law international criminal court we're looking at law established law international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it i've been ill and how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even al qaida around and so i think nation states are not especially powerful nation states are never held to these types of things because they up there the pillars of the international system i guess that's what people think they're just simply too powerful the prosecute but if you do want to institute an international legal system and you want to have the inter

not only international law but international custom of any you would define it as aggression on if you had been an impartial look at it almost any person or any country other than the united states of course and britain and britain and britain. right right and britain is well as well right and britain was all the way our are. you know lackey if you will in the whole mass and so i think he and i'm sure you could probably implicate blair for some of the help with the cia secret prisons and that sort of thing although it's not been established but i mean the british the brits were really close to the u.s. on policy on torture and that sort of thing as well i think. in iraq and elsewhere so i think that it should be explored stephen jump in go ahead. it's important to note that in both cases of blair and george w. bush they've they've in a sense been ostracized by the public i mean george w. bush couldn't even show up at the last republican convention he's so tarnished by what he did in his term in office particularly in iraq blair has been rejected by his own party it's not as if these pe

stories of 15 people who were interned or impacted by the internment. and the exhibition highlights the individual stories of each of the japanese americans who came into the classroom, as well as the rich student responses to these stories. the project really gave the students space to make very meaningful connections between the historical event of the japanese internment and contemporary and historical instances of social injustice in america today. but we're here today to meet phillip and chloe, so i want to introduce you to them. phillip also was one of the gracious japanese americans who came into the classroom and told his story. phillip congatonda went to law school and graduated hastings law school but never actually practiced law. he became the first chronicler of the japanese american experience and is credited with broadening the japanese -- broadening the definition of theater by bringing jap needs american stories to stages all across the country. he has collaborated with the most diverse american theater venues, from large mainstream hous

international airport in the very heart of moscow. foreign ministers of the g eight countries have condemned north korea's threats of nuclear ambitions the country is preparing to mark the birthday of its founder kim il sung next week with a flamboyant show of military strength the neighboring south says the communist state already has five medium range missiles on its coast that could fire off at any moment the water coming from pyongyang over the past months prompted seoul and the u.s. to put their forces on increased military alert now with japan deploy missile interceptors around its capital tokyo it's believed north korea is preparing to test launch several mid range ballistic missiles capable of hitting the south but also american bases on the island of guam in the west pacific now while many analysts have played down the threat posed by a new missile test united nations as well that any slight misstep on the peninsula could escalate into all out confrontation north korea expert dogs out of iran saw from the russian academy of s

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international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle syria and those red ends with allegations damascus has used some kind of chemical weapons in this ongoing civil war there is a growing possibility the u.s. nato and the gulf countries may up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes to pass what are the possible outcomes and are any of them better than the status quo. to cross-talk syria i'm joined by my guests in washington mark jacobson he's a senior transatlantic fellow at the german marshall fund states and we also have john glaser he is an editor at antiwar dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it ok jon i'd like to start with you you wrote in your blog why obama's chemical weapons redline in syria is bogus explain yourself. well the first thing is that he shifted his red line before used to be that if assad moved around chemical weapons that would b

international and world in the very heart of moscow. welcome back to cross talk are all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing syria. ok mark just before the break you want to jump in there please do i would disagree with john in terms of the u.s. not caring in terms of humanitarian intervention i think there's a long record of humanitarian intervention by the united states in fact the u.s. often receives a great deal of criticism for that but more to the point if we are looking at what could be done in syria i would also look to bosnia and kosovo as examples of not only what the united states can do but more importantly what the broader euro atlantic community can do after almost fifteen years we're seeing great moves towards a settlement for the kosovo situation and announcement last week by lady ashton about serbia kosovo agreement we've seen bosnia and its neighbors go from a state of war to where the nation has been able to rebuild and the people have been able to move on so there are some examples there

the music about international and world in the very heart of moscow. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered. the nonproliferation treaty stands as one of the most important international agreements ever signed the un says the treaty is under threat from such countries as around a member of the n.p.t. is the treaty fairly applied to some countries get a free pass well others are punished even though they are in complete compliance. across not the nonproliferation treaty i'm joined by my guess mohammed marandi interim he's a professor at the university of tehran in washington we have charles blair he is the senior fellow on state and non-state threats at the federation of american scientists and also in washington we cross to thomas moore he's a senior fellow and deputy director at the center for strategic and international studies right gentlemen cross-talk rules and i mean you can jump in anytime you want to run first we heard this week a man thomas countryman assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation says ir

