basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in connection with the armed conflict in afghanistan this investigation would not only include alleged crimes committed by the taliban but would also include any committed by the governments of afghanistan and the united states dating all the way back to two thousand and three and zero two solomon sako head of international justice that amnesty international told the press the quote justice for victims of the ghana stand conflict has taken far too long to arrive but investigations like this one of the reason the court was set up to provide a last chance for justice one states parties have failed to deliberate. any any little bit of good news goes a long way especially when you're living in days that are long on corruption and short justice which is why we are watching the hawks. forty. three it looks. as if they

were to pull out of. what they like you know i got. there. was anything untoward didn't make any mistake look at the corruption behind the curtain don't look at it go after but those same kind of laid out some of the government and the afghan national forces alone subjected at least twenty sixty one detained persons to torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of afghanistan between the first of may two thousand and three thirty first of december two thousand and fourteen they also believe that cia members carried out similar acts and least twenty seven to at least twenty seven detained persons on the territory of afghanistan and other state parties to the statute. civically they

were saying poland are a baby and lithuania between two thousand to two thousand and so the idea is he's got a lot of it has to do with these black sites and that's taken. this is why so many people including myself were against the torture program were were for no matter how it got no and that we have to rethink this because this is something that is going to haunt us for a very long time and what's interesting to have and i want to get your reaction to this is the pentagon's response to the chief prosecutor coming out saying we didn't know they haven't opened up the official investigation is she's just basically going to the i.c.c. and saying look we need to investigate this i believe there's here's my letter to the pentagon responded through spokesperson home and they told n.p.r. quote our view is clear and i.c.c. investigation with respect to u.s. personnel would be wholly on warranted and unjustified more broadly our overall assessment is that commencement of an i.c.c. investigation will not serve the interests of either peace or justice afghanistan

that's not up for them to decide it's not there it's not our contrary right. that's the whole point of an international criminal court is that you the u.s. or russia or china or these kids the nobody can suddenly decide the u.k. can't arbitrarily decide we don't have to be responsible we don't know if it's silly to say looking at people's actions and seeing where anything wrong is not worth it right these disturbing that's our entire justice system is based on the idea of looking at we doing keeping an eye it's just strange to me back when the clinton administration the us initially signed into the international criminal courts but it was never ratified so that was when they go to the other concerns it's that it would be used unfairly to prosecute us that isn't always it's a very is this is what this is why you have to watch this is this means you're a warmonger if you go i'm not going to be part of an in

a world wide criminal justice system to keep everyone in check because we might get caught doing something bad. that's not a good place to do that. is not a good players book. the u.s. can claim but just because they're not part of the courts that they can't be prosecuted oh that's ridiculous that's like me saying like well i don't really like the score it's too bad that's not how it works the prosecutor bensouda it would still be able to investigate any and all claims and allegations against u.s. citizens because afghanistan is a member the crimes happened in afghanistan they have jurisdiction that covers crimes by any member states territory regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator you don't get to be above the law anywhere and this is this is what i think about people who pound the drum of law and order when it means they have to face if you don't think you've done anything wrong which you've been told for ages about privacy if you don't think you've done anything wrong if you don't think the

u.s. military did anything wrong which i hope they didn't that constitutes war crimes then you should stand up and say this is what we do. this is why i show you how do you really hold those who believe in island groups you know here and people who aren't so the sums here that need to be held to your believe that they need to be held to the votes on the wall i hope they get behind this because they broke a lot of their country still liable for that law. on sunday morning at the first baptist church in the unincorporated community in sutherland springs texas just forty minutes outside of san antonio a gunman took the lives of twenty six parishioners and injured another twenty the twenty six year old shooter devon kelly took his own life shortly following his attack on the church after two good samaritans confronted shot and pursued the perpetrator while local police have indicated that the motive for this crime was not motivated by religion or any religious belief the fact that this mass shooting took place inside a house of worship has left many religious communities across the country deeply shaken because this is not the first time violence has found its way into places of

