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breaking news in all seeing to national violence on victory day ukraine's interior ministry says around twenty people have been killed during a miniature operation in the rest of town of. reports say soldiers fired on unarmed crowds we have the footage. it's a day of grief and glory as russian monks this sixty nine percent of the defeat of nazi germany remembering the tens of millions who gave their lives in the will. of the decade long. thousand lashes for setting up an online forum would speak to the wife of a saudi out of it is now behind bars after being convicted of insulting islam.
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and welcome to also international i mean you know thanks for joining us and was stopped with breaking news this hour ukraine's interior ministry says more than twenty people have been killed after the army and to the east town of mariupol the area is a whole spalled for antigovernment on rest and there are reports troops fired on unarmed civilians. to put it out. and these are pictures from the say purportedly showing the army is shifting into unowned crowd celebrating victory day you can see there were women and young those behind crowds being shot has also has read i'm going to raise following developments in the region for hours. if you look at the footage that we have so brady seen throughout the day it's clear that there have been some civilians on the
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streets of the city it is a victory day. not just in that city but in a lot of places in southeastern ukraine obviously there have been some families with children we also have a report from an eyewitness describing the events as they have been unfolding in mariupol. are still trying to. make their we're heading towards the city council a lot of people were gathered there. some people approaching the local interior ministry building and it looks like ukraine's forces are shooting out of the lives of those who are trying to come close to or now that building of the interior ministry has been set on fire reportedly from the tank shells being fired at it at that time at the time of those reports there also has been information that people could be inside that building a cameraman working for roughly artist video agency has been shot through the stomach and one did you know doctors say his life is out of danger at the moment
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and he is expected to make a full recovery however listen to what this man describes has happened to the camera man the man has asked that we keep his identity unknown at this point your correspondent who is showing the people in mass that he was unarmed trying to convince them that he was a journalist he was a member of the press that he suddenly decided to run across the street we were on a shot was heard and he fell down exactly why the ukrainian military has decided to carry out an offensive on the victory day knowing full well that people are going to be on the street and we're talking about civilians women and children is not yet clear of. things here from poll shows gunfire coming from vehicles. thank you. and as you can see an unarmed man appears to have been shot on this trade as ukrainian military vehicles part of by charles schumer age four british counterterrorism intelligence officer
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believes the violence in mariupol should be an alarming signal for those still supporting the actions of the interim leaders in kiev. when this kind of assault is mounted particularly by the troops who only have. heavy weapons or lives are munitions i don't have seem to have controlled apartment prostitutes and so on the civilian casualties and deaths almost inevitable that that would have been known by the careful forces although there's been no of course as one would expect that the comments of condemnation about what's going on in the model from elsewhere from the us and e.u. governments nonetheless some stage this is going to become quite embarrassing for the governments should such support to be squandered on the auction against watched dinoire plane is largely consisting of ordinary people trying to push back against targets civilians in mariupol are flocking to the streets to hold down the advance of government forces into the city and quite literally pursing their lives on the
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line. and in this region from the station you can see local surrounding an armored personnel carrier in an attempt to stop it the troops appear to pay little attention and make clear they are determined to continue scenes like this one are reportedly happening all over the city suggesting that if that violence continues there are likely to be more civilian casualties. this is the very latest footage we're getting from mariupol it's circulating on you tube and as we can see one of the local residents is being shot out in the streets and he's unarmed as apparently hurt possibly severely injured. will be closely following the situation in eastern ukraine on and on line as well had to ask you to call for more pictures of footage from the scene as well as the
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latest updates. right from the scene. we're strong. and i think that your. eye on our return to what. i. am. i russia is marking one of its most cherished holidays a victory day fixed and i they saw the autonomy finally defeated the nazis in the great patriotic war people all across russia signed a ration today our correspondent neil harvey watched the festivities in crimea city of sevastopol. very personal celebration for them because it marks seventy years since the day when sevastopol was liberated from nazi occupation on may the knife
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nineteen forty four starting back this morning when there was a military parade at ten o'clock in the morning i was amazed to see so many people turned up so early in the day they were lining the streets out of ventured that the entire city. come out in full show for this and as the parade progressed through the streets there was a really tangible sense of national pride just recently we had to the naval parade and also an aerial display in the naval parade president putin had arrived he's traveled over very quickly from moscow he saluted the crews of each individual ship in the convoy and then he took time to make a statement himself your age if i'm honored to be here in the heroic city of sevastopol on the sacred day and to celebrate our country's most important holiday with you our country's victory over nazis will always be an example of bravery stories system and patriotism we're trying to follow your example idea of veterans
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and the fact that crimea and sevastopol have returned to their homeland is your achievement as well. still more to come the renowned arab aerobatic teams the russian knights and the swiss they're going to be putting on another great show we had a glimpse of that already and it was spectacular those of use in ours from the crowds they've gone for a little break they're going to coming back on mass i'm a little bit terrified because there's so many people here. festivities and parades big and small are taking place all across the country but the great to show was when moscow. aspects ocular parade featured thousands of troops marching through red square they were presented every branch of the russian armed forces there were then followed by a military convoy of one hundred fifty vehicles and then a spectacular display by the air force sixty nine aircraft flew over to commemorate
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the sixty nine days since the defeat of the no. they are a russian military equipment on show included everything from small land vehicles to huge acra and this for instance is the tiger combat car often called the russian hama and then there's the top and one of russia's most recent intercontinental ballistic missile launchers it comes in a twenty two meters long and a number of those rolled straight through central moscow but if you're saying that's a big how bad the russian cargo plane and best small stock and carry more weight than any other aircraft currently being produced in the world and it's also the wall second heaviest plane it was hard to miss. just to give you an idea of how it felt to be in red square today these guys had to live with these supersonic bugs of play it was an impressive display really treat hardwell big
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under the skies and from all of us here at aussie international thanks for watching and you catch the highlights on our you tube channel. the airliner forces how was the soviet union and its victory over the nazis oxic sea convoys brought essential supplies to troops in the northern port cities auntie's point of boyko brings us more about the brave same. i'm standing on the deck of the h.m.s. belfast which of course is herself a ship that's a veteran of the arctic convoys it's hard to imagine where we'd be today if britain and the soviet union hadn't worked together in the way that they did throughout world war two the arctic convoys were ships full of british sailors that were taking vital supplies over for the red army to the soviet union and they were backed by german air raids they were battered by attacks from german u.
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boats and of course buffeted by the elements as they made their way through the icy arctic waters and three thousand british sailors lost their lives during that campaign but it's taken a relatively long time for these veterans to receive full recognition of their heroism it was back in two thousand and twelve that the british government awarded them with an arctic star and it was just last year that the russian government was given permission by the british government to award the british veterans with russia's very own bravery award the. medal because up until that point british veterans were banned from receiving foreign awards so we've got twenty very pleased british veterans who've just received their medal below on the h.m.s. belfast here in london but of course today isn't just about the awards it's about celebrating victory day it's about veterans british and russian meeting up
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catching up and commemorating that brothers in arms who sadly aren't here to celebrate with us today. the war left its mark on almost every family in russia and the soviet union and these false has all been showing throughout our coverage today they are all real people and all of them are the relatives and loved ones of people working on this channel our souls go out to those who sacrificed so much to make this. possible.
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only. this is all seen to national while combined. as wages its military operation to quell in western eastern ukraine pro autonomy protesters there are preparing to hold a referendum on the region's stages they plan is to hold a vote in the don't ask and lugansk regions some six hundred kilometers from the capital kiev on sunday and let's now take a look at the key demands of those define the interim government and first of all they want to be a federation and have the right to choose their own regional government and there are also money issues bothering them the east houses the lion's share of the country's industry and they would like to pay their taxes locally plus another important principle of federalization the right to have regional languages but as for control of defense and foreign policy that will remain in the capital. and
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washington wants the blonde referendums in ukraine scrapped calling them illegitimate but their system secretary of state has been very active in ukraine has had to answer some tough questions about america's alleged a wide washing of radical groups linked to kiev as authorities did ever legitimately look from before. the elected was removed after we had a major street violence there were pictures that people were people running around with these. we were told were legal nazis. first of all the vast majority of those who participated on the my dog were peaceful protesters if you had a chance to see the pictures some many of us visited including many members here there were mothers and grandmothers and that are in the main don't every day i have a lever however for you go on i saw those pictures as well i also saw
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a lot of pictures of people throwing fireballs a group of policemen were huddled in the over in a corner where people were shooting into the ranks of police so yes there were mothers with flowers but there were also very dangerous street fighters who were engaged in those demonstrations the question is were there a neo nazi groups involved in the. there were as i said almost every color of ukraine was represented including some including a number of breaking answer is yes then and victoria nuland also faced some criticism from the house committee on foreign affairs as she is more in a park now i reports. in addition to the exchange we just heard victoria nuland was also grilled about the u.s. administration's how inconsistent policy of supporting self-determination another congressman specifically asked miss nuland why the u.s. has supported the independence of south sudan and kosovo for example but dismisses
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efforts in other parts of the world similar efforts well she explained that the obama administration opposes the changing of borders by force now during her two our testimony before the u.s. house committee on foreign affairs miss nuland reiterated america's commitment and support for the coup pointed government in ukraine and not support has been quite lucrative she says that the us has provided eighteen million dollars in non-lethal assistance to kiev and nine million dollars in funding to be used for the upcoming may twenty fifth election and the interim government is also supposed to be using those funds for their overall public relations campaign the u.s. assistant secretary of state did acknowledge that president vladimir putin on monday publicly called for deescalation in violence when he asked for the upcoming referendum in eastern ukraine to be delayed nonetheless ms nuland disregarded the statements made by the russian leader insisting still that moscow is determined to
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destabilize ukraine. and the line so you can watch relations to world war two veterans are coming from everywhere today even from outer space the isis crew has expressed its gratitude to those who helped save the world from fascism back in one thousand forty five you can watch the full briefing inside the emotion section. also the race to the room as well and truly alone with plans to have human settlements in place within twenty days or more. lunar program have to. a decade behind bars. one thousand lashes that's what one sorry acts of it's just facing after being found guilty of insulting islam rave badawi's crime setting up an online forum for public debate last year but dowie was initially sentenced to seven years in prison and six hundred lashes but later he tried to appeal the
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verdict because it added three more years and one hundred more lashes and on top of that to pay a fine of roughly two hundred seventy thousand dollars and we spoke to his wife to find out how she's planning to find her husband's freedom. marvel bill is of course we do not agree with this verdict and will take it to the appeals court i'm also counting on media and legal pressure to help us ready for lives and breathes freedom and he realizes the cost of having an opinion in saudi arabia and what it means to defend it i think he will only be stronger after all he has gone through the saudi regime is based on you know lateral islam and fundamental islam it doesn't recognize that each generation has its own opinions and thoughts and so it sees in an insult to it and to islam so do prisons are filled with people from across the spectrum and have different opinions there aren't many in saudi arabia who call for freedom but there are
