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i've got to do just that and you're watching all the. slush bowl. readings m salutations we begin to day hawk watchers with the little good moves and some very bad news smiles and cries let's start with the good news according the international organization for migration or i.o.m. over six hundred thousand displaced syrians have returned whole in the first seven months of twenty seventeen that is probably one of the first real births of positive news to come out of the very war torn country in a long long time the six hundred thousand is actually comparable to the total loss . returning refugees for all of two thousand and sixteen which is around six

hundred eighty thousand according to the i.o.m. findings indicate that the vast majority of the people ninety three percent returning had been displaced within syria seven percent of people return from turkey lebanon jordan and iraq twenty seven percent of those returning their home stated they did so to protect their assets or properties another twenty five percent cited an improved economic situation where their roots were originally from almost seventy percent of the refugees are returning home to the war torn city of aleppo which as we know was retaken by government forces back in december now now let's turn to the very bad news things are getting even worse for the people in yemen not only as the number of airstrikes in the impoverished country over five thousand now surpassed all of last year's combined in just the first six months just the first six months of two thousand and seventeen but now the world health organization is reporting that the cholera outbreak in yemen has reached epidemic

proportions with five hundred thousand now afflicted the smiles the cries the good the bad the news of the world is never just simple anymore is it which is why we continue watching the hawks. you know that i got. so. welcome everyone the watching the hawks i am tyrrel than her. so sean it's interesting the dynamics between syria and yemen and both countries that we have in one way in one fashion or another that the united states says has the board arms into. whether it be missiles or small arms or whatever it may be but i think you

will starting with the good news it is nice to see that some of the you know syrians are coming home and going back to the cities that they were originally displaced from yeah i think you have to credit the stabilization of aleppo obviously once the syrian army got you know got hold of the city and was able to secure it. mainly with support from russia not coming from the u.s. but really that the it created the ground for this return and that's not to say that everybody is you know necessarily stabilized there there's still some rebel rockets coming in but for the most part it seems that aleppo has been secured it's back it's stabilized and that's what we you know we've always discussed on this show is the idea of look you cannot destabilize the country and expect things to get better i mean you can't basically just destabilize and say well we're going to get rid of assad and everything will work itself out no it's probably going to make things much worse and you know there's still six million syrians this placed in a fairly inside of syria not to count how many millions have actually had to leave the country completely so this is just one step forward you know it's

a hopefully and it's a big step it you know the reasons the people are giving behind their return as i mentioned earlier you know twenty seven percent that they want to go back and protect their own property now they feel that they actually have the ability to do so twenty five percent said it was because of the economic situation it actually gotten better where they are originally were from fourteen percent the economic situations where they ran into is worse so they're having to go back. some sort of social cultural issues such as you know tribal links political filiation as other things were preventing immigration into the area where they were they traveled to an eleven percent said that it was an improvement in security situation so you kind of see it's when you put those numbers together it's kind of split you know a little bit of light ok it's still bad where we went through and it's still bad where we came from but at least you're seeing you know people return to their homes and i think that like you're saying about stability. that to me is the most

important thing because no matter what you want to see happen in syria whether you want to see the removal of assad or you're want to see you know. squash whatever it is you need some form of stability in order to do that your bottom line is the only people really need to focus on right now are the refugees coming out about country and trying to give them some kind of quality of life i think yeah absolutely and that's the point unfortunately the other bad news is that there are there have been more people displaced in the early part of this year two thousand people were displaced. because of a war is ongoing but this seems to be an indication that actually things are starting to stabilize things are coming back to normal and so hopefully of those eighteen thousand who were displaced or this year most of these people now come back to aleppo and that's just the first wave of what will stabilize for syria if things proceed and we have not been supporting the syrian army any more so not support it. so that sort of seems to be good news. you know the other moving over

to yemen the whole tragically i mean you know the air strikes in yemen are incredible what's going on there the majority of saudi strikes which is then obviously provided by what you can of the forces there when you do. you know supplying arms there u.k. supplying arms i mean the numbers of this pretty incredible yeah you're looking at basically a mission over five thousand this year that was more than three thousand plus almost four thousand really last year in the entire year so over five thousand this year you probably get closer to ten thousand by the end of the year the country's completely devastated i mean it's clear that there is really i mean there's it's a microcosm of basically could say the regional clash between saudi arabia and iran how much iran is supporting the i mean it's up to debate obviously they're going to support them because they're shia but as far as the amount of arms and one. not the

