they're flogging a dead horse or are trying to push said horse back into the race across the finish line for you another way to look at it yes it does seem futile that they're trying to prop him up but he can't raise money he's putting all his hopes. on being convincing south carolina black voters that he's the next rock obama and it's just a matter of time before he fans those voters with making some horrible misstatement it's time for him to step aside. that's a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days probably this and up to the minute reports lost on twitter facebook.

world is driven by drug soaked by the curse of those great. players thinks. we dared to ask. a man that margaret found it impossible to touch the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range was robin jackson. jackson was a portadown loyalist who became one of the conflicts most prolific killers. he was also an r.u.c. agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbell's murder

a man and whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of a sort of ammunition had named jackson as his accomplice. however police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is at liberty to murder part campbell. jackson of being a member of the ulster defense regiment then the largest regiment in the british army. he was later involved in the massacre of the miami showband in july 975 when 3 band members were killed by members of the clan gang as they attempted to plant a bomb on the musician's boss. loyalist paramilitaries harris boyle and wesley somerville were killed instantly as the bomb exploded premiered surely. well the poster the 1st regiment was the largest regiment in the british army it was. offical recruited here and the north of ireland and only served here in the

north of ireland it was essentially a counterinsurgency unit that was set up at the beginning of the troubles. that itself took over from the discredit the specials which was a special police philip that it exists at since the 1920 s. . and it was clear from the outset that the u.d.r. was set up to recruit from within the loyalist unionist community. they were almost entirely drawn from within the community. declassified documents from british sources from the prime minister's office from the ministry of defense secretary of state's office make it quite shockingly clear that from the perspective of the british government it was acceptable to recruit someone into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group. there's no doubt that the creation of the also

defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of locally right regimens what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic paul's in the chain of command bridge show me were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly cross community would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. many people following this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to state the weapons and according to the official documents that we funded the u.d.r. it was the largest single source of modern. showing to the loyalist paramilitary

groups was a recipe for disaster. and one of the things we noticed whenever we started to do the research was the large numbers of guns that were disappearing from both our you see and u.d.r. armories and places like plan on u.d.r. various this is like the territorial army and it was our volunteer force in. the can are to name but a few. now we have a pictorial of just the devastating effect that one of these columns get out of this is 9 millimeter starting submachine gong stolen from b.s. on the 20th 24th the main 1971 and subsequently used to kill a lot of people and seriously injured numerous other people and the attacks were these are the people that i. was with the charge also shows is who was using these columns on here we can see that some of the people who were involved in these in these columns were also members of the r.t.c. on the u.d.r.

. and we also see as i say who all was killed on one of those people who was killed and one of the force that acts with us was used was with my own father who was killed and on the farms over a bridge. behind. we do not as a matter of homes as a matter of. looking for process that is the domain of the eye you see the r.u.c. the police was created in the early 1920 s. at the same time as the state of north there it was created and it reflected the contested nature of the state it was almost 93 percent drawn community and as a both part time element on a full time element there was a militarized force from the outset it was framed on the colonial model of british police and that's how the very fraught and fractious relationship with the. nationalist community. as

a nonviolent civil rights movement korean force in the late 1960 s. it was the reaction of the r.u.c. to the political and the attacks on the 1st civil rights marches by the police that actually energies the movement mobilized people to let the fuse for the conflict at the time. then in the 1960 s. and 1969 in particular we had a situation where there was coordinated loyalist attacks protectee on the catholic population of belfast tens of thousands forced to flee their homes the irish army set up refugee camps along the border which put up the refugees flee in the north a mob was striking about these attacks was that the r.u.c. the police actually took part in the attacks on the catholic community and belfast at the time. so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of whole streets in belfast at the time.

on the 5th of june 1906 the gang attacked a small rural pope called the rock bar near keady kind. of approaching the pope they shot a local man called mick mcgrath as he left the building. they then detonated a nail bomb which failed to explode. what was striking about this particular attack was that all those involved were members of the local police force the r.u.c. with some on duty as the attack took place. and summing up and sentencing these face officers the lord chief justice went so far as to claim and i quote that they were trying to rid the land of pestilence.

it was. a very important landmark for the campaign and 999 was the fact that we acquired. john who was a former sergeant and they are you see he had been convicted of the merger a man called william strathairn and he had served 7 years in prison and prepared enough outlining. it became available to us in the spring of $9099.00. for the 1st time really we realized that the job of monaghan bombings was linked to so many other attacks north of the border. to the miami show. and the cast of play in. the murder of john francis screen all of which took place

in the republic. in february. judge baron who was conducting the inquiries into the bombings mesh with john we are in paris. also mesh with john we are in paris at the same time it was a separate nation and i know. we arranged for the path to know concentric to mange with them at that time and. i think that the significance of the meeting with we are we were able to test his offer to be able to test the evidence so we put out there and put detailed questions to him we spent several days with them to put different parts of the jigsaw together. thanks to him and thanks to all the evidence it was because of the level of course he was central to the killing.