peace let's go now to our teens david miller with more. research in church shootings it reveals that this is not a new form of an attack and not always motivated by race the database remains limited on national church shootings and so does the analysis for motivation for an attacker in many ways a charge does provide an opportunity for a lone gunman to attack an innocent gathering this is due to a bike of security a church service that includes a large gatherings and a specific time and location and for those motives motivated by hate a church services also present an opportunity for media coverage that will hit the hearts of many across the grieving nation and like in a time line of church shootings you soon realize that this is not a new form of attacks in september of two thousand and seventeen a twenty five year old sudanese immigrant killed one and injured seven happened in the nashville tennessee june of two thousand and fifteen twenty one year old dylan rufe shot and killed nine african-americans in charleston south carolina forty year

old jim atkinson reportedly motivated by hatred for a homosexuals and liberals killed two people and injured eight in tennessee and forty four year old. ratzmann wisconsin killed seven and two thousand and five church shooting and the state to always buy to ninety nine nine in fort worth texas where larry jean ashbrook time to a youth rally that was and he was also carrying two hundred rounds of ammunition and a pipe bomb that killed six people tyrone tabitha turned to teens and the need for church security is now the new norm in america a norm that's hitting the bible belt of america a nation that's created on the basis of religious freedom and it's going to be a persecution a nation or it may. be very much david bellos when you start looking not just there was a recent cases even going back you know time i want to ask you you know there's now there's debate tragically with every shooting there's always the debates the political debates that come out after a you know do you believe the churches should fall under like homeland security or

we're going to have to like overly secure churches no well i mean i think everything really covers that their homeland security but i don't see homeland security no offense guys doing a great job of keeping us safe and general i mean most of these when you see these these are done mass today you know it was one immigrant but the rest are all american citizens in that place and i just don't know if. i don't know what you know we've had white supremacists throughout throughout history have always targeted churches in their you know we're talking with the ku klux klan or whoever is they have they have targeted black churches they've been bombed they've been set on fire in fact that national church shooting database recorded a total of one hundred thirty nine shootings in churches between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five in a mall just out of those cases one hundred eighty five people died including thirty six children and as i say that those numbers don't include other types of violence besides gun violence you know bombings and it also is only non it doesn't leave any

numbers for non christian churches zero loss no state of gods and we know those have obviously been attacked these are places of worship they should be generally protected by. i just don't want to see them turn into you know the t.s.a. going in there and taking away that sense of community. you know it's interesting when we look at this is the you know right immediately after it happened you kind of have both sides you're jumping on the political and we're going to some sort of just right here you know media we it's the guns i mean what is this i'm jumping on the stories that were untrue is that it's like taking you know mocked up pictures of the thing a lot of people jumped on that is not going to spread around really quickly and there's always trying to be the first one to get the motive and get that right you know it's interesting with this guy with his history of abuse towards women i mean they say he was discharged me or for you know the air force you know. mostly kicked out the door because of abuse of women and abuse of an ex-wife why did no one bring about a room kind of went to the guns with no one brought up his abuse of women as a part of that because that primary that i'm aware of why he did it because sorrow

that is never going to be an issue in this country the fact that dylan ruth his entire thing was we have to say i have to protect white women from from black men that you know the guy and the planned parenthood shooter did your he also had a history of violence and of rape. we've had one after another and number of these shootings are men who have a history of domestic violence but as we've seen over the last few months the truth is we don't care people do not care and they don't pay enough attention that when you are violent to your loved ones to your violent to women and children there is a reason and that is the mental health issue you need to pick up because people want to beat up women and children and one bit of anybody that that's a mental illness that's fine it was. all right as we're going to break called watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our full shows that are two dot com coming up parties natasha sweep is joining us live from southern texas with the latest on the shooting and we preserve the second part of the song storms of do with actress and

activist pretty clear about the horrors of factory farming and the growing need for more than the protection of state watchable. well the media and the democrats can't get enough folks russia russia russia the democrats opposing dirty laundry is coming to light also can twitter be trusted and as the u.s. and its almost accepted defeat in syria. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the navy seals exactly just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch a lot of the really packed a punch to sleep yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are

