around ten thousand protesters turned out for that rally for six consecutive friday israeli soldiers use live fire again and to gas to push the crowd back the i.d.f. claims the rioters were trying to break through the border fence with more on the developments his local journalist included in. the sense the morning they israeli snipers have been calling and warning the israeli if the palestinian protesters to stay away from the palestinian the protesters started burning the tires to blur the vision of the israeli snipers since the morning their israeli army is stated that they deployed to one that one hundred fifty new snipers israeli snipers targeted a payment plan would be his alone as that nick with live ammunition and the damage it is going into the holiday to the medical field going and as you see there is it is diapers i take it think that is even grotesque serious and that maybe it's an journalists they have been using

a lot of tear gas since the morning like i am they didn't stop but it's rather fine because they were just trying to disperse all these the protesters and that you were getting effected by the tear gas that. that is it's fired by those or it is like was. i really i'm trying but. it is that's really think it's a. sense of thirtieth of march of the israeli soldiers have been injuring more than seven thousand palestinian protesters and at least forty five palestinians were killed this is the one of the medical points each area melaka is the gaza strip and this is a medical point was targeted to directly target by the israelis by tear gas bammer they stated that they. israelis were using

a new type of tear gas against the protesters that cause. very very severe and the critical injuries today are from this tear gas. united nations castigated israel for its handling of the ongoing protests campaign in gaza in which at least forty five people have been killed and thousands injured the organization says israel's defense forces are violating the fourth geneva convention which prohibits the targeting of civilians it's difficult to see how tire burning or stone throwing or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance of heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the contests of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a great breach of the fourth geneva convention in response is royals given some

feed the outcry from the un and human rights groups the state's attorneys claim that the guards a protest fall into the state of a walkout agree and therefore human rights laws don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement reserve colonel the force has told us that indeed in his view the israeli military actions are justified. any nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just the same kind of pacific not of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you just leave sanderson you know you have to proceed beauty's or you we are you look you cannot let people kill hero you know they are to react you have to act first because the rule of the game is this terrorist military rule is to be on the

other he said not to be and they reacted. but also to peace activist and human rights lawyer about israel's actions he stressed that the i.d.f. is violating international law as he saw it it could well be sometimes an internal armed conflict but i think what is important is that an internal armed conflict human rights continue to apply i think israel is their own security concerns i think are something that will be viewed very much from their own subjective perspective but do matter what those concerns are there are limitations that the law imposes on actions that they can take and when they're taking actions into gaza they're taking actions into what most of the international community sees as occupied territory and those actions must be in conformity with the law apply into occupied territory and in this case that includes not only international humanitarian law but also international human rights wall that protect individuals

from inhumane treatment degrading treatment from attacks on their lifes so at one fifty moscow time kind of have to break to journalists taking the u.s. government to court for allegedly putting a want to kill list we'll tell you all about that while they're out of cations are ninety seconds away. it's. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race of his own spirit dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to

sit down and talk. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work but that is because the supply chains are completely overlapping the what is sanctioned in one country drives economic problems with another country that you're not trying to sanction suffer get sanctions to spell longer workable that the global economy has to come to integrate it to fragile it's too. interdependent. to germans have launched a legal battle in the u.s. over their alleged inclusion on a government kill list karim has reported from various flashpoints in syria over the months and years now and some of accuse them of sympathizing with extremists

there for also the case with zeid down a senior reporter villages era who carried out interviews with a number of high profile terrorists kill them opens go. now the issue in tuesday's court hearing was whether or not the united states could take unilateral action against american citizens suspected of being terrorists now the two journalists didn't i they have any links to terrorism but they say that they're on a kill list of people who could be hit with u.s. drones or air strikes for being terrorists now the two individuals in question one of them is bill little abdul kareem now the little of dual karim has been widely criticized for the fact that his reporting on terrorist groups like al qaeda and al nasra seems to be rather up. uncritically seems to almost glorify that people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al-qaeda clerics have said he's there they've actually referred to him as our media man furthermore we've seen him reporting with potential suicide bombers are showing off the equipment the

suicide belts or vests that they wear despite all of this criticism it's important to note that the little of dual karim has been featured in mainstream american media behind the scenes. i'm. not going to spend some. time on the stuff that goes with. me on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka med dunn who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and

capricious action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated and it refers to a program a computer program called skynet and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but it is possible it's alleged that this computer program essentially would determine whether or not the person to be killed in a drone strike this is this program skynet is being widely criticized as violating human rights violating the rights of journalists and it seems to point to a big problem of artificial intelligence when you have a computer program determining whether or not someone is a terrorist or not and whether or not they could be killed in a drone strike. it's been confirmed that american soldiers are directly helping

