Transcripts For ALJAZ The Day Israel Attacked America 20171009

A peaceful settlement in syria that will pave the way for reconstruction and despite president Bashar Al Assads gains in recent months peace still seems a long way off. Aljazeera tripoli in northern lebanon. Will plenty more have him on the aljazeera news hiring pleading im giving up on him in hong kong and they are next thanks for this and when we meet the young talents representing the next generation of artists. And a very Public Statement from the Vice President does mike pence holds out of an f n l k i have a feeling players those details coming up in sports which are. At least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying ruhi endure refugees from me a martyr bangladesh capsized ten of them were children lets cross over to mohammed germ june in coxs bazaar with the very latest and of course another boat capsizes what more do we know about the circumstances of this incident mohammed. So were told that this happened late sunday evening that it happened close to the southern tip of bangladesh and that a boat carrying as many as possibly one hundred refugees thats the number thats believed by the Border Guards weve been speaking with that it capsized and then it sank now were told that at least twelve bodies have been found that includes ten children one man one woman and that at this point thirteen people are been rescued the rescue operation is ongoing but i must tell you that at this hour it is expected that the death toll will rise now this really speaks to the magnitude of this crisis this is the third time that a boat carrying will hinder refugees has capsized since Early September it was incident september twenty eighth where dozens of people died there was an incident on september sixth where around twenty three people died at the u. N. Has said that they dont see really any end in sight to this crisis is that more and more desperate refugees are going to try to cross in to bangladesh whether it be over the river across the river or whether it be over land and i can tell you that just a few hours ago we were at one of the makeshift refugee camps here we saw hundreds of people that had crossed in by foot earlier in the day all scared hungry desperate worried about what will happen to them now that they have fled violence and are in bangladesh so of course when they arrive the looking for help and thats the real concern for aid agencies isnt it is that. The help that they need in the. Coming it may cause of the problems. There is a huge concern right now so hail about the spread of disease these camps that we have been visiting the conditions are absolutely appalling this is this is an ending misery that you see when you go to these camps the conditions are already unhygenic when it rains which it often does here they only become more unsanitary because of that aid workers weve been speaking with are very. Concerned that the first cholera cases may appear here in the next few days that there could be other disease at that spread over the next few days the next few months they are trying to bolster the amount of aid here in medicine that they can prevent that from happening but its not just the Health Issues you go into these camps you speak to these people you hear horrific stories so many people weve spoken with have told us about atrocities they say were committed in their villages by me and mars military we spoke to one young man an eighteen year old named Mohammed El Hoss and who said that he was shot three times by manned mars military in his village and dozens of people there were killed the day that it was attacked heres his story. Despite the relief his family tries to provide eighteen year old or hindu refugee mohammed is still haunted for a while his mother and siblings try to give him a brief respite from the extreme heat and humidity but no matter how much medicine is given or the number of bandages applied his scars both physical and psychological will remain. He took his out from home and to hands behind our backs they pulled us along the roads and kicked as they pulled us through the village through the jungle and took us to join another group of people that they made as lie down on top of one another mohammed will says when soldiers from me and mars army began shooting at them he was hit twice in the back. At first he pretended to be dead but then again when i opened my eyes to see if theyd left a note when i opened my eyes they saw me and shot me here two of his brothers were killed in the armys attack on mungo a village in iraq and stayed on august twenty seventh mohammed who was convinced he also would not survive in the clinton who i thought i would die so i prayed i thought to myself im not going to see my relatives anymore mohamed tools brother sure if i was desperate to get him some help theyre going to doctors but theyre not doctors we couldnt find any doctor there was military everywhere so i couldnt go to the pharmacy and get him any medicine people were telling me i should go break down the door of the pharmacy and bring him medicine but i couldnt go there because of the military no choice tells us that in addition to his two brothers who were killed dozens more of his relatives were also executed during the attack a recent report by Human Rights Watch included interviews with witnesses and survivors who told the organization that me and morris military didnt just carry out mass killings that day but that they also sexually assaulted stabbed and beat villagers who were gathering for safety in a residential compound and while the u. N. Has called the actions of man mars military a textbook example of ethnic cleansing mean mars government has categorically denied carrying out any atrocities against the rangers. Or mohammad tools heartbroken mother there is no time to dwell on the past taking care of her family even in conditions as miserable as these is her priority as a living why didnt they when i see my sons williams i dont feel like going back to my village and also i set fire to a high and they said fine everywhere we saw that and we had no choice but to leave. They may have been able to leave the violence behind but for mohammed will its clear the horror of what he lived through will never really go away. So hail the trauma that these refugees that so many of them has experience have experienced is absolutely severe and thats yet another reason why aid workers are so worried about their plight well for the moment mohammed well leave it there of course come back to you as that situation seems to develop day by day thank you Angela Merkel has announced a cap on germanys refugee intake in an attempt to unite her Coalition Partners following last months election the german chancellor agreed to limit the number of new arrivals to two hundred thousand a year it appears to be a concession to her partys Bavarian Coalition party which has been one of the strongest critics of merkels refugees policies. The un says a peacekeeper has been killed in an attack on a military base in the democratic republic of congo rebels from a ugandan dominated group attacked a un military base in eastern democratic congo on monday killing one peacekeeper and injuring twelve others the un mission said that the attack took place in beni where un soldiers have been battling the allied Democratic Forces which is dominated by hardline ugandan muslims. Well in a few minutes well have the weather with staff but still ahead here on aljazeera. And fifty years after his death thousands rally across latin america to remember the revolutionary icon the shape of our. Also one of the middle east eternal issues water becomes a factor in the kurdish push for independence. And joe will tell you how this american finally ended a fifteen year but a failure that the chicago marathon thats coming up in sport. From the waves of the self. To the contours of the east. Hello there its raining fairly heavily for some of us in vietnam at the moment and if anything looks like its going to get worse its all thanks to this whirling massive cloud here this is a tropical depression so the winds arent particularly strong little Strong Enough for it to be classed as a Tropical Storm or a typhoon but still its an organized system and our system is whats giving us all rain already to parts of it now in fact for some of us there weve already seen over one hundred millimeters of rain thats usually enough to give most places a bit of flooding and the system is only slowly tracking its way toward the west is likely to reach us probably