that excludes internal candidates. i have been very clear from the beginning of this process, that i don't want this process to be simply about finding the best qualified outside candidate. i want to find the best qualified candidate period. but your statement doesn't really include or allow for internal candidates so i do take issue with that because i don't think that's necessarily where i want to go. i think if the best candidate is an outside candidate, then that's the person we hire. but i hope that is not the approach you are take. >> the approach is an inclusive approach and will include internal candidates as well. >> that's not what you said. you said the ideal candidates is someone who is doing this well somewhere else. they could be doing something well here. >> that's true and i apologize for that. >> thank you. >> i will pull that back and because i want it to be known that it's not just a cursory. it's not just cursory that we are considering in looking at internal candidates. they are as viable. >> absol

international in the very heart of moscow. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle syria and those red lines with allegations damascus has used some kind of chemical weapons in this ongoing civil war there is a growing possibility the u.s. nato and the gulf countries may up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes to pass what are the possible outcomes and are any of them better than the status quo. to cross-talk syria i'm joined by my guests in washington mark jacobson he's a senior transatlantic fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states and we also have john glaser he is an editor at antiwar dot com or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it ok jon i'd like to start with you you wrote in your blog why obama's chemical weapons redline in syria is bogus explain yourself. well the first thing is that he shifted his red line before used to be that if assad moved around chemical weapons that

the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. ok. thanks for staying with us you're watching our team north korea is preparing to mark the birthday of its fonda came ill sing next week with a fanboy a show of its military strength the neighbor insults says the reclusive communist state already has five medium range missiles. it's east coast that it could fly off at any moment the war talk coming from pyongyang over the pos month has prompted a soul and the u.s. put their forces on increased military alert japan a deploy missile interceptors around its capital tokyo it's believed north korea is preparing a test launch several mid range ballistic missiles capable of hitting not only the south but also american bases on the island of guam in the west pacific while many analysts have played down the threat of posed by a new missile test a united nation has warned that any slide to misstep on the peninsula could escalate into all out confrontation north korea expert alexandra vote on software from the russian academy of sciences a things

about international and in the very heart of moscow. thank you for staying with us you're watching our t.v. they do mara mental damage from a mess of oil spill in and canceled tom is becoming clear on of cleanup efforts of the continuum the residential area was swamped with thousands of barrels of crude when a pipeline burst last friday dozens of homes had to be evacuated and more details now from granite she sure can. exxon mobil is naturally trying to downplay environmental concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas but the company says it has already collected more than twelve thousand barrels of oil mixed with water from the affected area not clear how much of it was water the twenty three homes were evacuated there as they're still cleaning up the pipeline that was carrying canadian heavy crude to the south of the u.s. this is the country's gulf coast with fineries this latest spill response from critics of the proposed keystone x.l. my money he's done x.l. pipeline wo

international news analysis and reports of this as a party. eurozone finance ministers have approved a ten billion euro bailout for cyprus but ruled out raising the figure the mood has been grim at the meeting in dublin as it emerged that the island nation needs around six billion euros more than originally thought to avoid bankruptcy the cypriot government will now have to raise the extra funds without external help and after the recent raid on bank deposits are there now deep concerns over the president that's been set as our teachers are silly reports. it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year reserved nation on the brink of bankruptcy banks were closed cash rationed and capital controls put in place cyprus of those heavy losses which could rise to up to sixty percent on wealthier depositors in order to clinch a ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f. bailout last month it had however initially planned to would reduce a levy on deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros supposedly protected by state guarantees before backtracking in th

international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello again qatar is boosting its financial presence abroad amassing billions of dollars in foreign assets and its economic expansion is not limited to arab countries either with cash from flowing to europe and the u.s. as well now well carter says diversifying its economy is the main reason for foreign investments there's a growing feeling that politics is playing a major role in the strategy bell trues been looking at where qatar's money is going. as egypt's president mohamed morsi is struggling to mend the egyptian economy it's on i can't tell one of the richest countries in the world has said that it will buy three billion dollars worth of gyptian government bonds much needed help at a critical time egypt is also suffering from a natural gas shortage at the moment causing blackouts across the capital the qatari foreign minister said last week they would also consider becoming one of the major suppliers to egypt that sickly as they have the third largest natural gas present results