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a number of people like. the verdict has outraged human rights activists worldwide misting international has searched saudi arabia to quash or they call an outrageous sentence the group also accuses the saudi authorities of using any means to quash all forms of dissent and survive get a chance from amnesty international believes or riyadh it starting to find less obvious ways to quiet down all of it. unfortunately they're only making progress in terms of dealing with suppression of dissent in other words they are coming up with creative were less publicized ways of silencing activists harassment intimidation things that you cannot basically collect evidence on and more and more basically they're going after the slow process or giving them government phone calls and taking them to court which is really disappointing that when president obama went to riyadh and basically said almost nothing about he said nothing about human rights wasn't even part of the discussion to use double standards when they talk
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about to do arabia we had sent president obama to the american administration state department they have very well they are very well or move that's why lucian's appearing in the country but they do not speak publicly did not go out to the public and condemn these violations. and the global headlines tens of thousands of students have taken to the streets on the trail counter so to demand full free quality education they initially peaceful protests turned violent one hundred demonstrators started throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the police twenty officers were injured and around a hundred people were arrested president michelle bachelet labor was elected for the second time about a month ago first came to power in two thousand and six promising to overhaul education says that millions have a joint projects to demand a stick stood out pledge. a policeman has been killed during ongoing and to government protests in the venezuelan capital hill shelton been made by
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a sniper during a raid on the opposition as a makeshift comments over social people have been killed in the previous crush has since february president might do or has accused the boss of funding the opposition movement and says the kind of plot to remove him from power. and not a protest is in thailand and bad demands for a change to the current political. stanmore met with tear gas and water cannon during a rally outside a government compound two days ago a court order to the prime minister out of office but have policies to running the interim government and intends to organize an election in july are expected to win by the opposition the government out the vote. a key syrian opposition leader has called on the u.s. to start supplying his forces with arms to find the government on a visit to washington. promise the weapons would remain in safe hands all the
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recent pictures suggest anti-government forces in syria already have some impressive weaponry. so says that massive bomb blast leveled a hotel used by government troops as a miniature base and a. device exploded and underground tunnels done by rebels as they tried to advance on government held areas of the city opposition fighters claim some fifty syrian army soldiers were killed in the blast and i'm brian back a direct role the antiwar coalition says it makes no sense to divide the opposition in syria into good guys and bad guys civil war pits two sides against each other two armies in all civil wars there are different tendencies factions shades the opposition inside of syria includes a notorious terrorist forces and they have used terrorism of course supported by the united states using proxy forces. are in turkey and saudi arabia to finance and
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to arm them but they've been carrying out terrorist actions the the idea that there's a dichotomy between a good opposition and a bad opposition is just a fact of fiction of a myth in the face of rising public attention and media here in the u.s. about the nature of the terrorist organizations that are fighting the assad government. and that we comp all breaking news story and this is. footage from mariupol where around twenty people have been cared for the ukrainian army and the city as we can see one of the local residents has been shot in this trade and he's unarmed is apparently hurt possibly severely injured ukrainian armored vehicles have reported to open fire to people in the streets and there are reports of civilian fatalities however the interior ministry claims the dead out from cell defiance groups killed while trying to storm the local police headquarters for most go foreign minister sergei lavrov told u.s. secretary of state john kerry the dialogue between king and you may se should be
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launched as soon as possible proton with protesters in the region say they won't engage in any talks with kiev after the violence in mar you paul. up next a hero to sex it is a documentary about one tears barry b. remains of soldiers who died during one want. the. war is probably the most complex of all human activity. all. locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. kill
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a sign on human rights whatever explanation you don't like would be communist or hard suitable. stepping back from the brink or just a momentary lull when this crisis to the surprise of many president vladimir putin continues to back and dialogue to defuse the ukraine tragedy remains to be seen whether they can in washington are interested in either in the meantime for many in the east and south of ukraine civil war has already begun. speculation is the most informal a fascinating game in the world but it is not a game for the stupid the mentally lazy the person of inferior emotional ballast or they get rich quick adventure or they will die before. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that's stupid and lazy describes almost every single person you
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encounter at the office at home at school in the checkout line at the supermarket in the halls of congress every person you listen to on the radio watch on t.v. or read the newspaper or magazine yes we still but mentally humans have chosen to live in a financial i suspect of casino economy and for that we will do it poor. started here the village. with it was at the exact moment eleven in the morning when the first seven times appeared to. move. battle. soldiers. they gave their lives for this land and. protected us.
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yes they took it over but sevastopol never surrendered there were no defenders left . so as the president said i stop all came back home and. it has russian roots and nobody can deny that it's eight. when your children have nothing to eat when your children or your family is being killed i think most people in the world would agree that this is. valuable and that you know those elusive political rights that's really what we saw with the arab spring of people saying that their past to be an alternative to all the extremes that have been presented i mean that's what a generation after generation were raised. in dictatorship or you're going to fall in sales you're out of war or you're in a peace without justice you're either poor or you're rich in the region is rejecting the extremes and saying we want new options and i think that is worth
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the only group that's mentioned in connection with it are the pro russian wrote russian forces and this is actually absolutely just. criminal negligence. and at worst sheer criminal propaganda you see very few examples and very minimal coverage of anything that would contradict the u.s. line and i don't think that's really good journalism frankly if the odessa fire i was curious to see how it would be reporter. it's clearly been mentioned give the impression the fire started by itself so you getting complete i think lies from the ukrainian government. the game of speculation is the most informal a fascinating game in the world but it is not a game for the stupid the mentally lazy the person of inferior a muscle balance or they get rich quick adventure or they will die before. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that's stupid and mentally lazy describes
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breaking news on victory day footage from the eastern ukrainian town of mario poll shows people being shot in the street. a crackdown on protesters. it's a day of grief and glory as russia marks the sixty nine to the plate of nazi germany remembering be tens of millions who gave their lives in the. clubs a decade. and a thousand lashes for setting up an online forum we speak to the wife of a saudi activist who is now behind bars after being convicted of insulting islam.
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live from a studio in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day so breaking news on r.t. international ukraine's interior ministry says more than twenty people have been killed after the end to the eastern town. now the area is a hotspot for anti government unrest although there are reports of troops firing on civilians and warning you may find the following footage disturbing. well as you can see apparently people are being shot at in the street possibly suffering severe injuries shots fired from ukrainian armored vehicles have reportedly led to civilian fatalities however the interior ministry claims the dead are from self-defense groups killed while trying to storm the local police because it's easy to go is following developments in the region. it's a look at the footage that we have so ready seen throughout the day it's clear that there have been some civilians on the streets of the city it is
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a victory day variation not just in that city but in a lot of places in southeastern ukraine obviously there have been some families with children we also have a report from an eyewitness describing the events as they have been unfolding in mariupol. are short time armored vehicles on the main street there were heading towards the city council a lot of people were gathered there there were also some people approaching the local interior ministry building and it looks like ukraine's forces are shooting out of the lives of those who are trying to come close to it now that's a building of the interior ministry has been set on fire reportedly from the tank shells being fired at it at that time at the time of those reports there also has been information that people could be inside the building a cameraman working for roughly artist video agency has been shot through the stomach and one did you know doctors say his life is out of danger at the moment and he is expected to make a full recovery however listen to what this man describes has happened to the
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camera man the man has asked that we keep his identity unknown at this point your correspondent who is showing the armed people in mass that he was unarmed trying to convince them that he was a journalist he was a member of the press that he suddenly decided to run across the street were on a shot was heard and he fell down exactly why the ukrainian military has decided to carry out an offensive on the victory day knowing full well that people are going to be on the street and we're talking about civilians women and children is not yet clear of. well many people in many a pull had come out to celebrate victory day. look at it. and these pictures purportedly showed the army shooting into a crowd marking the day and you can see women among those being fought on.
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bridges a former british counter-terrorism intelligence officer believes the violence there should be an alarming signal for those still supporting the actions of the interim leaders in kiev. when this kind of assault is mounted particularly by troops who only have shall we say heavy weapons and live ammunition i don't have that seem to have control equipment plus the bullets and so on then civilian casualties and that's almost inevitable that that would have been bought a careful thought says although there's been no sign of course as one would expect that the comments of condemnation about what's going on in mali offer them elsewhere from the u.s. and e.u. governments nonetheless some states this is going to become quite interesting for the governments should i support to this kind of bond action against course until now i believe is consisting of ordinary people trying to push back against tyrants . civilians and men who pull the flocking to the streets to hold up the advance of
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government forces into the city and quite literally putting their lives on the line . well in this video from the city to see local surrounding and ahmed personnel carrier in an attempt to stop it the troops though appear to pay little attention and make clear they are determined to continue scenes like this reportedly happening all over the city suggesting that if the advance continues there not to be more civilian casualties. well we'll be closely following the developing situation in eastern ukraine and online as well you can have to come for more pictures and footage from the scene as well as the latest updates. right seats. first struck. and i think that you're.
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on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. in the. rush hour is marking one of its most cherished holidays victory days sixty nine years ago the soviet army finally defeated the nazis in the great patriotic rule people all across russia are a celebration today in our correspondent neil harvey what's the festivities in crime is city of sevastopol. the crowds have been tremendous starting back this morning when there was a military parade at ten o'clock in the morning i was amazed to see so many people had turned up so early in the day they were lining the streets out of ventured that the entire city. to come out in full show for this very personal celebration for them because it marks seventy years since the day when sevastopol was liberated
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from nazi occupation on may the knife nineteen forty four and as the parade progressed through the streets there was a really tangible sense of national pride just recently we had the naval parade and also an aerial display in the naval parade president putin had arrived he's traveled over very quickly from moscow he saluted the crews of each individual ship in the convoy and then he took time to make a statement himself your age of your model to do year in the heroic city of sevastopol on the sacred day and to celebrate our country's most important holiday with you our country's victory over nazis will always be an example of bravery stories cism and patriotism we're trying to follow your example idea of veterans and the fact that crimea and sevastopol have returned to their homeland it was your achievement as well. still more to come the renowned arab aerobatic teams the
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russian knights and the swiss they're going to put it on another great show we had a glimpse of that already and it was spectacular was of use in ours from the crowds they've gone for a little break they're going to coming back on mass i'm a little bit terrified as are so many people here. well festivities and parades big and small are taking place all across the country but the greatest show was in moscow. a spectacular parade featured thousands of troops marching through red square. they represented every branch of the russian armed forces it was then followed by a military convoy of one hundred and fifty vehicles. and then a spectacular display by the air force sixty nine aircraft flew over to commemorate sixty nine years since the defeats of the nazis. while the array of russian military equipment on show included everything from small land vehicles to huge
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aircraft now this for instance is the tiger combat car often called the russian hummer then there's the topple and one of russia's most recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches it comes in at twenty two meters long and a number of those rolled straight through central moscow and into red square if you think that's big about the russian cargo plane now this is the monster. that can carry more than any other aircraft currently being produced in the world and it's also the world's second heaviest plane it was hard to miss. and of course the air force fly over is the highlight and perhaps the most spectacular part of the parade every year the skies roared to life in the morning with the supersonic birds of prey it was an impressive display of military hardware on the ground and in the skies you can catch the highlights from the you tube.