in around twelve hours time thats when were expecting it to make landfall and then once it makes landfall it will start to disintegrate that means the winds will start to fall out but unfortunately the rain will still fall and very heavily across this region as well so for many of us then in the central and northern parts of it now we can expect to see a lot of heavy rain and potentially a fair amount of flooding there as we head through tuesday and into wednesday and that system is running through pretty quickly thats good news the rain shouldnt be too per long but its still going to give us some rather intense rain even as it heads away towards the west and the north over the north and weve also got a lot of heavy rain over the northern parts of asia as well with some heavy downpours working their way across north korea. There with sponsored by qatar. Nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war was at its height a u. S. Spy ship the u. S. S. Liberty monitored the conflict from International Waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of americas closest regional nine of israel over two hundred were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up a mystery now the truth can be revealed the day Israel Attacked america a Major Investigation at this time on aljazeera the story that had the greatest impact on me were probably the. Miners died and we were there were no very few television things being on that at that time for this is some of that times the story develops the story and films and stuff like that tonight i want this to be over in malaysia like aljazeera english because the news is not sent but and if they missed any of the news or any of this you can watch it on like. Look like youre watching officers news article robert a reminder of our top stories the United States and turkey have suspended Visa Services for each Others Nationals is the latest in an escalating diplomatic dispute over the arrest of a u. S. Consular worker in istanbul. The International Committee of the red cross says it will reduce its operations in afghanistan it follows the deaths of Seven Members of staff in the country this year. But at least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying reckon youre refugees from me about to bangladesh capsized its the third such incident. People started fleeing violence in me and mars right here in state in august. I was there as journalism has been vindicated in a landmark Ruling Issued by britains office of communications known as off called the decision addressed complaints made against aljazeera its Investigative Unit which produced the undercover series the lobby the series broadcast in january and expose the israeli embassies Covert Campaign to smear british citizens critical of israel and its policies taken swisher as this report. In a four part series broadcast in january aljazeera is investigating expose the Israeli Governments attempts to influence british democracy he said we. Think. The headlines at Eleven Oclock israels ambassador to the u. K. Has apologized after a senior diplomat was caught on camera saying he wanted to take down the Foreign Office minister us Alan Duncan Alan duncan is a strong critic of jewish. And israeli senior political officer and a british Civil Servant were forced to resign the diplomat in question no longer seems to be a functionary of the embassy in london. That whatever whatever he may have been doing here hes come it can be said to be well and truly. Following that the pro israel media began to attack aljazeera complaints were made to offer calm britains office of communications. The regulatory body is charged with ensuring broadcasters are fair and balanced aljazeera english is required to uphold its standards the films were accused of being antisemitic that they infringe the privacy of pro israeli advocates that they were unfair and biased. Off com launched an investigation and after nine months fully vindicated the work of algiers Investigative Unit it rejected every complaint Clayton Swisher aljazeera doha. So instead. Lee is an investigative journalist at the electronic intifada joins me now from london via skype good to have you with us live on the program again we underestimated candidate the actual conclusions of off the cob in terms of how it adjudicated against broadcasters not just al jazeera but across the british spectrum. Thats very common as. Media wont assume sanctions in place or in the worst case can even say it will cost of the areally if theyre found to be in violation of the rules so its really significant. So you know just you know in this case on all grounds how would how important is it or how interesting was it that the argument put forward by the Israeli Government that aljazeera was being anti semitic it seems to be the default scenario for israel whenever its criticized. Absolutely unfortunately israel and its paulinas ations its lobbying organizations and its apologists in the west and around the worlds that evolve position is very much to smear its critics and anti semites and this is being shown time and time again to be entirely without basis the complainant in this case allege that aljazeera is on the cover filming in its documentary in january and was anti semitic. Found that was completely untrue that it was focused on criticisms of the state of israel arabs operating in u. K. And now is really sort of seeing the process of british democracy by undermining people who were arguing for the human rights of the palestinians and accusing them of antisemitism so. Critics argue that antisemitism and then illegally trying to expose this falls malicious Smear Campaign and then also criticized as being anti semitic so unfortunately just a sign of the right to the heart of the pro israel lobby are you. The british t. V. Channels have. A daily influx of british news that they want to impart to their viewers aljazeera has an international remit how important is it for channel like to able to investigate Something Like this somewhat of an impact does it have on a country like the United Kingdom because its a very vocal critic sometimes of the way israel acts against the palestinians for example. Well i think its very important for journalism to be able to operate on this issue as in a lot of the kind of issues yeah even next its lobbyists of whole issues where the most arms love the big tobacco all anything else to. It on issues where they know they dont exactly have the public on their side to be able to operate kind of behind closed doors and in the corridors of power and they dont really like now being exposed to the light of day as journalism and as and especially under cover of filming like this a good example of that in the film itself was rose the director of the jewish Lending Movement do is known movement portrayed itself as kind of almost Grassroots Group which is just jewish members of the labor party who are you know trying to. Solo have a Jewish Community with the labor party that sounds fine like thats a little bit of a good thing to do as a documentary show. It was very closely and its still very close to the Israeli Embassy and these direct actually was an employee of the israeli seeing so you know when that was exposed she was a very to be. Out there and it took and it kind of methods really. Pulled all these things to kind of come out or form i will leave it there with stanley from the electronic intifada of the banks joining us thanks. Iraq has taken measures against its semi autonomous kurdish region for last months vote but kurdish say theyre being punished by neighboring iran to. Stem the flow of water to border towns. Been a tough season for many kurdish farmers and there is concern that this is just the beginning of a series of bad ones. Usually produces watermelon string beans and. Now he has to make choices as a quality of his crops has declined. If there was enough i could plant this land but now we only work on two out of ten. We need to estimate how much water there is before working the land and we have to make a choice if they continue like this we will have to abandon the land. The problem started a few months ago went across the border closed the dam on the little river which is shared by both countries some here say it all started when the kurdish referendum was first announced but iran says it needs the water for its own domestic consumption. Here it meant that during the Summer Season farmers couldnt get their land and most of the harvest went to waste farming here depends on shallow wells and normally. But. Well. Underground