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after sunday's tragic mass shooting that left twenty six parishioners dead at southern springs first baptist church more questions remain than answers whether it be about the shooter's motives or how we obtained the guns he used or what could have been done to prevent the massacre and as is the new norm in the wake of very tragic events instantaneous punditry began just moments after the first headlines with partisan left and partisan right battling over whether the takeaway from the shooting should be that we need more gun control or that if only more good people had guns there would be no shootings so whether atheist extremists are now threat to america on par with the has long mixtape to distill the facts from the theories and to provide us much needed on the ground perspective we turn to our taste the toughest week was live and sutherland springs texas hello. hello good evening seal so you know one of the biggest twists coming out today was one of the possible

motives of the shooter now he has had to mess to issues in the past he has before he leaves had violence against his wife and child but now officials are saying that it's his mother in law that attended the church behind me and that's also where the shooting took place on sunday now authorities say that his mother in law did receive some threatening text messages from devin kelly and they believe it's the one reason that he could have carried out yes trees were thick at the massacre killed twenty six innocent people. we don't have all the all the information there are several that we obviously their children their exact ages yesterday we released information that they just ranged from five to seventy three those were the ones being treated at the hospital in flip inside the church the deceased actually range . to seventy seven years of age. now natasha a lot of media attention has turned to the two good samaritans who took action and

helped end the violence can you tell us more about what exactly happened after that initial shooting. yeah you know it's absolutely unreal what happen everybody is crazy this is a local plumber as a hero apparently he's a sharpshooter he has no military experience but he reportedly was able to shoot kelly in between where there was actually a gap in his tactical gear and so once he was able to do that he also was able to get the rifle out of kelly's hands and so that's when kelly led to his car which was parked across the street the liril gas station and so this pair didn't want to give up he wanted to follow kelly so he got in a car with a man he did not know by the name of johnny lincoln door and they followed telling around ninety miles an hour received him and kelly actually crashed his car to put two men immediately got out of the car and the gentleman who was the plumber and the sharpshooter he continued to engage with him until authorities arrived on scene

. i hope that the fairways and everyone affected this community i hope they're able to sleep a little better at night knowing that this war is that it will hurt anyone else it does not bring complete justice but it does. they lose your. favor they were having to worry about it was. not a target there still remains a lot of confusion about whether kelly was guilty of the bus the caboose and dishonorably discharged from the military had a legal right to carry the firearms he used to hope was clear by the question did he have a legal right to be going over these go. get you know with ortiz are still discussing all of those matters right now you're right he did not have a license to carry in texas but according to federal law kelly should not have been able to legally. purchase firearms after he was discharged and so with rudy's have

confirmed that county bought four guns after he was discharged two in colorado and shoot here in texas so according to the people where he bought everything legally however there's no word yet if anything in that paperwork was false if you line boy oh boy there's so much yeah there's i mean there's so much and packer will be covering that this week just to see you know what happens along the way with this story it's it's one of those strange things while someone who was dishonorably discharged as you said could it is an all access to firearms that we don't have a system in place and some of that is you know obviously i am an anti-violence super lefty liberal trying to make peace in the world but you have to look at the fact that our military has six hundred billion dollars and the a.t.f. which is tasked with with making sure that these things don't happen tracking these things only gets like a billion six the really does need it's on about gun control we have laws they just

need to be followed and you need to have people out there educating keeping an eye on things and seeing when people shouldn't have. to the people that helped out there are all in our hearts go out to the victims most awfully and toss the street for that report live on the ground thank you. as the partisan media does battle over electoral politics and hot button social and cultural war issues one topic that gets overlooked in our day and age is the treatment of animals and more broadly the environment from the unconscionable moral horrors horrors and i heard jenna crimes taking place inside factory parm to the brutal conditions constantly revealed inside puppy mills and underground breeders how we as a society treat our silent neighbors on earth says a lot about humanity's directional role and not only does our treatment of animals and their habitats provide deep inside and or moral dorms or lack thereof or behaviorism dictate it will be more catastrophic problems looming on the horizon that should be. that should certainly bruce's go unchecked former model of actress