bodies who have reviewed the matter in fact as every international. a warrior of any credibility that has reviewed an independence that has reviewed the matter has seen there was a severe and serious violation of international law committed by the invasion of iraq on false pretenses and we hope that international law ventura lee will hold some of those people accountable as you may know some steps have been taken in that direction to try to prosecute some of those people but it is taking a long time because there are some great vested interests behind. the action that took place often we hear wasn't government very quick to call ahead to two full floor and regimes to be prosecuted for war crimes like the same be done in relations to the u.s. and its allies well you're absolutely right one of the things that i think is absolutely vital for us to reiterate and to ensure the integrity of the rule of law is that we punish the most powerful actors when they violate the law doesn't help if people are running around saying look we're the example to the world

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. he continues here an r.t.s. salafi cleric has issued a fatwa online allowing one is of jihad in syria to rape sunny women he specifically mentioned members of president bashar assad and the white sect as possible targets well for more on the situation that's top live now to dr beller he's a syrian academic in london a member of the syrian dawdled human rights groups say that syria's facing a rape crisis with forces on both sides accused of sexual assault just how bad is. indeed syria is facing a rape crisis only and not only a rape crisis but also child abuse crisis and targeting all sorts of civil life it is quite bad and it's been bad from the start but little attention has been paid from the start of the crisis in syria now and this is what we're hearing is. is a new islamist clerics in fact words that have been released legitimized rape and child abuse well john this is rescissions child abuse this is highly disturbing and clerics permission to issue such a fatwa we're not hearing much from the opposition ab

and a suspicious device has been found on international or on 48th avenue near international. international boulevard between 47thth and 50th is closed. police are staying back. it's unclear whether or not the bomb squad is on the way there or not. but we know that international boulevard is closed here in this area of oakland. good area to stay away from. and driving this morning out to some of the other commutes, we are off to a decent start. let's go to steve. >> thank you. >>> well, warmer forecast. today is that transition day, coolest day was thursday. you will notice it more on the weekend. high pressure building in is going to burn the fog off sooner. even though it's there. 50s, 60s and 70s. >> thank you very much. >>> when we come back, breaking news from oakland. we have been following it all morning. a suspicious device has shut down a busy street. new information into the news room. >>> and a deadly crash in the east bay city. what we have learned from the accident scene. we will be right back. >>> find out what police found and why they're staying away. >>> we ar

>> i'm an international lawyer and the concept of mutually-assured destruction doesn't play into internationalss it in the tallinn manual. [laughter] >> i am the policy guy. i can jump in and it gets to the question asked earlier about the two kids in their basement about to unleash a cyber-- cyber warren it's one of the smith makes that is persisted how easy it is to have a strategic affect in cyberspace. what what we have found this is just not true. the kids in their basement or in their garage and the locations differ, can certainly do things that can be scary and they can do some espionage things. they can get people riled up like the solar sunrise in 1988 but it's still true that having a real strategic affect is the purview of nations themselves. and it seems to be for a long time because cyberspace is easy to take a whole lot of stuff down. but you can't keep it down. like in estonia or south korea. fair backup and a couple of hours. and nonstate actors, the kids in the basement can can do a lot of that. they can take down a particular target for a long time. but they can't take a whol

international investors are coming back to the country. thanks i've stabilized quite a lot the only thing to add here is sure there is lots of information on this story in blogs and social networks but you won't find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under pressure. less total rest assured he's professor of political economy in california jackie returning to the situation in cyprus if we may for a moment there are fears that they'll be more raids on bank deposits to raise the money needed now to avoid bankruptcy also fears that it could be applied elsewhere and it's been tried in cyprus here. yes well you know as your report already indicated it's less than a month the cost of belhadj risen another six billion in cyprus and with the c.m. and the european saying they will not offer any more than their ten billion that means someone somewhere it's got to come from the other six billion additional us less than a month by the time the ten billion starts flowing in the loans from from europe will be late ma

