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it's friday august twenty fifth four pm in washington d.c. on the military and you're watching are to america we begin today in the city of mosul where the u.s. led operation to liberate the city from isis has been declared a success despite the inconceivable human cost it was once home to around two million people were on god is in mosul to witness the aftermath a word of warning though you might find the content of this report disturbing. i kept this up for the needy ten. u.s. led coalition in iraq he's one that you can still smell the ashes this probably won't shock you the destruction in mosul a city in ruins it's already been shown you've probably also heard about the thousands killed the civilian suffering what you will likely haven't heard of is

the smell it's noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink these sick the smell of rotting bodies. the sickly permeates near the entirety of the old city under the rubble hundreds and hundreds of corpses jihad ists as well as civilians families this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters two women and two children this is again just the first few hours of this morning from buildings right around us and they're still not done. most of them are women and children they called this a victory you'd never think the smell of victory would make you rich.

forty. five. i was. covering tough the market even the connection they could what was. it describable this is what they do day long day right out i didn't see a bullet not that. it's hard. work in move ways than one there are booby traps and exploded jet bombs rockets shells and munitions and the bodies decomposing in the sweltering heat. there was no precision here these was carpet bombing annihilation hundreds buried under rubble hundreds blocks in basements starving choking to death it will take months to dig up all the bodies months more of trauma.

what i see here makes me cry you can bring anyone here and they will break down in tears because we are all human beings. was in june there are some things you couldn't sail camera like the fact that he and many rescuers have trouble sleeping after the sea and no wonder it is off to rule a city of corpses more i guess the of for mosul iraq and yemen earlier today fourteen people were killed in a fairly loud airstrike in the capital city of sanaa five children were among those killed the strike destroyed two buildings in a southern district of a city weaving an unknown number of people buried under debris witnesses say eight family members in one family were killed in that airstrike. and the head of a turkish nationalist movement is making harsh statements about kurds in northern

iraq as the kurdish people plan a referendum for independence the turkish opposition group is saying those are grounds for war there are currently about fifteen million kurds in turkey and the turks fear that if the move is successful in iraq it could stoke a similar movement in turkey so here to talk more about that former pentagon official michael maloof my thanks for being with us to talk about this so that the kurdish people have have sought to have a sovereign region since the end of world war one and now turkish nationalists are saying that a kurdish referendum would be enough reason for war why is that well you've got to understand turkey. turkey turkey historically has had an influence in that region of northern iraq kurds occupied the and they want it back they want it back as part of. everyone's. neo autumn and ambitions and and along with ports portions of northern syria down to aleppo. i think that this is

a bit premature to say that it's going to result in war because it's not generally these referendums this is a referendum it's one of a number that have been taking place. the question is what will be the result of the what will happen from that referendum yeah. most likely it will be just to show the sentiment of the people there and they may not do anything in immediately they haven't before there was a rough an early referendum referendum and they didn't do anything. but if they go ahead and strike out the side well this is our chance and this could and the referendum will also include areas that the kurds have taken over from dosh in the war in iraq so they have this is actually going to the kurds i believe feel that this will give them greater leverage towards some form of autonomy the syrians have already given the kurds at least ten. for the autonomy and royal visitor to face a little space for

a time if turkey if syria becomes consolidated they could they may just go ahead and yank it back but the but the one thing that the warring factions from turkey to to syria to iran iraq all agree on one thing that is they do not want kurdish independence a kurdish separate independent state anywhere and everywhere anywhere and now speaking. or ice and the kurds have been the most successful in the region the most successful local forces there driving a lot of the major wins that the allies the coalitions that had they're the ones that have opened the doorway for that turkey isn't the role that the u.s. is backing them and where might the u.s. stand if a few years down the line from here if you know more referendums like this are seen and the kurds band together across all these borders and seek their own state where might the u.s. be if the kurds are the ones to thank for defeating. well the answer is the

u.s. probably will be wishy washy as usual they support the concept of autonomy for the kurds but at the same time they don't want to implement such a push because of the disruption that it could cause now the turks could use this as a provocation real or imagined to bring in more troops into the northern part of iraq because they plan to stay there they have troops there already for training purposes and so they also want the oil they like the oil and so they've been dealing with the kurdish government in the northern part of that country the other problem that could conceivably occurs at this road referendum could even create greater disruption politically internally in iraq simply because. when he was prime minister promised them all to. in exchange it didn't happen but