saudi arabia protect its border with yemen the pentagon news briefing on thursday admitted the troops were now in active roles the statements in contradiction with previous comments which officials said the u.s. is only hoping the saudis with fueling logistics and general intelligence sharing the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia is. your security. service. but do support the story led coalition with intelligence your military votes and logistical support a priority is the fight against al qaeda in europe in peninsula and isis in yemen extent of our support is refueling and sharing intel. further of the pentagon's mixed messages then concerning its role in the conflict in yemen this latest development contradicts the pentagon statements that indicated

that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics and aircraft are feeling but so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the south of the year many border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border however reports suggest that they've been helping them destroy who's a ballistic missile launch sites and it's worth mentioning that even though this war has been going on for a few years saudi arabia hasn't been successful in welling the hooty resistance so it's fair to say that maybe u.s. involvement will help the saudis do just that but they say the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and american politicians have been pushing to end u.s. support for the saudis but this latest development might lead to a messy legal battle given that there was no public debate on whether the u. . should get involved because it seemed as if it was consciously kept from the

public so i honestly wonder how americans will feel knowing that their government could be indirectly fueling the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that includes american politicians who work questioning washington's indirect role in the conflict even though there was no direct military support so it'll be interesting to see how they react to this. iraqi man who became famous for throwing a shoe at then u.s. president george w. bush's approach to embark on a political career of his own you may remember the story moon t'other side is running now for the iraqi parliament in next week's election having returned to his country just two months ago it's a decade on from when former president bush touted the u.s. invasion of iraq to crowds in baghdad and this happened but. it was. when told roadside he was a t.v. journalist at the time after his stunt he was arrested and convicted for assault on

a foreign leader he was sentenced to three years in prison but released after nine months zuhdi then moved to lebanon and set up a humanitarian organization to help iraqi war victims following his stunt to became a hero for many iraqis and coincidentally so did his shoe after separation from its owner it quickly became a symbol of protest against his imprisonment the company made the shoe make an issue even renamed it as by bush the model it was briefly honored with a bronze statue of an iraqi often age two we spoke direct about the instant and now his political ambitions these days. what i enjoy about her i think what happened was this i was arrested along with my brother we were left in solitary confinement for three days we were only released after i went on hunger strike without water for three days i told them i'd rather die than stay in prison they broke my teeth my nose my leg they electrocuted me whipped me they

even broke a table or a chair over my back i don't know as i was blindfolded and this was something i've never experienced before and the torture by the or thirty's by the rule of law good . luck and look what the bottom line i thought i had to change the miserable state of affairs in iraq i did not consult anyone on it it was a personal decision that i took after a long deliberation the george bush incident which is in the past it's history in our history remember that when the americans invaded iraq and some iraqis were on their side but others beat them with shoes but i did not and will not exploit this incident with people who have been putting up posters on the street showing me throwing a shoe at george bush and that most of these have been taken down and i reject them because this is not part of my campaign and. a special day for the russian calendar is fast approaching on the ninth of may victory day will be celebrated accost across the country and ahead of the event marking the end of the second world war

in europe has been a check on those bigger hershel's for moscow's big annual military parade. i would be a little awkward at being so you. think. but every yeah right make you feel. the speaker is why this yes minutes the day rate is nothing like any other before the summit personnel carriers are being thrown for the first time and we are going to write one of them.

practice makes perfect they say seemingly simple maneuvers like this one still being all that simple when there are dozens of vehicles involved and they all have to be in sync that's why moscow's main streets have been blocked off for these beasts to refine them a new of us. this a.p.c. is designed to absorb explosive damage from landmines and it all will deflect even piercing rounds now it's not the only vehicle to be making the first show at this year's parade so let me give you a tour. these unmanned drones will be shown to the public officially for the first time at the parade there were initially being designed as the purely reconnaissance aircraft but now they can carry bombs to. and finally how about this jam and they says on the red square no this is not

a ploy over you holywood blockbuster but rather this tank support unit it will. also be for the first time featured at a parade on the red square so now this is of course is just to me it faced of what to expect at the actual parade so do you mean on the ninth of may and it have a look yourself what these guys have prepared for you. yes it was a huge spectacle great but a t.v. even more amazing if their parents now the second world war of course affected all the. machines of it aside countless families who lost loved ones before i say goodbye for this update we want to show you two on a personal level many of us here at r.t. are also joining in the commemoration i did a celebration of relatives of a relic veterans.

