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in addition there were two additional gunshot victims this still transported themselves. i'm happy to report that they were all in stable condition at this time . shortly after the first reports of the attack began circulating a video appearing to show the incident emerged online you know just to warn you you may find the following distressing. it's not a. police have identified the shooter as a twenty four year old man from baltimore they say he used at least one handgun a witness described the chaos that ensued after the shooter opened fire. the last game came back on the site you say you lose a little sleep to sleep tonight
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a controller he will kill you slowly look using the light to look up the word of the loser see the old man like to. because it is he. really sees people coming out look girl symbolic. she's the only other people land out into the grows cold shoulder. thousands of people rallied in central dublin on sunday to show solidarity with the victims of institutional abuse in ireland at the stand for truth march coincided with the end of pope francis historic visit to the country which was marked by a papal mass those participating carried banners emblazoned with slogans like truth justice and love they marched in silence towards the last magdalene laundry to close in the country the injuries were predominantly catholic run in confinement institutions for women who became pregnant outside of marriage the pope's visit to ireland has seen people airing their grievances over
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a range of historic abuse scandals involving the catholic church. is the women in ireland's was not married pregnant she couldn't go into an irish hospital run by the state they have to go to these units because the sinners. at night time we were only looks in the south they were like prison cells there was a name mattress we did guess a piece in that in different forms they paid to mind games with us. lloyd's to single ball first to the wall street children to it all she. told was
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abortion bargain and love to lunch at your church i turned my back on the church because the church exposed the church so spots just so you know and they get so much even their original baptism certs. the roman catholic church of the global level directed by the bunch of us covered up the crimes of crazy and it's next to the women on the bottom. of the study can you posed a danger to them pope francis has pleaded for forgiveness over the catholic
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church's handling of abuse cases and met with a group of victims to hear their stories expressed outrage over what he called repugnant crimes and promise to work to stamp out abuse in the church. are about halfway through the monday program here on our international still to come the vietnam war ended several decades ago but food seems not entirely for everyone that story and more just a moment. i became his national camera. roughly once they showed some leaves for them. to joan to videos and so on with the roughly string i am. going down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . nor make this manufactured sentenced to public wealth.
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when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round to be the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. the real news is. good to have you with us today american media outlets are claiming that u.s. intelligence is in the dark about russia's supposed it plans for the midterm
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elections as the cia's kremlin contacts have suddenly gone quiet i know hawkins picks up the story. less than two years after the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the russians are at it again the end words this time it's the u.s. mid-term elections in the crosshairs of kremlin meddling it's a fact russia is already not trying but actually meddling in our twenty mid-term elections another russian attack on our elections a serious warning about russian meddling in future u.s. elections there also hacking or attempting to hack political campaigns russia is at it again it's clear for all to see what happens after all how can one refute such a mass of sources intelligence sources tell n.b.c. news there is no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election a source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. . sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community anonymous
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sources according to anonymous washington post source now we may not even have those through law according to the new york times they've gone to ground gone quiet what's happened there could be a couple of reasons it's ok the times reassures us they've not been killed risk yet although says the article putin is intent on killing traitors and the russians are willing to kill sources perhaps they say the assassination attempt on double agent so i guess script file has affected flows of intelligence as with the meddling accusations minimal evidence was also enough to expose the kremlin's hand in that case russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations' elections as well we continue to see a pervasive measures in messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken
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and divide the united states intelligence blackout could also be down to a fall in us. numbers in russia the russians kicked out a whole bunch of our people laments a former cia officer a reference of course to moscow as retaliation after dozens of russian diplomats were first expelled from the united states the russian meddling saga even has the us president himself worried i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump but those are named officials can explain the logic the kremlin doesn't want a specific outcome any more broad chaos is apparently the aim despite no hard evidence of meddling past or future it seems the narrative is getting old unnamed sources can only sound convincing for so long no no the rusher
