the regular army is dominated by west point. the west point is about -- it not only must officers of the regular army graduate was going, it's just a focal point of much of the army's professionalism. when they do, for example, review boards for type x, these cadets as guinea pigs and they'll be -- to go to west point and how to march around and use the library. west point has the most thorough library available so becomes a place for all the stuff is done. but we think of the big three, lee, grant, sherman, stonewall jackson. there are west pointers to know each other and have gone through that experience. >> host: when it comes to the civil war you fetch of us on the south and the north train in the same ways. what does that due to some of the conflicts? the most important thing that happened, the most important result is the worst are essentially clones of each other because their leadership models, experiences are similar. what happened is the armies are locked in an equilibrium of competence. since they're fighting near ima

it was liberated from assad's army more than three months ago. >> narrator: the army of the assad regime has been pushed back across the valley to the other side of the orontes river. ahmad's village is well within range of their artillery. shells and mortars are routinely fired into this village. >> (translated): god willing, bashar al-assad's army can't get in here. we run things here now. >> narrator: doctors and nurses are ordered to report immediately to the local hospital. ahmad is already there, using his phone to film casualties. >> (translated): i ran to the area to see who was injured, to see how i could help. these people's lives are over. this is what god had written for them. i just despaired, and thought it was time that arab countries felt our suffering. >> narrator: ahmad and the people of his village have witnessed these scenes many times, fearing they will be next. today, it's mohammed mattar who has lost members of his family. >> narrator: mohammed is surrounded by the bodies of three of his nephews. they were killed 20 minutes ago by a government shell. inside the hos

so that's the true army of good. >> yes. wait for the mic, please. >> is it my understanding that that a couple of years ago joseph kony had been cornered and was about to give himself up in return for amnesty? and the ugandan government was ready to offer him amnesty, but then the human rights people all made a big -- [inaudible] and said it couldn't be done? and so now he's been let free to go and create more havoc? so what's the solution to this? do you free him and let the suffering people feel better, or do you send him to the criminal court and then he's going to create more havoc? >> the answer i'm supposed to give to that question is he should be captured and sent to the icc to stand trial, but i'm a south carolinian, so i would prefer that he be killed. [laughter] the question of -- and i'm not kidding. >> no, no, but i think she's also raising a an interesting question about the role of the human rights movement in this as well. >> right. >> and there was a very big debate in uganda, northern uganda in particular a

>> guest: the old army is used by historians referring to the regular army. there's a joke the old army is before everywhere. my book starts with a professionalization right after the war of 1812 and. it's about how the process occurs in the old army and how that plays out in the civil war. >> host: give us a snapshot of what the old army prior to the 1812 was late. >> host: before the war of 1812 and this is trying unhistorical literature by historians such as william skelton. we call it a nonprofessional. its officer corps is mostly obtaining positions through political influence as a part of the american political history system is a consequence they are not professionals who went three body of education that were promoted by some system of merit. they don't perform very well. washington d.c. is the dearly attempts to invade canada don't go very well. it's my impression that canadian look at a great victory of american theaters. so after the war of 1812, you have a business that turns out to be a versus not a select and prepare officers to be in the army t

the because it's also going on so we see of war on two layers you see the war against the army the armyis everywhere the armies trying to protect the civilian courts i witnessed this with my own eyes when i was in damascus that the army try to secure the area and we have rather the forces who try to rule. it don't fight to try to push the ball into those civilian areas to make the army moving in so let me ask you this is the also right i'm running out of time but i just want to briefly ask you this that the brother comes amid u.n. efforts to get the international inspectors into the country to investigate reports of mccoll weapon attacks do you see any connection yet. i don't know really if there is really a strong connection to this but what we can say is that there have been chemical attacks in the past and the evidence is telling that those attacks where done by the rebel forces not by the syrian army because the state of the syrian army must be crazy to use chemical weapons in this in the conflict in that in its own country and it's in the interest of the rebels to use these chemica

