and i knew that i. just ignore that i hear the report but report it to you. of course they removed the comment in then i tried to email it so that. the shooting in parkland florida occurred on wednesday when a former student fatally shot seventeen people and injured some dozen more a nineteen year old suspect was detained by police on the day of the atrocity his case and how the f.b.i. failed to recognize the threat posed by him is now being investigated like u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is now calling for an immediate review of the f.b.i. and the department of justice florida is not the first deadly attack that could potentially have been avoided had more attention been paid to intelligence reports . nicholas cruz isn't the only mass killer to be on the radar screen of the f.b.i. before conducting their crime all marmot team who shot up the pulse nightclub killing forty nine people in orlando florida was investigated by the f.b.i.

twice before he committed his mass murder turns out they deemed him not to be dangerous now don't forget about dylan roof the self-proclaimed white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in south carolina well it turns out he was able to purchase his weapons because of errors in the f.b.i.'s background check process and then there's new delhaize he shot up a u.s. military post in texas back in two thousand and nine turns out the f.b.i. was fully aware that he was online in communication with top al qaeda leaders they still didn't bother to investigate him we've seen time and time again over the last he is our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the pool in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being heard and they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people if they country to protect against these

threats and that doesn't seem to be done it's not like these federal law enforcement agencies are lazy just recently we heard from the f.b.i. that chinese foreign exchange students are a threat to national security we also had federal agencies urging us not to buy chinese brand cellphones and more recently congress renewed the power of the n.s.a. to wiretap and spy on american citizens some might come to the conclusion that it's not incompetence or a lack of effort the issue is rather the type of threat these agencies are choosing to focus on cable poppen r t new york. palestinian school teacher has been left scarred after being more by an israeli army dog. that was assaulted in the west bank during a raid conducted by the israeli defense forces they were searching for another man the alleged open israeli who has the same surname. now here we can assure you the extent of the injuries sustained during the morning. the schoolteacher is expected

to require further treatment including a skin graft to one of his arms he's also been left with a leg injury as a result of this incident. so cut that on the sort of thing i woke up when i heard explosions i looked at my house door and it had been destroyed by an i.d.f. bomb and after that there were several other explosions that destroyed the windows and damaged the house i went immediately to my children's room and we gathered after that there was another explosion that destroyed the bedroom door i saw a dog it started to attack me and bite my shoulder and then it started to bite my leg and i was screaming. the palestinian schoolteacher was allegedly attacked in front of his wife and young children his wife says she tried to shield the children and protect her husband has said it earlier and i have seen this incident has had a psychological effect on my husband my children and myself i'm seeing it to hospital with him and i see him waking up at night shaking and trembling the eldest

son also weak sobs screaming about his dad and the little one is wetting the bed it was a terrifying experience the dog attacked my husband for over seven minutes and i tried to help him and defend my husband by grabbing the docs had but i couldn't get it away from him we asked the idea for a comment on the case they responded by saying that our had previously threatened civilians in jewish majority areas of the west bank they also told us the raid was conducted in accordance with our standard procedures and that it was immediately given medical treatment however he says the israeli military isn't telling the truth about the treatment he was given that set in unless afterward i was bleeding for more than two and a half hours and they took me to the hospital note that i only got treatment at the hospital itself not from the i.d.f. author and journalist max blumenthal's says this incident is the result of a deliberate tactic by the idea. this you know is being cast by the israeli

military and government as kind of an isolated incident but as any of us who follow the situation in the west bank know this is far from isolated it's part of a clear policy of using dogs as kind of an advance team during home raids of palestinians there is also a high profile case in twenty fifteen of a sixteen year old from the southern town of beit omar also a town that's under pressure from from jewish settlers where he his home was raided by an israeli dog unit this is a sixteen year old named him he was badly mauled by a dog you know these dogs apply two thousand pounds of pressure per square inch and israeli soldiers were taunting him on video there's actually video of this incident and now he. and the palestinian human rights group are suing not israel but actually the dutch company for winds canine which supplied those dogs and has

supplied what it calls biting dogs to the israeli military for violating u.n. conventions on companies operating in conflict zones so this is a very significant lawsuit and it speaks to a wider policy of what the israeli dissident journalist gideon levy calls lynching by dog. according to a recent a u.n. report it will take decades to clear the iraqi city of most school from unexploded bombs clearance works being complicated by the fact that many of the bombs are buried under an estimated eleven million tons of rubble we spoke to the u.n. mine action services senior program manager and he compares the situation in the city to that of the world war two. becomes so explosive a house thirds it is very and it is of unseen previously on the sea and proportions