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spending to do the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so what will chance for. the thinks it's going to. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter labelle after sixty eight years the two koreas are on the verge of signing a peace treaty a donald trump summit is in the works is peace coming to the korean peninsula well

it's possible the foreign policy blog and the corporate it's media are less enthusiastic after all conflict is very business model. crosstalk in the korean peninsula i'm joined by my guest and washington he is a senior fellow at the institute for china america studies also in washington we have john merrow he is former chief of the north east asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war and in new york we cross to daniel as our he is an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the us constitution right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated let me go to you first in washington if you look at the mainstream media and particularly the cable stations all the focus on the korean

peninsula is directed towards this summit that may have with the north korean leader but really i think it's what's more important happening this week and if the two koreas coming together how does this change the situation on the peninsula if north korea and south korea can find some kind of meaningful and let me stress meaningful reproach moment go ahead in washington. let me in response to your question later. right over here that the real credit for the what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a the same all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condense testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything

up the fact of the matter is that mungy is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progress of government has a lead this process of free conciliation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace between the two koreas after sixty eight years makes started coming to some kind of defense and security measures that both can accept then regime change as it

were that we hear so many people talking about in in the washington foreign policy blob that kind of is taken off the table because that would not be in south korea's interests go ahead john in washington. right peter well i think i think you overstated it a little bit i do give president moon a lot of credit but i think the main credit i never thought i would say that i know obviously belongs to donald trump i know you're going to say that. this this this this is this is the man who said he he wanted nothing more than to sit down and have a hamburger with kim jong un and looks like he's going to get his chance right now there are apparently still cia people liaison people behind in pyongyang at least according to the south korean media and people are hard at work and mr pump aoe is the guy that's been running this. formerly from his post

as cia director but hopefully in a few days as secretary of state so i think i would agree the president deserves a lot of credit and certainly with a progressive government a lot of things are possible that weren't underpass can conservative regimes but i think we have to give president trump his do as well and i just i just hope things go ok it's a topsy topsy turvy world exactly and you know and i'm very happy that this process is going on let me go to daniel i don't care who gets the credit i think that is really low on the hierarchy a bit of an important see are getting peace on that peninsula where you have the most heavily armed border in the world after sixty eight years he considerable american military presence is there and the chinese have come in and in ways that i think we'll find out in the future they were very constructive here it's the result that counts most importantly go ahead daniel well. let me speak up for ken john

i think it's played his cards extremely well. is not in the door a political endorsement of him by any means but he is a very smart yep player yes and he has done a very good. he's you know he's sort of kind of you know seize control of the opening seize the opening that that trump courted him and has really run of the i think it's it's a pretty impressive performance ok let's go back to washington so i think what's really important here i mean it's good to get down to really the details here because we have a do you need arise south korea i'm sorry korean peninsula means north and south so that means that american nukes would not be allowed there i mean this is the kind of opening that i think the north korean leader was looking for he's looking for a grand bargain and you know what folks he's been asking for a grand bargain for a while and i think he had to go through all of the theatrical of the missiles and

the launches and you know all of the heated rhetoric back and forth this was the opening that he was looking for and it was the south korean leader that opened the door and we got a nod from donald trump i mean we'll find out where it goes so you know it really gets down to the details of what that means because we know all along north korea wants security guarantees maybe russia and china can be guarin tours of that go ahead sort of been in washington. absolutely correct on that i mean the devil is in the details in terms of how do you go about staging nuclear solution in terms of how that process works out the mechanics of that process but you're absolutely correct on that point with regard to denuclearize the nuclearization that it is not just a north korean affair it needs to be a peninsula fair let me throw out a useful principle which might be useful here both in terms of denuclearization as well as in reduction of conventional forces in terms on the peninsula and in terms

of the hostilities that are there in terms of denuclearization we're talking of course complete verifiable irreversible nuclearization of north korea they can have a civil nuclear program which can we. civil nuclear program which will be very intrusively watched over by the i.a.e.a. full scope see if gods etc etc but what that means for south korea is that of course they have this civil of very extensive civil nuclear program but there will be no strategic forces on their territory and they want to even be an extended deterrent to south korea provided by the us so long as there is complete nuclearization of the north now the parallel fact which north and south korea frankly need to work out because the nuclearization is a sensually a topic of discussion between north korea and the united states with regard to conventional forces what the disposition of the end of the day needs to be that the

peninsula is is kind of insulated from the larger the geopolitics off the north east asia south the south korea has already shown that it is not not terribly interested in getting into things like a regional ballistic missile shield well it's not interested in going to eilat for a line we're going to fly or we're going to find actually less yeah we're going to find out just how far the pentagon wants to go along with it john let me go to you because if you get if you look at the mainstream media and the punditry that we are bombarded with all of the time the mainstream media is really not on board here is it just because they don't want to see succeed in anything or in the military industrial complex i mean south korea and the and that region of the world is a nice. trough for arms in the us as a vast military establishment there and that needs to be paid for i mean there's a combination of these things here and go ahead john in washington. well you know i

peter i don't know that's that's that's kind of hard to say what i will say is this i think what has happened is that we have now gotten a de facto freeze for freeze this was the proposal you have that was made by moscow and beijing years ago and i wrote on this subject about a year and a half ago and i got excoriated now for saying that but this is what it is this is what is now de facto in place and so this is this is a big deal it is you know the u.s. the u.s. military exercises this year the joint us are ok exercises are a shadow of their former self last year we had three aircraft carrier battle groups participating this year it's one small aircraft it's really an assault ship with a short takeoff and landing j. thirty f. thirty five so it's.