the state department says kony's army has abducted more than 25,000.e boys into killers, the girls into a harem of sex slaves and wives. this video of kony addressing his followers is one of the few times he's been filmed. he's from a religious family in northern uganda, an altar boy who became a witch doctor. when he started out, he wanted his lord's resistance army to establish a government based on the ten commandments, but he's broken almost every one of them and his army is little more than a murderous cult. >> crytzer: some things you just can't turn your... a blind eye to, and i believe this is one case of that. >> logan: the u.s. turned a blind eye to joseph kony for more than 20 years. >> c: i n't account for why we did or why we didn't come. what i can tell you is, we are here now. >> ( singing ) >> logan: colonel crytzer and his men are the bridge between four african armies who are working to find kony and his fighters. these soldiers are from the central african republic where many people believe kony might be hiding. the americans train t

pretty much all kind of tactics any army in the world is using this is will the army see this in with the rabble them in their tactics very very much one interesting thing that i remember. is that the rebels i mean they're carrying weapons when we see them when they're posing for the cameras but they don't care in the weapons with them all the time and once the army comes to the area to liberate the syria from the rabble they just throw the our friends because they have storage of weapons everywhere. we talk about main cities of syria like damascus the homes of their poor and in many places throughout syria so they don't have to carry weapons and once the the army comes they throw the weapons and the crittenden being civilians they just leave the area safely and the moment the government forces clear out they put their weapons back our that's too late very very hard to tell you know who is on the opposition who all the rebel fighters are but you know the blame game has been going on since day one maria i understand in the near future you're going to be heading back to that same part o

breaking now, a shooting at an army post has the entire place locked down. breaking news coverage just ahead. also, another disaster for the carnival cruise ship triumph. the same ship that was stranded in the gulf with no working toilet has now broken loose from its boring. men overboard and a worker is missing. plus, is somebody marking prosecutors for murder? we have seen two killed so far. a violent white supremacist gang suspected in the murders. now, another prosecutor abandoning a case against the aryan brotherhood. >> i understand why someone would want to step back. >> tonight, threats, fallout and a hunt for the gunman. it was an unbelievable injury. a basketball player breaking his leg during a game. >> i saw my leg. it was kind of like this can't be real. >> shepard: kevin ware down on the sidelines in agony while his teammates crouched in horror. now, for the first time, we are hearing fromware himself. >> how are you feeling, kevin? >> good. thank you. >> shepard: about the moment it happened. >> honestly, i felt no pain. >> and his plan to tra

american soldiers who witnessed the massacre and we spoke to a former army veteran who shared his memories of a day he would rather forget. for by the way it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army veteran ethan mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume his guys. and from looking at it now you can't see anything when i'm in that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has an a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven the two hundred sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this was a battalion wide mission and then the situation turned deadly. we heard the apache was firing. ethan and his infantry squad began running toward the scene to provide support again the apache helicopter opened fire. when he arrived on the sc

that's the true army of god. >> yes? -- and was a about to -- [inaudible] in return for amnesty and the government was ready to and couldn't be done. now it's greating more havoc. what is the solution to this -- [inaudible] to you free him and -- [inaudible] the answer is captured and sent to the icc to stand trial. i'm a south carolinan. i prefer he be killed. [laughter] the question -- i'm not kidding. the question of -- no. i think she's raising an interesting question about the role of the human rights movement in this as well. there was a big debate in in particular what to do with him and offer him. and there was even a sort of difference of opinion between local on the ground who say they wanted to give him forgiveness and human rights group said you're creating a recipe for more violence. if you don't stop the violence and harm end people and send them toy account for the crimes. you'll see more people commit crimes. it should serve as an example what happened when you are a mass murder. it's a wrenching decision

general, walk us through the force of this army. >> this is an army that has over about 1 million folksnder arms, very large reserve component. mandatory service, from a couple of years up to ten years. >> a large force, particularly large if we think about the size of the area involved. look at this map of the united states. that's where north korea would fit, roughly in the same space as mississippi. so, as militaries go, this is a very massive force for a small country. >> but a very paranoid leadership. >> let's talk about the breakdown of that. the if you talk about the leadership, what is the number one quality required of the top officers in this military? >> loyalty to the communist party and the leader right here, kim jong-un. >> the number one quality. what about the special forces? >> very large special forces, very well trained. the best of their military, over 100,000. they can insert by air or by sea. and we estimate that there are stay-behind forces, sleeper agents already located in south korea. >> there's everybody else, this is a massive number of people, are they gene

