materials are not believed to be enriched uranium and therefore make it difficult to make into a weapon it's also been revealed that islamic state the militants the group formerly known as isis captured a facility on june eleventh thirty five miles southwest of baghdad which was once offered by saddam hussein and it lead to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with potentially deadly sarin and mustard gas the u.s. officials have downplayed the risk claiming the materials are too old to be useful however given the instability within the country and its proximity to syria this is still a very huge worry. yes as lindsey mentioned the militants have made significant gains in recent weeks is an entire arsenals they've already paraded columns of tanks and even a scud ballistic missile the chemical side isis took in iraq contained a number of deadly agents including sarin sinai to end

a mustard gas and now that you how does have nuclear materials which could be used to make a bomb but. by so lead for arrest says washington is downplaying the crisis. it is a very serious development regardless of how you know weaponized this material could be now of course in washington going to be a debate about is this really propaganda from the iraqi government or is this real no matter what if this material has really been taken by crisis over any other jihadi fashion it's not just a drop in the tiriel it's about what can this organization use just materials who are not necessarily nuclear material but it dirty bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government those executive and the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same ground they're going to try to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to create a political crisis before they make sure of what this material is. the u.s.

congressional and to terrorism adviser walid forestland there stay with our n.t. for the latest on this developing story. israel's following to intensify its shelling of gaza that's despite at least seventy five palestinians being killed inside the incapable postured days and among them over a dozen children but. some of the we're going to talk. has never lost when i'm alone. when i'm looking government that's a mental. was that was was was. was was. back was was. now big

and despite the bloodshed israel's leadership is running around of friends meanwhile nearly six hundred palestinians have also been injured in the israeli air raid imagination's is one in the situation is dangerously close to a full blown others want to post a report from one saw the an israeli town near the border with gaza. half of the people who have been killed in israeli bombardments are women and children gaza officials also say that most of the homes that have been destroyed by the israeli aerial strikes do not belong to hamas militants as indeed these raids claim now this comes as israel prepares for possible ground offensive thousands of israeli bit of troops have been called up later today the united nations security council is scheduled to hold emergency talks but certainly here where i am i'm in the southern israeli town of ashkelon which is not far from the israel gaza border. you do not get

a sense that any kind of diplomatic move is on the way the mood is extremely tense here in southern israel you constantly hear the red alert siren which gives people less than twenty seconds of same should be to get to a shelter or to some place of safety before a rocket strikes the panic is not only here in the south of israel it is also now in the center and even in the north that there have been a long range missiles fired at israel reaching as far as one hundred and forty kilometers into the country the shelters have been opened throughout israel and people particularly here have been ordered to remain near a shelter and if possible not even to leave their homes at the same time i do want to say that as we look across the border into gaza you can see. constantly dropping a deadly cargo they've also been dropping leaflets urging gaza residents to reveal the hiding places of hamas militants but certainly throughout the course of the day there isn't an hour that goes past when you do not hear loud explosions coming from

across inside gaza. and we are told to activism are in france and from the movement for international solidarity now he believes that israel is treating palestinians just like it always has but continues like this escalating i think we have to prepare for the worst it's just a continuation of the occupation that's there for tens of years on the grounds of the blockade of gaza still the checkpoints are still children get killed on arrest the regularly in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new what the numbers of. children in israeli prisons grew up to seven hundred. for every. child killed there are fifty palestinian children killed israel feels no pressure to change what they are doing now and so they try to hit as hard as it ghana the people in gaza. latest u.s. spy scandal in germany has prompted outrage among politicians with a second government employee now suspected of working for the prying ally

a member all the other social democratic party said that it is degrading spectacle to what she was spies being exposed on a weekly basis the defense minister stated that the case has shaken confidence in the united states and a german member of the european parliament called the incident deeply shocking which causes a deep loss of trust now this isn't the first time american intelligence has been caught snooping on its allies let's take a look aback at the standoff now the small scale of the snooping came to light last june the agency access up to half a billion german data connections every month a month later it was revealed that germany intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous xx. key square a story x. he's all software rather and in october an international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of the german chancellor angela merkel had been tapped at

the end of the yeah it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also in stopping on german targets in february this year german media reported the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor it had suit as a phone calls in the run up to the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq now published as we have and all begins the u.s. isn't going to stop spying on its ally any time soon the obama administration is clearly good for critical it has no intention obviously of. downscaling any of its history large activities on european union politicians on some of nato member stations no matter what the pretty words are effective these scandals where the average german is to really weaken. the affection for the united states the majority of germans during the time of the balloon early in the fifty's and so forth so that it's pretty much been spent now.

