they've lost about twenty or thirty people of their hundred and they want to pay back and they were told by the cia official a contract employ bad intelligence some are you going to go into a village and you going to see the enemy there so they got ready to go to their credit to be kill or be killed for america right they had seen no combat really and they fly in and there's nothing there woman making five hundred fifty sixty men women no one no men old men women children and they began to round them up and executed what i could write about the they did things like throwing up babies and catching them alive on bayonets i mean and raping like crazy i didn't. so much trouble with that story because i didn't know what i was getting into when i first started it and the horror and shame i felt for my country and for my soldiers i've been in the army i did the army i was it was a piece of everything idea that the guys i served with do this kind of stuff so in a way the kids who did it was mostly the white kids hispanics and the african-americans no way man this is that the old face the whites let them do it

this isn't for us and the next day they all wore on band some of the miners minorities and they were ordered to take them off their black armbands trying to separate themselves from the white kids had done the shooting anyways just a mess was a great story and you didn't you know blame those soldiers also and you for they were getting the one told anything about this they didn't they were told they were communists they're out to kill us they didn't they weren't and they couldn't figure out these kids were not talking about the crime deal or crime of america these are their working lower working class kids met them or lowered the standards that normally would be bright enough or have not about brains about education they want to get into the army so what did they know one of the problems they had is my god these people didn't have refrigerators. i mean i talked to forty or fifty that before i realized you know after i wrote a book about this afterwards and i went i spent six eight months just flying around america talking to kids some slam the doors some did talk to me but many did and

they're pouring out their heart they had a problem in vietnamese society when they evacuate one of the planes one of the things we did in the war was we would remove families from their lands that had been ancestral fields for their protection it was called a movement of what we called fortified hamlets which enabled us to declare the areas that they cleared free fire zones you could shoot in anything and when they have villages there were people you could do it so we had evacuated and say it's where they're good and put them in the little. protected areas with fences around them away from their fields i mean they would do but choppers and in vietnam society a mother would never let a child go into a strange threshold first they would go first and the soldiers would say ok when they lined up these kids the same group they would have acted a village and they would say to the woman no children go first and the woman would not know english would would resist and they would beat him with their rifle butts and say look at these crazy woman want to go first leaving the kids behind not

knowing the culture and so how can you they were as much victims in a way as those they killed. in this going on the ground special after the break. remember brags that it was all about the british my to bring back five hundred factories are going to export our way back into the g.d.p. rocket ship and take on the cool britannia. well it turns out they're all going to be picking fruit out there in canada very shyly. current american administration is raising tariffs and revising old trade

agreements when america sneezes the rest of the world. protectionist fever. welcome back we're still here with his latest book reporter a memoir is out now in the past forty eight hours israeli jets targeted damascus i mean the war seems to be continuing all of a kind you said that there were actually two suspects for the chemical attacks that news of which was beamed around the world as a reason why i say britain should bomb syria why do you think journalists would just say there is only one suspect the government and what happened with the talking about an incident which. used nerve agents against his own people. which is a. that was a two thousand and thirteen was

a very rich from his point of reaction very hostile to his his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and i says later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had a war it was an awful war and he fought it awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it was government funding the white helmets right now that say it's one sided here it's the you know it can we trust you there's no question there's a look there i'm sure there are some people in the white helmets i were very actually doing with you know trying to save lives but the it's pretty clear now that they're basically the major funding also i think america was indirectly supplying some money certainly the brits were and so certainly it was a hedge it was a propaganda organization to along with possibly doing some real good relief work but too many times you see in this same child in photographs you know year after

year always covered in dust i mean there's been a lot of actually good reporting on it that they do and gauge anti assad but it's very easy here assad is hated and i get a lot of criticism criticism for saying having a different story for example about the use of sarah and i could publish what i wanted about him in america i had a publisher here in the london review now all that happens is in june of two thousand and thirteen there was a very important all source intelligence report put up by the american defense intelligence agency to include it but made a complicated for me i got a copy leaked i guess you call it and it had a lot of signals intelligence and the one reason i sort of stay alive i only ten i don't want to write i don't want to cross up any intelligence operation that's reasonable legitimate so i there's a lot of stuff. in this particular document i didn't publish it because i didn't know how much of this stuff is is very competent we're doing us good learning some