point is that this is this is not going to end this is an intractable situation there's no hope i don't see coming in the near future of saying the saudis going to back down the got one hundred billion dollars in the us a new arms deals right more to come in the future it doesn't look like it's when you're looking at things like there you have the cholera outbreak you know basically all the infrastructure of the country is destroyed the interesting thing that comes to mind is the entire idea is they want to re-install the former president or i guess the sitting president who really they want to see going to rule over for lack of a better phrase i mean if you destroy a country just to put in the old guard. of the country unless it becomes a somalia situation. operating in the south and certain parts and you have just various warlords in the northern mountains i mean. basically the country at this point is looking like somalia i think in the ninety's and again somalia to this point really hasn't stabilized for the most part people get on and people find ways

of you know finding a living but obviously you have a cholera outbreak that's scary because that can lead to who knows how many even half million already can lead to a million. go from there to remember it's a disease you know diseases spread and you got half a million people of color leaving them suddenly you of color in other parts of the region as well so it's definitely syria and yemen are not going away anytime soon and we're definitely going after stay on their story little good little. this summer the united states congress passed that countering america's adversaries through sanctions against north korea iran and iraq i mean russia had almost unanimous vote which then trump signed into action but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and that reaction may just and the carefully constructed nuclear deal hammered out in two thousand and fifteen between the united states and iran. in miami with more. iranian president hassan rouhani.

issued a direct threat to the trumpet ministration warning his country is capable of restarting its nuclear program within hours speaking to lawmakers during a parliamentary session the iranian leader said washington's ongoing threat of more sanctions could force tehran to abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers president rouhani said once restarted iran's nuclear program could quickly be brought to a much more advanced level than it was back in two thousand and fifteen when the country agreed to cap uranium enrichment levels in return for the lifting of international sanctions the trump administration recently slapped unilateral sanctions against iran for its missile programs and a legit human rights abuses president rouhani says america's new leader is undermining the monumental international agreement reached in twenty fifteen. year the dalai lama statesman should know that the field experience of sanctions

incursion brought their previous administrations to the negotiating table and if they want to go back to that experience definitely in a short time not weeks or months but in a matter of hours and days we will return to our previous situation you much stronger. rouhani also said tehran remains loyal to its commitments under the nuclear deal however the latest remarks from iran's president are likely to ratchet up tensions with the trump administration the white house recently accused iran of violating a u.n. resolution which prohibits the country from undertaking activities related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons including launches using such technology now iran denies breaching the resolution insisting its missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons marina porton r.t. . you know these sanctions really they strike me as very interest. because if i

remember the iran deal that obama put together the democrats were like sheering and applauding like hey we found a peaceful solution to this issue of nuclear weapons while the republicans were screaming tom cotton's of the world were and all of them were screaming that they were making a deal with the devil when like all of that but now it seems that both republicans and democrats in their fervor to get north korea and i guess lumber iran in there as well have basically backed away from the deal or potentially could run away from the deal that the democrats were applauding. you know well it leg in the game of politics right now with the actual motivation how much the democrats really really support it i mean there's obviously the argument that the apac in the israel lobby probably doesn't support the iran deal on the whole. at this point isn't that the iranians have really violated anything i mean they have theirs that is far as monitors are concerned the iranians are not violated any part of the deal simply

lumping them into this category again it's goes back to the axis of evil speech where i was like well we've got to find a third that's through the iranians and with north korea and iraq and iran if you're saying why do you keep throwing us in the studio. we want to we want to be working with you guys you want to have cooperation with the west and you keep isolating us and it just makes things more extreme there but what's interesting is we were talking earlier tell me earlier about kind of the economic motivation behind a lot of the. round of sanctions that we're seeing is very fascinated well there's a lot of factors i mean first of all you have to factor in mention you know. with israel as a factor but certainly it's also the saudis the saudis are obviously one of our biggest oil producers in the world if the iranians sanctions lifted you have about a million barrels of oil coming out of iran that it's about fifty billion dollars for them for a year and so i think the oil factor is one thing to look at they also have across the because you have to say she is really targeting europe because. right now

europe is getting their oil obviously from russia but with ukraine being very volatile as it is and there's been an issue about the pipelines who are going to build pipelines from ukraine directly russia basically is to do this north stream to the germans want to do with russia to build a direct pipeline to get russian gas into germany because one of the major banks involved in that well they're getting hammered by sanctions all these sanctions violations hundreds of million dollars that could go up to even fourteen billion dollars worth of sanctions violations with this new round the french banks have also been hammered by for sanctions violations you know because they're using u.s. dollars in their transactions so that on the whole basically you're looking at a game where oil and natural gas are very much. factors for you know european economies but then you also have their banks that are trying to do these deals whether it's with russia or with iran i mean france is also the automobile company . almost almost a billion dollar deal with iran for