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i . the allied forces helped the soviet union in its victory over the nazis arctic sea convoys brought essential supplies to troops in the northern port cities and brings us more about the brave sailors. i'm standing on the deck of the h.m.s. belfast which of course is herself a ship that's a veteran of the arctic convoys it's hard to imagine where we'd be today if britain and the soviet union hadn't worked together in the way that they did throughout world war two the arctic convoys were ships full of british sailors that were taking vital supplies for the red army to the soviet union and they were backed by german air raids they were battered by attacks from german u. boats and of course by the elements as they made their way through the icy arctic waters and three thousand british sailors lost their lives during that campaign but
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it's taken a relatively long time for these veterans to receive full recognition of their heroism it was back in two thousand and twelve that the british government awarded them with an arctic star and it was just last year that the russian government was given permission by the british government to award the british veterans with russia's very own bravery award the. medal because up until that point british veterans were banned from receiving foreign awards so we've got twenty very pleased british veterans who've just received a call. on the h.m.s. belfast here in london but of course today isn't just about the awards it's about celebrating victory day it's about veterans british and russian meeting up catching up and commemorating that brothers in arms who sadly aren't here to
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celebrate with us today. the war left its mark on almost every family in russia. and these photos we've been showing throughout our coverage the rule real people and all of them all the relatives and loved ones of people working on this channel so all thoughts go out to those who sacrificed so much to make this possible. maybe it's the. economic ups and downs in the final months day of the london deal and the rest because it's going the take it will be everything we can all they.
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pictures of what's happening there in crimea. so victory day celebrations continue there in sebastopol the crimean port there and it's culminating. in the day's events with this past it's indeed the second time around the stone but at this point mass is taking place over the city and our reporters were saying earlier that thousands of people are out in the streets and normally every year this flying display is seen over moscow but obviously the people the sebastopol are now experiencing the spectacular fly past the calm seas there in the ports and a very clear evening as a spectacular display continues to celebrate the day victory day. in crimea as one
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of those celebrations of course taking place throughout the day here in moscow throughout the whole of russia. well as kid wages its military operation to quell unrest in eastern ukraine proton of the protests is they're preparing to hold a referendum on the region status the plan is to hold the vote in the donetsk and lugansk regions some six hundred kilometers away from the capital on sunday now let's have a look at the key demands of those defying the interim government well first they want ukraine to be a federation and have the right to choose their own regional government and also money issues bothering them the east houses the lion's share of the country's industry and they're like to pay their taxes locally plus another important principle of federalization the right to have regional languages but as far as control of defense and foreign policy well that will remain in the capital here. well washington wants the planned referendums in ukraine scrapped calling them
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illegitimate but the assistant secretary of state who has been very active in ukraine as a tough questions about america's alleged white washing of radical groups linked to kiev's authorities we did have a legitimate election before. the elected president was removed after we had major street violence there were pictures that people of people running around with these that were we were told were neo nazis. first of all the vast majority of those who participated on the my dog were peaceful protesters if you had a chance to see the pictures many of us visited including many members here there were mothers and grandmothers and that are in the main don't every day i have a lever where for you go on i saw those pictures as well i also saw a lot of pictures of people throwing fireballs
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a groups of policemen were huddled in the over in a corner where people were shooting into the ranks of police so yes there were mothers with flowers but there were also very dangerous street fighters who were engaged in those demonstrations the question is were there a neo nazi groups involved in the. there were as i said almost every color of ukraine was represented including some including breaking answer is yes then well victoria nuland also face more criticism from the house committee on foreign affairs as. reports. in addition to the exchange we just heard victoria nuland was also grilled about the u.s. administration's how inconsistent policy of supporting self-determination another congressman specifically asked miss nuland why the u.s. has supported the independence of south sudan and kosovo for example but dismisses efforts in other parts of the world similar efforts well she explained that the
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obama administration opposes the changing of borders by force now during her two our testimony before the u.s. house committee on foreign affairs miss nuland reiterated america's commitment and support for the core point of government in ukraine and not support has been quite lucrative she says that the us has provided eighteen million dollars in non-lethal assistance to kiev and nine million dollars in funding to be used for the upcoming may twenty fifth election and the interim government is also supposed to be using those funds of for their overall public relations campaign the u.s. assistant secretary of state did acknowledge that president vladimir putin on monday publicly called for deescalation in violence when he asked for the upcoming referendum in eastern ukraine to be delayed nonetheless ms nuland disregarded the statements made by the russian leader insisting still that moscow is determined to destabilize ukraine. along for you congratulations to world war two veterans
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are coming from everywhere today even from outer space this group has expressed his gratitude to those who helped save the world from fascism back in the one nine hundred forty five you can watch the full greeting inside the section on our website. plus the race to live on the moon is well and truly old with plans to have human settlements in place within which to use for more russia's saluda program that you want to call. a decade behind bars on one files on the issues that's why. and saudi activists is facing after being found guilty of insulting islam but i was crime setting up an online forum for public debate well last year but dali was initially sentenced to seven years in prison and six hundred lashes but after he tried to appeal the verdict the court added three more years and four hundred more lashes on top of that he'll have to pay a fine of roughly two hundred seventy thousand dollars but we spoke to his wife to
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find out how she's planning to fight for her husband's freedom. for the money for the business but of course we do not agree with this verdict and we will take it to the appeals court i'm also counting on media and legal pressure to help us raise lives and breathes freedom and he realizes the cost of having an opinion in saudi arabia and what it means to defend it i think you will only be stronger after all he has gone through the saudi regime is based on you know lateral islam and fundamental islam it doesn't recognize that each generation has its own opinions and thoughts and so it's season ray and insult to it and to islam so the prisons are filled with people from across the spectrum and have different opinions there aren't many in saudi arabia who call for freedom but there are a number of people like ray the verdict is outraged human rights activists worldwide international has urged saudi arabia to quash what they call an outrageous sentence the group also accuses the saudi authorities of using any means
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to crush all forms of dissent. from amnesty international believes that riyadh is starting to find less obvious ways to crack down on activists. unfortunately there are only making progress in terms of dealing with suppression of this that and other orders that are coming up with creative or less publicized ways of silencing activists harassment intimidation things that you cannot basically collect evidence on and more and more basically they're going after this slow process of giving them a couple of phone calls trapping them and taking them to court and it was really disappointing that when president obama went through and basically he said almost nothing about it he said nothing about human rights wasn't even part of the discussion to use double standards when they talk about saudi arabia we have sent president obama the american administration the state department they're very well they are very well informed of the types of violations occurring in the country but
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they do not speak publicly they did not go out to the public and and condemn these violations. other news now this hour in a world update tens of thousands of students are taking to the streets of the chilean capital to demand for free quality education the initially peaceful protests turned violent when who did demonstrators starting throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the police twenty officers were injured and around one hundred people were arrested president bush who was elected for the second time about a month ago first came to power in two thousand and six promising to overhaul education since that millions of joined protests demanding that she sticks to that pledge. a policeman has been killed during ongoing anti-government protests in the venezuelan capital he was shot in the neck by a sniper during a raid on the opposition's makeshift count of forty have been killed in the protests and president of the rose accuse the us of funding the opposition movement and says it is behind the plot to remove him from power. and out to protest in
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thailand their demands for change to the current political system were met with tear gas and water cannon during a rally outside a government compound two days ago a court ordered the prime minister out of office but her party is still running the interim government and intends to organize an election in july it is expected to win but the opposition wants the government and the vote. it was there. let's return now to our breaking news now this is footage from in ukraine where around twenty people are being killed after the army entered the city one serviceman has also died as we can see one of the local residents is being shot out in the street is armed he's heard possibly severely injured. ukrainian armored vehicles have reportedly opened fire at
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people in the streets and there are reports of civilian fatalities. however the interior ministry claims the dead are from self-defense groups killed or tried to storm the local police headquarters from moscow. well that from moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov told us that the secular state john kerry that dialogue between kiev and ukraine selfies should be launched as soon as possible proton of the protesters in the region say they won't engage in any talks with can have after that violence we've seen in many opel. but of course we'll be following those developments there in ukraine more news for the top of the at the fuss the former u.s. ambassador and governor jon huntsman tells larry king what he really thinks about above his handling all the ukrainian crisis stay with us for that if you can't see .
