about his longstanding friendship with both the da and the cia prior to capture at the time neither agency would confirm or deny it unlike his lawyer several law enforcement agencies from the united states approaching people in afghanistan including mr khan and requested assistance and assigned distended payments made services requests from my client and others but now com is free no criminal charges no trial and no explanation why now at this point perhaps we can assume that the law enforcement agencies know what's best for the public and just don't feel a need to share their secret collaboration with the worst of the underworld kept secret so you can sleep better at night. r.t. new york. city has requested comments from the us federal bureau of prisons concerning khan's release and will update you when we hear a response. now once a green area close to the french capital is under tons of illegal waste but it

clearing up the problem is proving difficult for the or thorazine and even more frustrating for the locals.

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two journalists have launched a legal battle in the us either that alleged inclusion on the government kill list that. hunt down terrorists a federal court is now questioning whether they've been correctly identified as targets the accused men say they've been flagged as part of a program called skynet it uses algorithms on what's known as a metal data network and analyzes travel patterns communications as well as the proximity of an individual to terror groups. don is one of the men who says he's been incorrectly identified now he's a former bureau chief for the media outlets al-jazeera in pakistan and has conducted interviews with al qaeda members however the other man on the list probably caused suspicion for videos like this one. i'm now hearing to leave the city of aleppo now if you can get a little bit closer here and you will see what this is this is an explosive belt

top al qaeda clerics have even described karim as the terror group's media man karim house faced a backlash for what some have called uncritical reporting on al qaeda and al nusra and despite that he was given a platform by some western media outlets. to see some of them. i'm. sorry the stuff that goes with. our sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to outcry the other romantic notion to be honest with you the two journalists deny any links to terrorism and say the program hasn't taken their profession into consideration they went on to say the methods of skynet could result in the unjustified killing of innocent people and that their inclusion has violated u.s.

and international law we discussed the case with an international criminal lawyer. we don't really know what's going on even in this case it would seem that the whole case has been predicated on this things or or these things that this kill list so to speak that they have raised that they actually cannot prove if this is true there are some problematic issues this does raise not just the fact that may or may not exist but how this case would proceed in u.s. courts with such confidential information and then trying to prove or at least be able to prove that the evidence points to us wanting to target them if skynet is real and that is what it does this points to a much bigger part in u.s. policy officials going back of course of the obama administration where they not only don't understand the threat of terrorism don't understand the roots of modern day terrorism because they have to use computer algorithms rather than utilizing experts and people with knowledge. today marks the two hundredth birthday of

renowned for loss of economists call marks for better or worse his profound ideas have often impacted on shaped the global political landscape and remain as divisive today as they did during marx's life well our europe correspondent piece on a visit to his hometown on the eve of celebrations that. germany is commemorating one of its most famous sound controversial think is such a day as the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the author of the communist manifesto karl marx to say that his ideas of class struggle and the overthrow of the ruling classes by the workers were hundred maying divisive here well that is beyond understatement marx's ideas were literally at the root of the ideological division between east and west germany post world war two but that's not stopping his place of birth tree in the south west from hosting a series of events to mark his big birthday bash.

it surprised many when it was announced that the guest of honor at the big party in tria would be showing claude younker the e.u. commission president partly house proletariats credentials in fact the former prime minister of luxembourg has been accused in the past of exuding the worst excesses of the bush was he so perhaps mr younger has been a closeted common rate of marx all these years marxist con marx is not responsible for all the atrocities carried out by his followers his writings does capital and

the communist manifesto change the world as we know it so marx's name and image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital to this t. shirt you can even save your capitalist penny just inside the heads of one of communisms founding think is marx has also appeared in more than a fair. a share of t.v. shows on the advertisements as well. oh come on that dad. mars scientists are calling the list.

to. get. the ideas put forward by moxy alongside frederick angles haven't been consigned to the nineteenth hole for that matter the twentieth centuries a recent poll of people from twenty eight different nations showed that hall for them said to get a better society we should follow socialist ideals however it is worth noting that in the same poll around the same number said that political systems based on the writings of these two were far more likely to be oppressive i asked the people of what they thought those mosques have a place in today society and politics so when it comes to politics like maybe you use it to get votes but it's now very early like that ideology and it has never been practiced so it doesn't exist and not only like about. economic

inequalities but also other types of inequalities that could be used like they could use marxist theory to be examined more in today's culture capitalism. seals labor from people from the workers. from our point of view. it's still important to you that my dear is a good and important but it's night is a utopia in reality things and differently at his funeral in london eighteen eighty three angles said his friend the greatest living thing has ceased to think well that may well have been but two hundred years after his birth the ideas put forward by mach's continue to inspire others to think. well back after this break.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be preached. to the right to be press this is like a muscle friable can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. for shit. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work but they used to because the supply chains are completely overlapping the what is sanction in one country drives economic problems in another country that you're not trying to say suffer get sanctions a spell longer workable that the global economy has to integrate too fragile it's too. interdependent.