stuff about the other side i just didn't know so what i had a report that said there was tremendous concern in. community because both turkey the. paramilitary police units were driving truck folds of the chemicals that when mixed together make a nerve agent it's called kitchen sir and it's very crude the syrian army has a very sophisticated sarah and that has additives that make it more lethal more toxicity more penetration much better weapon in fact it's so toxic nerve agent you can once you meld it once you make it taken or. phosphate and. alcohol i mean certain specific and you mix them and the additives you have to put in a weapon because it will burn through a weapon in a day even a congress seal weapon so it's use it or lose it if you meld it and so we and the israelis used to monitor the syrian chemical arsenals and we could

for once we detected a melding it that we were going to attack and israel was in this with us through israel knows the story i'm telling you and we also knew then the syrian army had a very sophisticated weapon and we also knew from this intelligence report that saudi arabia turkey were supplying the basic chemicals to al nusra which isis was in there that was the cutting edge and so there was a tremendous yes well absolutely. we always think everything you know because there was a law passed in two thousand and two after the invasion that said any time the president could do what he wants with congress so we always called everything. i mean everything everything around him in libya it was al qaeda in africa because that gives you the cover of the law congress passed that stupid act even push the right to intervene anywhere without going congressional authorization it's an amazing piece of legislation talk about dumb anyway the point is this report troubled

everybody there was a study done about what can we do about it how many people american soldiers we should we didn't want a new sort of have there's a nerve agents. sunday comes this attack and we get a sample from the russians and it's taken to serve peter wall who is the director jeff the head of the british military the sample is taken to his people and down here they could take it the port down where they conclude we know what the syria has serious been signed in a signatory to the geneva convention on chemical weapons we we know what syria has we know what it looks like and what was used in that place was not the same as in the syrian military this is told obama two times by the chairman of the joint chiefs before the reason he had remember the red line ones when the attack took place so when the attack took place it allegedly forty nine there was one tenth as many as matter when the attack took place and people were killed and the world said we did it my government said that the government knew they knew from this very

important intelligence report that caused a huge study to be done inside about what to do but it would take sixty thousand troops to get into the war we were thinking of maybe sending troops on the side of a shot really to get rid of this stuff we don't want these guys to have it and of course there was too many troops and it didn't happen but they knew there were two suspects that knew and noosa had the stuff in syria the stuff forget about having it analyzed they knew right away and they only talked about one and so i wrote an article saying wow that's a whole lot of folks and what i also learned because i was writing once later is that the material that was taken by russia russian and challenges which is quite what can i tell you russian intelligence in damascus i mean without russia i don't think he could have survived i think they saved a couple you fifteen he was in trouble he might decide to anyway the army was holding forth there wasn't collapsing as much as people thought that he was having trouble. anyway and by the way i'm always taken is an apologist for bashar assad all i'm doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars

all fight with same way he he doesn't do anything differently than we do the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb and hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the scent the famous bombings that everyone dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody's house this is war criminal for fighting the war they say he was in a war a war and by all accounts the casualties were almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyze important downs the brits had only which is a laboratory we in america respect for those skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered to account was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman dempsey dempsey takes it i write this categorically in the london review i

write this i don't say who the source is but i say he takes it you don't hear him denying it you hear nothing said about this takes it to the president and says mr president you can't you don't have a case it's not clear it's not clear bashar did it the same day we learned later years later two thousand and fifteen. obama does a long interview with a man named jeffrey goldberg of land a monthly magazine one of his people he liked a lot twenty thousand word interview in the middle of the interview he says about that incident the red line the head of national intelligence a general named clapper air force one comes to see me and he says mr president. it's not a slam dunk which is you know like considered to be the that that i believe be a perhaps no it's not that you know it so he didn't do the bombing because he didn't think he could win the case in the public arena that's why he did do the bombing not because there was a deal made on getting rid of weapons he lied and so i write this stuff he didn't tell the truth syria wanted to get rid of this. pushchairs i want to go i wrote in

two thousand and three for the new yorker quoting mustapha to last the head of the fence of. these defense minister of syria have been defense minister for ten twenty years wrote a lot of poetry stuff and i quote him saying at one point there was a worry that america may take syria and i said what would you do then he said what could i do and i said well you could use a chemical weapons and the call it was in the new yorker and it was read to him and you know the new yorker check stuff he approved this was in english he speaks english and he said to me. he said those things chemical weapons he says those things those use this things that the old man bashar is father want it off us he thought it was a deterrent against israel cost us a fortune teller we have to protect them it's a big pain he said if we use those weapons america could incinerate us with nukes and they'd be right and so crazy would be to use those weapons i said what would you do then and he said well we let america let the americans call that they come