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the. war is probably the most complex and difficult to human activity. all of us are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed a bunch of people you don't know the one thing there really is there are to us people. reading. this summer shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was nine times four in the morning even the best commanders even the best soldiers. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood an author and then and
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story will be just if you see the state. t.v. . but the others. are twenty twelve republican presidential hopeful and a one time member of the obama diplomatic team is pushing what he calls the politics of problem solving does he we will leave washington can stop fighting and start fixing former governor jon huntsman it's coming up on the next politicking with larry king. politicking on larry king and joining me here in new york is
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a man who has worn many hats and from both sides of the aisle for the governor of utah former united states ambassador to china a candidate for the twenty twelve republican presidential nomination chairman of the board of directors of the atlantic council and he is now the chairman cochairman rather of no labels which is determined to stop the fighting and start to think sitting in politics is one of my favorite people to use governor jon huntsman welcome to politicking larry what a treat being with the king like that get my butt in that but i have. to tell you this i also have a radio program now oh on sirius x.m. yes yes you're going to. guess where i fell in love with radio listening to you on the mutual radio later when i laid i used to stay up american i was just married i worked for ronald reagan as an advance man and i stay up late at night to listen to you had the best guests on and you would really dig deep on really substantive issues of the day you know father went up in the midst of what he sure did
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a famous huntsman's journey like to be we called i know i asked this of adelies stevenson what he preferred governor or ambassador he always wanted to be governor what do you like you know admiral harriman who was the governor of this great state and our ambassador to the soviet union during the cold war was asked that question he said you know i like governor because that was given to me by the people and i think that kind of resonates with me being governor is the best job in the world there's nowhere to hide there's no way to up the skate you're out there on point you've got to present a vision to your people and get it done and if you don't you're over one of the about no labels in a while but first some current things how do you think the president is handling the ukrainian. well we're out of a whole lot of good options and so what do you do you work on sanctions and then you tighten the sanctions what we're waking up to and i think where he has found himself to be deficient is we've pivoted away from europe as
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a traditional set of alliances we pivoted asia were focused on our domestic getting our domestic house in order we used to do this thing called alliance maintenance during the cold war we train and we'd have war exercises we would sell advanced equipment we'd train militaries together we did we exchange intelligence we just have gotten out of that business with europe and now we see that maybe we have a huge deficiency there and he's going to have to fix that critics many in the republican lot of conservatives. calling weak and feckless and i you was his i'm best you're his of as a janet you call him weak well i would say that he's not using all the tools of the presidency he's not using the bully pulpit i think he could use that a whole lot more effectively in uniting with what as a teaching example of why it's a dangerous world and why the united states and our leadership matters and why engaging in strong economic relationships abroad is probably the only way we're
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really going to strengthen the international alliance istomin ways that really do matter did he when you were with him was he on top of things did you keep them in touch as a mass of the and you were a good secretary of state i worked with director of the cia as secretary defense i found him to be a very thoughtful student smart on top of things so i went to i went to china my first time with ronald reagan when i worked for him in the early eighty's there was leaders from german standing on your mormon mission you went to china and i had lived in taiwan and i speak chinese and ronald reagan went over there is first trip to china met done shopping the two of them came together in the great hall of the peoples of the one nine hundred eighty four the two most charismatic people i've ever been around done shopping four foot eleven this firebrand from such one and ronald reagan this elegant movie star from the united states and they sat down in their seats and don't show paying lit a cigarette spit into a spittoon
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a couple of times and said let's figure out how to change the world and they talk to each other really without notes or script just as friends and politicians and i fast forwarded history to when president obama went to china and i was that ambassador there as well much different style cool studious clinical sat down with hu jintao who was then the head of state they pull out the talking points we read ours they read tears we read our. you could have you know. you could have seen the ice forming. on the table but it's really the way that the u.s. general asian ship is managed these days it's so large and it's so complicated that everything is scripted and everything is it's rehearsed and pretty rarest and you don't have a lot of spontaneity almost a good investor a good ambassador a understands the country to which he or she is posted b. is a good manager because the end of the day an embassy the one in china is the second
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largest in the world if you got two thousand people in every department and agency imaginable you've got to make it work and three you have a good sense of your own country you understand the cultural aspects the historical aspects political aspects of the united states of america such that you can explain your way through difficult circumstances in your host country did i know how you must've felt terrible from bassett or was killed and as it has sort of stevens is that ghazi a credible issue. well i have to tell you i have a bit of a conflict here because i know what ambassadors do they are responsible for the security of their of their mission and our ambassador to libya would have been responsible for approving the security arrangements at the newly stood up consulate
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in benghazi and that ambassador and the clinton to the well they would have gone through the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security and ultimately the secretary of state there's no question about that and here's what happens because we stood up a new consulate too in china and i know how long it takes to get security so he his threat would have been. a terror threat or as was. a counterintelligence threat in china which is the most significant in the world and each in each case you need different kinds of security fortification but you ask the state department the answer typically is we're doing all we can in afghanistan and iraq the resources are threadbare we don't have much we can do we're going to have to put you in the queue and they then go prioritizing those destinations that are more in need than others and i suspect that's what he did and i'm guessing they were waiting so they had local security the first perimeter they had a state department security the second perimeter they didn't have the marines yet
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and marines typically aren't deployed until it becomes a classified mission so the cia annex down the road from the consulate in benghazi would have had a special kind of security arrangers it a fair issue. i think it will be used for whether i think it's fair or not i think it's a horrible case of miscommunication by the white house they should have come come out early and spoken for it is it a really deep and substantive issue that really kind of points its finger at really malicious behavior on the part of some public servants i don't think so good as it is know that in a sense when they take that role they risk their lives well they train you and most are steeped in some history of diplomatic service and you're trained about internal issues what goes on in the embassy and external issues and the threat profile and everybody knows when you go out to post exactly what your threat profile is and listen it can be
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a dangerous business you know going with the american flag on your car wherever you go everyone knows that you're the key representative the united states in some places it can get it can get a little dicey governor what his no labels no labels is a political movement comprised of republicans democrats and everything in between that has the goal of changing the operating environment of washington taking it from anger and finger pointing and acrimony toward problem solving now here we are the most technology tech technically advanced nation on earth we put a man on the moon we cracked the code on the genome project. we innovate the next generation of industries and we have a retrograde political system i mean how can to be that in in one country you have silicon valley on one end and you've got washington d.c. on the other that is a complete example of dysfunction we haven't had mechanical failure we have
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a constitution we have institutions of power we've had human failure and the only way you're going to deal with human failure is by getting out on a human level to do formant. no i was recruited after it was formed by a guy named joe madison the great senator from west virginia we were elected governors that every democrat they wanted a democrat a republican joe and i were elected governors together ten years ago and we became fast friends republican because we swap ideas about tax reform education reform how to get things done how to improve your state and we were both amazed at how much you can do as a governor i mean you can strike out set the agenda articulate a vision and then lead out and people will follow what cause this cleavages when i was young i remember the public of the democrats would put their arms around each of us solve problems coming to work going to commendation was considered
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a grave and reclaim a great cause you're a sure going to go wrong we had political we've had professional obstructionism that is growing up in our political system so you now have on k. street in washington d.c. full time professionals who are consultants who are spin artists who are communicators the risk ripped writers and they work for team red or team blue they work for the republicans they work for the democrats and we've completely disincentive ised any work in the middle which is to say getting things done and compromising so if you want to raise money larry if you want to get on the talk shows you've got to be at the extreme end that's where the action is and so we've created this impenetrable barrier between both sides and no one can seem to cross it today how do people join no labels people get involved well no labels stop or it is a very good place to go out in the lead on a go to no labels dot org and you will find two things that we are doing that is
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most on president it had we were here today with ten of our members of congress five republicans five democrats who have said i've had enough i don't want to be associated. with an institution that has an eight percent approval rating i want to be associated with people getting something done so we have built over the last year a problem solvers caucus on capitol hill half republicans have democrats numbering ninety four people there's never been done before the tea party caucus is maybe sixty we're now at ninety four they meet regularly they're building trust and they're beginning to put legislation through like no budget no pay will tell you just stand on the issues that's what they're beginning to do now you have to start somewhere and we started with convening people it is that you have to at least sit in the same room get to know one another and build trust and that's how it started and now we're embarking upon phase two which is a national strategic agenda so this country doesn't have a strategy going forward i've lived in four countries during my lifetime all but
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one has a strategic agenda they know where they're going they know what the ratios to hit are financially they know where they want to be educationally they know where they want to be from an economic development standpoint we don't we kind of hope it all kind of moves forward productively are you still a republican of course i'm a teddy roosevelt republican abraham lincoln republican but you said the december of two twelve you said the republican party was devoid of a soul i don't i don't take those words back at all so you're a member of an owner's asians that devoid of a soul that i remember when the democrats back in the eighty's had a really tough time and it could have been argued that they didn't have a soul so it was ready to change the soul will a person a leader will infuse the party with a soul we don't have a leader right now in the party it is leaderless so it raises money where it can it tries to influence the debate where it can but if you look at party leadership
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compared to the days you talked about where we had really great leaders in the republican party people knew them they were states people they could move the market. can you name can anybody name the heads of the party today they can't and that's where we are they're they're they're much diminished in the political marketplace no labels done or lose former presidential candidate to sit or another run two thousand and sixteen try to find out that. the germans could do whatever the one wants to the spot if they could take any man in cancun and put a sign on human rights that whatever explanation you don't like to be companies or part is suitable for june. stepping back from the brink or just a momentary lull when this crisis to the surprise of many president vladimir putin
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continues to back diplomacy and dialogue to defuse the ukraine tragedy there remains to be seen whether they can even washington are interested in either in the meantime for many in the east and south of ukraine civil war has already begun. choose your language. of choice because we know if. someone. chooses to use the consensus he could. choose to opinions that immigrate to. choose to stories could impact the life choose to access to often. when your children have nothing to eat when your children or your family is being killed i think most people in the world would agree that this is. your bullshit and you know those elusive political rights that's really what we saw with the arab spring of people saying that their past to be an alternative to all the extremes
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that have been presented to me that's what a generation after generation were raised. in dictatorship or you're going to fall into. war or you're at peace without justice you're either poor or you're rich in the region is rejecting the extremes and saying we want new options and i think that is worth supporting. all the musicians no labels. that's it no labels no labels dawdle you should go find a lot more about this room for a joint. love to have you larry woods on love is the number of his who will show up on capitol hill and see the most amazing coming together republicans democrats around a national strategic agenda the issues that really matter in this country so you concerned among the tea party well the tea party is an amalgamation of groups that
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have kind of lost some momentum but what i find troubling about the whole tea party movement or the people who have taken advantage of the p.t. party movement the club for growth they heritage foundation in their political arm these are the quintessential washington insiders who parade as grassroots rebels and they're the strategists they're the consultants who are making a whole lot of money off this phase of crazy politics and in the process they're making the republican party virtually electable at the presidential level so how do you find candidates who can get forty percent of the vote instead of fifteen percent of the vote that's where the parties have a tough time these days so many people told me i would have voted for jon huntsman but he couldn't get the nomination because the party is to split would you run again. well we ran once obviously and you've got to be
