a 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 to what had been an exhausting rule at home and abroad. in one thousand 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 of the us campaign. napalm bombs and toxic herbicides left the country scarred. and its citizens suffering. fast forward to twenty eight and us finance 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 ministry of public security should announce a deal in a zation of the provisional national government of vietnam as a terrorist organization. they plan to buy weapons in an attempt to carry out terror attacks but their plots were uncovered and they were arrested by the enemy 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 nash. it was

a vietnamese descent. it's been revealed they openly penned 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 has had james know and i think u.s. embassy in vietnam has released a statement saying it will support him until his release and deportation to america some locals say that the group he belongs to just doesn't understand that times have changed and when we have this reaction to a group which carries out acts of sabotage against the vietnamese government it's deplorable the government is determined to maintain peace and stability so that the country can develop and prosperity be brought to the people in the groups members should not delude themselves into thinking what they do is right what they don't

understand the times have changed they don't understand the position of they put themselves in when they conspired against a country that i think the sentences were too lenient. people have been shot dead and almost a dozen injured during a video game tournament in the city of jacksonville florida police say the suspect also died at the scene. there were three deceased individuals at the scene one of those being the suspect who took his own wife. there were nine victims transported by j. forty to area hospitals seven of those had gunshot. in addition there were two additional gunshot victims is still transported themselves to local hospitals i'm happy to report that they were all stable condition at this time shortly after the first reports of the attack began circulating video appearing to show the incident a most online i just to warn you you may find the following footage distressing. so

let's go. out to. the. police have identified the shooter as a twenty four year old man from baltimore they say he used at least one handgun and one witness describes the chaos that ensued after the shooter opened fire the last game came in sight and you say you know the answer is not only control he will kill me some of these families look it is a little bit like a scene like a lot of the news on the scene the old man like to say because it is here. we are seeing people coming outside of a little girl symbolic high school she's certainly other people land out enjoying the grows cold holding are still to come here on the program on odyssey the german

foreign minister has urged the e.u. to seriously review its policies towards the united states to washington impose sanctions on a broad number of countries about story just a few. it

seems wrong. to say palo. alto. and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it's good to have you with us today the german foreign minister has others the e.u. to review its policies towards the united states after washington impose sanctions on a number of various countries. we must adapt to reality

we must take washington as a new attitude into account when formulating our foreign policy toward those. who is following the story of peter europe seems to be developing a bit of an independent streak these days perhaps. well what he was saying as he was addressing the annual gathering of that is in berlin was that you really need to have the tools to be able to back up when it disagrees diplomatically with the united states so that they can go beyond talking essentially a lot of the focus on this was on the sanctions that have been put in place on iran as well as the u.s. decision to pull out of that the iranian nuclear deal that it did so back in may what was putting forward was saying that well europe should be able to back up financially the disagreements that it has with the u.s. diplomatically. this means that europe must take more responsibility for its

security and we have to be ready. and america go their separate ways. the perfect example of this at the moment is well in relation to those a rainy and sanctions that swift the international payment system based out of belgium century has until november to cut off ties with iran otherwise it could face well big repercussions now swift is a network that's built up of with eleven thousand banks and two hundred different nations that allows the free movement of finances and to do with trade across that network it's supposed to be nonpolitical put it has caved in to the united states in the past when if you look at the options that have been on the table for swift right now you can see why now they have as i said the option to pull out of any of their business dealings with iran by november or their board members could face asset freezes travel bans and they could be

a restriction put in place on the on then doing business in the incredibly lucrative and multibillion dollar u.s. market now european nations and european leaders of said that they want to do whatever they can to keep the iran deal alive. financially is really in protecting companies financially is the only way they're going to be able to do that we haven't seen a solution to that so far but it hasn't stopped the top brass from coming out and saying that they're still committed to the iran deal without the united states. we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran friend impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions we believe that it is and it has to be up to.