it s. a snowden affair. did a lot of damage but now these new scoundrels are. making a major major question for any government to try to defend at all costs special relationship with washington the n.s.a. doesn't spy on only foreign citizens the latest batch of edward snowden's revelations came the agency has been targeting prominent muslim americans even though there is no evans any of them are connected to terrorism which is very important i reports on their reaction to the surveillance. in the wake of this latest government spying revelation the american civil liberties union has announced that a coalition of forty five civil and human rights organizations have written to u.s. president barack obama demanding a full public accounting of these latest surveillance prop this is in question now according to the intercept the five american muslim citizens that had their e-mails

monitored by the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. included a records university professor who is also president of the american iranian council an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases the executive director of care of the largest muslim civil rights organization in america the national chairman of the american muslim alliance which supports muslim political candidates and a long time republican party operative who formerly served as a lawyer for the department of homeland security none of the men have been charged with a crime in connection to the apparently monitoring of the soul killed one of the five americans targeted tells our team he has no idea what would leave the n.s.a. or f.b.i. to think that he's someone that they should be put under surveillance especially given his resume served in the united states navy worked in the bush administration at home a security. clearances so. i think the biggest reaction that i have is

i have no idea what i have done what in my background that would lead them to surveil or i mean i am a muslim and i did work in. addition levels in the government that's about the only thing i could think of i just can't think of anything else the u.s. office of the director of national intelligence and department of justice issued a joint statement calling the intercepts allegations entirely false insisting that no he was a person can be the subject of surveillance based solely on first amendment activities and any aleck. onyx surveillance unless it's an emergency must be approved by the foreign intelligence surveillance court glenn greenwald who broke the story with fellow journalist moataz of hussein says this is one of the most important revelations to come from the snowden leaks because it puts a face to the n.s.a. surveillance overreach that also apparently shows that domestic spying abuses are targeting minorities and activists for simply exercising their basic constitutional

rights. are to me or. on the way the many faces of london. want kids playing with white kids black kids with black kids middle class on their own which can cross the road i mean reporter reels of the british capital is actually not the multi-ethnic welton thought that some make it out to be will be right back. there's immediately though shall we leave the. mother she motioned to the play you call the there's a girl. their shoes that no one is there still with the guess that you deserve answers from. politics.

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president paratrooper shango approved a plan for military assault on the resistance now the cities have been at the strongholds of the anti-government movement in the east and the capitals of the self-proclaimed republics these are the pictures that we've been getting from the region apparently showing ukrainian war machines on route to the embattled cities both of them have been enduring overnight ery most recent attacks have left up to three people dead in various international is day. to day again we walk up from very loud sounds of a tillery we are in the city center and the shelling it was so close that we were able to hear the launch of the shells and we were also hearing how they were lending the anti government forces continue to shell the ukrainian army's positions in the outskirts of the city with the country's military firing back it happens very often that shells land in quite unexpected places in the city center and many

residents have already fled the city and people continue to leave people were terrified by promises from kiev to surround the city of donetsk and lugansk and fears were rising that it could become useless beyond kind of a tourist to be centers of the operation for months where clashes were very fierce and very deadly but lugansk is a very big city with a population of more than four hundred thousand people while deniece gets home to one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. a team of international observers travel to slavyansk and found the evidence the city was shelled indiscriminately including some of its residential areas they say they were shocked by what they saw. the there was quite a bit of devastation there obviously we were the first international body to get into the city there is very no electricity no water like

a food supplies a.t.m. machines were working and it's basically a ghost town right now more than half the population has a lot of people according to our monitors people there felt very kind of alone and almost abandoned ever since fabrice in kiev ukraine's been firmly in the headlines over the conflicts in the field and the battle against supplies but for some in washington it's opened a whole new way to cash in on the changes and explains for some top u.s. officials ukraine is not just about politics it's about business family and friends but one connection leads to another and the business is now finding its way into the u.s. congress. a week after vice president joe biden's son joined the board of ukraine's largest gas producer secretary of state john kerry's former senate chief of staff signed on to lobby congress on behalf of that same ukrainian energy company another

gentleman from team kerry joined the von archer who was once john kerry's advisor and bungler in his presidential campaign these people are no strangers to each other divonne archer and joe biden's son worked as business partners with john kerry's son in law christopher heintz oh yes and buddhism of their new employer is controlled by new chips former ukrainian government minister all of these sons and friends of u.s. officials say they're on their own that they're disconnected from the decision makers in washington but of course nobody can stop them from benefiting from the policies adopted in the buildings around here members of congress are already writing letters to asking to provide u.s. funding for ukraine's domestic energy production here is one of the senators. i think if we are going to be helping them with new technologies and we should we should have a telescope time frame that we create for doubling of natural gas production inside

