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there are twelve and one when we got the victims from the rubble. were found the hand and shoulders and you other parts of one marked. the victims the house owners wife daughter in law three daughters four grandchildren two sons and more difficult to spin them as enemy fighters even with the pentagon's notorious guilty until proven innocent casualty counting mechanism and locals survivors don't have a lot of faith in justice. my expectations are that they will tell us it was all off in our scene so no proof that they were taliban fighters this is not the first time. they always kill civilians and never give us a chance to speak up so that they can say that they killed the taliban. no no i've seen no one help from them and i've lived here for
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a long time during which time some and they've never seen anyone given eight. province which is partly controlled by the taliban has a history of strikes go in a straight in two thousand and fifteen when the u.s. had the doctors without borders or support killing forty two the pentagon denied that at first until eventually barack obama himself had to apologize in november last year when the u.n. investigation found that the u.s. had killed ten civilians in a different air strike again denied it even offered a thorough investigation and again eventually ended up apologizing in response to requests from r.t. nato repeated its statement that no civilian casualties resulted from u.s. airstrikes adding that they anticipate details from an afghan investigative team in the coming days antiwar activist richard becker says denial has become such second
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nature in the american military. well i think that there's been hundreds and hundreds of such incidents in afghanistan every single time we hear of one of these incidents like this latest one it can do is we hear oh they were all terrorists at first and then someone goes out media go out in the interview the villagers and they say no they were just villagers and then the military says well will conduct an investigation and then it's off into the ether and you know very little ever happens no matter how terrible the atrocities are but this pattern happens over and over again and no matter what kind of apologies or excuses are given then it's repeated and it's repeated and repeated over and over again. germany is one of the world's largest arms manufacturers and exporters but investigative investigative reporters red fish claim that not all german arms are sold legally here's a part of their report you can watch it in full on youtube.
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germany gets a lot of praise for its reasonable approach to politics but the german government has a dirty secret while germany prides itself on having some of the toughest export laws on the planet it's actually the fourth biggest arms exporter in the world. holder wrote power has taken one of the country's major arms manufacturers and one of the world's biggest small arms producers the infamous heckler and koch to court they stand accused of illegally shipping weapons to conflicts on. trial.
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it's historic it's a story because. i would call it blasphemy. of the german government because the german people the legal on shipments they're accused of include sixteen batches of g thirty six assault rifles some of which ended up being used in a tragedy which shook the world. in two thousand and fourteen forty three students became collateral in mexico's bloody war on drugs when they were kidnapped by corrupt police who handed them over to the new tory. drug cartel at least several of the students were killed by the heckler and koch rifles the company is incredibly hostile the media interest and public attention it didn't take long for the police to arrive to stop us from filming the town's residents were particularly enthusiastic to speak to as we approached heckler and koch multiple times to discuss the allegations cited in this report unfortunately despite all our efforts
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. we're very happy to see it it's. like wow. you don't want to say something. christine's i mean to get an export license german arms manufacturers have to go through several government ministries who will check that the shipment destination isn't subject to any sort of ban by german law if it is in the forms company's application fails then they have another option they can appeal to the federal security council and here's where things get interesting this council is made up of a handful of senior ministers who sit down with the german chancellor angela merkel in a secretive meeting where they review the application and decide whether to approve it or not the details of this meeting are never made public there is no media presence or independence group. the heckler and
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koch company in question say they are fully cooperating with the investigation also actively contributing to to clarify any incidents the defendant's lawyer are quoted as saying that the guns legally went to well controlled police state go and mexico . germany now says it will resettle eight members of the controversial rescue group the white helmets as well as their families after they were evacuated by israel from syria canada britain and france have also pledged to receive some of the four hundred and twenty two helped out of the region i discussed the story earlier within the upper triangle. well the praise that this massive relocation effort has received in the west from some of the most senior people in charge seems absolutely unanimous it is a corps but barely any one of those joining in the course is actually spoken to soon billions on the ground and r t how has done that and i'll tell you what there really is a rather strong contrast between what the big names are saying now and the things