because. stars are rising again against the body of the current. prime minister this how to create more problems all over again so we can we can see major problems after the september twenty fifth referendum and and real or imagined the turks could take certain actions on their own and use this as a as some kind of provocation it's happened before while speaking in terms of just how turkey is involved in this why do they consider it such a threat if the kurds got their own state and then there's there's more than fifteen million of them in turkey alone well that's the problem because what they see the referendum could be a catalyst for kurds not only in syria but also in iran as well is in southwestern turkey to push for similar autonomy and turkey has been violently put in the kurds down inside of turkey has destroyed entire cities where the kurds

have been residing have rigged have declared in the basically to be terrorists and i mean all of them are p.k. k. you know they are all p.k. k. in the eyes of the of the turks so this is a problem and so they created havoc by no i think we're what conceivably could occur is a potential civil war and turkey so they want to keep that you want to keep it down keep it down all right we got to keep an eye on this one thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us former pentagon official michael maloof. in kabul gunmen stormed a mosque on friday during prayers while a suicide bomber detonated a device at the complex a gate officials have confirmed at least twenty people were killed and at least fifty wounded a five hour long attack ended with all four assailants dead afghan based journalist . reports prizes response unit this. russian forces unit to fight these attacks is still

a clearing that building we have heard some ambulances of taken those wounded outof the mosque two members of the police force are also among those killed one is a special forces from c.r.u. the unit that was fighting this attack another was a police cause and was killed in the initial stages of that attack this is a very well coordinated attack the attackers knew that there was a special religious gathering of the she as are a community on a friday this is also a week before the holy month of maha which has traditionally been targeted not only here in afghanistan in neighboring pakistan also in iraq and elsewhere one question that continues to haunt everyone here why so many police and security officials continue to fail in terms of protecting the people of afghanistan the islamic state in the past have targeted the shia and has our communities both here in kabul and western city of herat in those where the taliban and then there's loving state

which is proving quite effective and brutal specifically going for sick tyrian attacks a problem that afghanistan does not have among many of its other issues and everyone is very concerned about these attacks pacifically targeting afghanistan's shia and as our communities. coming up later on r.t. both senate intelligence committee goes after waking me we'll have that story for you in just a moment stay with us. i think the average viewer just after watching. understands that we're telling stories in our critics you know why. because their advertisers more or less.

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a tangible risk of violence discrimination and other trauma and is another right to privacy concerns the da won a victory in a utah court not having access to residents drug prescription information while many are for cracking down on drug abuse some like jeremy robertson president of the salt lake city firefighters union says that his numbers have had their privacy violated that's why he's teaming up with the american civil liberties union to fight with he's calling in overreach by the federal government they can to having a law enforcement officer come in and rummage through your medicine cabinet well he said the database. this includes more than just not katic like harmonise and antidepressants and he's not alone tops the ridiculous i don't think that anybody should be able to go into any type of records like that. however some think it's an idea headed in the right direction try to do their job cut down on crack down on people that are abusing the system kicked in the butt for our privacy but it's also

maybe beneficial some of the utah attorney general's office said they would not be appealing the u.s. district court judge's decision robertson is hoping this case will make its way to the supreme court in washington it's a sweet party the u.s. senate intelligence committee just passed a bill specifically targeting wiki leaks and its senior personnel including julian a songe as quote a hostile non-state intelligence agency and the bill which claims that wiki leaks receives assistance from foreign state intelligence services will now allow the u.s. to use aggressive and perhaps even lethal measures against wiki leaks despite the first amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press to discuss this further i'm being joined now by former cia officer and counter terrorism specialist philip giraldi phil thanks for being here with us first is the u.s. under a president who says you know i love with the leaks are we about to go to war with

wiki leaks now and what would that look like perhaps assassinations what is this. well the president says he loves wiki leaks when wiki leaks released the hillary clinton so he had a personal agenda. i think we are at least creating the framework to go to war with wiki leaks so i think it's to go to war is the right expression and i think that the use of a hostile foreign intelligence service directed by a foreign government this kind of language basically admits to a perception that washington that we keep leaks is very much the enemy and i think we can expect all kinds of with precautions in terms of cyber attacks in terms of our some attacks. i would not necessarily rule out assassinations but you know this is this is kind of going to war now the language and this new bill is almost

identical to what the cia director mike pompei said last april when he calls wiki leaks on state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia how credible is the implication that showing some sort of a useful idiot or tool by russian intelligence. i don't think it's credible at all i mean he's he's rejected this a number of times quite credibly in the u.s. media that i think makes very good arguments the fact is he would lose all of his credibility if you were in the pocket of any intelligence service and he knows that i think this is just an excuse that is being used to make a case against him i think the u.s. government has been embarrassed by the fact that there's been so so much so many leaks of information that it wound up with wiki leaks and they're not capable