water is becoming scarce faced with this problem but han third deeper well to save his fish farming business must go to. The lack of water. On the size also depends on the quality of water. Continues flora fresh and clean water. We dont do that anymore it comes from the first ball and it goes out from the last one. But this is not sustainable for much longer many subscribers have also gone dry. The water is trickling back again but the flow remains at less than eighty percent of what it used to those living in the area say they only get three hours of water and. You can see what the water level used to be we build these dams they had made its primary emergency reactions so we can stock some water that can feed the city and the areas the pumps need a certain level of pressure to function water is not something to be neglected and its not replaceable i think the crisis will grow. The Little Zab River also feeds into can lake one of two that produces hydro electricity in the kurdish region here to the level is going down so far negotiations between iran and iraqs kurds havent gone anywhere and kurdish authorities have now been threatening to cut off Water Supplies to central and southern iraq to provide for their own. But at the hemi aljazeera in order. To trumpet ministration has outlined two congressional leaders new hardline immigration plans the proposals include limiting the number of green cards for family members of u. S. Citizens trump wants to employ an additional ten thousand immigration officers and judges to deport criminals and unaccompanied children he plans also to penalize socalled century cities because they refused to share information to help enforce federal u. S. Immigration policies. The white house has also address the issue of people who came to the u. S. As children known as dreamers tribe says to protect them from deportation Congress Must approve funding for a war on the border with Mexico Democrats have rule out that say but saying its far beyond what is reasonable. People in las vegas are mourning the victims of last weeks shooting fifty eight people were killed and hundreds more injured when a gunman opened fire at a music concert kristen salumi has more. All around las vegas sunday was a day to remember the victims and support the survivors the largest mass shooting in recent history each cross representing one of the fifty eight people shot and killed in the shadow of the hotel that served as the gunmans perch its really cool seeing everyone come together people that arent even from las vegas im sure are used to that here. Actually came from california to get several more people visit las vegas every month and live here year round and the victims of the shooting came from all over the country and as far away as canada thats made this memorial on the vegas strip a popular spot not only for locals but also tourists hoping to pay their respects. As planned and executed this act of what we can only describe as pure evil local residents took solace at Church Services and tried to make sense of it all those who experienced the chaos of that night now say they feel lucky to be alive were literally watching it on t. V. And not even ten minutes later you see people running through the casinos like a stampede of animals screaming trampling each other pushing it was surreal never been through anything like it. They came together to play as well as pray the university of nevada Football Game began with a tribute and special recognition for first responders. The. Joan sang the National Anthem at the game just as she did at the concert the night of the shooting its takeaway if anyone lost anyone is that they were having fun they were loving our country and they blessed us that night. And. The city scarred but determined to stay strong christian salumi aljazeera las vegas nevada. The u. S. National rifle. And all the and all races knows says it will oppose an outright ban all bump stock devices now the powerful gun lobby says its open to regulation but against any legislation banning the modification last week slots vegas government is said to have used a bug to stock the device converts semiautomatic rifles and to fully automatic weapons allowing a rifle to fire four hundred to eight hundred rounds in a single minute would you be ok with banning bomb stocks but we dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything what weve said has been very clear that if something transfers a semiautomatic to function like fully automatic then it ought to be regulated differently fully automatic a regulated differently in this country if something copies a similar magic into a fully automatic then those should be regulated as well. Catalonia pres the bootable is expected to address the Regional Parliament on choose day when we have to cut a lodhi a succession of votes that has divided the country the referendum has plunged spain into a political crisis as jonah hill reports both sides are hardening their positions. Barcelona has seen plenty of huge demonstrations but not like this one see red line yellow the conference in young lions alongside the Spanish National flag region gripped by calls for independence this is a fine young usually a show of National Unity. Some have come from other parts of spain but most are from catalonia itself tony roll down is a contraband politician opposed to independence we have me proud the best he did the first very young these. Last forty years him simply because he was when it was over and we have money has to be in the framework that works for everyone i think that the future belongs to you know i just think that we need to do better from the National Brain which will govern ourselves in the world the politician doesnt make sense well but they call themselves the silent majority was their son or representative has the right choices have not been well silent no one thought it was the you know you have the one moment described an atmosphere of hostility towards those who disagree with the push for independence. Was my spanish that. Is what. I like. That there was a. Right to buy them that have. My. Own rights. And given the opportunity to speak out many embraced it legally. Tired of being the majority and the people to say that we are not we are going to be is a union has a force hes common sense independent schools in this region with its distinct culture and language a centuries old but the stakes have never been higher in the dread Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns he may use special powers to revoke catalonians autonomy the Regional Government meanwhile is considering a unilateral declaration of independence in the weeks to come but who will follow them not these people who seem to have found their voices jonah how aljazeera pass alone. Countries of course latin america have been marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of shaker vara several thousand people have attended the ceremony in the cuban city of santa clara to remember the revolutionary fighter devour became known for his role in the cuban revolution of one thousand nine hundred fifty nine fighting alongside fidel and raul castro. That whole gongs out next exhibition emerging artists are getting a platform to showcase their work presents creations by seventy artists from around the world but as reports its also an unusual event for hong kong a city which mostly caters to the well heeled and well established in the art world. Its being called the art fair for everyone youll see established art expert those experiencing their first exhibit are technophiles curious about the app that makes a drawing come alive im a south african artist says its not just the visitors who gain a unique perspective it actually just opens our eyes to different cultures two different ways of working to different materials to different kind of days is into. The fair features work from one thousand Different Countries but its these watercolors from a local painter that have captured the imagination of many. Few people in hong kong people in the outdoor sketches may send to paint the landscape but cant make up just people in that daily lives. She bought two pieces painting is a good way of expressing your heart because you can draw whatever you like on a blank piece of paper and saw at the front of it. Whats unusual about kenny is not just his age hes twelve or his talent but that is thriving in a society where academics and material wealth are valued above creativity his father an architect turned art teacher encouraged him to showcase his work. He will most