it was. a member of our special patrol group special patrol was a section of the or you see it there would have been. the antiterrorist squad the death but the riots of the store bones. we did not deal with all of them really police to teach us to distracted men. who liked the type of auction is so it would have attracted officers who would tended to be more militant than the ordinary policeman. who was approached by gary armstrong in it so they explained to me. we should take the war to the are your ear

instead of sitting back because i think a lot of people's belief. was being allowed to operate without much opposition much endurance they explained to me they had already started this by. gone bomb attack on the route bar outside. the os me the fog would be interested in joining what they were doing. i told them i would need to know more about it o.t.s. of course i would be interested but they did explain to me that the were quite a number of people involved. after without a meeting was arranged. material was there. in 6. to me it was only right he should tell me. a lot of

jobs had been gone up until that. such as the noun the bombings. really fees. cell phone breach. bar bombing and shooting. the point is should we actually be charging for education because this is when we charge for things it's because it's a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology took over education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engineers all saw does not happen without economists.

saying it of being a private benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill bias we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skill biases on the individuals and what we're turned it into is just now the trying institution of higher education become a form a version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional society. or . some of the or you see men we're names were involved over many years in a number of fatal bombings and shootings alongside paramilitaries in the australian tear force they include or you see man william of coffee a self-confessed killer. also are you see reserve constable lawrence mcclure police to be one of the gangs most. experienced bomb makers who was convicted of causing

an explosion and possession of firearms at the rock bar for which however the only received a suspended sentence are you see constable ian mitchell was also convicted of causing him explosion of the rock bar and possession of firearms but similarly only received a suspended sentence gary armstrong who were also names escaped any conviction in the rock bar attack a lower the historical enquiries team a police unit set up to investigate historical murders says he was clearly a principal fandor in later book penned by armstrong after his release from prison he clearly details his role in the rock bar attack in a chapter called on fulfilled potential. between the middle of night in 72 when the gang really started its work until the end of 975 that's less than 3 years

the gang had killed 89 people. in one month alone in april 9075 the 1st person they killed was dorothy trainer a protestant woman walking home with a catholic husband through portadown. within 3 days they'd killed martin mcveigh who was murdered as he cycled home from work in the same town portadown a couple of weeks later they blew up a little cottage that was being renovated killing 2 brothers and a sister and the sister's unborn baby girl. and by the end of the month they'd also killed a man called owen boyle who had been sitting at his kitchen table looking at photographs of his newborn baby girl so there in just one month in one small geographical area you had 4 separate attacks in which 7 people were killed in these attacks were remorseless and they ratcheted up the pressure until the end. 975 when

a completely new development took place. as with previous attacks the modus operandi of the gang was to strike 3 targets almost simultaneously. in a white cross country the revie family sat down to watch a popular t.v. show when gunmen entered the family home 24 year old john martin was hit as he sat in his chair while 22 year old brian was shot in the back trying to escape into a nearby bedroom. anthony the youngest brother dived underneath the bed for cover before the gunmen sprayed the bed with bullets. a little while later on i heard them all night through the front door and get me into the car on the bay now fairly bad i had him on the bad and i was surprised and brian who was in the bible as a 5 days post on us he was dead. hand them all up into the kits and then on john martin he was lyin in a pearl of blood on a field as paul's on it on

a knee it was all the dead. at around the same time gunmen burst into the home of the old guard family only 17 miles away and barely dog and country done. again the intention was to wipe out an entire family. as they rushed their way into the house they opened fire and barney wood who was hit a number of times his brother joe who attempted to charge the gunman was killed instantly. but i was shot 1st and many are. spun me around and sunday by the time i knew. a bar it was dad. because. he was in the ring at every were in. but i crawled out into the hallway. back to body was lay and there. was an intent to. course i was there for

a week. the doctor here marar not mourning it. has years should be real hey if things are banned according to logic if you shouldn't be here. because those are a ball of go one step for your. 4 noble perjury and the word they used. the word no they're both grossly. to stop what but a target 90 percent term. for a kidney with. as the smoke settled 3 members of the old guard family and 2 revie brothers lay dead 17 year old anthony revie died later in hospital. from the men's killings was swift brutal. the following evening a minibus of textile workers was stopped by members of the ira in king's mills not

far from the review home where the killings had taken place the night before. these pictures tell the story of the horror that followed. up to 20 gunman surrounded the minibus it's catholic driver taken to safety the bus it's on board moaned on most of us late. policemen who arrived shortly afterwards told of bodies piled on top of one another. the gore and the personal effects give a hint of a conic. when we met joan weir empower us one of the burning questions we had is why he and the others in the gang and not retaliated for the king's well massacre. as for was chilling he told us there was a plan and the plan was to attack a primary school to kill all the children in the school to kill the teachers we asked him why it didn't go ahead and he told us because the e.v.f. leadership in belfast believed that the plan came from army headquarters came from

military intelligence and a been planted in the milage intelligence wanted the whole situation to spiral out of control and this was too much for the e.v.f. and they refused to go ahead even for them it was a step too far. the plot. that was decided on. was to shoot top were a school. in police. just on the outskirts of leaks. so we say sure don't screw during show the procedure the screw children teachers yes. yes. do you really are into. 'd yes i do indeed yes i do indeed. move.