painful scars of war halt has caught up with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to an a taurus u.s. led massacre in iraq he says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. when diplomats say they're happy with iran's attitude of the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough iran's chief negotiator has exclusively spoken to r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate. crowds of egyptians uniting karo joining the day of rage against the islamist rulers point suggest tear gas being used to disperse the protesters sparking fears of follow up clashes. taking advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu kills six to. investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading panic the top stories this hour. from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day it's been exactly three years since we can do graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had a dollar i

painful scars of war caught up with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to the u.s. led massacre in iraq he says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. career with foreign embassies in pyongyang to clear out uncontrollable risks that says u.s. and south korean war ships drop anchor at the maritime borders. with asia at its heart and the world at its fingertips the economic form kicks off today china top politicians business leaders and nobel prize winners. business in emerging markets . taking advantage of his new a strain of bird flu kills six prompting a mass poultry we investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading. stories. from our new center here in moscow this is our to you with the twenty four hours a day. it's been exactly three years since we could a graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had an impact on american soldiers who witnessed the massacre we spoke to an army veteran who shared his memo

a lot of people in the army didn't really like the trees. and elect officers who are too bookish or who stood up too much, at the trace was very much guilty on both accounts. so he comes to fort leavenworth and a lot of people are thinking that's great. we are sending him out to past year, literally. but he gets to fort leavenworth and he realizes something. he realizes that this is actually the intellectual center of the army. they write documents. they form the curriculum of the command and general staff college. they organize a national training center. and the loop all these together. and he says to himself as learning all this, what kind of power see potentially has and says, holy cow, and he talks like that, he says things like holy cow and jeepers, super. he says, holy cow, they have put an insurgent in charge of the engine of change. he views himself as an insurgent. now, imo, meanwhile, has allowed me miles in this book, meanwhile, there's a professor at the school of advanced international studies in washington, d.c., eliot cohen.

al-qaeda the army the militia everyone was fighting. a band and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me. living in baghdad ming surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. love and yes quite simply hell here sheer hell. thousand of it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say to the good of. i know for sure god is good and. evil. but i'm. a schoolteacher she's invited us to. come. out of twenty years of. how you got through it as a woman. i grew up in email on your head. first the war with iran then the embargo and the two american interventio

a rocky army was hunger thirst and fatigue. a member of your family was taken hostage or she deserves it. you horrible in the days when they called people who ran away they were simply hanging. i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. insanities days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah emotional. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shale b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it. at last we reach bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travel is once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work i

in 2002 afghanistan had no army ask and no police force. today it has an army of 350,000 men and has a police force of about 250,000 men. and by regional standards, they're not, tear not bad -- they're not bad. it's a question whether they can, whether a minimal american commitment of training and financial support continue to resist the taliban. but unlike vietnam, pakistan's not going to invade afghanistan. um, in vietnam the u.s. left, the south vietnamese government didn't fall. then we cut off all financial and military assistance, and it fell. but it fell largely because north vietnam invaded, not because an ending juice insur seveny overthrew them. and that's not going to happen in afghanistan. >> we could all agree that it's a very high likelihood that we're not leaving afghanistan. pardon some afghans, though, for being a little confused on this when, you know, white house officials raised the possibility publicly of a zero troop option and, you know, options are put forth of, you know, maybe just a few hundred troops post-2014. th