up to the s. But he will funk the way he doing the work have a good feedback i think it will better dead just learning from which to chose which style but these learning opportunities are few and far between despite hong kong being a destination for International Art collectors and buyers many are say the focus is on high end high profile events and theres very little attention given to nurturing young talent and creativity thats the theme of this artists charcoal in ink piece depicting faceless hong kong students eating pineapple buns a local snack i use set as a metaphor for force feeding Education System so the hope painting is about on transition from the hong kong where Richard Society and now we are able to have more creativity is in our individual Life Organizers say the event not only gives artists exposure but will also allow the art world to see the city in a new light if you go pollan ajah zero hong kong. Also had hailed the aljazeera news to have the biggest names in baseball staying alive in the race for the world series well have the latest. Both times both his job on sports and politics mix again absolutely sile it seems the n. F. L. Just cant get away from it us Vice President mike pence is being accused to say doing a political stunt against n. F. L. Players who knew during the National Anthem he was out of a game on sunday as a nice home reports. The United States Vice President had specifically traveled from las vegas to indianapolis to see the colts n. F. L. Game against the San Francisco forty nine ers mike pence is said to be a lifelong cults fan and even tweeted beforehand saying looking forward to cheering for our colts but that photo he used had also been tweeted in twenty four tane. As the National Anthem played before the game a hatful of forty nine his players elected to meal since elected to leave almost immediately tweeting and issuing a statement saying i left todays cults game because partisan i will not dignify any event the disrespect our soldiers our flag or our National Anthem u. S. President donald trump also tweeted saying hey told pence to do it again with affirmation having twenty three zero follow and so on and so you can prove that hes been an avid colt fan of the gods ever games on a regular basis this is a blog is this is really disheartening when everything that you were raised on everything i was raised on was to be the best person i can be to help people in need help and the Vice President of the United States is trying to confuse the message that were trying to try to put out there. Some n. F. L. Players have been choosing to kneel during the National Anthem for more than a year as a symbol of protest against Racial Injustice in the United States but a few role erupted last month after trump said that players who engage in the practice should be sacked when you love to see one of these n. F. L. Owners when somebody disrespects our flag this is a get that son of a the field right out the sky Dallas Cowboys owner jerry jones who nailed with players before the anthem last month now says that any who refused to stand will not play the Miami Dolphins are no stephen ross has issued the same warning three of his players stayed off the field during the the month sunday this collision between politics and sport doesnt appear to be ending anytime soon elease home an al jazeera. Now egyptians around the world have been celebrating their team reaching their first world cup finals in twenty seven years these are the scenes on the streets of cairo after a penalty in the ninety fifth minute for Mahamed Salah sealed a two one win over congo and with it a spot on the world cup in russia next year its almost three decades since their last world cup appearance and in it egypt has one africa cup of nations titles but they havent been able to translate that success to well cup qualification until now so far only egypt and i geria have qualified from africa. And also ended in eleven new wait for a return to the finals this is the team celebrating after robot love and of ski school a european qualifying record sixteen go as they beat montenegro four to go through as winners of group eight. So lets remind ourselves of the teams that have qualified so far in europe reigning champions germany are joined by belgium england spain and poland hosts russia are guaranteed a spot in North Central america and cowardly in costa rica and mexico through and in south america five time champions brazil are the only ones to qualify so far the four guaranteed qualification spots from asia have been filled by iran japan south korea and saudi arabia while in africa so far its nigeria and egypt and those of the fifteen teams who will be in russia and of the seventeen places is still up for grabs. Well the found fund a round of european qualifying continues later all eyes will be on iceland as they bid to become the smallest nation ever to reach a world cup last year surprise euro quarter finalist a two points clear at the top of the group i and will secure a spot in russia with a win at bottom side costs of. Ukraine host croatia also in group both have a chance of automatic qualification if iceland were to lose serbia take on georgia other home side of top of group d. And will qualify for russia with victory wales in the republic of ireland in cardiff both teams need a win to secure a spot in the playoffs but both could top the group if georgia surprised serbia. An american ronna has ended his countrys fifteen year white a victory chicago marathon olympic marathon medalist alan rupp surged ahead in the closing stages of sundays rights to become the First American man to in chicago since two thousand and two in a womens race three time track olympic Gold Medalist turner. Lived up to her reputation as the favorite to clinch victory. The Boston Red Sox have stayed alive in the Major League Baseball playoffs after losses in the first two games of the series with the host and Houston Astros another defeat would end the red sox season but they pulled off a dominant ten to three victory at fenway park and can level the American League Division Series in game four later on monday the new york yankees have also got themselves on the board in the American League divisional series greg bird struck the games only run as the yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians in game three they trailed two one in the best of five series. And thats all useful for now youll have more a look at later but. If you have been watching the al jazeera news from. Next to stay with us. For decades puerto rico schools of being crumbling beneath the weight of massive debt now one hundred seventy nine due to close for good the largest closure of schools in the history of this u. S. Territory is a Frightening Development this Elementary School will remain open but will take it one hundred fifty of the twenty seven thousand students due to be relocated thats double its current student body over the last decade enrollment of puerto rico schools has dropped by more than forty percent as families continue to leave those left behind often dont have the means to follow suit but ultimately its now puerto ricos poor communities that are paying the price for this islands staggering debt. Facing the realities the president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasnt happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g. C. C. Will be in doubt. Here their story. On talk to aljazeera at this time. Turkey and the us suspend Visa Services for each Others Nationals i made a deepening diplomatic disputes. Watching aljazeera live from doha also coming up the International Committee of the red cross says its reducing its operations in afghanistan after a series of attacks against said staff at least twelve ranger refugees have drowned most of them children as another boat capsizes on the way from myanmar to bangladesh. And fifty years after his death thousands rally across latin america to remember a revolutionary icon che guevara. Thank you for joining us the United States and turkey have suspended Visa Services for each Others National psyches Foreign Ministry has now summoned officials from the u. S. Embassy calling for an end to a dispute between the two countries this is the latest in an escalating incident over the arrest of a u. S. Consular worker any stumble Dion Easterbrook has more from washington. The u. S. Fired off the first volley in the diplomatic dispute on sunday issuing a statement saying it was suspending all nonimmigrant Visa Services at diplomatic facilities across turkey by