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informant's they were definitely in the u.f.o. crashed or was a meteorite this is so confusing what the media told us imagine you're a france whisper in the ear of the new york times sources see your times makes up stories what if as endless anonymous sources allege russia isn't busy tilting elections sowing discord or spreading chaos what if russia isn't doing anything at all that would never make a thrilling read. to us nationals in vietnam have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting a coup they were among twelve people sentenced all of their members of the provisional national government of vietnam which was declared a terrorist organization by the country's orthe already is that was back in january of course the war in vietnam ended more than four decades ago but apparently for
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some the struggle is ongoing. the vietnam war one of the world's bloodiest conflict and the american army's biggest defeat to you ideologically opposed blocks in two decades of fighting came at a cost of fifty six thousand u.s. troops in a bid to overthrow the communist regime of north korea now that the casualties among civilians were much greater at least two million people died in the war. after hopes of tightening a democratic grip across the vietnamese state slipped away and up to one hundred forty one billion dollars was spent on military operations the us folded two i'd read an exhausting rule at home and approved. in one nine hundred seventy three thousands of antiwar protesters would later contribute to the end of u.s. military involvement and two years later the south surrendered with vietnam forced to unite under a socialist flag. however it would take years for vietnam to heal from the wounds
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of the us campaign. napalm bombs and toxic herbicides left the country scarred. and its citizens suffering. fast forward to twenty eight and us vietnam relations have turned a new leaf. even prospering. however there are some people who can't let go of the past among them the provisional national government of the third republic of vietnam most of them share one thing in common they all supported or fought for the south vietnamese army and had to flee when the war ended in one nine hundred seventy five they dream of a regime they never had a chance to see. and they're proactive about sharing their agenda they have their own prime minister and even newspapers about their cause printed in japan malaysia and thailand recently they've caught the attention of more global audience is. the
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ministry of public speaking. sure announced the organization of the provisional national government of vietnam as a terrorist organization. they planned to buy weapons in an attempt to carry out terror attacks but their plots were uncovered and they were arrested by vietnamese security forces. twelve members were charged with subversion attempting to broadcast anti state messages described as a coupe two of those behind it were american nationals of vietnamese descent. has been revealed they open the panda letters to the u.s. president with a q. even based in california it may be almost half a century since the end of the vietnam war but under the surface there are still rumblings with some still willing to fight for a cause they never saw come to fruition. one of the two u.s. nationals who were sentenced as we just saw is high on james new in the u.s.
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embassy in vietnam has released a statement saying it will support him until his release and deportation to america but some locals say that the group he belongs to just doesn't understand that times have changed. yet this reactionary group which carries out acts of sabotage against the vietnamese government is deplorable the government is determined to maintain peace and stability so that the country can develop and prosperity be brought to the people and the group's members should not delude themselves into thinking what they do is right a white one way they don't understand the times have changed they don't understand the position of they put themselves in when they conspired against the country i think the sentences were too lenient. the democratic republic of congo were seen as deadliest outbreak of ebola and more than a decade i sense early august the virus has killed seventy two people of one hundred eleven confirmed or probable cases the last major global outbreak of ebola
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happened between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen some eleven thousand people but for many surviving wasn't the end of their struggle as they were treated as outcasts by their communities arteries documentary ebola surviving surviving survival that is it tells the story you can watch it at eight o'clock g.m.t. . i'm going to good morning. eric seemed to really. read into. people we are standing on the road.
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we are in. need like. that. sure some of that is that is. a lot of the time title plus stuff if you know out of me live walked out of. a movie for touch and set in their lot of willful family. members to get. out and not have some lists out four or five meetings and not told a lot of people things that i want us to eat. the funny thing didn't it will obviously. be you may bet on mine. too long as i am not allowed out to
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be down. to just get in the united church. this very very serious boy didn't want to go to the holy show and let him know for it's what we would. forgo in food what is our home and to get on with this awful gab or no might not want to talk about it i was down with it up to the whole of the it would have been out of money for the two people now that i do not know what to do just about we pass it would i be. your programmer and humph.
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moon. me not a witch it's real. i came back to the community. people we are be standing on the road look out to me oh look out is all bible gone towards hand. like. she's looking to save money don't think that because all that i.
