military over the course of the last sixty years okinawa japan it's the largest of the okinawa and raju who islands which are cut off from japan's mainland during world war two while the u.s. was deliberating over whether to engage in a four ground assault on japan it invaded okinawa after the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in decimation of ninety percent of the tropical islands infrastructure the us use the island as a staging area soon after the us dropped two nuclear bombs on mainland japan and the war ended but sovereignty wasn't fully restored to that country until nine hundred seventy two but even after that the island of okinawa has been kept under what is essentially a u.s. military dictatorship until this very day the island was a perfect little ipad for america's next two wars in asia korea and vietnam and given the u.s. as recent asia pivot okinawa is still proving its usefulness according to author chalmers johnson in his book blowback okinawa is host to about thirty eight american bases which occupy twenty percent of its land twenty eight thousand u.s. troops liv

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more on the allegations of a chemical weapons in syria let's now talk to a defense consultant maureen raju mr roe thank you very much indeed for your time now and joining us here on r.c. and of course there's been a plenty of conflicting reports over the use of toxic arms in syria from both sides could this alleged revelation by the syrian army be a turning point now there was people turning point for a very long. you know we recall. iraq then we spotted it right which we've just been brought to the border area and it's not the pride of the. political point of the military that's been really very good. that they should not be. a little better than we know what we all rooted and we think not. all that but you know all the rugby you look at needs the crucial and i know the real issue. first it brutal. where these people were. this is when i'm bias or to the you are the amount of toxic substances discovered in the rubble story is enough to devastate the city if that's confirmed what kind of international reaction can we expect. i doubt there will be. a reaction because you know their lives ar

still putting off recovery till two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will survive for now i do see any movement before the german elections in a month from now and straight to iraq to open up the anti world update a massive bomb blast has happened inside a sunni mosque just north of baghdad twenty people killed it's the latest of a series of explosions targeting the same ethnically diverse region in recent weeks the level of violence across iraq has spiked in the past four months leaving more than two and a half thousand dead. and police have clashed with hundreds of environmental campaigners in china's southern gangs you province of all interrupted his officers moved in with rubber batons to disperse the rally against a government plan to build a trash incinerator the protesters fear the construction will worsen pollution in the area and lead to health problems. firefighters have been deployed to woodlands and northeast london that to bring to raging wildfires under control the blaze is being fed by a record heat wave that

still putting off recovery till two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will say bye for now i don't see any movement before the general election months from now. washington has plans ready for supporting syrian rebels with military force and the president is reportedly considering whether to use them but this was revealed by barack obama's top military adviser ask you spoke before the u.s. senate this is as the free syrian army has raised an alarm over al qaeda as alleged plans to create a terrorist state in the north of the country extremists reportedly plan to use the land captured by the rebels pushing out the more. opposition and seizing its weapons and oil smuggling routes world affairs journalists believes the terrorist threat may be a pretext for the rebels to secure western intervention. it's interesting you know when president assad was warning about al-qaeda in syria from twenty eleven although he was dismissed by the west you scaremongering etc he was saying that al-qaeda was coming to her in syria and now we're he

still putting off recovery till two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will survive for now i do see any movement before the german elections in a month from now and to america now where u.s. judge has ruled bradley manning must face the charge of aiding the enemy a decision that means the whistleblower could spend the rest of his life behind prison walls and the defense would argue that manning sent the trove of classified information to wiki leaks to spark reform and debate on these lives while reports. it is the most serious charge of a private first class for he says so that means he still faces the possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this charge this charge of aiding the enemy prosecution has cited manning's job as an intelligence analyst they say that as an intelligence analysts he should have known that by leaking these documents to the n.c. secret secrecy website w

still putting off recovery through two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will say bye for now i don't see any movement before the general election months from now. this stay with us coming out for you striking support for the syrian rebels as the opposition gets caught between assad's forces and the growing threat of al qaeda extremists the u.s. president has the options for military intervention laid out before him. and the threat of fresh clashes looms in northern ireland unionists leaders in belfast appeal for calm after the authorities decide to limit their traditional annual parade. ovoid a repeat of the past two weeks riots that's coming up straight ahead. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged as a big picture. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's what you hear on all t.v. reporting from the world talks t

host: manu raju, politico senior congressional correspondent, thanks for talking with us. we're asking you what you think about this move closer toward the nuclear option, the so-called nuclear option. democrats can give us a call at 202-585-3880. republicans, 202-585-3881. independents, 202-585-3882. we have a tweet from don, who writes in and says, who cares about the nuclear option spoils bipartisanship. we don't need it after we end the unconstitutional filibuster. gwen is our first caller, detroit, michigan, democrat. go ahead, gwen. hi, gwen. are you with us? caller: i'm on c-span. host: what's that, gwen? go ahead. you're on the air. caller: hi. i'm calling about this nuclear option. the reason they're doing that is because the republicans are just refusing to work with the president, and you lesson to what they had to say, that if they get the majority, if they will do whatever they want to do, and no things that was mentioned were things that the american people really don't want, and so they're threatening the senate to not do this. if they do the nuclear option,

. >> host: manu raju politico senior congressional correspondent, thanks for talking with us. >> guest: thank you. >> as you've seen a lot of coverage coming up on the potential change scheduled for 12:45 eastern and as soon as he gets started we will have to live right here on c-span2 until he does, we will have a discussion from today's washington journal on the republican efforts to repeal the health care law including the legislation coming to the floor next week that would delay for one year the employee or an individual mandate called for under the health care law. >>> representative tom price is the guest republican of georgia where he represents the sixth district. thank you for being here. >> guest: great to be with you. >> host: on the federal health care law yesterday house speaker john boehner announced a vote next week to delay the implementation of more items of law to it how will this be different than the votes that the house has taken to repeal law which hasn't gone anywhere. >> host: the landscape has changed and has admitted with their own delay of the employer manda