the end of the day the Turkish Embassy responded in kind to the u. S. The visa suspension war started just days after turkish authorities arrested a us consulate employee met in tokyo claiming topas was fine for an exiled turkish cleric the u. S. Says those accusations are baseless oh look i was a look are retired and basswood her and former principal representative to the European Union says the u. S. Is sending a clear and deliberate message. From the army to come say. Already there warning you that. You know the. Whole whats going. To go are you talking to the american interests the exiled cleric fedele a ghoul and has been a bone of contention between the u. S. And turkey for nearly two decades turkish president ever to want claims that masterminded last years bloody military coup attempt from his compound in the u. S. State of pennsylvania hes been pressuring the u. S. To extradite the cleric goole and has repeatedly said the claims are baseless following the failed coup attempt former Vice President joseph biden traveled to turkey to reaffirm friendly ties with the nation President Donald Trump did the same thing when air to one visited washington last spring turkey remains a valuable nato ally is home to the Incirlik Air Base a Strategic Military tool in the us war against arsenal besides the consulate employ a dozen other americans remain under arrest in turkey but so far efforts to negotiate their release have been unsuccessful dian Estabrook Al Jazeera Washington Well tensions between the u. S. And turkey started when the u. S. Big. And backing kurdish fighters in their fight against eiseley in syria that was under the Obama Administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k which has waged an insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently a u. S. Grand jury indicted fifteen Turkish Security officials for a brawl with protesters during president at a once trip to washington in may two on described the indictments as scandalous and now not even a letter by Seventy Eight members of the u. S. Congress any personal appeal from President Trump has convinced to want to release any of the dozen americans detained in turkey from on the set starving in has some kone who is a professor of International Relations at called to university is live from istanbul thank you very much for being on aljazeera relations between the u. S. And turkey certainly have been tense over a number of issues lately were hearing now that u. S. Officials have been summoned in turkey just how serious an incident do you think this is from the turkish point of view do you think theres a will to deescalate things are in the import issue for. Turkish cultural and Economic Life is not the only consulate affair. That cancelling the visas but to affect the whole turkish economy glaive at the same times this kind of disturbances between the United States and turkey is enduring more than two years it started to as you said before. Are transferred to. The branch of the cordon turkish authorities and slowly escalating it and started also buying some armaments from russia and having a. Strong relations better recently with iran also here they are they have in a number of issues that the two countries have disagreed on when you say this is going to affect turkish Economic Life does it mean then that the turkish government would want to deescalate the current crisis. I dont think so i dont think so there are some talks between the turkish officials and implicitly turkey will give some concessions i believe they will back up and maybe they give up holding those. Because if people in turkish prisons but they cannot do it where openly ok they cant do it very openly what about the overall relationship with washington there where do you see that heading as far as turkey is concerned as weve said relations have been tense over a number of issues where theres a kurdish issue and turkey increasingly were seen as been turning to other partners russia notably how does it do the u. S. Today turkey is this still an important partner for turkey well what is important for do s. What i believe is the geopolitical situation of turkey if turkey is not a member of nato russia will go down to the edge of the penicillin and this will endanger the position of israel so. But turkish not a position is very important for the United States because they are rolling the black sea area and eiji an area and theyre also controlling iraq syria and iran so they will lose your put the geopolitical situation this why turkey is getting important other issues not so interested for the United States thank you very much for speaking to us has time kone joining us from istanbul thank you for your time. At least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying range of refugees from myanmar to bangladesh capsized ten of them were children just as Mohammed John john has been following developments seen bangladeshs coxs bizarre. With news that yet another boat full of or hinder refugees capsized while it was attempting to cross for me and more to bangladesh comes another reminder of the magnitude of this refugee crisis and the fact that her hands are refugees are still trying to flee and come into bangladesh this area you see behind me these people that are here they all crossed by foot into bangladesh just earlier today weve heard horrific tales from them about what happened to them was a woman over there who told us that her husband was executed in the past week by me and mars military theres a young boy over here showed us a wound on his likes and he got out when the me and maher army shot at the group that he was with very sad stories more reminders that this exodus doesnt seem as though it will end anytime soon thats one reason why aid groups humanitarian organizations are so concerned about the plight of these people. The International Committee of the red cross says it will reduce its operations in afghanistan Seven Members of its staff have been killed there this year six died in an attack on an aid convoy in february and last month a physiotherapist was shot dead by one of her patients and out of four workers have been abducted by the red cross says it will not be leaving afghanistan altogether exposure to reuse has become. Our greatest challenge and uncertain. We know that there is no zero risk in afghanistan and we are not aiming at that we dont want to build. Differently our security than we have always done our security is built on acceptance and dialogue and that comes from min in meaningful services that can be provided to will noble people im going to merkel has announced a cap on germanys refugee intake in an attempt to unite her Coalition Partners following last months election the german chancellor agreed to limit the number of new arrivals to two hundred thousand a year it appears to be a concession to her partys Bavarian Coalition partner which has been one of the strongest critics of macros refugee policy. Accordion sarajevo has cleared a former Bosnian Muslim commander of war crimes serbia had alleged that men under nicer ostrich commands murdered serb prisoners in the seventies the area of bosnia in one thousand nine hundred two arias has previously been sentenced to two years in jail by the International Criminal court in the hague but acquitted on appeal just mean a cost has more from sarajevo. Formal commends of was in on me instead and its on us at all is not guilty of killing three captives subsoil jurors in one thousand nine hundred two this is the first instance verdict of delivered by the Bosnian State Court in sarajevo it is possible to appeal on the subject in june two thousand and six so it was sentenced by the court in hague two years in prison for failing to prevent the and Inhumane Treatment of prisoners he was immediately released because he had already served the time but the un courts appeal chamber overturn the verdict and cleared him in june two thousand and fifteen he traveled to switzerland where he was arrested on a warrant issued by serbia claiming that he committed war crimes by the space authorities extradited him to bosnia and herzegovina where he was also under investigation for war crimes which he denies the trial started in january two thousand and sixteen many see or each as a hero for his role in defending sabet and its a before domestic or in one thousand nine hundred five but many bows and serbs see him as the man responsible for killing soldiers who surrenders to a boy as an army unit under his command. At least ten people have been killed in as strikes in syria is