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don't. know we're going to this. i'm not topping the my life. i seem on have to die. down after a chance and we're going underground on british armed forces day and in this special edition we're joined by pulitzer prize winning journalist hirsch who exposed nato nation war crimes of the military industrial complex from abu ghraib prison in the anglo-american war in iraq to the me line massacre hersh has exerted a damning skepticism of the official line did the syrian government really use chemical weapons what was the truth. mind the asama bin laden assassination what
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connects nato nations to isis die action al-qaeda and should we believe to resume about the poisoning of the script files in england his new book reporter memoir is out now thanks so much for going back and going underground why you rather than dick cheney there you were writing a book on dick cheney. it's a source issue i mean what happen is. obama in the balmy years there was he tightened very much on leaks and dissent in particular in the intelligence community put cia guy in jail there were people in the white house somebody was jailed also privately without public disclosure there was a sense that obama really didn't like leaks and so i had done a book on cheney i've written a lot about changing it for the new yorker during you know after nine eleven and there was a story a book to write and when i began giving chapters to people involved they said the appropriate you know it's just going to be published because they would get in trouble their professional intelligence people and military people the ones i deal
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with they take an oath of office to the to the constitution and not to any particular president so i just had to i just couldn't publish the book and put him in jeopardy it would put them in jeopardy would would make it almost impossible for me that the check about me is that. i don't give up people i meet people they they don't go after my people they don't know who they are i put nothing in a computer i write all my interviews in longhand and so i just felt if i if i publish stuff over their opposition and they got prosecuted i would not sleep at night and be also not be able to do the kind of reporting i'm still doing if anyone reading this memoir about so much military action of one kind or another they shouldn't be a great event that i think you said recently that we're in war with the united states is at war in seventy six countries now let alone the wars you clinical in this what i said was that there's seventy six places in the in the world where the americans are involved with kinetically with weapons and it based it was based on
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actually a public study done by an institute at brown university called the watson institute and i knowing some of the people involved in the study it's lose a lot of stuff that we have a big special forces community that are active particularly in africa and a lot of places i think the public knows very little about it i don't think this are my president is been briefed on any. but i don't think he would he's not interested in or you doesn't know about it i know there's concern about some people in the military and high up in the military in my government in washington what are these guys doing who's in control there's a lack of control in among the special forces they've just gotten and many of them are driven. with the idea that they are on a crusade that they're there the night some malta fighting the infidels in the fourteenth century a thirteenth century ice really crazy stuff and so i don't think when i hear military special operations command say about mali here's what happened four guys
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died how i'm sorry i i just think this probably much more to this story i think there's much more to our presence there but it's very hard to get to that stuff lots of opportunities for reporters is may be you thinking in any way that this memoir already being reviewed quite widely favorably and helps in defending you from some quite extraordinary ad homonym attacks on your recent reporting you know the only thing that happened in my recent reporting is. it was fine when bush and cheney when dick cheney and george bush were in charge but want to bomb i came in he was the not the white knight if you will of the black knight ok it's african-american and it just changed it editors just you know that's the way it is the stories that would have been fine in the days of bush and cheney suddenly were you know not getting published and people were complaining that i am always on the complaining about anonymous sources as if every day the new york times you can't
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pick up the newspaper and find the lead story based on anonymous sources it's just part of our business you can't name people in particular the stuff i do know i you know when i first did the middle i story really master story in one nine hundred sixty nine the first thing i remember there was a poll from the i think for university of minnesota fifty four percent of the people didn't believe it and forty six and among my peers you know eighty percent didn't believe it. you might have to expand on the mean life story because it's not on any british curriculum is as stated a miniature in the united states you know how it is it's when i was growing up i born in one thousand thirty seven by the time i got into my twenty's and thirty's the world war one oh my god i don't think i knew about world war one his fields of poppies and hemingway novels so it's not surprising to me that the generation doesn't know what happened the lies vietnam has disappeared in america pretty we you know it wasn't a good war for us i'm sure there's still five pages of textbooks but there was a period when universities all had special courses on the war but that was twenty