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. from moscow this is r t with me will receive shea the united nations has adopted its first ever treaty designed to control the global trade of conventional weapons and the act was already dubbed historic although the document has no inforce what mechanism let's have a closer look and see what it's aimed at achieving here while at the treaty bans countries from exporting arms to embargoed states son prohibits the sale of weapons to those who could use them to carry out war crimes and acts of terrorism and the document also requires states to prevent conventional arms from from reaching that of the black market now the un chief said the document will become a powerful new tool to help prevent human rights abuses but some states point out that the deal is ambiguous and lacking clarity artie's guy nature can now report on what it means for the world's major arms exporters. the u.s. accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany friends china seven six f

international at the very heart of moscow. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the nonproliferation treaty stands as one of the most important international agreements are signed the un says the treaty is under threat from such countries as around a member of the n.p.t. is the treaty fairly applied to some countries get a free pass well others are punished even though they are in complete compliance. to cross out the nonproliferation treaty i'm joined by my guess what i meant marandi interim he's a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have charles blair he is the senior fellow on state and non-state threats at the federation of american scientists and also in washington we cross to thomas moore he's a senior fellow and deputy director at the center for strategic and international studies right gentlemen crosstalk rose and i mean you can jump in anytime you want to run first we heard this week a man thomas countryman assistant secretary for international security and non

currency of proper international currency that works globally you know alone blocks access from over sixty different countries so you know sites like wordpress which is a platform for people to blog about their free speech to say about the political situation in their company you know that a lot of people get shut off from that that's why they slightly except in big point recently the countries like. kenya or even iran or anybody now is able to participate that's what bitcoin is about freedom of financial speech wiki leaks they had a case where a year and a half ago the u.s. the part of justice shut down their payment options because these are master card and pay pal they love monopoly on the payment system so anybody so they control it and when they deny service to wiki leaks you know their only hope their only option was because and that was what saved them through that time is something a lot of science fiction for first time in in history you can buy encrypted file storage on the internet using virtual digital currency no one ever for those possible when we come back a war examin

international land in the very heart of moscow. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle targeting the so-called rogue states north korea and iran are very much in the spotlight are these countries really a threat to the international community we are told both north korea and iran are impossible to negotiate with both deemed to be irrational states they ask for comprehensive security guarantees but face the very real threat of utter annihilation. to cross up north korea iran and much more i'm joined by richard white's in washington he's a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute also in watched and we have zachary an assistant editor for the diplomat and in philadelphia we cross to dave lindorff he is an investigative reporter author of the book the case for impeachment and the founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening dot net all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want bu

--international victims help international donors help victims of the war-torn region. have you with us. our other top stories on al jazeera -- north korea crisis. the u.s. calls off a missile test to avoid antagonizing pyongyang. the u.s. secretary of state visits turkey for the third time in two weeks. passing the taste test. new regulations some are fighting hard to swallow. -- finding hard to swallow. and international donors conference is underway to help the troubled darfur region. the goal is to raise billions of dollars to rebuild the area. fighting broke out in march 2003 between the rebels and the government forces. since then, more than 200,000 people have been killed. 7.5population is about million. the united nations estimates about 2 million have been displaced because of continued fighting. that is almost 1/3 of the population. 1.4 million live in camps set up by international relief organizations. an estimated 200,000 refugees live in camps in chad. darfur.oks like the same soil and trees. nothis refugee, this is home. it never will be. is bitter. the mi

international media can write about. the israeli operations as long as they are know they know about it these really media on the other subjected to that censorship i have been trying to fight this censorship i sometimes say. are saying claiming that it's irrational it's not sensible. and it should be lifted we saw some of that recently with the whole episode of prison x where the israeli journalists were having to rely on foreign reporting to quote on what was happening inside here do you think that person eight. brought to the fore the shortcomings of the censorship laws in this country absolutely this is the example of prisoner x. the australian that committed suicide that was recruited by the mossad came to israel made aliya work for the mossad and eventually was arrested for betraying the country and while awaiting his trial he committed suicide this is a good case of how this censorship is working and how the censorship has failed they try they end the courts it's not only the censorship we have also a system of co