in terms of the contamination that we experience it is a mixture of coalition ammunition that has been fired and that has failed to function with a mate that least ten percent of that emanation. that has five been fired has failed to function we also find that ice is an issue that has been fired has failed to function but with higher failure rates in addition to that we also find improvised explosive devices different types of explosive improvised explosive devices with different fusing systems all in common a combination with rubble high degree of rubble we estimate eleven million tons of rubble in western model at least and in general very difficult conditions to work under. it is a situation very similar to after the second world war of course what we are doing right now is that we are clearing we serving and we are clearing critical

infrastructure but still after ten maybe twenty years maybe even longer there will still be explosive contamination just as we see in france the u.k. and other locations after the second world war. it is almost impossible to say we haven't got the full scope of contamination in mosul yet we haven't been to all locations but it is a question of years and until everything has been cleared it is probably more than ten years the iraqi government estimates that eighty eight billion dollars are required to rebuild the country and a global aid pledging conference in kuwait just over thirty percent of that figure was raised. now the u.s. which of course has been involved in iraq since two thousand and three provided three billion of that but this was not in direct financial help rather the money was placed in loans and financing to help american companies invest in the country

much work remains to rebuild iraq and modernize its economy the signal is strong. and iraq's ministry of violence will sign on to a three billion dollars memorandum of understanding but don't make them up mostly of the announcement by the us government representative in the kuwait conference was clear that they will not provide anything except perhaps some investment in iraq we believe that the iraqi government with all its political factions should have joined forces and demanded to pay you money and lot of just. the us military plans to splash out on artillery shells almost one hundred fifty thousand of them that is an eight hundred percent increase on the previous year.

the order includes one hundred fifty five millimeter artillery shells a standard nato caliber that's especially widespread among naval forces and g.p.s. guided excalibur rounds are also on the list they're designed for quote danger close situations we asked experts of what might be behind this huge in order to survive munition. little spin the you know an increase of ice hundred twenty five percent is replacing i mean this in that has expired or you know has gone past its its use by date i didn't suspect he'll be used as a defensive mechanism that normally have air support for the troops which would be doing the defending so these are normally advanced courses or special forces going into a country where you look at where the u.s. military is deployed at the moment where the military bases all around the world we

can see the deployed other legal deployment in syria obviously there's still a deployment in iraq afghanistan you can see military bases surrounding the rand almost certainly one can say that these are used these are heavy weaponry they are used mainly in conventional conflicts what we're seeing here is a very large increase that i think can't be completely explained by replenishing resources what's being attempted i think it's a gesture it's a simple but you're saying we are massively increasing our defense expenditure in the areas that are likely to be used in a possible combat scenario with states with the non-state actors and invariably of course they're talking here about russia possibly china iran and others and that would be indeed consistent with the newly stated u.s. security policy of confronting those states by any standard this isn't a very great increase in the number of shells being ordered

a powerful stockpiling which again means that the army is a factory preparing for war. activists demanding justice for those killed in the massive grunfeld of fire in london last year have chosen an unusual way to stage a protest and they borrowed an idea from an oscar nominated film. my daughter was murdered seven months ago. so like in the award winning movie three billboards outside the activist three billboards to send a clear message of trucks carrying the word seventy one dead still no arrests on how that across london critics say questions over the safety of cheap housing have yet to be on said in the wake of. disaster.

activists warn many housing projects across the country suffer from the same construction problems us the ground and sail forward whose are refusing to take action. spoke to one protester behind the billboard campaign. it's been eight months since the ground fell tower tragedy shook the u.k. a twenty four story building was engulfed in flames the lives of seventy one people were lost with dozens more injured numerous campaigns protest demonstrations have taken place since calling for answers justice and accountability most recently london saw a campaign where several vans went around the center of the british capital with big billboards saying seventy one people dead no arrests how come for more on this we're now joined by one of the co-founders of justice for grunfeld which is a grassroots community group obviously calling for justice and answers about thank you so much for joining us today two hundred ninety seven buildings that people are still moving into tie up and down the country that have the same kinds in the

