that was daniel pipes president of the middle east forum. and now to the crisis in gaza israeli and palestinian delegations are in cairo for talks as a seventy two hour ceasefire in gaza appears to be holding for now a second day in a row u.s. and u.n. diplomats are also expected to join the discussions for the longer term truce which will deal with a number of underlying issues that led to the violence over the past month both sides are coming to the table with individual demands israel says it wants gaza to be demilitarized and of course hamas insists that israel and egypt and there are long standing blockades over the region many are asking given the lopsided casual as he rate if the israeli military has gone too far earlier today on r t paul herson spokesman for the israeli foreign ministry commented on that question take a look the israeli military has taken unprecedented steps more so than any other military in the world to try and limit and minimize civilian casualties the israeli military operates one hundred percent within the dicta

question is a ceasefire ever going to be possible in the region joining us to talk about this is daniel pipes the president of the mideast forum. so let's start with the latest ceasefire agreement that failed broadly speaking what do you think went wrong here but if the fundamental problem is that israel is interested in as few casualties and grows them as possible then the monster is interested in this movie parachute teams in gaza it's possible it's the reverse of the room we want to preserve your sort of the army or sort of well it is strange or it's the reverse because when there were cheers and tears when. it goes on it's news for the months . we'll talk about how it was at the table during these discussions of the humanitarian ceasefire is there any chair that should have been polled who do you feel is dragging their feet the most in these negotiations. well there are a lot of would be negotiators. named bigger shooters as you just mentioned before are certain states and kerry and the un certain each are going to move but others particularly in gypsy government and the governments a tri

now is daniel pipes president of the middle east forum. edward snowden is now a household name gaming notoriety as the person behind the largest intelligence leak in national security agency's history but now snowden is not alone u.s. intelligence officials have now confirmed that there is indeed another leaker believed to be on the inside this is all in reference to a new scathing article published on the intercept called brock obama's secret terrorist tracking system by the numbers the twelve page document released yesterday outlines who is on the government's terror watch list and how their information is being collected according to the author of the report jeremy scahill the pentagon actually tried to soften the blow of the article by trying to spoil the scoop by releasing the information directly to the associated press who then ran the story just after midnight on tuesday morning hours later scahill released a much more comprehensive and critical report detailing the watch list expansion. the largest known collection of stolen inter

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taken large parts of iraq including the country's largest dam president of the middle east forum daniel pipes explains why iraq's water supply is being targeted at. iraq you control who are you control the water and you can threaten to flog and even to destroy or lower your. stands is the worst constructed world. used to be used to be basically wrong. and if you were controls it does that mean it's there is to show your own kind of strong arms there are there of their own the. government forces and the kurdish forces are not able to stop the earth. a u.s. senate report into cia torture will be delayed after the senate intelligence committee chairman like use the agency and the white house of censoring the document dianne feinstein says the government's added so we're distorting key facts in the initial report she says it will not be published until she sets as wide a much anticipated report of more than six thousand pages is expected to expose the practice of torture in the bush era which is acknowledged by president obama last week tortured some folks. who did some things that were contrary

taken large parts of iraq and moving the country's largest damn president of the middle east forum daniel pipes explains why iraq's water supply is being targeted if you control the. roark you control the war you control the water and you could threaten to flog even to destroy or more you know there are very. strong. government forces in. the kurdish. north the storm the earth. was set on reporting to cia torture will be delayed after the senate intelligence committee chairman accuse the agency and the white house of censoring the document dianne feinstein says the government added so where distorting the facts in the initial report and she says it will not be published until she's satisfied now the much anticipated report of more than six thousand pages is expected to expose the practice of torture in the bush era which was like knowledge by president obama last week. we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. however president obama also defended the cia saying the agency was doing its job you know as journalists and historian douglas valentine told us the go

militants also claim to take control of the country's largest down president of the middle east forum daniel pipes explains why iraq's water supply is being targeted. if you control them in iraq you control wow you control the water and you can threaten to fly and even to destroy by law you know that they're on their own but it is striking to see the government forces of the turkish citizens are not able to stand there do. the russian i.t. company has discovered half a million phones across the globe are infected with malware which allows them to be controlled remotely and that means that everything from banking passwords to text messages could be stolen a representative from the firm that uncovered the security breach told us how hard it is to detect the militias program sickly get access to pretty much everything you have on your phone pro now or these criminals they use it to to mining via. is quite easy to imagine there in case they pry and some pin interest in content least they could potentially use it to do something more significant than just doing mining they try to mimic through. the nor

also claim to have taken toll of the country's largest down president of the middle east forum daniel pipes explains why iraq's water supply is being targeted. if you control them in iraq you control while you control the water and you can threaten to fly and. destroy floor you know that there are. really it is striking to see the government forces. on the kurdish forces on market will destroy the earth. the u.s. senate report into cia torture will be delayed after the senate intelligence committee chairman accused the agency and the white house of censoring the document dianne feinstein says that the government did this were distorting key facts in the initial report she says it will not be published until she is satisfied the much anticipated report of mom six thousand pages is expected to expose the practice of torture in the bush era which was acknowledged by president obama last week. we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. however also defended the cia saying that the agency was just doing its job us journalist and historian douglas valentine told

appears you know isis has taken over the model dam and we spoke yesterday with middle east expert daniel pipes about this with us now he says about the strategic importance of the dam awful italian. if you control the dams in iraq you control iraq the two rivers euphrates and the tigris are the lifeblood of iraq. the source of water of course and electricity. ok well very straightforward to the point do you agree with this assessment absolutely this is an issue we've been looking at as experts for over a month now and the administration there behind this direction seems to be completely out to lunch again this is not simply about a failed policy regarding us being there or not being in iraq this is about trying to preserve whatever's left for the people in iraq we've been trying to supposedly help if you allow this dam to fall there's two things could happen first off you lose power worst off they blow it up you could flood the entire area we're talking about baghdad being under water so either we are we're going to say we do what we say we want to do which is help the people of iraq are going

june so what could this looming water war mean for the future of iraq i was joined earlier by daniel pipes president of the mid east forum and i first asked him what the appeal is for these insurgents well in brief if you control the dams in iraq you control who are the true rivers euphrates and tigris are the lifeblood of iraq. there the source of water of course an electricity. there's no there's no wrong too. rivers and the biggest in iraq is on the tigris river so we're north of the country . if you control that you control the city the water and you can threaten to flood and even to destroy by blowing it up. so you mentioned flooding i want to take a look at some of the potential scenarios there has been talk of threats that they will flood cities or farms as surrounding the dams is that a real possibility and what exactly would that solve it's a very real possibility because they've really done with the smaller the saluja barrage in february they allowed a lot of water to go down and to flood so it's on their minds this is a much larger that they could conceivably do to i think the m

daniel liak has this report in northwest canada. >> reporter: from canada's land-locked oil sands to the mountainous western shore, the e mvr idge pipeis supposed to carry bitumen bound for asia. it got a green light from the federal government in june. but opposition is growing. protesters in the city, rural indigenous people, coastal communities of fishermen and tourist guides all object. >> we have a sustainable forest industry. we have a sustainable fishery. we have a blossoming tourism industry. and everything that northern gateway represents jeopardies all that we are talking about. we don't need to depend upon a product that will destroy the rest of the economy that we already have. >> that opinion resonates here in kitamat, the port at the end of the pipeline. residents have already voted to reject the project and town kill council followed suit. local business and unions whose members benefit from pipeline work still hold out hope. >> construction time will see many thousands of workers here but really what we are looking for is what's after the construction period. many jobs were lost. i think that if the three of these pro