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a little bit crazy to do that and for i am a little bit crazy well i think to to run for office generally which is to say you throw your name out there you open yourself up you've got a way you've got to be willing to have to embrace risk because a political campaign is all about risk it's like an entrepreneur rolling the dice with capital you know you've got to look at it you know you have a name at the end of the day and you're putting that out for all to chew on and analyze and you're you're asking the most humbling question i've ever asked anybody will you vote for me. that's a tough thing to do if you've never done that before to ask somebody for the vote you did as governor i did have reelected as governor you stand on a soapbox and the only thing that a voter has to give is that thing called trust and then you want to do it again well you're thinking about it i'm a public servant larry and as a public servant i've found that politics is a lot about syrian deputy you know it's hard to be able to preplan where you might
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find yourself as a public servant i never thought i'd run for governor i never thought i'd be in china as the united states ambassador things happened so you're open i'm open but here's the deal you have to be able to create a pathway from point a to point b. i can tell you how i get to the finish line from super tuesday but i can't tell you how i get through those early primary states having been there and done that once what is the family thing. the family loved it they had a terrific expose support if you did it again they would be totally supportive now i have two boys in the military there one is graduating from the u.s. naval academy next week and he'll be a naval aviator goes down pensacola naval air station in august and another son at the naval academy who's a tough guy and he'll do his thing and they're completely. uninterested in politics as they should be but they're a guidepost of sorts for me because i say the world that we're now bequeathing to
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the next generation and the war is that these guys and gals will be commissioned to fight they and they're going to have to be thought through. by people who have a sense of compassion a knowledge of the world an understanding of what america's interests or we've been through some really tough years of war in this nation and every time i look at those boys i think all the families who have gone before us and committed their sons and daughters it's been a tough few years in the years ahead aren't going to be easy either but i can't i can't break that bond i have with my sons and what they're going to be doing and a future in politics that all of those feisty daughters stand up when kids say you know the political advisors said they're in the cafe keep the girls away you know they're going to get a lot of trouble and of course the girls were saying that's exactly the point we we want to get into trouble cause you're not getting yourself into enough trouble
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we've got to we get we have to explain who our dad is to them as i hope you think about running i'm glad you are thinking at least you're open well we don't you never close out options in politics we are not organized saying we're not raising money i've come to this conclusion as well larry having been inside politics and now outside i think you can have even more of an impact in changing the marketplace outside that you can inside give you some thoughts on some possible candidates we think are rand paul of kentucky. well he's an interesting model i don't know that the american public is going to go for a senator who served for only eight eighteen days like we did this last go around i think they're going to want some seasoning. that aside i think he's really trying hard to create a new narrative for the party and to build bridges to last demographics i think he understands the part about politics as being basic math if you don't have enough in
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the way of numbers to show up and vote for the end of the day as well hang it up and right now the republicans of burn bridges to too many demographics the party doesn't come forward on immigration and women you can't win you win the aggression you can win a national if that's right and so will jump for joy you know when we do well in the midterm election but there are tailor made for a republican victory it's a cycle for the president you get a low turnout you get the activists generally who promote the turnout but that isn't a measure of progress toward winning the presidency which is where real change can be made in the paul ryan i think paul's a brilliant guy i really do i don't think i'll run for higher office i think he'll get out there on the stump and talk about the issues but i think he's a very refreshing and talented. policy walk chris christie can be overcome the the bridge debacle of course because people love a second chance in politics they really do and sometimes when people come back the second time the reason better and stronger than the first time someone who might be
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very close to you in many opinions i would gather would be jeb bush. well you know like him i like jeb a lot and his son jeb jr was or are organized for youth during the campaign and i know i know jeff family his dad president bush was one who we went to see as we were beginning the campaign and he said of all the jobs i've had and basser to china was the best and i really wanted to do for three hour lunch was talk about the days in china but but jeb i know exactly the deliberations he's having at home and i know the pressure that's being put on him right now but his mother under is well it's you have to sit down with your family and you have to anticipate what will happen as you begin to game out the scenario and it is not always pleasant he's been there at a very high level and i know exactly the conversations he's having ted cruz. ted is so i got to know ted's wife when she worked in the trade office under the
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george w. bush administration id cruz who now is with goldman sachs so ted is an interesting example of princeton and harvard and a lot of the great institutions of the american establishment who's been able to morph bring that way from that and to a grassroots firebrand and i think there's something brilliant about what he's trying to do which is to say i think my strategy will be the reverse romney i'll go out capture the grassroots i can get the harvard guys later because they're going to be there anyway rubio don't know him and secondly walker of wisconsin you know governor walker yes in fact i'll be the graduation speaker university wisconsin in two weeks and i'll see him while i'm there a good governor. innovative controversial. fresh face and i think because of that he'll he'll be in the mix you work for a what do you make of the eclipse well at the risk of totally destroying my future
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if. i have to say she's a very impressive. public servant you know as a young republican you're trained to go after the clintons and hillary clinton of course was the nemesis during the clinton years and then you have an opportunity to work with her as secretary of state and i have to say i haven't been around too many people as professional as well briefed as good with people at all levels of life whether a head of state or the person holding open the door i think that's the measure of a leader someone who is gracious and kind to hold people i found and i found her to be a good listener to all attributes of somebody who is we might not agree on all the issues pap is a is a very very capable person to be formidable rove chorus gore's time magazine recently named chinese president the chinese president one of the world's most influential leaders as you called them the most transform ational chinese leader
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since deng gangbang right yasser not said we're for done shopping and in so dung dollars the transformation well so done was transformational in that he took a china in chaos after mouse death in one nine hundred seventy six in the cultural revolution and opened the doors economically and diplomatically and china has kind of been on that same glideslope ever since the late seventy's and has built up a lot of barnacles corruption inefficiencies. the middle income trap all these issues that they have to now deal with and along comes this sixty one year old politico son of she jones one who was a deputy prime minister under mao sent to prison as was his mother and this guy's using pain was rare rode it out during the cultural revolution he's seen china at its worst and at its most tumultuous. he knows where he wants to take the country he doesn't want to return to those days and he knows he's got some hard choices to
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make in order to break down these special interest barriers and the widespread corruption that really have created a sense of real distrust among which is that unstable is now well. it's hard to measure china as one point three billion people because it's so big and vast and a lot of things going to happen that really would lead us to believe that they're there and stable but they grow at seven point five percent each year. and the employment number is relatively good their trust in government and trust in the party is diminishing and that is why paying is breaking down the old economic model creating a new one which is a very risky thing to be doing he knows that they're out of economic life as an export or they just can't keep exploiting their way to prosperity they have to expand industry domestically they have to consume more but he also knows that he's got some hard line elements among them the people's liberation army the military in
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china he's got to win over and that tough talk toward japan and the east china sea islands a lot of that is really geared toward winning over the hard line elements in his in his country so he's consolidating his base and he's been doing that for a year and a half very effectively and he'll be around for ten years one of the chinese people don't we know when one of a like. i have a chinese daughter that i'm raising so i wake up to china every day as she's fourteen years old we adopted her from an orphanage she was abandoned the two months of age and i've been trying to think through this very question for a lot of years thirty five years as a matter of fact and the chinese people are gracious and proud and steeped in history five thousand years worth we look at them as maybe a communist nation i look at the more as a confucius people they're more impacted influenced by confucius values than
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anything else that sense of hierarchy that sense of respect that filial piety that's what makes china china and then you layer over that that was twentieth century that they went through incursions of peoples invasions takeovers great leap forward cultural revolution and the chinese people who've been through an enormous amount they're proud now of where they are there are united as a country they're under one flag they don't have any foreign invaders. and they feel like they're on top of the world right now. and i'll be guest on your radio show they sweet innocent on a larry what a treat on the band governor jon huntsman for joining us today on politicking for why viewers out there want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page they will pull it is by keeping it seems things easy to sit and stay it's also the speech politicking.
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the clouds on our t.v. . breaking news on victory day footage from the eastern ukrainian town of money or both shows people being shot in the street after the army launched a crackdown a prototype of the protest and. it's a day of grief and glory as russia marks the sixteenth of the defeat of nazi. remembering the tens of millions who gave their lives in the. us a decade long jail. for setting up an online forum we speak to the wife of a saudi activist who's now behind bars for being convicted of insulting islam.
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live from a studio in moscow this is not international within twenty four hours a day so breaking news this ukraine's interior ministry says that more than twenty people are being killed off to the army entered the eastern town of many ople now the area is a hotspot for anti government although there are reports of troops firing on civilians a warning you may find the following footage disturbing. the troops to stop shooting those people about uniforms are believed to be from the cranes national guard special units formed to take part in the operation against pro the protesters in the southeast. and here one man shot in the street he's on
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and is clearly possibly severely and then a few moments later another man comes on the. and it looks like he's badly hurt. shots fired from vehicles are reportedly led to civilian fatalities and however the interior ministry claims that those who died from self-defense groups killed trying to storm the local police headquarters. in the glasgow is following developments in the region. if you look at the footage that we have so ready seen throughout the day it's clear that there have been some civilians on the streets of the city it is a victory day. not just in that city but in a lot of places in southeastern ukraine obviously there have been some families with children we also have a report from an eyewitness describing the events as they have been unfolding in mariupol. are still trying to armored vehicles on main street there were
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heading towards the city council building a lot of people were gathered there were also some people approaching the local interior ministry building and it looks like ukraine's forces are shooting out of the legs of those who are trying to come close to it now that building of the interior ministry has been set on fire reportedly from the tank shells being fired at it at that time at the time of those reports there also has been information that people could be inside that building a cameraman working for roughly artist video agency has been shot through the stomach and one did you know doctors say his life is out of danger at the moment and he is expected to make a full recovery however listen to what this man describes has happened to the camera man the man has asked that we keep his identity unknown at this point your correspondent who is showing the people in mass that he was unarmed trying to convince them that he was a journalist he was
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a member of the press that he suddenly decided to run across the street were on a shot was heard and he fell down exactly why the ukrainian military has decided to carry out an offensive on the victory day knowing full well that people are going to be on the street and we're talking about civilians women and children is not yet clear of. well many people in medio poll had come out to celebrate victory day and here's footage purporting to show the army shooting at an unarmed crowd. that is not. demonstrators it headed to the police headquarters reportedly to prevent ukrainian army storming it. is a former british counterterrorism intelligence officer believes the violence there . should be an alarming signal for those still supporting the actions of the interim leaders in kiev. when this kind of assault is mounted particularly by troops who only have shall we say heavy weapons and live ammunition
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i don't have that seem to have rock control equipment plastic bullets and so on then civilian casualties and deaths are almost inevitable that that would have been known by a careful thought is although there's been no of course as one would expect there's been no comments of condemnation of about what's going on in the model for now swear from the u.s. and e.u. governments nonetheless some states this is going to become quite interesting for the governments should start supporting this kind of and action against what's until now i believe is now actually consisting of ordinary people trying to push back against time. civilians in medio pull of flocking to the streets to hold up the advance of government forces into the city and quite literally putting their lives on the line. and in this video from the city you can see local surrounding and personnel
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carriers in an attempt to stop it the troops though appear to pay little attention and make clear that they ought to continue scenes like this reportedly happening all over the city suggesting that if the advance continues there are likely to be more civilian casualties. will be closely following the situation in eastern ukraine on air and online as well had to altie dot com for more pictures and footage from the scene and of course the latest things. the to to right to the scene. first struck. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram i. will be in the.