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that we heard when we talked to the syrians but i do want to join you heiko in celebrating the fantastic news that we've been able to get these brave people and their families out of syria after the extraordinary work they've done saving lives all of this video shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really those close to them the last thing they cared about is civilians. but time in together is great but also our canadian and american friends and partners we complain for the air the creation of the white helmets and i read a great phone now that this was successful and that some of these people and their families kind of it accommodated here in germany no one did anything out of humanitarian concerns it was all about money the join the what helmets another's only for money no one cared about the syrian people. and what was the urgency
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behind this relocation well right now the syrian government troops are making some serious advances in the south of the country and that's where areas have long been held by the militants that are seeking to overthrow the assad government and i can tell you that there have already been attempts successful attempts i should say to move some of these rebels to the country's north where areas are held by some elements of the syrian opposition but now it seems it is turn to relocate the white house although there are being moved abroad and this is perhaps another sign that these people have long had some political connections with the west and after all it is no secret that the group is being kept afloat with cash from western countries and some cases that's taxpayers' money which means millions of dollars and the white helmet is have been working very hard on building and maintaining not
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just a positive image but an image of heroes their networking their p.r. efforts to visualize their rescue activities are really impressive but all of this may backfire if you cheat all that was used in april by those trying desperately to prove that the assad government used chemicals against children and duma was. video but later the very same people who featured in it insisted that the entire rescue operation after the chemical attack this day. we were in the basement and then heard someone outside scream go to hospital we were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this. you can easily think of other controversies for instance videos with jihad is holding executions and then suddenly out of nowhere men wearing white. helmets ambulance showing up or videos
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when people wearing white helmets were waving al qaida flags plus you can just take a look at some of the things our correspondent saw when he tried to trace the footsteps of the notorious group on the ground in syria here's what you'll find in one of the rooms of the former white helmets headquarters here in the aleppo bomb elements fiends as well as detonators hundreds and hundreds of empty bullet casings this was by all appearances a weapons factory a bomb making factory over here shrapnel. this is what they put in bombs to cause horrendous casualties over there you'll see an industrial mix up again. what they used to mix chemicals and gunpowder so clearly there's a lot of inconsistency is here have these concerns been ignored by western
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governments altogether no not in all cases you may remember when the white helmets won an oscar for a documentary about the things they were doing when that's when their leader was invited to the u.s. for the awards ceremony but then he was banned from entering the country and that was something that led to a rather awkward situation at a u.s. state department briefing is the u.s. taxpayer supporting a group whose leader you have banned from coming to the states i mean if you have reason to revoke his visa that he could be a security threat or something like that why would again you just support but again i'm trying to separate this individual from their roots so they are saying that basically that he is suspect which is. again i can't say this is a go against against them and i'm sorry. so it might indeed get complicated when it comes to some elements of the white helmets group and the security back home more
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news after a short break. people criticize us or they question less than they want to know why we're not more book critical of russia i think the real question is how come we're not tooting russia's horn more because they are bent genius during this crisis but that would be i think a little bit you know over the top to simply point out all the good things that they're constantly doing so we just try to take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact is that they're making all these other economies look stupid like they're. almost seemed wrong. just don't hold. me.