it a province just for despite it being part of a socalled deescalation zone there were chaotic scenes in the popular market town of murat on the man in the aftermath of the bombing sources on the ground believe the strikes were launched by Syrian Government warplanes most of the victims are thought to be civilians still ahead on aljazeera i find out why australias highest court is set to decide if it should force seven politicians out of parliament christ britains office of communications rules in aljazeera is favor after we expose israels campaign to smear critics of their foreign policy. With. Hello there the weather is all quite mobile all over the northern parts of asia at the moment you can see on the satellite picture weve just got one weather system after another one at the moment and even as this main one edges its way eastwards there for tuesday theres more heavy rain following hot on its heels so beijing looks pretty wet there for choose day and then gradually as that system sweeps its way away it will be a lot drier behind it sixteen degrees this time will be the maximum there beijing for wednesday that area of rain though hasnt gone too far its working its way across the Korean Peninsula and out towards the east so for japan again we can expect to see some rain to the towards the south is largely falling weather over the eastern parts of China Shanghai theyre getting to twenty nine but look at this massive area of cloud here in the southern part of our map this is a developing system is working its way towards the west when it makes landfall in vietnam we are expecting it to disintegrate fairly quickly but its going to have a lot of rain to give so we are expecting a lot of flooding over parts of vietnam and across towards the west there as we head through wednesday and into thursday to a little bit further south woods and here will see plenty of showers as you might expect with a particularly a wet areas out towards the west those edging east with snow and so for borneo its looking soggy. Nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war was at its height a u. S. Spy ship the u. S. S. Liberty monitored the conflict from International Waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of americas closest regional manager israel over two hundred were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just read with below what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery now the truth can be revealed the day Israel Attacked america a Major Investigation at this time on al jazeera. The and. Our top stories on aljazeera the United States and turkey have suspended Visa Services for each Others National studies Foreign Ministry has now summoned officials from the u. S. Embassy calling for an end to a dispute between the two countries this is the latest in an escalating diplomatic incident over the arrest of a u. S. Consular worker in istanbul. International committee of the red cross says it will reduce its operations in afghanistan as follows the deaths of Seven Members of staff in the country this year and at least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying ranger refugees from myanmar to bangladesh capsized to third such incident since people sought a fleeing violence in myanmar states in august. There is journalism has been vindicated in a landmark Ruling Issued by britains office of communications known as off com the decision address complaints made against aljazeera as Investigative Unit which produced the undercover series the lobby the series broadcast in january exposes really embassies Covert Campaign to smear british citizens critical of israel and its policies change the show has this report. In a four part series broadcast in january aljazeera is Investigative Unit exposed the Israeli Governments attempts to influence british democracy ok he said he was reading. The headlines at Eleven Oclock israels ambassador to the u. K. Has apologized after a senior diplomat was caught on camera saying he wanted to take down the Foreign Office minister so and duncan allen duncan was a strong critic of jewish settlements and israeli senior political officer and a british Civil Servant were forced to resign the diplomat in question no longer seems to be a functionary of the embassy in london since it whatever whatever he may jackie had been doing has come that can be said to be well and truly blatant following that the pro israel media began to attack aljazeera complaints were made to off calm britains office of communications. The regulatory body is charged with ensuring broadcasters are fair and balanced aljazeera english is required to uphold its standards the films were accused of being antisemitic that they infringe the privacy of pro israeli advocates that they were unfair and biased. Off com launched an investigation and after nine months fully vindicated the work of algiers Investigative Unit it rejected every complaint Clayton Swisher aljazeera doha. A so when stanley is an investigative journalist at the electronic intifada in london he says the accusations against aljazeera were basis. Israel and its always ations is lobbying organizations and its apologists in the west and around the world that evolve position is very much to smear its critics and anti semites and this is being shown time and time again to be entirely without basis the complainant in this case allege that as there isnt have a filming in its documentary in january was anti semitic. Confounds that was completely untrue that it was focused on criticisms of the state of israel and how it was operating in the u. K. And how it was really seeing the process of british democracy by undermining people who were arguing that human rights are the palestinians and giving them anti semitism so. Its critics argue that antisemitism and then legally trying to expose this falls malicious Smear Campaign and then decide as to be semitic so unfortunately just a sign of the vacuum of the heart that for israel lobby arguments in Spain Catalonia as president calloused good to marty is expected to address every Time Parliament on tuesday one week after catalonia secession vote that has divided the country the referendum s. Plan spain into political crisis and as john a whole reports both sides are hardening their positions the barcelona has seen plenty of huge demonstrations but not like this one. Red yellow because of us in yellow right alongside the Spanish National flag and Political Court defendants this is a highly unusual show of National Unity for the who the time has come from other parts of spain but most are from catalonia itself tony roll down theres a cattle and palm. Opposed to independence we have me proud the best will be here the first very young days. The last forty years later she was when it was over and we have mothers to build the framework that works for everyone i think the future belongs to you know i just think that we need to do better from National Language to govern ourselves and the world the politician doesnt make sense well but they call themselves the silent majority was their son or representative of the right choices have not been heard well silent noble and so on if they. Havent defined one moment described an atmosphere of hostility towards those who disagree with the push for independence days ago i was my spanish. Is what. I like. That there was a. Right to fight that had. My. Morning rights. And given the opportunity to speak out many embraced it eagerly tired of being the majority and the people to say that we are not we are the majority because the union has a force and come on hes common sense independent schools in this region with its distinct culture and language a centuries old but the stakes of never been higher in the dritte Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns he may use special powers to revoke catalonia. The Regional Government meanwhile is considering a unilateral declaration of independence in the weeks to come but who will follow them these people who seem to have found their voices jonah aljazeera barcelona. The Trump Administration has outlined to congressional leaders new hardline immigration plans the proposals include limiting the number of green cards or for family members of u. S. Citizens trump wants to employ an additional ten thousand immigration officers and judges to deport criminals and unaccompanied children he also plans to penalize socalled sanctuary cities because they refuse to share information to help enforce federal u. S. Immigration policies and the white house has also address see issue of