welcome back schools in the u.s. state of illinois might soon have to change that curriculums to teach more about the contributions made by the l g b t communities in u.s. history that was called l g b t figures will be given more focus and subjects ranging from science to sports and some of the moves was already taken by california last year the bill still has to be has to be given the go ahead by the states house of representatives but it's already got plenty of talk that will promote acceptance and a more accurate portrayal of history it is in direct contradiction to the clear christian beliefs of many in illinois. well to discuss the issue further his media

commentary to gene allowed to and human rights activist peter tatchell it's very important that people understand the contribution that gay people have made i think is about informing straight kids so they understand l g b t issues they their prejudice is broken down if a history book or any book would ever write about me personally i wouldn't want them to lead with my religious background my ethnicity and certainly not my sexual orientation fantastic extraordinary people from tchaikovsky to richard the lionhearted their gayness or their bisexuality is not the major factor but it's just about acknowledging that people have existed throughout history and have made a very important contribution to the sciences the arts sport and culture well i think in an effort perhaps to be inclusive we've made a mistake a mis estimation if you will and what's happened is that

a lot of groups have been taken advantage of by politicians who are willing to prey on people based on those identities i think that you know identity politics has been a response to exclusion because of decades of exclusion and marginalization some communities of how to organize it hasn't worked and what it's done instead is it's divided us up into little groups that then can be taken advantage of by politicians and jews right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish or gay or black those are just one aspects of who we are but in some cases those are the aspects of who we are which other people target for hatred and discrimination my concern begins and ends where government gets involved in deciding who is relevant who is not relevant who is more relevant and then dividing us into little groups because when government has enough power to do that they also have enough power to take that away. cultural appropriation has become an angry trend on social

media with one recent case targeting a teenager's photo of herself in a chinese dress well arty's online project in case you missed it looks at how offensive it really is to appropriate someone's culture. young. young girl just enjoying high school prom no i guess you missed this picture is the moment that civilization went just too far. cultural appropriation or appreciating stuff from other cultures may seem like a completely made up problem the kind of thing it's not worth. but only really going to believe that innocent young the traditional chinese dress just so she could look nice when i'm grey guy on twitter who had never met the teenager and

probably shouldn't be looking at strangers social media feeds. when he said my culture is no goddamn progress but mr angry is a chinese american named jeremy lamb who one would expect would know a thing or two about mixing culture is if we don't all pretend to be outraged right now where we're like as he is of this world stop we will start to eat chinese food as if it a new thing when they start using goods made in china in everyday life china's culture is not your god damn i thought what about indian children a attitude from the simpsons he's going under the radar for thirty years but is now finally being criticized by one guy who can't just take someone from another culture and affectionately turn them into a much loved blondes of the most successful show of olds on groundskeeper willie scotland how are they getting away with that so how do we stop this before we end up in the nightmare scenario where different cultures learn about appreciate and to

accept one another start with you or half say no to inappropriate appropriated styles cut it all off shore boldness risk ernest's but what are they going to do. streak like your grandma speaks snoop dogg's grandma fancy dress party it's just not worth the risk yo girl stop it if you know india and you stole it i'm gonna have democracy and elections and stuff like that tough the greeks want it back tracking a computer that's russia's backoff calm right really there's only one option that will make us all happy segregate culture as build walls and stop sharing ideas or just drink a cappuccino in a camaro and see if that can take it. what about with the latest news headlines at the top of the hour.