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rusher is marking one of its most cherished holidays victory days sixty nine years ago the soviet army finally defeated the nazis in the great patriotic war people all across the country celebrating today and our correspondent neil harvey what's the festivities in crimea city of sevastopol. the crowds have been tremendous starting back this morning when there was a military parade at ten o'clock in the morning i was amazed to see so many people had turned up so early in the day they were lining the streets out of ventured that the entire city. to come out in full show for this very personal celebration for them because it marks seventy years since the day when sevastopol was liberated from nazi occupation on may the knife nineteen forty four and as the parade progressed through the streets there was a really tangible sense of national pride just recently we had the naval parade and also an aerial display in the naval parade president putin had arrived
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he's traveled over very quickly from moscow he saluted the crews of each individual ship in the convoy and then he took time to make a statement himself at your age if i'm honored to be here in the heroic city of sevastopol on this sacred day and to celebrate our country's most important holiday with you our country's victory over nazis will always be an example of bravery stories system and patriotism we're trying to follow your example idea of veterans and the fact that crimea and sevastopol have returned to their homeland it was your achievement as well. still more to come the renowned area aerobatic teams the russian knights and the swiss second putting on another great show we had a glimpse of that already and it was spectacular doesn't use an os from the crowds they've gone for a little break they can be coming back on mass i'm a little bit terrified as are so many people here. well festivities and parades big and small are taking place all across the country but the greatest show was in
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moscow. a spectacular parade featured thousands of troops marching through red square. they represented every branch of the russian armed forces they were then followed by a military convoy of over one hundred and fifty vehicles and then a spectacular display by the air force sixty nine aircraft flew over to commemorate sixty nine years since the defeat of the nazis. will be a ray of russian military equipment on showing cupid everything from small land vehicles to huge aircraft this for instance as the tiger combat car is often called the russian harbor then there's the topple em that's one of russia's most recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches it comes in at twenty two meters long and a number of those rolled straight through the center of moscow but if you think that's
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big then how about the cargo plane there it is now this monster can carry more weight than any other aircraft currently produced in the world and it's also the world's second heaviest plane it was very hard to miss as you can see there and of course the air force fly over is the highlight and perhaps the most spectacular part of the parade every year the skies roared to life in the morning with the supersonic birds of prey it was an impressive display of military hardware on the ground and in the skies you can catch the highlights from the you tube. i. the allied forces helped the soviet union in its victory over the nazis arctic sea convoys brought essential supplies to troops in the northern port cities. brings us more about those brave sailors. i'm standing
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on the deck of the h.m.s. belfast which of course is herself a ship that's a veteran of the arctic convoys it's hard to imagine where we'd be today if britain and the soviet union hadn't worked together in the way that they did throughout world war two the arctic convoys were ships full of british sailors that were taking vital supplies for the red army to the soviet union and they were backed by german air raids they were battered by attacks from german u. boats and of course buffeted by the elements as they made their way through the icy arctic waters and three thousand british sailors lost their lives during that campaign but it's taken a relatively long time for these veterans to receive formal recognition of their heroism it was back in two thousand and twelve that the british government awarded them with an arctic star and it was just last year that the russian government was
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given permission by the british government to award the british veterans with russia's very own bravery awarded the. medal because up until that point british veterans were. receiving foreign awards so we've got twenty very pleased british veterans who've just received a call. on the h.m.s. belfast here in london but of course today isn't just about the awards it's about celebrating victory day it's about veterans british and russian meeting up catching up and commemorating their brothers in arms who sadly aren't here to celebrate with us today the war left its mark on almost every family in russia. these photos we've been showing throughout our coverage that real people all of them or the relatives and loved ones of those working here on this channel go out to those who sacrificed so much to make this possible.
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repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. ignore it. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. wages its military operation to rest in eastern ukraine pro told me protesters there are prepared to hold a referendum on the region status now the plan is to hold a vote in the nets and lugansk regions some six hundred kilometers away from the capital and that's going to happen on sunday when to take a look at the key demands of those defying the interim government but first they want ukraine to be a federation and they have the right to choose their own regional government and there are also money issues bothering them the east the lion's share of the
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country's industry and they would like to pay their taxes locally plus another important principle of federalization the right to have regional languages but that's for control of defense and foreign policy that will remain in the capital while washington wants the planned referendums in ukraine scrapped calling them illegitimate and the assistant secretary of state who has been very active there in a country has had to answer some tough questions about america's alleged whitewashing of radical groups linked to kiev authorities we did have a legitimate election before. the elected. removed after really. major street violence there were pictures that people of people running around with these that were we were told. first of all the vast majority of those who participated on the my dawn were peaceful protesters if you had
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a chance to see the pictures some many of us visited including many members here and there were mothers and grandmothers and now that are in the main doing every day i have a lever however before i go on i saw those pictures as well i also saw a lot of pictures of people throwing fireballs a groups of policemen were huddled in the over in a corner where people were shooting into the ranks of police so yes there were mothers with flowers but there were also very dangerous street fighters who were engaged in those demonstrations the question is were there a neo nazi groups involved in the. there were as i said almost every color of ukraine was represented including some including breaking answer is yes then will be torn you can also face more criticism from the house committee on foreign affairs as artie's more important reports. in addition to the exchange we just heard victoria nuland was also grilled about the u.s.
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administration's how powers are at an inconsistent policy of supporting self-determination another congressman specifically asked miss nuland why the u.s. has supported the independence of south sudan and kosovo for example but dismisses efforts in other parts of the world similar efforts but she explained that the obama administration opposes the changing of borders by force now during her two our testimony before the u.s. house committee on foreign affairs miss nuland reiterated america's commitment and support for the core point of government in ukraine and not support has been quite lucrative she says that the u.s. has provided eighteen million dollars in non-lethal assistance to kiev and nine million dollars in funding to be used for the upcoming may twenty fifth election and the interim government is also supposed to be using those funds of for their overall public relations campaign the u.s. assistant secretary of state did have knowledge that president vladimir putin on monday publicly called for
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a deescalation in violence when he asked for the upcoming referendum in eastern ukraine to be delayed nonetheless to miss newlin disregarded the statements made by the russian leader insisting still that moscow is determined to destabilize ukraine . alone for the moment congratulations to world war two veterans that coming from everywhere today even from outer space so screw has expressed his gratitude to those who help save the world from fascism back in one nine hundred forty five good to be in motion section on the website to see the full greeting. race to live on the moon is well and truly on with plans to have human settlements in place within twenty years or more of russia's ambitious pluto program to want to build. a decade behind bars and one fills in the lashes that's what one of the activists is. facing after being found guilty of insulting islam but always crime setting up
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an online forum for public debate well last year but there it was initially sentenced to seven years in prison and six hundred lashes but after he tried to appeal the verdict the court added three more years and four hundred more lashes on top of that have to pay a fine of roughly two hundred seventy thousand dollars we spoke to his wife to find out how she's planning to fight for a husband's freedom. do you think for the mother for one is of course we do not agree with this verdict and will take it to the appeals court i'm also counting on media and legal pressure to help us ready for lives and breathes freedom and he realizes the cost of having an opinion in saudi arabia and what it means to defend it i think he will only be stronger after all he has gone through the saudi regime is based on you know lateral islam and fundamental islam it doesn't recognize that each generation has its own opinions and thoughts and so it sees in re an insult to it and to islam so the prisons are filled with people from across the spectrum and
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have different opinions there aren't many in saudi arabia who call for freedom but there are a number of people like rafe with a verdict is outraged human rights activists worldwide and international has urged saudi arabia to quash what they call an outrageous sentence the group also accuses the saudi authorities of using any means to crush all forms of dissent. from amnesty international believes that riyadh is starting to find a list of this ways to crack down on activists. unfortunately they're only making progress in terms of dealing with suppression of this that in other words they are coming up with creative or less publicized ways of silencing activists harassment intimidation things that you cannot basically collect evidence on and more and more basically they're going after this process of giving them a couple of phone calls threatening them and taking them to court and it was really disappointing that when president obama went through and basically said almost
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nothing about it he said nothing about human rights doesn't even part of the discussion to use double standards when they talk about saudi arabia we have sent president obama the american administration the state department they're very well they are very well informed of the types of violations occurring in the country but they do not speak publicly they did not go out to the public and and condemn these violations. in other global headlines now the tens of thousands of students have taken to the streets of the chilean capital to demand for free quality education the initially peaceful protests turned violent when who did demonstrators starting throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the police twenty officers were injured and around one hundred people were arrested president michelle bachelet who was elected for the second time about a month ago first came to power in two thousand and six promising to overhaul education since then millions have joined protests demanding she sticks to that pledge. police think you'll drink ongoing anti-government protests in the vendors wailing capital he was shot in the neck by a sniper during
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a raid on the opposition's makeshift camps over forty people and killed in the protest since february because of the dura has accused the us of funding the opposition movement and says it is behind a plot to remove him from power. and now to protesters in thailand their demands for change of the current political system were met with tear gas and water cannon during a rally outside a government compound two days ago a court ordered the prime minister out of office but her party is still running the interim government and intends to organize an election in july which it is expected to win the opposition wants the government out of the vote. a key syrian opposition leader called on the u.s. to start supplying his forces with arms to fight the government on a visit to washington ahmed al jobber promised the weapons would remain in safe hands with the recent pictures suggest anti-government forces in syria already have some impressive weaponry.
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on thursday a massive bomb blast leveled a hotel used by government troops as a military base in aleppo and the device exploded in an underground tunnel dogged by rebels as they tried to bomb some government held areas of the city position fighters claim some fifty syrian army soldiers were killed in the blast becky he's director of the anti war on soko nation says it makes no sense to divide the opposition in syria into good guys and bad guy ends up civil war pits two sides against each other two armies in all civil wars there are different tendencies factions shades the opposition inside of syria includes a notorious terrorist forces and they have used terrorism of course supported by the united states using proxy forces got power in turkey and saudi arabia to to finance and to arm them but they've been carrying out terrorist actions the the idea that there's a dichotomy between a good opposition and the bad opposition is just effect a fiction of a myth in the face of rising public attention and media here in the u.s.
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about the nature of the terrorist organizations that are fighting the assad government. a recap of breaking news now that this is footage for pole and it's where around twenty people are being killed off to the ukrainian army and to the city. as you can see the shots in the streets on all of these possibly severely injured ukrainian armored vehicles reported live from far out of the people in the streets and they're all reports said the fatalities. are of the interior ministry claims the dead are from self-defense groups killed while trying to storm the local police headquarters and from moscow the foreign minister sergei lavrov has told us secretary of state john kerry that between kiev and ukraine southeast should be launched a soon as possible proton of the protesters in the region say they won't engage in any to next week you know inspired but he would. have to take them i would of
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course keep you. across all those developments in ukraine in the next in the meantime it is breaking the set you know. you know we human beings sort of live our lives in the moment even recent history is still history and will we are all busy so it is easy for the magicians of media to wave their hands around and make us forget about things in fact wasn't just a few months ago that protesters on the streets of kiev are crying out for democracy they claim that the crimes of the end of covert government prove that it was illegitimate but now that the managers of the protest movement are in power boy are they singing a different tune a few months ago they were crying about european values and freedom of speech now that they have the power they banned russian t.v.