apparently of catching the leakers so they're going after the people who are the recipients yeah that's a good point i'm glad you brought that up because in the past week a week has obviously exposed u.s. government criminality they've exposed war crimes so do you think that this is perhaps an act of retaliation against wiki leaks oh yeah absolutely it's retaliation is to is to scare i think to a certain extent potentially crews in the united states making them afraid to go to wiki leaks but i think it definitely is a revenge. scenario that we're seeing play out here they really are angry at wiki leaks and the fact that the language in the senate bill is virtually the same as that came out of the director of the cia tells you everything this is something that's coordinated this is something that is probably happening already and it certainly will be accelerated we're talking about revenge and intimidation so how

can a news source like wiki leaks and a publisher someone like joining us on to go from being protected by our very constitution with freedom of speech freedom of the press to being targeted as a tool of foreign agents can they try to target for example this network at some point in the same way. you know they could i mean i suspect the legal frankly doing this is going to be the espionage act of nineteen eighteen which technically allows the government to go after anyone who winds up with class five you permission and there's not a lot of rights to have it so i think that's going to be the big wedge issue and sure they can go after any outlet who winds up with this kind of information it will become their option to do so and i would also add about wiki leaks that it's astonishing to me is that wiki leaks doesn't even operate the united states i mean it's it's basically something that's been has based outside the u.s.

judy amazon who's a an australian citizen who was is currently in the ecuadorian embassy along so he's not even here and you have they're exercising a certain extraterritoriality to go after now given those facts that you just pointed out that wiki leaks operates outside of u.s. borders through julian assange is an australian national and he's physically in england in the ecuadorian embassy how will this new bill at how can they go after him while they're there that's precisely why the language used to make this a hostile intelligence service because then the gloves are off this is basically intelligence services operate outside didn't actual orders and really are a threat so they're using this language of her specifically to what they think do it in a song. and this will give them their very who is each and how least at

a certain level to go after and with this allow them to somehow show up at the ecuadorian embassy and take them out in handcuffs no because there were dorians won't give them up but the fact is if if you ever leave the embassy certainly the british will. all right thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us philip giraldi former cia officer and counterterrorism specialist thank you and boom bust is coming up next year on our team america lindsey france is joining us for a sneak peek of what's to come what do you have for us hey there sweeping financial sanctions are slapped on venezuela by an executive order just signed by president trump also we take a look at what the future holds with china is a trade war in the offing and my guest fills us in on the debt ceiling and a possible government shutdown that's coming right up every couple of years a government shutdown thank you very much for that lindsey. and that is going to do

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james bennett is the editor of the new york times editorial page in june the paper published an editorial that said sarah palin had incited violence by circulating a map with crosshairs targeting members of congress then it edited that piece and it pretty much insinuated that palin was responsible for the shooting of former democratic congresswoman gabby giffords but it turns out that was some fake news and the times admits that because they later issued a correction saying that there was no connection between anything pale and it and the shooting but pale and felt like the paper had already defamed her so she filed a lawsuit and now the court is hearing testimony about the case to figure out whether or not it should proceed and things just got interesting that it just testified about. how he went about editing this article that basically called

pailin a killer and it was pretty revealing about how the news works for instance while doing his editor thing he added the phrase political incitement the writer didn't use that as the editor he added that is then when the paper issued their corrections he took the phrase back out when asked why he added that in the first place that in fact he did it because he wanted to get our readers attention got that he basically said that he used strong controversial words political incitement just to grab attention it wasn't a fact in the story but he added it just to make people click to read i'm guessing or making a judgment here that's literally what he he also admitted he created an ambiguity when his first priority should have been to get the facts right another telling piece of testimony came from the times lawyers who tried to make it sound like the reason bennett edited the piece perhaps a little poorly was because he had been pressed for time that day according to

politico so that's why he wasn't able to do his research fully on the story he was pressed for time and that's why he screwed up i doubt i can totally understand how that might be true since news organizations are now churning out articles every five seconds trying to get people to click but just because it's true doesn't make it ok all of the news needs to slow down and take a little bit more time right now before they publish stuff that's false misleading or insightful just to get reader's attention like the times editor admit he did it the reality is they probably won't and it's up to the readers now to see through their tricks. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those three up this is

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