yes the quote justice for victims of the afghanistan conflict has taken far too long to arrive but investigations like this one of the reason the watching hawks. were to. get the. real thing. as it were to pull out of it. like you know that i got. this. week. well the watching the harks i am told for that time in a while it was a while so they're bringing a course down on of areas and yet we see it here we don't look don't look at the car may not be behind there so that's

a very strange situation to watch happen it definitely is and you know why they haven't given any specifics yet on like what crimes they're going to go out after but the same chief prosecutor who made the statement over the weekend. she put together a report last year that kind of laid out some of the crimes that she believes happened there and who was behind them. they have as they said they have a reasonable basis to believe that the following crimes have occurred in the afghanistan conflict crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the taliban war crimes of torture and prisoner related and prisoner related ill treatment by the afghan government and the afghan national police and this also extends to the united states yeah the prosecutor report also states that there is reasonable basis again reasonable basis to believe that the u.s. armed forces alone subjected at least twenty sixty one detained persons to torture cruel treatment outrage. just upon personal dignity on the territory of afghanistan

between the first of may two thousand and three and the 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 this statute specifically they were saying poland are evading and lithuania between two thousand and two two thousand and eight so the disease a lot of it has to do with these black sites and that. this is why so many people including myself were against the torture program were were for no matter how it got no we have to rethink this because this is something that is going to haunt us for a very this is this means you're a warmonger if you go well i'm not going to be part of an. worldwide criminal justice system to keep everyone in check because we might get caught doing something bad. that's not a good place to be that those low is not

a good blues book. the u.s. can claim that 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 courts so too bad that's not how it works the prosecutor been sued 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 did this is why i show you how do

you really hold those who believe in you know here and people who aren't citizens here that need to be held to your believe that they need to be told to the folks on the wall i hope they get behind this because they broke a lot of their country. without 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 that 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 motive motivated by hate a church service is also present an opportunity for media coverage that will hit the hearts of many across the grieving nation and look 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 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 knoxville tenn.

and forty four year old terry ratzmann was concent 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 those and he was also carrying two hundred rounds of ammunition and a pipe bomb that killed six people tyrone tabitha turned to dean's 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 an persecution a nation or maimed under attack. it's a 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 this 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 i mean most of these when you see these these are domestic you know one immigrant but the rest are all american citizens and 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 and they're you know we're talking about the ku klux klan or whatever it 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's it doesn't get any numbers for non christian churches are lost no city gods and we know those have obviously been attacked these are places of worship. they should be generally

protected but i just don't want to see them turn into you know the t.s.a. and going in there and start 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 know jump on the political band we're going to saw a very aggressive just right here you know media we it's the guns i mean what is this i'm jumping on to 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 from the air for you know the air force you know. mostly kicked out the door because of abuse of women and abuse of an exploit 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 and that he has a primary that i'm older of why he did it because tyrrell that is never going to be an issue in this country the fact that dylan roof 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 shoot or do 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 about anybody that that's a mental illness such. as we're going to break or bludgers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics recovered on facebook and twitter see our full shows that are two dot com coming up parties in the talks this week is joining us live from southern texas with the latest on the shooting and we present the second part of strong storms interview with actress and activist pretty clear about the horrors of factory farming and the growing need for more on the protection of state watchable.

we all willingly accepted the real skill of being shot and wounded taken prisoner but news was signed. poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was leaked or biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate ever.

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 more shootings so whether atheist extremists are now threat to america on par with because long mixtape to distill the facts from the theories and to provide us much needed on the ground perspective we turn to our toughest week was live and sutherland springs texas hello. hello good evening to you. 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 ticket issues in the past he has before the league 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 devon kelly and they believe it's the one reason that he could have carried out yesterday's horrific massacre that 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 inside the church the deceased actually range. to seventy seven years of age. has been.

known as our show 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 happened everybody is crazy this is a local plumber as a hero apparently he's a sharp shooter 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 to a valero gas station and so this fire 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 kelly around ninety miles an hour to receive him and kelly actually crashed his car if the two men immediately got on. 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 families and everyone affected this community i hope they're able to sleep a little better at night knowing that this man is dead it will hurt anyone else it does not bring complete justice but it does bring. a solution to. never ever having to worry about it when you're. not a target there still remains a lot of confusion about whether to show it was guilty of the bust at the booth and dishonorably discharged from the memory of the firearms he used to hope was clear by the question did he have a legal right to be given all these gross. yeah you know it's ortiz are still discussing all of those matters right now you're right he did not have a license to carry in texas but appointed federal law kelly should not have been able to legally purchase firearms after he was discharged and so what he's have

confirmed that county bought four guns after he was discharged two in colorado and two here in texas so according to the people work he bought everything legally however there is no word yet if anything in the paperwork was false if the line bora-bora so much yeah there's i mean there's so much and packet will be you know covering up 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 at your side 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. it's not 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 saying when people shouldn't have and i don't i said kudos to the people that helped out there all that all our hearts go out to the victims most awfully and thank you natasha 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 besley overlooked in our day and age is the treatment of animals and more broadly the environment from the unconscionable moral horrors horrors and anti gena crimes taking place inside factory farms to the brutal conditions costly revealed inside puppy mills and underground breeders how we as a society treat our silent neighbors on earth says a lot about humanity's direction overall and not only does our treatment of animals and their habitat survive deep inside and or moral dorms or lack thereof our behavior is indicative of a more catastrophic problems looming on the horizon that should be that should

certain abuses go unchecked former model and actress katie cleary takes up all these issues at the helm over organization piece for animals and uses her platform to lobby for vital pieces of legislation katie sat down earlier with our own sean stone and shared some insight into her experience giving a voice to the voiceless do you see any way to put forth legislation that actually banned 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 lives 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 or we don't we know that they're not being too. because they're being killed but

a lot of them 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 and slaughter houses to make sure that these animals aren't beaten to death and stabbed 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 the 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 of our land to graze cattle so i think that you know if people really knew the statistics they think that you know there's not enough scientific data i've heard it all there is a lot of scientific data but you just really have to you have to do your research you but you does realize a country has the most humane laws for animal welfare tell us about oh my gosh.

any animal testing 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 in 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. you know mine has always been for the animals because they. i don't have

a voice of course children don't have a voice either but specifically since i was a kid 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. just 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 out of those of the verge of extinction which life forms 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 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 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 is to spread compassion and expose that you know we need to all care because this is not just about as this is about the future of our planet in the future of our children and our children's children and you know and everyone's health. the montreal protocol science the temper of nine hundred eighty seven phased out the use and production of substances known to be causing the depletion of the ozone layer it was hair spray mostly. which absorbs and protects us from the

bulk of the sun's all charred 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 mauler 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 sell itself to save our planet or if we choose to let our atmosphere get the best of us this fear of. getting screwed now is good i'm happy to see that i remember those mornings when it is grown up like stop using the hairspray is going to really enjoy snow

just about but just because something comes berg 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 whole show lots of those things work as i we have now come together and if that is our show me today remember everyone in this world we are told the opposite of sort of tell you all i love you i am a robot and on top of the wall if people are watching the hawks of every great big . old. financial paper in the financial parasite is in the bag.

economic and it's destroying us from within this predation that's happening in the pharmaceutical industries just other aspects of the host that we have become for the parasites and the pharmaceutical industry and wall street and other various industries and so what's the cure for how to get rid of the table to get rid of a parasite. i am leaving. just a conduit to keep it to us i live it here can feel something. funny. lino. need to. be done. we have many things in this world and this isn't enough for everyone and why some peoples wants to take our things all the power just for themselves and to see other

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