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channels from airing they claimed then that because they could get hundreds of people to storm government buildings that they were the legitimate power but now what anti kiev protesters. do it that's just mob violence when they drove a bulldozer into and through cocktails at police who only beat them in return with clubs that was a violation of their human rights but now an etiquette of forces protests they send in the army and right sector thugs to break them up or just kill them if you just take the time to stop and think back just a few months ago you see that the yet so new government is doing exactly the same things that they accuse the government of doing over that zone and viva flagrant hypocrisy but that's just my opinion.
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what is up folks i'm out here martin and this is breaking the set so if you didn't already know the u.s. is at war with the entire african continent well least that's what one sheet dot com openly declared in a recent meeting with dozens of military contractors inviting a piece of apple pie in fact the u.s. military operations already average more than one a day in almost every country from algeria to djibouti and just this week the obama administration it expanded its big plans for africa and announced it had renewed a contract with the beauty coast a military base there for the next ten years djibouti is a strategic point for the u.s. intel launched counterterrorism operations in the region and most importantly drone strikes in somalia and yemen and the country is barely the size of the state of new jersey it receives thirty eight million dollars a year to host an extension of the military industrial complex in fact according to
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al-jazeera the pentagon has inform congress of plans for a dramatic expansion of its facilities in djibouti proposing more than one billion dollars in construction projects and this week's renewal didn't come without a massive price tag either in fact the u.s. agreed to nearly double the base fee djibouti to sixty three million dollars a year without really stating the reason why such an increase but why would there be an incentive to tell the people where their tax dollars are going when the public doesn't even know that they're funding an undeclared war against an entire continent so if you think that it's finally time to stop expanding the u.s. military's presence to every corner of the earth join me and let's break the set. please please please. please be very hard to take at least. when you get back with the others there are no. please.
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please. please. please please. please. if you look at the data from last week's job report the department of labor economic recovery from the financial crisis appears to be on the up and up the us created nearly two hundred ninety thousand jobs last month the unemployment rate has fallen the six point three percent and the stock market is booming one only needs to take a quick glance at the factors behind the numbers to see that the so-called recovery is largely a mirage so the unemployment rate has dropped sharply almost entirely due to people abandoning their job searches out of hopelessness and fact according to the a.p.
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number of long term unemployed fell three hundred thousand the sharpest drop in two and a half years to three point five million economists said most of them likely gave up looking for work rather than found jobs but of course it's not just misleading unemployment numbers that signal an economy still suffering from a once in a generation financial collapse and enormous percentage of americans still don't have enough money to feed themselves or their families in fact according to most recent two thousand and twelve data there are forty nine million americans who are food insecure mean limited access to an adequate amount of food so while politicians continue to tout the great recovery. that doesn't mean a whole lot to the millions of hungry americans in fact the percentage of food insecure americans today is nearly identical to the percentage of food insecure americans from two thousand and eight at the height of the crisis and a new report released from last month from the organization feeding america outlines just how bad the problem has become the report breaks down hunger in every
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county in the u.s. and found in a stunning eleven counties more than one hundred thousand children are food insecure and while hunger is a nationwide issue the report also found that minorities are disproportionately affected by the problem of the one hundred and one majority african-american counties in the u.s. and eyebrow raising ninety four of those suffer from the high food insecurity rate and of the states where the worst hunger rates are nearly all have significant black populations including arkansas with a nineteen point four percent rate mississippi with a twenty two point three percent food insecurity rate in alabama georgia and north carolina all near nineteen percent of course this is a problem that's solvable and fact the report notes it would cost a mere two dollars and twenty six cents a day per person in order to tackle mass hunger and considering that the u.s. will spend one point four billion dollars in two thousand and fifteen on foreign food aid for many countries with severe human rights abuses it's absolutely insane
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that this government can't take care of the humber hunger epidemic right here at home. but unfortunately the political lead turned out of touch with what it means to go to bed hungry every night because in the washington bubble slashing eight billion dollars from the federal food stamp program doesn't really affect you when you're drinking chris stall and shoveling caviar down your throat. the controversial stop and frisk program has been the subject of a heavy legal debate in cities across the country yet despite the scrutiny surrounding the tactic it remains a popular crime fighting policy just like new york city in charlottesville virginia a new study found that under this program blacks are stopped at a rate twice as high as whites the racial bias is even more telling when you
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consider that african-americans make up less than twenty percent of the population in charlottesville but on average they account for seventy percent of the stops now pulses like stop and frisk don't simply occur in a vacuum and such criminally racially motivated laws have a long historical context behind them so joining me now to talk about how criminal justice policies and media culture of shape the racial divide in america i'm joined by the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture and author of the book the condemnation of blackness dr callil mohamed thank you so much for coming on and. thank you very much for having me so dr you've said that no white community in america would tolerate stop and frisk in its communities how did we get to the point that this clearly racist policy continues and many us cities. well because it's had such a longstanding practice that it's built into the infrastructure of most of our cities in fact the very idea of systematically racial profiling black people really is invented in the north not really in the south partly because the logic of
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policies of stop and frisk are these kind of colorblind race neutral policies ostensibly meant to say this is not about black people this is about criminals though the association between blackness and criminality by the end of the late nineteenth century is a pretty solid connection and there's still this kind of liberal idea. evidence of places like charlottesville home to uva and new york city home to the liberal capital of america that this is not a racist policy and you're working on a new book called disappearing act the end of white criminality in the age of jim crow which deals with changing perceptions of african-american culture i want to talk specifically about what you discovered about how media shapes our perception of black crime. well interestingly if we go back to a period not too long ago although really most americans would say all the god that's the distant past back in the one nine hundred twenty s. there are extant examples during the period of prohibition where italians and irish
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and even jewish gangsters are making headline news the idea that their individual identity and our newspapers and then media culture was critical to at least their humanity they had names and in some cases they had an ethnic identifier oftentimes when those same people appeared these are ethnic gangsters of prohibition pure alongside african-americans it was for example bob giuliani and a negro so the notion that black people's individual ality their actual humanity is is subsumed in a racial category demonstrates that our media culture for a long time hasn't really cared too much about individual blackness only that black people have a crime problem and that is true in many cases today as it was back in the one nine hundred twenty and i like to go back i want to actually talk about this term that you call the new deal is a shin of white criminality i wanted you explain what you meant by that term. well
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essentially back in the new deal period not only did we extend social security benefits to the white working class is not only do we allow for collective bargaining a struggle that had taken four decades in the midst of the robber baron era of the gilded age to essentially say to white america you deserve a chance in this capitalist economy there was a moment where that same ethic that same moment with franklin delano roosevelt said you know what we also shouldn't punish people who are victims of class inequality who are victims of capitalist avarice that leave people few options but to engage in crimes of poverty and to profit from underground economies and so this notion of new deal is a sion was a way of saying we're going to also extend economic benefits to criminals so they built baseball stadiums behind bars they built movie houses because this is a captive audience in an era of gangster films and all of those benefits
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essentially were given to white ethnic men and not african-americans super fascinating dr mohamad and let's bring it to today in terms of the media coverage of course they have they have latched on to donald sterling and rightly so but at the same time it's become a fever pitch you've talked a lot about this and you've said that you know it's not just simply due to his age what's the response of people who say that his remarks are an outliner from an older generation that doesn't represent current society. well i think we're kidding ourselves there are pockets of america that are young and old that are pushing back against the perceived threat of black and brown people taking over america and we see this obviously in the political organizing around the tea party which continues to say this is not about race this is about the size of government we see it in the most racist caricature is of our president but we see it in the soft bigotry of the ways in which even the attack on affirmative action isn't about what justice roberts is doing on the courts or anthony kennedy it's also about young plaintiffs
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like abigail fisher who feel like somehow that her whiteness is being discounted in favor of black and brown people or places that the university of texas or of course more recently at the university of michigan and i think we have to pay attention to the fact that there are pockets of young people in america even though they've been offended as being quote unquote the m.t.v. or abused one generation who really believe that america has wiped the slate clean they've grown up in schools that don't teach history particularly black history so they think that any disparities are function of personal behavior and that there should not be any attempt to redress historical wrongs right i love of people say oh well we have a black president so racism doesn't exist. superficial analysis of the roots and let's talk about those roots dr you said that the disparity and what children learn in school in the reality on the ground you discuss that disparity what effect is this having a younger generation to think that we live in a post racial america and how do we move beyond that education. well first we start
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by teaching so the it's not it's not that we can actually move beatitudes we actually have to do the work in our classrooms and that battle is a legislative battle across state houses in this country so we know for example in texas that they change the curriculum to do a little bit less civil rights and a little bit more neo conservative history we know that in arizona they criminalized ethnic studies so that mexican american descendant children can't learn about mexican their mexican heritage because it's anti-american and we know that even civil rights history something that we proudly wear on our sleeve with the the ongoing quote from clive and bundy that martin luther king you know didn't get to finish his job i mean this notion that the civil rights history is so ubiquitously known is absurd it's precisely not right so first we have to start teaching it and also we have to hold white people accountable for a history in the same way that we hold most americans including our secretary of state accountable for say the holocaust notion absolutely unfortunately we're out of time thank you so much dr mohamed really appreciate coming on thank you for
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having me. coming up i'll talk to tom hartman about why a.d.h. dean may not be a disease at all states and. the germans could do whatever they want once the spot is you could take any man in. and put a sign on the right whatever explanation it was don't like to be communist or hearted suitable for. ways it is that is what all started here the village down. with it was at the exact moment eleven in the morning when the first seven times of the.
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movie have you know. first battle. of us soldiers. but if they gave their lives for this land and they protected us. yes they took it over but sevastopol never surrendered there were no defenders left . so as the president said i stop all came back home and. it has russian roots and nobody can deny that it's right. personal data are trusted that cloud service. that insures protecting your privacy. could be arranged to randomly get stolen. or become a target of the n.s.a.
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. what if unclouded sky is right above the cloud. stepping back from the brink or just a momentary lull when this crisis to the surprise of many president vladimir putin continues to back diplomacy and dialogue to diffuse ukraine tragedy remains to be seen whether they can even washington are interested in either in the meantime for many in the east and south of ukraine civil war has already begun.