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by two things by his emotion and he. in the long term he placed a very long lead he says so to speak a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate him. ok she didn't know it is a may day today's. protests in france have turned fine and

wholesome from used to use tear gas and water cannons and arrested more than two hundred times to. corruption this seemingly they see. across the board made a protest in support of workers' rights turned violent in cities around the world. very. as the tear gas settles and rain washes blood from the streets of europe after this week's global mayday uprising i'm afshin rattansi and this is going underground special with me for the whole program is that journalist and filmmaker john pilger let's start and straight to austerity before we go to foreign policy even in australia i know another first world country the levels will sterrett. the twenty eight crash

a stir to supply globally so the same policy of extreme tax cuts the trump as opposed to going the a lot of suspects that we've we've had in this country for preferred a long time. it's called neo liberalism they apply so you have or this called an underclass of people working for. temporary visas for low wages this is become the pattern in all rich countries it's a kind of. darwinian economics that those who two thirds society those who've who've got it do really well those in the middle who aspire to do well are usually in debt and those in the bottom of the scar that and yet of course while as you say these two thirds have been suffering since twenty eight or even before then there is money for wars what was your reaction

when you first heard of the anglo american french missile attacks on syria it's built on a series of i would call them lies fabrications. the calculus attack on duma resume clearly said this is why britain has to go in and fight and think that at least the regime they says is to be believed frankly and she's yet to convince us that she has a right to be believed because. almost everything to do with foreign policy has shown to in the end if you take the the the sols pre attack that is on rather late so fall just for example the o.p.c. w. report on this which was not reported include in the bar a tree report from its major of a power tree in switzerland which said. this this was no no of agent this wasn't no

for sure it was something entirely different showing about the wheelchair attack we're told are you sure so it was sold pretty attack but they are connected because it leads then we do leads then to the attack on syria. the there is overall a campaign against russia this is a very long campaign it's been going on since the russian revolution but it's intensified in terms of its propaganda in a way i'd never known i've never known journalism to be so distorted in order to sort of this propaganda be the attack on on on dubai was based on when i quoted the law i when you look at the available evidence the real evidence the evidence that barely sees the light of day.

then there's no justification for it whatsoever. there's no real evidence of a chemical attack so what was seeing is is the most intense. campaign of propaganda at least since the iraq the buildup to the iraq war in two thousand and three which comes from a great tradition that comes from nineteen forty five the cover story for dropping two atomic bombs later discredited right through to the beginning of the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin so we had years of misery and devastation in vietnam built on a lie when the be going to understand this when we're going to send understand there's no sturrock zero patton and we see that played out now almost through the propaganda that's presented as news i think will get you that many mainstream media

journalists have short memories perhaps but they are handed as they have always been handed press releases from government they routinely say russia has obviously rules invaded in area of europe and now they're being told we have proof that they have launched a chemical attack on english soil the first time since world war two and and the journalists say all governments cannot possibly be lying about such a serious event i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i've worked all over the world i'm a reporter. i would say there is a pseudo journalism now the kind of journalism you describe i wouldn't describe as

journalism to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the very end to thesaurus of what real journalism is fortunately we still have it in the great on really exceptional is the mavericks like robert fisk whose single report from duma showed almost without doubt the whole the hc was so false he interviewed a doctor who'd worked at this particular facility there was no evidence the doctor made a mockery of macros and maze and claimed. to have seymour hersh now who can't puppy population is own country has to be published in germany probably the greatest investigative reporter in the world hersh last year may his own reporting his own investigation made mockery of these so-called.

chemical attacks. i've never known the time when so cold as you describe it mainstream surely. a satirical to. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into our propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed right against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the macho on russia. but the surrounding of russia with bases with american bases with nato missiles the provocations day off today. suggests this in syria where basically the russians in the syria some sixty five want the the the rebels. most of whom the hottest

and the extreme islamicist supported by the united states supported by britain are still present to as a credible opposition within syria but the whole point of all this is to take syria from the russians since the nine hundred fifty s. if you read the documents you go back and read the declassified m i six dispatches from syria they've been trying to do those things the nineteen fifties syria hasn't been controlled in the same way that iran hasn't been controlled this is i hope this is not the last stage i don't think it is because in syria it appears there's a major defeat and what way is seeing is a reaction to that but of course you mentioned some world renowned journalists

have you been surprised about how they have been taken as apologists for putin and fascinated by presenting the opposite there it is oh of course not. a big cold everything throughout my career that's a badge of honor. you're a good reporter only if at some point. authority established forces about who. about whose nefarious activities and invasions you're writing label you a dupe but used to be a favor or an apologist. robert fisk knows this very well that's happened with every great story he's reported i say great story because he's reporting is a pain of the highest order since i've known him as we'd see more. as with with people like gareth porter a great investigative reporter who you'll never see the american you'll never see

in a so-called maiden's for you newspaper writes all of it but read his material about iran it's based on fact you mentioned iran how serious is this narrative now going to twist away but maybe while still remaining on syria but going to focus on some kind of imminent war on iran especially as we know john bolton is no national security advisor go to a well isn't that on the whole ball and this this and mike pompei of who's the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because sharon was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east.