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to shape out. come out to. engage me because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program donald trump has once again lashed out at you around he tweeted on sunday that iran should not threaten the u.s. otherwise they will face serious consequences never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have of us suffered before we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and be cautious america should know that peace with iran is the mother of all peace and war with
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iran is the mother of all wars. u.s. senators have echoed the criticism of tara but there's very little new there as they took a similar stance before the hard fought iran deal signed back in two thousand and fifteen people run supports terrorism he run has been listed missiles iran tramples on human rights the things that they are doing to support terrorism ballistic missiles their human rights violations yes they are iran is a serious threat. president iran deal would allow the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. to retain thousands of centrifuges this is a regime that funds terrorism all around the world party's policy or takes a look at what's next with washington in tehran trading insults after my company explained america will now target the media on your own to change perceptions their covertly plotting terror attacks in the heart of europe destroying israel at the
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core of the regime's ideology that's committed supported many acts of violence and terrorism against both countries now the united states is undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure campaign to cut off the funds that the regime uses to enrich itself and support death and destruction the b.b.c. is launching a new twenty four seven four c. language t.v. channel that will span not only television but radio digital and social media format so that ordinary iranians inside of iran and around the globe can know that america stands with them. the situation between the united states and iran remains extremely tense and as we see now happening the u.s. has set its sights on the us media in terms of how to deal with this we've heard the announcement from the u.s. secretary of state that they launching a twenty four seventh's saucy channel it would be under the banner of the b.b.c. which stands for the broadcast in a lot of governors this comprises different radio and t.v. outlets and back in two thousand and sixteen at received a budget of some seven hundred and fifty million dollars now what we're hearing is
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that this new fasi channel will also be available on digital and on social media and we hope the u.s. secretary of state say the full forty years the iranian people had been subjected to hearing from their leaders about what a great satan the united states was and that now finally they wouldn't have to subject themselves to fake news but tried to saying this also say that you know states was undertaking tough measures against iran of course these comments has prompted and immediate angry reaction from tehran. do not play with the lines or else you will regret it. now compare also said that the united states was not afraid to challenge you ran with sanctions at the highest level and he called on other countries to also jointly combine in these economic sanctions you also went on to say that the united states was undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure campaign against iran that they were planning
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on cutting off funds to so that to quote the regime would no longer be able to involve itself in death and destruction you also said that they will put in maximum pressure on the regime's ability to regenerate and move money now of course we're waiting to hear what other measures the united states is planning on putting in place we know for example that the next round of sanctions goes into effect on the fourth of august so certainly relations between the two countries increasingly tense. the nuclear deal was struck between global powers and iran back in two thousand and fifteen and it iran agreed to some limitations to its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and may other signatories are determined that the agreement stays in place a political analyst we spoke to things iran's approach won't help bring about a new deal with the u.s. . it's very interesting of this change of tone and tactics that.
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president has displayed no it's not very surprising for the trumpet ministration and president trump himself having a very strong tone towards iran this is this is been consistent but we could see that the president has changed his tone differently than before this is a way of trying to get into the negotiating table in another way that this pragmatic approach that he had before has not been for full instead now he's opting rhetorical jostling with the united states in the hope of reaching going back to the negotiating table once again the situation is very different i don't think that president trump is going to approach it the same way as iraq as the united states approach north korea because that's a whole different situation. britain's prime minister might be facing a bigger political crisis than she expected as a new poll suggests that many people in the u.k. don't like the way theresa may is handling bricks at negotiations they seem to
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think her former foreign secretary would do a better job harkins explains the poll really shows several things the polarization of u.k. society over the issue of bricks and the rapidly changing political landscape but thirdly and most war room lee for most is maybe unity over voters regardless of their affiliations one way or the other over dissatisfaction on the status quo in the way that it is being handled at the polls showed that thirty eight and twenty four percent of voters respect that we would vote for a new party that would be either committed to bricks that all be all out right wing in terms of immigration and anti islam another one in three voters would be prepared for the opposite to vote for apology to that is centrist and committed to remaining showing that the issue is as divisive now as it was. one or even two years ago on a personal level for mrs may it's warning that only sixteen percent of voters think
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she's doing a good job handling a brit negotiations over twice as many believe that boris johnson former foreign secretary would do a better job. it's a reason why has very low ratings in the polls the lowest since the previous election she's been hit with a series of ministerial resignations the loudest of which has been of course foreign secretary boris johnson and he certainly didn't choose to go quietly in the eighteen months that have followed it is as though a fog of so heart has descended it is not too late to save bricks we have time in these negotiations we have changed once and we can change again the problem is not that we failed to make the case for a free trade agreement of the kind of like as the house we haven't even tried though in his resignation speech and let's say he did give mrs may credit for her
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attempts at trying to secure this brics it deal but you also had scathing criticism saying that her method of doing things would leave britain in a miserable limbo almost a colony of the e.u. and saying that it wasn't too late to save brett except speculation has been rife for quite some time now that the role of the u.k.'s top diplomat wasn't enough for johnson that he's aiming for the top job in british politics being a prime minister he certainly seems to have the polls on his side and also indorsements from donald trump for example the american president he said that boris johnson would do a great job as prime minister low given the recent protests against his visit it's sure whether this is more of a blow or a boost to the credibility there. that's a wrap up of the day's top news and that's all for me as well but my colleague you know neil will be here at the top of the hour with your global news update as always thanks for tuning in.
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