to damascus and let's see what happens i said what are you talking about he said just like in baghdad when they when the when the when the knights of malta came in the thirteenth century the rivers would be full of their blood he said we have a resistance and so i remember going back and telling my general friends in washington you know this is not textbook you talk with the defense minute this is not he's not going to defend the country is going to let you come and kill you when you get there they're different i remember saying you're not going to have it's not going to be like the fight against not going to have a defense perimeter and you're have to fight your way into the city he's going to let you in and get you when you're there it was very interesting but then he was prime minister here was telling us it is. the british troops should be involved we're getting huge amounts of persuasion here. i mean it's syria now on syria up until say you know it tried it's over now and the kurds have cut a deal with bashar assad it's over and drums of changes policies because when it comes to doubt we've been having here a thing where. has been accused on

a regular basis in the british parliament of assassinating people in britain well that's the case is sort of falling apart there's been several porting from europe and i should say the book says you get all you start researching on w m d contexts for stories for decades now you've. got to have do you have for example there was a story and let's get let's get to the let me just say this there was a story in the press where syria was using chlorine in. the endgame in the isis and he you know this spring there was an endgame and there was a story that they were using sarin gas in chlorine together and so here's why hellman sent footage of it in the fifty's koreans are very volatile gas and it's of great interest to the it's not it's not a worry for egypt and there was a story just the other day about syria drop the un report going to drop the chlorine gas bomb there's no such thing it anybody's arsenal a korean bomb you have to how much chlorine can you put into it cory's a gas it dissipates quickly it moves quickly it's not lethal you can breathe and

keep on what it's not it's not a war for agent you could there's no such bomb but even more important because chlorine so reactive in the chemical corps in america when they develop this nerve agents in the fifty's they thought let's see what happens if we meld chlorine with it maybe with soup it up make it even more more efficient as a killer and it turned out the chlorine immediately first thing it did in the field reports this is published documents in the field corina immediately would go and grab all the hydrogen molecules from this era dignity disappeared so worked exactly the opposite in other words and droplets would become just another useless gas it would be much less lethal the korean would make it weak so that you can't which is in the way it was record you can't use and chlorine together just a little bit he does any homework this script and we had geoffrey robertson q.c. one of the world's leading human rights barristers on russia as a positive on this killing live in and go. the m i six by it was. we were told in

this country i mean clearly this was a lethal military grade. nerve gas as if you have to population you that you can have no idea a military grade military grade v.x. . you could wipe out half of london with that one i mean it's really that it was well we'll call this story look i've written about it so yes my something i have written the story i always had about it from my friends in america is. those two were helping your the british intelligence services with information about the russian mafia that's what they were doing here in other words the people that would high on the list that would want to hurt them would be the russian mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about this as well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story about the same after the same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee activities i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that is in the russian government all i

would say is i think i'm in tell me what i was told but i haven't done a reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to so the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian corruption in and europe not in russia their game you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions about who wanted to hurt him so i thank you for the show his book that reporter memoirs out now that's it for the show will be back on monday till then you can judge by social media will see you on monday forty two years to the day the socialist republic of vietnam was reunified after losing millions of men women and children and defeated the united states in the.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need. to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. generally speaking mr trump's unilateralist notably the unilateralism which we saw with regards to iran which we also saw with regards to the paris agreement regarding climate change which we saw with regards to the american embassy in jerusalem all these unilateral decisions i challenge from my point of view the quality of our transatlantic relations.

act. i. mean the messi and cristiano ronaldo powerhouse of the world cup on the same day as miracle i think portugal two one in the last sixteen. colonia it was as he also argentina as the team's own champions were beaten full three by phones. in france fans go go out as they celebrate the victory in russia on black. berry at the red zone like this mike just so look up i can run but i'm still right that.

there is still. a bit. well a thrilling first day in the last sixteen of the world cup that sees the world too bad. best players go out and one french teenage a combo of age will fall on the day's action peter schmeichel and neil harvey report from the special studio next to red square. beautiful evening and some beautiful much the full we've seen today the second of those just finished. goodwife he walked free to the quarter finals after they defeated the european champions portugal two goals to wall at peter schmeichel alongside me he called this pretty much he said watch out for suarez think avantika volley in particular was the man who had the biggest effect on this match he was

brilliant he got injured which is it's a bit of a worry for your when the game finished he came on the page he didn't look to be too much discomfort but it's still a worry you you get a muscle injury at this time in the tournament you know you haven't got that many days to recover from so he is very very important to where you are go i no doubt about the qualities of those two hours but it isn't kabbani is for me the big stuff on this team and and his performances and in this world cup and especially today which is fantastic and you said what's out for the tandon together these guys are some strike force and they combine beautifully with a one of the longest one teach you will ever seen right across the width of the pitch this is how it played out like a volley started to move on seven minutes i think why just where is here and he