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thirty years ago you and i were too old buddy we're all people i'm a much younger yeah but you know what i know great here but you must hate it but i don't believe you but if we go. mentioned it the medium as it still resonates the name of the judge will this maybe historians of vietnam you tell in this book the story of trying to find sources and witnesses just describe what you go into there and why i just got a tip about it you know i covered it's not as if i came from nothing i've been a police reporter in chicago and let me tell you about being a police reporter in one thousand nine hundred sixty wanted to go to go it was you learned a couple things you learned all about the weakness as my first job i copied was working for a news agency to cover crimes and police stations and so what i learned was you could do anything you want as a reporter was great fun you're on the street you're reporting about fires and murders but if a cop kills a black person that's off the books you know you know no matter what your words are going to be taken and if if you ever get into the police relationship with the
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mafia and chicago you know this is sam giancana though some of those names some of your people know the famous mafioso as you could you could you could see fight some guy in the street with fourteen bullets in a downtown area where those clubs are controlled by the mob and everybody would be reported as that automobile accident and so i learned right away that there was tyranny in the. world that there are things you could do if there was self censorship to it instantiated i had a great time i learned a lot about i covered fires i learned more about racism that i thought i would but i also knew there were there was as i say tyranny there were certain things you could not get the chicago police department was operating in the world on its own things have changed a lot since then but what a lesson that was in sixty sixty one i went in the army i worked for united press international i covered the legislature in piers south dakota town of ten thousand i was a chicago kid never lived in a small city i then worked in chicago and i was sent to war she covered the war from the pentagon learned they hate the war but the point i'm making is by the time
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i got to the meat life story had been in the business eight or nine years and so when i got a tip about somebody shooting up a village you've got to read before you write so i used to i was not about watching reading the new york times coverage of the war and then i read the french the french journalist and bernard fall there was a couple wonderful french journalists who wrote about the fall of france india being fool in one thousand nine hundred four and so i read a lot and so i and there was a muscle tribunals was very important although everybody in america said burton russel's he hates america he's ninety four it was an incredible document there was testimony from american soldiers about shooting of villages like crazy fifty sixty five very early so when i got a tip about me i just whatever else i was doing and i thought i could do it but i thought i would heard that some g.i. went crazy and shot up seventy five people and that sounded like something that could happen what they did in the war early on is we would go into villages
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american units a company would go in on a raid find nobody there and we the way it worked as we always thought the viet cong our enemy the north through the maze they were farmers by day and guerrillas at night so we go early in the morning and catch him in bed after a night of being a gorilla i don't know what the craziness was woman and children so after enough of those raids you would get frustrated sometimes the officers would. ok guys i know you're all angry everybody could have a mad moment in this village the tank gunner with his missiles and the machine gun as you can shoot the villagers up so that was quick to let the guys get off if you will they said be happy so they should have villages and that's what i thought they were talking about and then i got into the story and it's the same time as i'm writing about the fact these people killed five hundred sixty seven people something like that innocent people there was no company to bring in the war for about three months the kids did nothing about the vietnam war the culture and they were proportionally more hispanics and blacks then in the population and poor farm
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kids really white kids. are the secretary defense of lowered the standard by sixty seven and sixty eight he wanted no more there was a draft that presumably would take very edge well educated middle class white people he didn't want them in the war because they would come home and talk and be articulate about it and the senator who ran against lyndon johnson eugene mccarthy used to talk recently about maybe mcnamara wanted to change the color of the corpses but in this village they were brief this is this company that hadn't seen the enemy they have been sniped at and they'd fallen in the pits with sticks pull of poison they'd lost about twenty or thirty people have their hundred and they want to pay back and they were told by the cia official 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
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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 and they and it's 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. i 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 i mean the idea that the guys i served with do this kind of stuff so in a way the kids that it was mostly the white kids hispanics and the african-americans no way man this is that the old face the whites that they 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 oh i'll tell you so they
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were getting they want told anything about this they didn't they were told they were communists they're out to kill us they didn't they went and they couldn't figure out these kids we're 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 people 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 the movement of what we called fortified hamlets.

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