a new automobile so that they're trying to basically have peaceful economies economic relations with iran and russia and they're the ones getting hammered the hardest by the. good economics of the world money good economics is what creates peace if everyone is trading with each other less of an inclination to go to war with each other less of an inclination for things to get out of hand really quickly . as we go to break we're going to let us know what you think of the topics covered on facebook and twitter. dot com coming up highlights of his thought provoking interview with author of black about how the creation of nations in the middle east by the british empire and others outside of the region influence world politics. spent countless hours going through documents that tell the story. corporate

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the world. the. old. the old. world. child i have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of his majesty's government the following declaration of sympathy with jewish zionist aspirations his majesty's government view with favor the establishment of a national home for the jewish people being clearly understood that nothing shall prejudice the civil or religious rights of existing non jewish communities. such as the language and a short note written by the british foreign secretary. or to baron well to

rothschild sign of the british rothschild family and a leading zionist this declaration was written one hundred years ago and most are credited as directly leading to the creation of israel as a nation in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the trouble with the balfour declaration though is that it's written on behalf of the british empire to one of their most prominent bankers financing that empire in the midst of a world war for control access to colonies and resources from africa to the middle east in asia and the promise of a jewish national home was being offered from someone else's land the ottoman empire then ruling over the christian muslim and jewish arabs living in palestine to discuss the meaning implications of the balfour declaration and its legacy i recently sat down with edwin black author of the transfer agreement war against the weak i.b.m. in the holocaust and many more classic works the balfour declaration makes clear that all groups dead even though national rights are being given to the jews to return to their ancient homeland everyone will be treated equally and everyone will

have civil rights and this was an absolute. revolution for the world and for the middle east and that's why the balfour declaration and its text was done adopted by the sea and remote convention which was the foundation of the. international law and that established along with the league of nations and the mandate for palestine all of these various states i'm sure that you know sean and you know that i know that these maps were also made by people who controlled the oil companies and so it was a british petroleum and to a large extent standard oil and told tal which decided to create arab states in syria lebanon and ultimately jordan was invented by winston churchill in one nine hundred twenty with a memo. you know really interesting because what do you know i don't think

a lot of people pay enough attention to how you know this chain of events starting with the creation. of the redrawing of the middle east has now led to so much of the conflict and strife we see today sure. you know it's interesting because you can have the most noble reasons for redrawing these maps but at the same time you're it sounds like you have the you know the other hand looking at the most economically greedy interest for you know. you kind of see that playing out like ok guys we need to give israel a nation we need a place for these people oppressed through you know most of their history a place where they can be safe but at the same time while we're doing that we can we can carve out this area over here we can do this over here and that's the point obviously you see mentions the oil interest was very big but it was all it was an imperial interest and you know partly you could say anti-semitism was behind it because the british didn't except a lot of jews they were saying let's push you guys to a homeland but the imperial interest is interesting because mil alfred milner was

actually the real author of the balfour declaration he's there mentioned he was basically the heir of cicero rhodes roundtable which was basically like the build their birth groups of that era and rhodes had made a fortune in south africa and diamond mines and gold mines financed by. other of the child they sent a letter to and of course rhodes had this idea of maintaining the british empire and part of it is the holy land of you know what it becomes to israel know it's also interesting though when you get into like the disintegration of the middle east and you talked with him about that as well absolutely so try to take it to the present day and how what we're looking at to me is very much ok we have the maps of the of the map makers of that era of the twenty's but now here we are we're seeing you know syria is being broken up iraq is has been broken up in many ways you know libya sudan it's been splintered somalia all this fracturing yemen so i was trying to get basically his response as to what is really at heart of the disintegration of these artificially constructed nations to take a war. that's actually the question of the day. this is the question

that the vicious murderous group known as isis was asking what they were trying to do with erase this lines and restore the. arab national enterprise that had begun under five will remember. fi's all who was declared king of iraq. and who declared five the king of iraq the king of england declared five king of rec if you could see from this picture of san of san remo there is five little standing there with lawrence of arabia. right next to him above his right shoulder so if you look at this agreement made between size zero in one nine hundred nineteen in a lot. with. invites in the first president of the zionist organization and you can see a graphic of that and you'll see that. it was witnessed by lawrence of arabia