returns the favor knocking it back in yeah this is a perfect ball in your guy then sat back a little bit had four sometimes five at the back and then three in front of them and kept the block very very tight and beats you said at half time it was. very obvious that they were just playing the ball around it being one nil down in the game that if you lose it you leave the world you have to try you have to do something and they didn't in the first top so the simple thing is of course when you are in a crossing position cross a ball in the box give yourself a chance if you're in a shooting position and shoot have a shot what you want to do is you want to ask that defense questions they would have to come up with the answers and this is what happened in the second half story straight from the go they went out there they tried to court the put. on so he got on the right and cycle could get some crosses in. it was right from the beginning he got one and two crosses in they started to cross a ball from the left hand side as well plus they had shots from from

a from the center of the goal and i asked questions of the goalkeeper and then one fifty five minutes they had a corner i complained about the short conus a check in the first time so this time it took a short corner but it worked. and the cross and everyone kept and i know now though and here you see happen to you. and actually the story in the first goal against your strawman it's a really really good header we saw this morning and very much as we saw in the early match of the day the way menton changed because at this point you had portugal in the ascendant say they were playing more attacking football because they're chasing the game your goal of defending like. that and then that situation only lasted seven minutes i mean they think they kept going the way that they started that second half but when you have someone like pepper in the team he pops up and score goals like we've just seen but he also makes stupid decisions in

a game and for the second goal that come on he scored he made a really stupid decision to go in trying to win when ahead of where he should just stayed back and i was trying to win that header he left such a massive gap for kev on. it's a path into him and his finish is good i have to question the goalkeeper in this situation we can have a look at that now you know so it would be a little neck and gold he had taped it papers just running back there it wouldn't have been there had pippa not gone for that ball about the fact that we've lost little nessie already and now we've lost for now though and it's a slightly sad ending his last contribution to the match had a shot that nearly hit the corner flag and then his very last contribution was. poor temperament with the referee and getting booked and that was his decision yeah this situation is. playing stripling on the right hand side and it looks like he's been he's been felt the referee broadway's play on and when we see the replay i

think the referee gets a quite right there was no need for us with to actually go down because he had the ball and he could have crossed and run now that he was so furious that he was up against a referee like that who straight away gave him a yellow card which was the only yellow card in the whole game and portugal equal i start the next time and got through to the quarterfinals fernald the would have been banned so. yeah a little bit of a sad ending and we're now speculating that it was this the last time we saw cristiano ronaldo in a world cup was the last time we saw in the other messed me in this mess is thirty one for another it's eighty two coming up to thirty three we don't know it's four years is a long time in football well it's been a significant take from a scene in the last to some of the greats of the game but your reply and hope for that found that lives eternal to iraq

or the of a you. were on i . vy thinking about i wonder what it was like in sochi for they see. evening kickoff between your require in portugal we know the result you're a quiet through town hall can visit the stadium for us of course as always some celebrating some getting ready to pack their bags what was it like to be in. the absolute a quad i was so she stayed inside i hope to portugal of course as they go home. for the recall guys what did you make of the game how you how you're feeling right now big moment for you guys very excited very excited are. a long way it was a tough hard for game and we got we got the win is that this is the school what you predicted is not what you thought we also we didn't do was you know when there's going to be new we know it was going to be easy put on you we're going to win this

game you could tell that your why we would like to defend first we have to stay at the back make sure that our structure is good and the work to develop on the counter and to fill up on those opportunities and we played our football today use we played this football against egypt against saudi arabia against russia and the results are coming and i couldn't be happier you just feel optimistic for the next game always have a hard one of you know the art of knowing that whatever it was that i thought it was but we know that you're quite through and if you don't know the results of the early much of the day let's just spoil it for you now you can check it out cryptically that with the flags and you can see that he's going to be here at quite a gang of friends he defeated always in t.n.a. what was just a simply my need to set matches and it ended four goals it's a story let's not mess about let's just bring you the go action.

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it's the fox. and today it was next great world cup for them the only good game they played was against nigeria in the last grouping went on to run on messi got on the school street in that thing like that so they the audience signs a cry and i think if you see maradona somewhere. he will be crying and he's been crying all the way through throughout these championships and yet i think it's been very good for his health at least that emotional roller coaster with some old lows than the highs can see and feel. with the tango so they kneel and have you noticed that the polish changed so why didn't you cup of. the ball that we played that out that they played with in.