>>host: to write about the salvation army what did they do? what is their role changing religious laws in america? >>guest: the salvation army which many people don't realize is an evangelical religious group it doesn't just ring the bell during the christmas season. the salvation army believed in the cathedral of the open air and would go into areas especially impoverished to make lots of noise with a brass band and symbols and have parades' with loud preaching to attract the herb been for back into religious life. this came up against the requirements of many cities any parade has a permit and the salvation army made it a practice not to apply for permits and to be arrested playing their instruments on their way into the of saul and challenging these and they won a lot and they lost a lot and destabilize the law of the state by challenging these restrictions. but they never made it to the supreme court of the united states because the states were still in power. >>host: when did the first major religious case come before the supreme court? >

may his legacy nurture our nation and army. note to the asian can wear out. with upright heart which no one would the purpose. >> good afternoon, everybody. please have a seat. on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. thank you, chaplain. this year, we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the korean war. a time when thousands of our prisoners of war finally came home after years of starvation and hardship and in some cases torture. among the home cummings, one stood out. a -- homecomings one stood out. a group was carrying a large crucifix nearly 4 feet all the. they spent months on it. using radio wire for a crown of thorns. it was a tribute to their friend, their chaplain, their fellow prisoner, who had touched their souls and saved their lives. ather emil kapaun. this is an amazing story. ather kapaun has been called a shepherd in combat boots. his fellow soldiers called him a saint, a blessing from god. today we bestow another title on him resip yent of our nation's highest military decoration, the medal of honorer. after more than

with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to. take his own life. foreign embassies in pyongyang to clear out. risks that says u.s. and south korean war ships draw. western diplomats say they're happy with. the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough chief negotiator exclusively. with asia. fingertips the economic forum kicks off today in china the top politicians business leaders and nobel prize winners of business in emerging markets. are reporting that taking advantage of a strain of bird flu kills. investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading stories. live from new center here in moscow this is a twenty four hours a day it's been exactly three years since we could expose the graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had adar impact on american soldiers who witnessed the massacre we spoke to an army veteran who shared his memories of a day he'd rather

to afghan army is not going run away in 2014.e afghan government could begin to disintegrate if the elections go badly. if they are indecisive, if they are divisive rather than bringing the country together. assuming those go reasonably well, i believe the kind of progress that we have seen and i have suggested from the statistics can be sustained. [applause] >> thanks to the cato institute for putting the panel together. i have to start off with a disclaimer that says the views that i am about to present to you are mine and not necessarily those of the u.s. government or the department of defense. having said that, i am serving army colonel and i teach history at west point. i consider myself to be a student of history. i would like to start off with some history. to talk about the american war in vietnam and pose this question of what went wrong in afghanistan, to the question that people were asking, shortly after the united states lost its first four to vietnam. -- war in vietnam as to what went wrong with the war in vietnam,

general, walk us through the force of this army. >> this is an army that has over about 1 million folkss, very large reserve component. mandatory service, from a couple of years up to ten years. >> a large force, particularly large if we think about the size of the area involved. look at this map of the united states. that's where north korea would fit, roughly in the same space as mississippi. so as militaries go, this is a very massive force for a small country. >> but a very paranoid leadership. >> let's talk about the breakdown of that. the if you talk about the leadership, what is the number one quality required of the top officers in this military? >> loyalty to the communist party and the leader right here, kim jong-un. >> the number one quality. what about the special forces? >> very large special forces, very well trained. the best of their military, over 100,000. they can insert by air or by sea. and we estimate that there are stay-behind forces, sleeper agents already located in south korea. >> there's everybody else, this is a massive number of people, are they generally con

with out of the massive iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. every member of your family was taken hostage a few deserted. you horrible in the days when they called people who ran away they were simply hanging with them one on one of you and i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. in santa most days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah much known. more than half of the iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sand. shale b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it. at last we reached bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travel is once called the city of venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job. tha

time in his life in the army. think mcveigh was looking for some kind of family that would make him happy. >> there's a military background i come from. i want to be clear that the military didn't brainwash me into thinking this way. the truth is the military helped introduce me to the cruelty of the real world and the way things work. >> in nosh of 1999 in response to saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait, timothy mcveigh and his army were shipped out. >> the gulf war for tim was sort of the culmination of his young military career. the way that that mission was described to him, the mission of the u.s. was noble. >> during the gulf war, battles on the ground are rare, but for mcveigh and his platoon, one bloody encounter stands out from the rest. >> they looked into his path finder inside the turret of the bradley fighting vehicle and saw way out in the distance a group of iraqi soldiers. >> i put the cross hairs up there, pulled off my shot, and the next thing i saw was everything from above his shoulders disappe