government's response has been to that they should pay for it themselves to take it down. you know lots of the survivors are still in temporary or emergency accommodation for those really and i think you know the survivors and the community i think prosecution of those responsible needs to take place we need to see people in the dark. and they need to suffer the same penalties that any other citizen would do rather than just kind of get them elected officials spy people treatment or how likely do you think that might happen given it's been eight months already and we haven't seen one name or person be held accountable do you think that is actually going to happen i think we're going to have to mikey humpin and we will continue to come time to my children happens how real is the fear that something like this could happen again while this investigation even is still continuing if i was sleeping in one of those buildings i don't think i'd be sleeping at night right now. you know you cannot put people in unsafe built ins and why the government

isn't reacting to these quickly and run people may your home sure your home is your height than you have a right to admit it's a human right to have a say. tom we will continue to campaign you know look out for other things that we're going to and more keep those questions out in the public to mine and we expect the government to respond to what's in the public to mind about which is thank you very much for joining us here well the officials are continuing to conduct investigations into what exactly happened at grenfell tower that killed all of those people and it's clear that the local community is going to continue fighting for those answers until they get them and so artsy month or. so traversing a frozen over siberian lake and a pair of skates made over seventy years ago might not be everybody's idea of a daily commute but it certainly is for one russian grandma.

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here in kiev in recent days it might dawn independence square has turned into a full scale war zone. more clashes in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no you shall start to tell what you are scared to least you wouldn't. do. now on the brink of a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising it you know

would you. a new music stockholm when you. see what we saw here today was a revolution. to. have invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals was. to go to the. nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries. focus has to be on not allowing the fight on into hot cloth between ukraine and russia. that the team of boys in the city would look when the new buildings to be truthful .

mum . cut some other little elin. lucky mummy mummy . ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with

a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time you cranium people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of powers.

history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third

parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one thousand nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between european countries and rising germany. attempting to protect his nation from the approaching nazi threat. joseph stalin negotiated a treaty of nonaggression with adolf hitler while promising each other piece of the soviet in german foreign ministers molotov and ribbentrop realign the map of eastern europe splitting it into german and soviet spheres of influence. no sooner had the mala tav ribbentrop pact been signed then poland was split and in september of one nine hundred thirty nine eastern poland awoke to be western

ukraine and a part of the family of soviet republics and the u.s.s.r. . but even this bold dividing of lands and nations only delayed the inevitable germany broke its promise to the u.s.s.r. . on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred forty one germany invaded the u.s.s.r. launching barbara rossa the largest military operation in world history. barbara was aiming for st petersburg moscow and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance. ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike

a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to golf and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galut seen in a month and

a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving their ends their official flag was black and red bland and blood it will remain in ukraine's history long after the zero un will cease to exist in early one nine hundred forty the most radical nationalistic part of the organization of ukrainian nationalists got its own leader step on bond era severely anti-semitic an anti commie. yest he proclaimed an independent ukraine in one thousand nine hundred one. his german allies frowned upon such an act of self will and it landed him in prison for nearly all the second world war not

participating in the events physically. still managed to successfully spread his ideology. many independent historians estimate that the zero un militia exterminated from one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand jews on ukrainian territory occupied by the germans by the end of one nine hundred forty one. the most notorious and outrageous massacre took place september twenty ninth and thirtieth nineteen forty one in kiev. of the city of kiev and its vicinity must appear on monday september twenty ninth by eight o'clock in the morning. bring documents money and valuables and also warm clothing linen cetera. they need not follow this order and are found elsewhere will be shot. thirty three thousand seven hundred seventy one jews were killed in

this two day operation of the nazis and ukrainian militia. another outrageous massacre was carried out by the ukrainian insurgent army and the bond era faction of the organization of ukrainian nationalists in german occupied polish foligno and eastern between one nine hundred forty three and one nine hundred forty four this genocide of poles was led by me colette that thirty five thousand to sixty thousand people in vali nya and twenty five to forty thousand eastern galaxia fell victim to this massive ethnic cleansing operation. sensing the inevitable loss of the german troops the organization of ukrainian nationalists gave up on their former ally and began fighting equally against the germans and the soviet forces. in january nine hundred forty three u.s.s.r.

troops started pushing the nazis back liberating one part of ukraine after another . western ukraine was the last ukrainian region held by the germans finally being liberated in october of one nine hundred forty four. bands continue to wage their guerrilla war against the soviet regime carrying out bloody raids on ukrainian villages and towns and leaving behind chaos and casualties. this war went on until the middle of the one nine hundred fifty s. when the last collaborators were either detained or fled the country. on may seventh one thousand nine hundred forty five germany unconditionally surrendered to the allies ukraine remained a part of the soviet union first for. the peace after the second world war was short lived.