people came to the u. S. As children then known as a dream is trying to say is to protect them from deportation Congress Must approve funding for a wall on the border with Mexico Democrats have rolled out that bargain saying it is far beyond what is reasonable. Staying in the u. S. People in las vegas continue to mourn the victims of last weeks shooting fifty eight people were killed and hundreds more injured when a gunman opened fire at a music concert kristensen on me reports from las vegas. All around las vegas sunday was a day to remember the victims and support the survivors the largest mass shooting in recent history each cross representing one of the fifty eight people shot and killed in the shadow of the hotel that served as the gunmans perch its really cool seeing everyone come together people that arent even from las vegas im sure i used to that here. Actually came from california to. More people visit las vegas every month and live here year round and the victims of the shooting came from all over the country and as far away as canada thats made this memorial on the vegas strip a popular spot not only for locals but also tourists hoping to pay their respects. As planned and executed this act of what we can only describe as pure evil local residents took solace at Church Services and tried to make sense of it all those who experienced the chaos of that night now say they feel lucky to be alive were literally watching it on t. V. And not even ten minutes later you see people running through the casinos like a stampede of animals screaming trampling each other pushing it was surreal never been through anything like it. They came together to play as well as pray the university of nevada Football Game began with a tribute and special recognition for first responders. Sang the National Anthem at the game just as she did at the concert the night of the shooting its take away if anyone lost anyone is that they were having fun they were loving our country and they blessed us that night. And. The city scarred but determined to stay strong christian salumi aljazeera las vegas nevada. You know our the u. S. National Rifle Association n. R. A. Says it will oppose an outright ban on socalled bomb stock devices the bar for gun lobby says is open to regulation but against any legislation banning the modification last weeks last week a gunman is said to have used a bomb saw the device can very similar automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons allowing a rifle to fire four hundred to eight hundred rounds in a single minute would you be ok with banning bombs dogs but we dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything what weve said has been very clear that if something transfers of some automatic to function like fully automatic then it ought to be regulated differently fully automatic are regulated differently in this country if something copies a sim automatic into a fully automatic though should be regulated as well have to two hundred fifty millimeters of rain is expected in North Carolina as charcoal storm nates moves across the u. S. More than one hundred thousand people were left without power after the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast Work is underway to restore electricity to the worst affected states of mississippi alabama and louisiana. Now australias highest court is set to decide this week whether Seven Members of parliament should be thrown out of parliament they had dual citizenship with other countries when they were elected something banned under australias constitution if the court rules against the m. P. s australia is a ready fragile government could fall as under thomas explains. As a senator for australias green party the recent quarters spent as much time in the Capital Canberra as a home in queensland thats changed waters resigned in july after finding out that she held Canadian Citizenship as well as australian a clause in australias constitution balls citizens of foreign powers from parliament that implicitly includes those with due. Both waters parents are australian and they brought her to australia as a baby but she was born in canada and canada automatically gives citizenship to anyone born in the country waters hadnt known so she hadnt renounced it. When i found that i was canadian i was really sad because my works not finished and i want to keep going. Since attention focused on the clause seven m. P. s have been found to be jule citizens not all have resigned something not knowing about the country consider them citizens when the clause shouldnt apply this week australias highest court will decide if theyre really did take the constitution strictly and saying simply that you have the status of being a national is enough to have you disqualified or is it going to say well so long as you didnt know once you found out you were made yet they took steps to renounce thats enough and well let you stay parliament. The case could bring down the government body joyces Australias Deputy Prime Minister he was born in australia but his father was born in new zealand and his nationality also passed automatically to his son australias government has a parliamentary majority of one if the court finds Barnaby Joyce is election with unconstitutional then either the candidate who came second to him would be elected in his place or the be a by election which choice would lose if either happened australia is government would fall. Australias Prime Minister says his legal advice is that not knowing is excuse enough but his deputy and the other jule national. But the recent waters disagrees she expects the high court will find her election was unconstitutional having now were now stuck in a citizenship waters aims to be legally elected at the mixed federal election in two years time her absence and so win means for her a political career break joyces absence could break the government under thomas aljazeera britain hollywood Film Producer Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the studio he cofounded weinstein had taken a leave of absence after a New York Times report on thursday listing allegations of Sexual Harassment and weinstein companys board of directors says it fired the film director after new undisclosed information about his conduct. Countries across latin america have been marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of che guevara several thousand people have attended a ceremony in the cuban city of santa clara to remember the revolutionary fighter give ira became known for his role in the cuban revolution of one nine hundred fifty nine fighting alongside fidel and raul castro Michael Casey is the author of chase after life the legacy of an image he says the iconic image of guevara how to doubt castro to revive support for the revolution in cuba. The book really was an attempt to try to come to terms with how this what imagery i would argue is the most reproduced image in history and im actually talking there about all the derivative works that built upon it. Not so much like just a massive replication of an image like Marilyn Monroes it was and when you talk about shaders everywhere castro in my view was instrumental there was there was a lot of room in the moralizing of time and the image was placed in the public consciousness and sort of attached to this idealized version of revolution and so yes really needed to create a time because that the reality was that the cuban revolution was losing its idealism castro was signing on to the soviet unions demands that he sort of buy into their era credit taken communism and that he would support their invasion of the czech czechoslovakia for example and he needed to provide at least an image to this sort of brand which. Is truly revolutionary and so he lacks himself. Now again im fully back to where the headlines on aljazeera the united sates and turkey have suspended these a services for each Others Nationals techies Foreign Ministry has now summoned officials from the u. S. Embassy calling for an end to a dispute between the two countries this is the latest in an escalating diplomatic incident over the arrest of a u. S. Consular worker any sample. The International Committee of the red cross says it will reduce its operations in afghanistan this follows the deaths of Seven Members of staff in the country this year at least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying ranger refugees from myanmar to bangladesh capsized its the third such incident since people started fleeing violence in myanmars or kind state in august. In spain