people are furious on what they see as an attack by the iraqi army on the citizens. the iraqi government says that these were not mere protesters, they were militants. >> they have set up a commission to look into this incident. why have we not heard anything from the prime minister himself? 66 protesters dead. therobably because he and government feel they are in a fight for survival. part of that fight for survival is against al qaeda, against aptist loyalists -- baathis loyalists to sadaam hussein. they believe this protest was turned deadly -- was actually infiltrated. the government is on increasingly shaky ground. suni andnt between shia asked and between kurds and arabs is threatening to tear the country apart. this government is in the middle of this and is struggling with a lot of things. the prime minister has not been one prone to make conciliatory statements. >> that was our correspondent and joining us from kirkuk. stay with us. coming up, a tweet that sent wall street into a panic. a report on how syrian activists packed into the ap it -- hacked the ap.

army.s wonderful to have you on the program. >> thanks, maria. >> i don't have to say enough times, but i will once again, every time i see you, your service to this country has been unbelievable and thank you very much, general. i know our audience joins me in welcoming you here. tell us the impact that you're seeing already, as a result of the military spending cuts. >> well, the problem we have is with sequestration, it's not only the amount, it's the steepness of it. it's so sudden, it's very difficult to do balanced cuts that make sense. so what's occurring this year is, since we can't cut people, because you just can't get rid of them fast enough, and it would cost us more because of the incentives we'd have to pay to reduce a significant amount of military people, we have to take it out of readiness. so what's happening is, we've had to cancel all our training that does not have to do with units going toç ask. so about 80% of the army now, we've had to cancel training events for the

>> the death rate in the confederate army is a lot lower than the death rate in union army. they were not using sterilization in the union army at that time. the other thing i mentioned, i would like to mention is, in a lot of thing she mentioned here at the time of the war, winston churchill was also a zionist, and he did a lot for israel. in fact, he went to a couple of countries and said this will be israel. and some of those are raping teens said they want to speak to him the next day, and this will be palestine. and he said, the next day the three kings of the arabians came to instead they refused to recognize the state of israel and they wanted to attack immediately, and that was after the first world war. and he couldn't believe what he was hearing because they did not say that whenever giving him land. and part of jordan today was the part that was supposed to have gone to palestine and was never given to palestine, and the part of israel is the part the church wanted to give to israel. >> everything you say is absolutely correct. the very interesting thing about win

thenew constitution gives army sole authority to investigate itself. hasu.s. secretary of state met chinese leaders in beijing as part of an effort to calm tensions on the korean peninsula. john kerry held talks with the chinese president on saturday. a day earlier, he met south korean officials to discuss north korea's military threats. p'yongyang says it is going forward with its military work. decided they has following for the purpose of furthering the nation's nuclear energy industry and putting it on a solid foundation -- the cabinet and related institutes will set up plans to implement the decision. >> this comes amid concerns that north korea will soon test a medium-range missiles, something the u.s. secretary of state would be -- the u.s. secretary of state says would be a provocative act. p'yongyang is blocking access to an industrial park it runs jointly with south korea. a professor of political science at the city university of hong kong says china and the u.s. have a shared interest in bringing north korea back to the negotiating table. >> china

army chaplain, he ended up in the front lines of the korean war. in the winter of 1950, his unit was surrounded by korean and chinese troops. today, president obama described his heroic actions. >> in the chaos, dodging bullets and explosions, he raced between foxholes, out past the front lines, and into no-man's land, dragging the wounded to safety. when his commanders ordered an evacuation, he chose to stay, gathering the injured, attending to their wounds. >> having negotiated the sale surrender of the albert wounded troops, he stepped in to save the life of an injured, head. >> see much of it and pushed the enemy soldier beside. -- he marched in and pushed the enemy soldier aside. then, he carried that would american away. >> they were marched to a prisoner of war camp where they endured the conditions and torture. survivors said that the chaplin did more than anyone to keep them going. he saved my life, a fellow prisoner wrote. it was easier to die than to live. >> they start on tiny rations. he somehow set up past the guards and forged at the