if that hides hop and. i think there is neatly d'art. there would have been a shocking retaliation. from the republican side. retaliation from the republican side. it would have eventually. in a fairly short time i should say they told us quite the contrary into. trouble. civil war situation i think the contrie was almost already in a civil war situation but if that happened. even the moderates. on both sides were going to have to take sides and the was going to be. there and

then there was going to be a serious serious civil war. we had a meeting with the chief constable the most senior police officer and the p s i accompanied by an assistant chief constable at their headquarters and we asked them . what they intended to but the fact that a former police sergeant william mcarthur out of that it publicly that he was also part of the plan to kill 30 children out of school and their teachers. there was a pause they looked at each other and they told us that nothing happened on the was no intention of doing anything. he wasn't to be arrested. to be reinvestigated nothing would happen. and i think at that moment after we left. we talked about it and we realized that where else in europe would a former police officer plan to kill a large number of children and a school former employer would say that he had no plans to reinterview him as

a result. of dunning street in london the british prime minister harold wilson was faced with what he called himself an apocalyptic crisis. the narrative was spinning out of control and civil war could not be ruled out. amongst the options he considered were our dried withdraw and self-governing if the people of the north were on governable he could not cover them. in an atmosphere of near panic wilson called a council of war and his official country to treat checkers. in the peaceful buckinghamshire countryside. also present was the secretary of state for defense. and the secretary of state for northern ireland greece on the security side was headed by so david house the general officer commanding northern aren't. well wilson attempted to control the worsening situation the hawks within british military intelligence

hoped for a different outcome. where all out war could be waged on the ira. in the meantime begin a gang were slaughtering anyone but republican targets. so we asked ourselves why why these people and we drew up 2 lists one was of people who were unlucky enough to be caught up in indiscriminate car bombs and the other this was a people who were targeted or watched chased hunted at their work or at their home and we discovered to our surprise that every single one of those bar one. self starters people were making something of their lives they were ordinary people and then we asked ourselves why why these people. and the ferry we came to was that frank kitson in his classic manual of counterinsurgency operations roads that if you can't catch the fish either by rod net then poison the water

or not there really is that these ordinary people were targeted to persuade other ordinary people to repudiate the irate to withdraw support from the ira course didn't work had the opposite effect violence begets violence if people can't trust the law they would take the law into their own hands it was completely counterproductive as well as illegal and immoral i think the stage we've reached as a longer stand. the legal cooperation. cooperation between. members of the security forces glorious paramilitary groups sometimes as happened on of a jewel level and sometimes as happened on a more structural level in the 1980 s. and ninety's. there was no actual crime of collusion in this jurisdiction but clearly it with all of the number of criminal acts by police officers and or

soldiers and has been a phenomenon throughout the troubles and we find collusion in many countries we find governments using sudo guying says he is deniable 3rd forces in order to carry a kind or insurgency but not tonight able way. i think the rule of loyalist paramilitaries here was very summer they did what the security forces felt that they couldn't do because and theory they were by and by the rule of law and so they could use deniable 3rd forces to do it for them. and haven't they haven't even played a systematic know how that is not for. them but. actually manually. and as you

know. in a way of all of them ok if. not minimized let it go with a battle they have laid for us they have a good watch that. even . if they're not i'm not a. what the how do we. not go jane need the whole. lot out of here all.

no dollar for it do to keep oil company stupid number 2 the pretty one when you have no kids of you to complete the moment to moment don't come to. see you know all the good that you don't know what's in the vault to singapore the only surprise of. all since it was in the heart of the conflict are young. people similar. at odds with us and i don't want to put you on that he wasn't that there's not enough to find out to find his or. something to motivate to you all to see perceive your son some of it's a good. job to go to show some. locals to the world put him in a business school these are little years of school with the most from. the

move to. the point you pull from the school this approach will mean august. but it. greek police clash with migrants at the border with turkey after anger and gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the e.u. in an apparent bid to pressure nato into supporting its offensive in syria's. also on the weekly it's been a long week for july. and his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete during the hearings assad was kept in a glass cage and denying the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person.