the europeans in this case to decide with home to trade but the relationship between washington and its european partners has been quite open down for the the whole of this year so far it did receive quite a little bit of an after a trade deal seemingly was struck between john claude younker and donald trump however it's over the sanctions on iran and just how. it seems that donald trump is willing to wield sanctions against nations that is causing upsets by hot from heiko must here in germany so as across the wider. crater all over thank you. thousands of people rallied in central dublin on sunday to show solidarity with the victims of institutional abuse in ireland the standard for truth march coincided with the and of pope francis this historic visit to the country which was marked by a papal mass how those participating carried banners with slogans like truth

justice love they marched in silence towards the last month delay in law entry to close in the country alone juries were predominantly catholic run confinement institutions for women who became pregnant outside of marriage the pope's visit to ireland has seen people airing their grievances over a range of historic abuse scandals involving the catholic church. if you women in islands was not married frank names she couldn't go into an irish hospital run by the state they had to go to these units because they were sinners. and now it's time we were all knox in the south they were like prison cells there was no mattress some funeral we did get a piece in that in different forms they paid to mind games with us.

lawyers to single ball verse to the wall street children to adoption and they were told it was a washington day bargain and i left a letter for church and when i turned my back on the church the constitution exposed the church full of suspects you know and they hate so much miss even their original baptism certs.

the roman catholic church at the global level had directed by the prosecution of the crimes of priests and its left. children women. perpetrate beasts that it knew posed a danger to them but has pleaded for forgiveness over the catholic church's handling of abuse cases and met with a group of victims to hear their stories he expressed outrage over what he called repugnant crimes and promised to well to stop out of use in the cha cha right well twenty three minutes past the hour here in moscow more to come on the program just for now a minute. more

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on why not. why. people we believe this will be the end. of the blood letting. us. 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 mean massacre hersh has exerted a damning skepticism of the official line did the syrian government really use chemical weapons what was the truth behind the asama bin laden assassination what connects nato nations to isis diane and al qaeda and should we believe to resume about the poisoning of the script 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. and the source issue i mean what happened is. obama in the balmy years there was he tightened very much on leaks and dissent and particularly into. this committee 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 cheney 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 going to be published because they would get in trouble their professional intelligence people and military people the ones i deal 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 ignorant of the fact that 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 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 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 of it i don't think he would he's not interested in oh yes i know about it i know there's concern about some people in the military and a. 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 that they're the knights of 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 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 oh it's 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 or the black knight as an african-american and it just changed it and it is 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 in the new york times you can't 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 have to expand on the me life story because it's not only in the british curriculum is as stated that will true in the united states you know. 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 that 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 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 me but if we go. mentioned it the medium as it still resonates the name of the judge of this maybe historians of vietnam and 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 and 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 was copied we're working for a news agency to cover crimes and police aces 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 not going to be taken and if if you ever get into the police relationship with the mafia in chicago you know this is sam giancana though some of those names some of you 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 controlled by the mob and it would be reported as an automobile accident and so i learned right away that there was tyranny in the world that there were things you could do there was self censorship too and stop shooting i had a great time i learned a lot about i covered fires i'd. 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 a world of its own things have changed a lot since then but what

a lesson that was in sixty sixty one oh it may harm me i work for united press international i cover the legislature it appears 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 washington covered the war from the pentagon learned the hate the war but the point i'm making is by the time i got to the me 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 it 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 nine hundred fifty 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 were going to villages 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 mes 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 movement in children so after enough of those raids you would get frustrated and sometimes the officers would say 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 guns 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 at the same time as i'm

writing about the fact these people killed five hundred sixty seven people something like that an innocent people there was no company to been in the war for about three months the kids to nothing about the vietnam war the culture and they were proportionately more hispanics and blacks then in the population and poor farm 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 my dad met him or wanted to change the color of the corpses but in this village they were brief this this company that hadn't seen the enemy they had been sniped at and they'd fallen in the pits with sticks pool 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're going to go into a village you're 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 oldman 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 invade it 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 didn't you know i mean i did the i. i was it was a piece of me of the 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 what the old phase 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 if it didn't in the book you don't blame those soldiers also thank you for it we do want told anything about the society 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 they 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 wrote myself 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 door some did talk to me but many did and

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 armed protected areas with fences around 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 knowing which 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 as those they killed so i'd still be there in this going underground special after the break. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more somehow want to be rich. to be like to be for us this is what the forecast treatable can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question.