of ukraine and we should set those goals set benchmarks and then much meet. and to help us make sense of this house of cards where one connection leads to another where it's all business and it's all personal. it's not just about lobbying for this one particular. right a u.s. state department spokesperson told congress this tuesday that ukraine's entire gas supply and production system is corrupt and needs fixing and the u.s. of course can help and one can only wonder what u.s. companies and what individuals would benefit from that fixing what do you think well we don't have to wonder too long because what we've seen is a scandal here we're. well connected relatives. of very influential officials are already on board and it quite graham innocent of what happened after iraq when there were all kinds of conferences on how americans

and american companies could make money out of the situation buying influence in washington is not called corruption in america it's called tapping into new opportunities in washington i'm going to check on. i don't with three cars mostly like these in russia the country isn't quite the champion of modern public transport well have a look at what happens when one of russia's tough times manufacturers waves in check out but it's brainchild of the so-called back trap and looks like from both inside and out and our team. also online a prominent canadian ecologist you once decided to drop out of greenpeace has had another change of heart he says global warming is just a fantasy and warns of a global cooling. right to see. her story. and i think the truth.

on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. elsewhere around the world this hour six people including four children have been killed and one more wounded in a shooting in houston texas according to local authorities a man opened fire in a suburban house and then attempted to flee the scene but was intercepted and cornered by police five people died on the spot while one child was taken to hospital however doctors were unable to save him that's also one of the deadly domestic dispute has identified the shooter. greece has been hit by a twenty four oz strike as public sector workers protesting against austerity measures including a forty percent reduction to salaries and pensions many of the country's facilities

have been disrupted and several parts of the country are facing calls cuts the government has aussie hike through to move the strike illegal and abusive. london's massive population may be diverse but the multicultural melting pot there is not working that's according to a new report which points to barriers between the city's ethnic communities which is put it working reports. politicians celebrate it sociologists note it in london as well they take it for granted the british capital is so multicultural it is the first city in the u.k. where white british people have become a minority over a third of london's residents were born outside of the u.k. and a third of foreigners over three hundred languages are spoken on the streets of the city and if you tried we could probably track down representatives of every race religion culture and nation but here's the thing according to

a new report by the social integration commission think tank london may be diverse but people are sticking to their own kind the capital is the place in britain where ethnic communities mix the least we do think of london as being a melting pot we do think of it as being the most diverse part of the country diversity does not automatically lead to integration when we look at a school playground and we see that white kids are playing with white kids black kids with black kids middle class on their own working class on their own i think as a gut reaction that that most of us would say that that is a bad thing that we want some kind of mixing better in that there's a growing trend for white britons to leave the capital for other areas prompting concerns the city could be sleepwalking into ghetto like segregation is probably an element here in london where people living busy lives commuting long distances so their free time in london is probably less than is elsewhere in the country and

then where they're choosing to spend that free time is with people who look to a greater or lesser extent like them this isn't about saying hello to people on the bus this is about a little bit further having a conversation on the books so it's a step further from diversity in toleration into something a little bit deeper and that's where we see those divides coming a little bit clearer and those dividing lines could lead to greater fragmentation right. that integration. is the couple of minutes left before it's on a boy who was here with the latest edition of worlds apart and. we never saw that coming. we had no idea our children were gay. i

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or a big t.v. dog called. hello and welcome to worlds apart president obama began his first term in office with promises of resetting restarting and rebalancing u.s. relations with the rest of the world but five years on most of those policy initiatives have been really gated to better times if not to the dustbin of history what's behind these three first sell off american foreign policy while to discuss that i'm now joined by douglas pollack vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace mr paul it's an honor to have you on the show also wanted to be here thank you for your one of the united states top experts on

asia and this is primarily what i would like to discuss but before we go there it seems that the obama administration has these things for the reap in his first term it was all about resetting rebalancing nowadays primarily the talk is about retaliation and redeployment isn't that striking how hopeful he began and how gloomy he sounds now well that's the one of the. problems with the campaign of two thousand and eight was all about hope and trust and that was all turning to dust by two thousand and twelve and there are a lot of us who share the disappointment in the promise of the the obama government coming up so short now speaking about. this a policies of resetting with russia or rebalancing with china. i think president obama did try on a number of occasions to breathe a new light in those policy initiatives but unfortunately it has.