as the commander of the army national guard you would think i know what forces are available in the army reserve in california. but i don't. i don't even know who their general officers are. i have no visibility on what forces are available at camp pendleton depending on your deployment cycle what fleet week can bring to bear. and we need to find a way, perhaps dcl, north palm being the broker of that, to maintain a better capabilities database so we know what is immediately available because under our old constructs, if we needed additional help in the national guard in california, we would go to the national guard from other states and that may be 1500 miles away. and that capability could be right down the road or down in san diego in one of the reserve components or in the active components of the marines or the navy and we need to sort through that so we can better respond. with that also will come changes that may need to be statutory changes so we can better accept the title 10 forces in particular the reserve forces. it is very frustrating during fire season when our black hawk h

the north korean army says a nuclear attack on b u r c is imminent and that they've officially been authorized to strike. the warning comes as the pentagon deploys defense systems in the asia pacific amid claims its military sponsored beyond young a retrograde disproportionate. fresh tensions between israel and palestine sparked by the death of a former high ranking palestinian security officer in israeli jail are stoked for further by the killing of a protester in the west vine. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with me thanks for joining us north korea's military says it's now officially also rise to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls all washington's aggression young ones an explosion is imminent and war could break out today or tomorrow south korean based journalist drawers of came has mourned the latest in a series of threats. we see that they use words like the attack has been clear the attack has been authorized as well as the beginning of the warning they say we formally inform washington so we see that this rhetoric has actually

the army the militia everyone was fighting. i banged and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me just a few apathetically. living in baghdad mean surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. love and yes quite simply hell here sheer hell. sadness it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say to the good of will know for sure god is good and. evil. the schoolteacher she's invited us to dinner. out of twenty years of. how you got through it as a woman. i grew up in email on your head. first the war with iran then the embargo and the two a

fact that civilians have been killed as well demonstrates just well the nature of the free syrian army that they're quite prepared to kill not only the syrian prime minister but also syrian civilians and this is something which is just completely ignored in the west and is no different so the terrorist bombings that occurred in london in july two thousand and five well let's just have a look at the this is the so-called free syrian army they've made it the various groups that make up the free syrian army have made it very clear that their ideology is islam islam they wish to replace the secular progressive states that is syria which should we look for and many of these groups are linked to al qaida for example the illness or fronts so the fact that western governments led by and principally by the united states has been has been send in the hundreds of millions of dollars so the so-called free syrian army really has sort of think about it yourself is the money going to end up in the hands of terrorists yes it is without any doubt whatsoever or western intentions in syria come up in tod

aircraft weapons this video on the screen for example purports to show members of the free syrian army manning a gun and deciding to target what they believe is a commercial airliner then they fire shots in the. correction play it's not known if the plane was actually hit in this case it's a it's a story we're closely following tonight. when damascus itself syria's prime minister has survived a bomb blast targeting his convoy it's thought ten people died in thirteen others were wounded in the explosion it happened in a busy district is local correspondent. with the latest from the capital the blast took place today in nine o'clock targeted the prime minister convoy in. western n.c. it was a bomb that was attached to your black that was parked two days ago in that way where the convoy usually goes from his house to his office usually the convoy goes from different roads every day but this time he. has this way and intentionally. lead to death killing off. his butt because that place took place near can do garden and the school thanks god this happened when the children went inside so on

the north korean army says a nuclear attack on the us is imminent but they officially have been also rise to strike. north korea does not want to commit suicide however some say beyond young's a war mongering rhetoric is actually a desperate cry for negotiations i mean increased american interest in the region and. also fresh tensions between israel and palestine sponsored by the death of a former high ranking for the scene a security officer in an israeli jail are struggling by the caring or at least of at least to protest as in the west bank. a third man died from a deadly virus not as avian flu in china will look at the media frenzy accompanying the latest development that. and welcome to the twenty four hour news line from my name is you know. welcome to the program. north korea's military says it's now officially authorized to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls a washington's aggression so young ones an explosion is imminent and war could break out today or tomorrow and south korean based journalist jurors of came has more now on the latest in a seri