katie cleary takes up all these issues at the helm over organization peace for animals or uses her platform to lobby for vital pieces of legislation katie started out earlier with stolen shared some insight into her experience giving a voice to the boisterous you see we've put forth legislation that actually ban factory farming. well that's that's the debate you know honestly i think that we're working towards more of a vegetarian vegan lifestyle and i think they said last year six percent of people have you know more of a plant based lifestyle but you know as far as reducing meat completely that in a perfect world that would be amazing so i think it's realistic right now i think the what we can do is strengthen laws we can strengthen and we can have you know video cameras inside our houses like in france they passed this last year where you know in order to make sure we know these animals are we don't we know that they're not being treated humanely cause they're being killed but a lot of are being tortured before they're killed and so you know i think that

that's a first step in the right direction getting cameras inside our houses to make sure that these animals aren't beaten to death and stab or god you know god knows what they do in these slaughterhouses before they're killed for meat the ultimate goal is to stop by for me stop meat consumption and adopt plant based mean like beyond meat and so many alternatives that will save millions of lives and i think that you know we're moving in that direction and it's saving the planet you know because of methane gas being twenty times as strong as carbon that comes from cars and the methane is polluting our environment methane comes from cows and we use seventy percent arlanda graze cattle so i think that you know if people really knew the statistics they think that you know though there's not enough scientific data i've heard it all there is a lot of scientific data that you just really have to you have to do your research you mentioned israel as a country has the most humane laws for animal welfare tell us about oh my gosh. banning animal testing for i mean they're pretty much ahead of the game they're way

ahead of everybody and circuses animals used in entertainment you know i really think that the u.s. can learn a lot from israel and also you know the u.k. is actually ahead of us which is shocking you know you would just think that you know not to say that we were always the leaders but i would say. leaders of the free world i think that we would be on top of this and i think that a lot of it has to do with with the midwest and the fact that there's a lot of hunters in the midwest and people that don't think progressively like people in california and new york and in other states do. i just think that you know california and israel of course are the leaders in this you see what a crossroads what do you see on the horizon there's a lot and i believe that there are those of us that are put here for a specific purpose and a specific time to make change and as leaders in this world and and you know mine has always been for the animals because they don't have a voice of course children don't have a voice either but specifically are sometimes ok with the animals so i think that.

the crossroads meaning that if we don't make some serious changes in regards to legislation gun laws. how we treat our planet's ecosystem. plant based diet there's just it goes on and on. i think that this planet we could go extinct eventually i mean soon so i don't think. the planet can handle nine billion people beyond the u.s. but it comes to the issue of poaching of articles of the verge of extinction which lifeforms should be most concerned about. i would say the oceans i would say the oceans go go i think that inevitably or next so the oceans i was at the great barrier reef last year we filmed that kind of as the first like for my second documentary we are one follow up to give me shelter. which was about the top ten most important animal welfare issues so i want to start we are one off with. really

looking at the ecosystem under water because most of our earth is covered with water and if the great barrier reef which is the largest underwater ecosystem is gone. then we don't have much time because that means our oceans are dead and once our oceans are dead you know get a couple years and humans will be dead too and all other species on this planet and i believe that you know there's just too many people that don't care and that's why i'm here to spread compassion and expose that you know we need to all care because this is not just about us this is about the future of our planet the future of our children and our children's children and you know and every one's health. the montreal protocol signed into temper of one nine hundred eighty seven phased out the use and production of substances known to be causing the depletion of the ozone layer it was hairspray marsland which absorbs and protects us from the bulk of the

sun's all charged violate radiation and that treaty which was one of the first universally ratified treaties and united nations history has been working better than expected the whole of the earth over the ozone layer is it's small list since nineteen eighty eight according to nasa one point three million square miles smaller to be exact scientists predict that if nothing is done the concentration of ozone depleting chemicals like chlorine won't return to pre-one nine hundred eighty levels and told middle of decades of this century but the same scientific models also say that the and arctic o's own player will recover by two thousand and forty it all depends on whether we decide to use science and technology to help itself to save our planet or if we choose to let our atmosphere get the best of us most fear of. getting screwed now is good i'm happy to see that i remember those warnings and it is grown up like start using the headers phrase or going to a really old source and i just see it coming back but just because something comes

back doesn't mean we suddenly can stop caring about it although we still shouldn't be you know it's to go door to keep the old so lots of those things work that's why we have now come together and. that is our show me today remember everyone in this world we are told to open up sort of tell you all i love you i am a robot and on top of the lawless people watching the hawks in every great big.

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