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america is the most medicated country in the world as according to mayo clinic nearly seventy percent of americans are on at least one prescription drug and twenty five percent of us are on five or more and while many of these people are legitimately diagnosed with the ailments that require prescriptions and tire industry exist to exploit people's ignorance regarding treatment perhaps no disorder is more prevalent and mis diagnosed today and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or a.d.h. according the center for disease control and prevention a whopping see. six point four million children aged seventeen or under receive a diagnosis at some point in their lives a whopping forty one percent increase from the decade prior to two thirds of those diagnosed are true with prescriptions of methamphetamine based adderall and ritalin which could lead to a whole host of other problems like addiction and the liver talk of the nation t.v. host and former psychotherapist tom hartman author of multiple books on the subject concludes the origin of the condition might be evolutionary and the result of add
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up to behavior instead of the stigmatized disease society tells us so to break it all down tom join me earlier to us at three characteristics of a.d.h. being how they fit into his theory of hunter vs farmer. we humans have over the one hundred sixty five thousand years of human history but particular in the last ten thousand years we've lived in two kinds of worlds we've lived in hunting gathering worlds and we've lived in agricultural worlds and for a hundred other we're if you're going through the forest looking or the jungle or whatever it may be looking for lunch if you're constantly scanning your environment looking around you're more likely to see you know hey there's that rabbit over there that's going to be launcher that bear over there that's going to make me it's lunch so this is a survival skill so that's the honey gathering but in the agricultural world. you know if you're constantly being distracted instead you're supposed to be picking bugs of plants hour after hour day after day week after week after month it doesn't work right or in
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a classroom if you notice in the insect walk across the ceiling is that all of the teacher doesn't work so distractibility number one works in the hunter world doesn't work at the farm or world impulsivity making quick decisions if you're chasing that rabbit through the woods and a deer comes by you don't have time to sit down with a pad to pad it's at least a risk benefit analysis right it was me easier to catch deer more meat hartnett by the time they're both gone right you've got to make a decision and in fact probably be acting on that decision before you even realize that you've been gauged in a cognitive process. and behavior preceding awareness of cognition is literally the psychiatric dictionary definition of impulsivity it works in the hunting gathering world in fact again it's survival skills. in the farming world on the other hand this is the kid who blurt something out before the teacher calls on him this is the kid who adore the adult for that matter who is engaging in a behavior without thinking it through you know it and without going through that
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whole cognitive process so in a farming world a t.v. doesn't work as much and then the need for high levels of arousal in hunting gathering world the person who's going to be the most successful the most likely to pass along their genes and to succeed is the person who gets up in the morning and says you know it sounds like fun let's go out there with those things that want to eat me as much as i want to eat them and find lunch right whereas the person who is highly risk averse who's afraid of taking risks that person's going to pay for tip there's lions and tigers and bears up i'm just going to sit here at the cave and star now in a farming world you wouldn't want somebody who needs stimulation you'd want somebody who's just perfectly content to sit on the front porch and watch the wheat grow for seven or eight weeks before it's time to harvest it because if they were easily bored they'd say ahmadi here you know i'm going to go off to the big city or something so my suggestion back in one thousand nine hundred published the first paper in the journal of birth a molecular psychiatry and then in ninety two i published a to be
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a different perception my first book on this was that these differences were adaptive i propose that they were genetic i propose that they were probably associated not so much with serotonin but more with the main one of the neuro transmitters the that is associated with a rousing and sensory perception and. in many cases rather than dealing with these kids or adults with drugs we could successfully. fix their problem by changing their environment by putting them in an environment that's more like hunting environment rather than a farming environment where this change in our schools are changing their job and tom when you first published your paper it was pretty controversial in the scientific and young and psychiatric community got trashed here we are thirty years later where you actually had to research confirmed that this is actually a genetic trait and it's not necessarily a disease that means that you're broken and you can be fixed on drugs robert noyce
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is the guy who was the head of the human genome project went off after that was done went out to u.c. davis and got a got a chair and granton did this collaborative thing with the university and the university of beijing and i wrote about it my last book about eighty the edison gene and they pulled blood from several hundred individual groups of people who were identifiably these people have been one hundred gatherers for a thousand years these people been farmers for a thousand years and what they found in. the world over a large number of them was that there were these doping differences that they were associated with the genes the d.t.d. our genes doping transporter doping receptor genes and there were certain illegals these pieces of the genes that flipped things on and off. that were on for dopamine in the farmers and were off for dopamine in the hunters which is exactly what i had suggested so two years ago one of the larger psychiatric groups
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published actually an apology to me. part of it was right it's amazing i mean it isn't the whole of asia and. according to data from the centers for disease control the number of children diagnosed with aids has risen by forty two percent since two thousand and three i mean that's not the standing now eleven percent of children aged seventeen are diagnosed with this condition why are we seeing such a massive rise and how do people know i mean now that we're out of the hundred and gathering in and out of kind of these farmlands and into modern society how do you know what diagnoses are. correct and incorrect yeah. well first of all you're seeing the rise because it's become a multi-billion dollar industry two drugs have been rolled out relatively newer drugs since back in the ninety's when i was first writing about this stuff and back then it was a multi hundred million dollar industry now it's a multi billion dollar industry so you've got you know doctors being. pushed to diagnose to and you've got for teachers it's easier you know hey just medicate the
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kid a psychiatrist psychologist increasingly insurance companies only pay for six minutes ten minutes twelve minutes you know you can't really do let's work on your life kind of stuff so i think that the increase in diagnosis is not that we're seeing more people with a.d.t. . there are more people with. neurological challenges and we're seeing that clearly with autism and i think those are environmental but i don't think katie is part of that some maybe some of the behaviors that look like a.d.t. but i think mostly it's been driven by this this industry with regard to what we can do about it we actually still live in a hunting gathering and a farming society if as an adult if i want to have a hunting gathering world i become an entrepreneur which is what i've done all my life you know you on television become an investigative reporter you become a cop you you do you do some you e.m.t. you know you do something where there where there's adrenaline and energy and
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constant change and constant challenge and every day having to go out of that cave where there's things that want to eat you just as much as you want to eat them on the other hand if you are the opposite end of a.d.d. the overfocus in syndrome which we tend not to diagnose because these are the kids that get lost in class but some of them have a challenge to. it and then you don't want to find yourself in the job of being an investigative reporter you'd be much better off being a bookkeeper so the. there are ways to reinvent our schools to make them more stimulating for kids and there has been a mistake two thousand and ten michigan state university study found that nearly one million children are potentially misdiagnosed with eighty eight d. let's talk about drugs like adderall because then anyone who's taken adderall of course in college staying up to study for finals it's crack i mean it really does feel like that and i'm just wondering talk about what's in this drug and how you're not saying that no children should be on medication or just saying let's let's
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analyze it on a case by case basis just talk about that sure. first of all there's now there's a new family drugs for a deed that are just kind of more set it is some kids are being even put out as an ace psychotics i think that's a bad idea personally. because it just it just slows them down the way that the stimulant drugs work and it started out back in the one nine hundred thirty s. there was a fellow who was marketing his magical mathematics pill to our schools and in thirty four dr benning i think his name was and and it was benzedrine and dexedrine came along and then methamphetamine came along and the adderall is three different kinds of meth it's two kinds of methamphetamine plus decks and they all dissolve the different rates or metabolized defer it so it's it has the effect of being time released but it's basically speed it's the same stuff that meth addicts are using and most meth addicts are probably people with a.d.t. who are self medicating by the way which is a whole nother area of conversation so so what happens is you know for for
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you know your viewers who have tried cocaine or meth or adderall you know legally or illegally is you notice. what the what these drugs do is they say they raise the levels of dope when they which basically turns up the volume control inside your head lights are brighter sounds are louder sensation is more noticeable. just the five senses all turn up tastes are actually more vivid. so for somebody who has low levels of dopamine who would be a hunter gatherer who is constantly trying to reach out into the world and be more stimulated suddenly being chemically stimulated causes them to go. wow you know the world is here i don't have to i don't have to you know get my teacher to yell at me to get the adrenaline rush to feel ok i can just have it so you know it's no the problem is that there's side effects associated with speed there's
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a whole bunch of them but if you said i i'm not a total opponent of these drugs i think that we overuse them wildly but you have to balance particular for kids who don't have a choice of trying a different school you know their and the school that they're in they're stuck with there are people who have a job and they really don't have a choice of another job the you have to balance the side effects of the drug versus the side effects of failing and kids being kicked out of school in the tenth grade i mean that that can be wildly more destructive than the side effect of taking adderall i would however say and this is you know not like giving medical advice and i'm a psychotherapist not a psychiatrist so i can't get drug medical advice anyway but i would say that it was a so your purpose i would say the star with the gentlest drugs possible you know there's you know there are the ritalin and there's even
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a variation on ritalin it's de riddle and i'm forgetting the brand name off the top my head that's far gentler of them than the unfettered means or dexidrine time release with low dose texture rather than adderall adderall is like going after a fly with a ten gauge shotgun. you know it pains me to think of how doctors are treating this and kind of how just the misconceptions about this disease tom how can we foster this absolution area trait and not just dope up millions of kids you know we have on his drug we. i have to honor we you know we have to understand the difference in hunters and farmers and start. hunters the way we have has historically honored farmers and once we start doing that then we can change our institutions our schools our workplaces to ways that that help them. all right thank you so much tom hartman really appreciate coming on. that's our show you guys to make and tomorrow when i break the stuff all over again i'm going to.
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i promised my mother that i would come here. six million is terrifying just imagine six million lives and fates. the most and i hope to search for the records of people who went missing during world war two between one hundred forty one and one hundred forty five years. you know we know where he was buried. and so was it all started with a call from grandma's cousin where you the she said a distant relative of ours had been found but that image that we asked was just left to help we just left found all the records. that i feel obliged to do this
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it's just when i see that i'm helping people i just feel better about myself. war is probably the most complex human activity. still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. kill a bunch of people who don't know what they're up there as there are of us people. reading. this summer shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because of it because it was night times four in the morning even the best given
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the mesh shoulders. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood and author. and camaraderie and in this sense it was in this context that has absolutely no place. to go to the try to. say that people are going to be going you know what are you like for the story changing every minute. cut me. know what. my own life but i. think that's setting goals. these cases most elite lives.
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the. breaking news of victory day footage from the eastern ukrainian town of money or poll appears to show people being shot in the street after the army launched a crackdown on protesters. ukraine's interior ministry says around twenty people have been killed during the military operation the crowds rushed to the local police headquarters to stop the army from storming it. and these are live pictures now from moscow where it's a day of grief and glory. as russia celebrates a victory day and the main celebrations tape.
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