>> the death rate in the confederate army was a lot lower than the death rate in the union army. they were not using sterilization in the union army at that time. the other thing i'm would like to mention is and a lot of things you mentioned here at the time of the war, winston churchill was also a zionist and he did a lot for israel. in fact he went to a couple of countries and said this will be israel and some of those arabian kings said they wanted to speak to him the next day. he said the next day the arabians came to him and said he refused to recognize the state of israel. after the first world war, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. he did not say that when they were giving him land and part of jordan today was the part that was supposed to have gone to palestine and was never given to palestine. part of israel is the part that churchill wanted to give to israel. >> everything you say is absolutely correct. the adjusting thing about winston churchill was i was so young newspaper reporter in the beginning of world war ii and there was a lot f reporting about winston c

america's army is an amazingly heroic army. they have occupied valley forge , tokyo, berlin, danang and now it occupies bethesda, maryland, but we're working through that. how do we break those cultural barriers, how do we figure out supporting supporters, how do we do that before the next capacity goes on? so what have we done, what capabilities do we bring, where do we use them and how will they be playing a role here in the event of the most likely nightmare scenarios for this area? i grew up in the bay area, i have tremendous affection for it. i did train on the east coast but i grew up in santa clara and in napa, i used to come down and watch candlestick park, my dad would bring me down, i would watch the 49ers play and i have great pride in the amount of collaboration and cooperation you are showing to figure out what the next nightmare scenario might be and be ready for it. it's probably going to be either an earthquake, it may be a man-made catastrophe such as an heinous terrorist act that could range anywhere from a ma

army has a message for congress. thanks but no tanks.ublicans are pushing the army to take dozens of improved versions of the workhorse abrams tank. congress says it's good for biz and national security. the price over the past two years has been almost half billion dollars, but the army says we don't need anymore tanks. >>> "pain and gain" was number one at the box office. the action crime movie starring mark wahlberg and dwayne "the rock" johnson took in $20 million. "oblivion" came in second at $17 million, and "42" was in third place at more than $10 million, and "iron man 3" was a big draw at the box office over the weekend overseas. it brought more than $95 million in ticket sales. "iron man 3" debuts friday in the u.s. and a lot of people will be looking forward to that. >> co-starring the most beautiful woman in the world too. >> yeah, they've got that going. >> coming up in sports, the nba next big star lights it up in the playoffs. begins of back pain... twinge and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day re

an army chaplain on the front lines. kapaun, with no regard for his own safety often rode a bicycle into combat. that's him on the right carrying a wounded soldier from battle. army veteran bob wood says the father was fearless under fire. >> we both dove into that ditch alongside the trail. i looked back and they had shot the pipe out of his mouth. all he had was the stem of the pipe still clenched in his teeth. >> reporter: mike and father kapaun were eventually captured and thrown into a chinese prisoner of war camp where hundreds of americans died from the cold, starvation and worse. >> there were a lot of people who were tortured and killed as prisoners. >> reporter: kapaun remained defiant, often risking his own life to feed and care for his fellow prisoners. >> he was a great thief. he'd sneak off and steal food to feed the wounded with, and medicine. >> reporter: dow credits the father with saving hundreds of lives through his own self-sacrifice and undaunting spirit and faith. >> a good number of those that surv

don is a founder of trilogy films and director of gideon's army. it premiered in the 2010 sundance festival. she's an a -- she's on the 2012 hot shot directors emerging to watch, she's also graduated from georgetown university law center and practicing attorney and abc television networks before starting her television career and next is john. i met john about 10 years ago when he was starting off and had this crazy idea of operating a training center for public defenders and he did. he's no now the president and founder and one of the contributors to gideon's army, he's from john marshall law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was