the agreement was that the arabs would have their national state and the jews would have their national state they all was not just on his own as a put up he was the elected president of the second syrian democratic congress but he said if we don't get what we want then you don't get what you want well the the the french the syrian national state which was established of march of one thousand nine hundred twenty was rejected by france so france rejected the deal made to have peaceful coexistence between the arabs and the jews in the middle east but tween the a digits jews and the jews who had settled there after they had been. expelled. really incredible it's like all these little decisions and then boom they build up their build up in the you know makes this bad

decision at the time maybe right decision but clearly a bad decision you know it's incredible seeing like this chain of events lead up till today certainly and i think the end of the day when you know when you travel the middle east and you and you know you the issue that i think most people in middle east would have with israel is simply the feeling that it's a european. entity as such it's a european created state with mostly european populated jews who came to live there and there's a resentment that you did this without our permission basically did this is part of the imperial phase of empire building of empires basically deciding on behalf of you know what syria and iraq and you know arabia basically the british put the saudis on the on the throne there so there's all this there's resentment that obviously that goes against europe for the colonial era that continues its present day. but what we really have to get through is peace because i think anybody no one wants to see this kind of strife that we're seeing today no one want to hopefully see it no one want to suit them and ultimately we do want to see peace between

israel and palestine we do want to see peace between all these countries there you asked him about this well certainly because we discussed yesterday for example roger waters and others have called for b.d.s. right the best and sanctions against israel i mean i want to go as far as calling it a part of apartheid state as bad as what south africa was but obviously israel find itself surrounded in a bind because it's surrounded by neighbors like gaza which which is first virtually an oversized ghetto the west bank with a very stifled economy and so if you have neighbors like this how can you ultimately have peaceful conditions in your country and that's my final question for him. the best way really for to bring peace to the middle east is remove the money bags. take the cash out. if gutter can remove its fun and the rand could remove its funding for hamas if the united states can stop giving a quarter to a half a billion dollars a year. to the palestinian authority. and of which

approximately a half of all foreign aid goes to pay terrorists salaries if you let these people just live together and work together you will see peace emerge but what is the biggest export of the palestinian territories the biggest export is terror it terrorism the need for foreign aid and the and the unrest created by this horrible status quo people should be left alone remember the third largest political party in in israel with eleven percent of the votes necessary to quite a bit of the country going on is the arab party created by a coalition of. arab parties that there are two hundred thousand arabs both muslim and christian who are working every day in as israeli citizens driving buses coding computers working in hospitals working in factories their engineers their

everything some thirty thousand palestinians are crossing the line every day to work in those same to work in those same jobs nothing will bring peace. into the middle east by letting people get on with their peaceful relationships but when israel and its and and post nine hundred sixty four palestinians are constantly in the throes of an in an international game being played by the e.u. by the united states by russia by the oil kingdoms it's impossible for peace to come to the to the surface but if left alone if left alone i believe with this much hate and venom and bloodshed that we have seen the israelis and the arabs including the arabs debt renamed themselves palestinians in one nine

hundred sixty four can extend this circle of coexistence. basically just get the hands you know get the arms out get the money you know get all of that out of the fire get other people's hands on the fire and let them figure out a way to peace and maybe we'll get there a little bit sooner essentially is what i think that's really what it boils down to and obviously yeah there's a lot of sense to be made in that regard i mean it's very brutal conditions obviously if you're living in the west bank it's hard to see how they could have a real you know export economy you know and with that with the way it is but i do you know i do believe that they are being used wielded by these external powers who want to create tension for economic purposes and other factors. are. well the bald eagle was chosen to be the national emblem of the united states back on june twentieth of seventy two and it's pretty easy to see why a truly majestic appearance powerful displays of agility and strength that's what most of us see when looking at the american bald eagle but that's not what the town

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i can but some of you might already know i was within feet of the terror attack in charlottesville this past weekend i saw the carnage i felt the fear and i imagine it will be a long time before i can really grasp it all if you want you can you can watch my video of the attack it's on our youtube page although i stopped filming a moment after it happened because filming wasn't really my top priority at the time i didn't even realize i had filmed it until three hours later but anyway here are some initial thoughts first of all there are some heroes from that day who should be thanked and i haven't heard them talked about all that much although i haven't watched that much of the news around but they were without a doubt the volunteer medics and the leaders the community leaders the group leaders who kept.