a day after a massive march in wasilla against cotton on independence a Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said that spain will not be divided catalonia as government says a controversial referendum it held a week ago shows overwhelming support for independence from spain in syria at least ten people have been killed in airstrikes in a play province just bided being proposed as a deescalation zone there were chaotic scenes in the market town of mazar down amman after the airstrike which local sources are blaming on Syrian Government warplanes most of the victims are thought to be civilians. Im going to merkel has announced a cap on germanys refugee intake him an attempt to unite her Coalition Partners following last months elections the german chancellor agreed to limit the number of new arrivals to two hundred thousand a year this appears to be a concession to have parties of valerie and Coalition Partner which has been one of the strongest critics of merkels refugee policies in the us the Trump Administration has outlined to congressional leaders new hardline immigration plans the proposals include limiting the number of green cards for family members of u. S. Citizens President Trump wants to employ an additional ten thousand immigration officers and judges to deport criminals and unaccompanied children and a court in sarajevo has acquitted a Bosnian Muslim commander of war crimes serbia allege men under nasser orage command murdered civilians in Seventy Eight said during the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred ninety two inside story is next on august there. Turkish troops on the border with syria uncle are supporting what is a serious military operation against al qaeda fighters but could this be the beginning of more direct involvement in the war and what will be the cost of this is inside story. Or and welcome to the program and it is the problem turkey is launching a Major Military campaign in syrias Northwestern Province of idlib just across its border its backing the Free Syrian Army which moved into the area on saturday much of adlib is controlled by. An alliance of factions spearheaded by former al qaida affiliate turkey wants to ensure security in the region where some of the most violent conflicts of the Syrian Civil War have taken place during the talks in may russia turkey and iran signed a deal to establish deescalation zones in syria which included adlib ancora says it isnt sending its forces and just yet to provide him with just a call and intelligence support turkish president of iran gave more details but. We have opened up a space in our region with Operation Euphrates Shield and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a lab today there is a serious operation in a lab and it will continue because we have our brothers there who came to live fleeing violence in aleppo we cant tell them whatever happens happens you can either die or survive we have to extend a hand to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is under way well get to our guests in a moment but first this report from from gaza and turkey near the border with syria. Turkish artillery. Shiling heya to hear the sham positions inside syria. The former alqaeda Affiliate Group controls most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. And the Free Syrian Army is sending reinforcements to that i had. The starting point for the new cross border campaign. Which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there. If the turkish army enters back by russian planes they have committed a massacre a few days ago and that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of those in our country. The russians are the first and last anomie of the Syrian People are backing Bashar Al Assad how can they be supporting the Syrian People. The new push by turkey comes after an agreement with russia and iran last month to set up a deescalation zone in. The turkish army will be operating in the city while the russians will be deployed outside of the province it is one of four deescalation zones the others are the askers of the capital damascus that are on the border with jordan and northern parts of holmes. Zones what established after iran russia and turkey decided to set aside their differences and find a permanent solution to the syrian conflict. The new operation could be part of a broader deal between russia turkey and iran but we dont know who would run one. Victor from the promise. And what will become of moderate opposition factions and the thousands of civilians living in the area to survive by the Al Jazeera Guardian to see. Well lets bring in our panel now from istanbul messiness go to china columnist for our margins taking pulse from moscow follow felgenhauer defense analyst and columnist with the where visitor and via skype from at it so as lee Joshua Landis the Sandra Mackey chair and professor in the department of international and area studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all mr goodchild whats at stake for turkey here ok first let me say this to a fact first one is this another surprising military more meaning that we have been waiting for this for on the term armament and second one this is now than turkey is unilateral no decision sort of a negotiated outcome at the moment we are discussing. Off our stan a process so right now their own career our Strategic Thinking is extremely important first of all the separation of thought a radical element simon the bad guys from those moderate simon a good guys this is the first objective and kerrys been trying to issue according with the. Orders with this a son of a talker and also a second one is i think extremely important ankara has been trying to i saw that content why p g p k k affiliated y p g of course is currently controlling our friend count on in the west of here if its mr landis what mr go china saying that the what oncor is going to have to do here is separate the socalled good guys the bad guys the moderate elements of the opposition with those you know deemed terror terrorists just how difficult is that going to be for ankara to do given the difficulties in doing that so far in the civil war. In the last several months the alqaeda affiliated groups have taken over italy province putting them right at the border battle however and other crossings with turkey this is embarrassing for turkey the United States mcgurk the head of the coalition the american head has called this the biggest conglomeration of al qaeda people its since nine eleven he said something has to be done about it and hes been pressuring turkey to do something about it i think in that sense turkey needs to step forward as and perhaps try to negotiate with the rebels themselves to withdraw and this be modeled on the operation around to rebels taken a year ago in which turkey stepped into Northern Syria north of aleppo and pushed out isis and isis withdrew pretty rapidly and f. S. A. Free syrian army groups that had been trained and helped by turkey moved into the area so this may be a similar operation with negotiations by turkey on all sides because the Free Syrian Army is very anxious they say we do not want turkey which has helped the so much with their revolution to end up hurting the Syrian People he does not want them to work with russia extensively so this is very delicate for turkey mr falcon how what is russias involvement in this going to be you know took in russia have been on opposing sides of the Syrian Civil War theyre coming together now to fight the heat so how is this going to work well russia and turkey have be in congo for almost on the brink of war in the end there for fifteen beginning of sixteen since then everything has changed now russia and turkey are working together through the process there has been the fact though separation of syria and the kind of zones of influence but of course. Everyone the saying this is not permanent these are not zones of influence this is just provisional but provisional things tend to last long and so right now turkey is. Assuring itself in the wee bit which was kind of this ignited to turkey to keep the peace there and keep the bad guys at least being officially prominent there of course that talk about pushing out the fighters for our schama former. Somewhere out of it with i dont think thats practical but because theres nowhere for them to go if in the north of syria during the. Year for shield they were pushed out to other parts of the controlled for by isis here right now everyone has gathered from different parts of syria into it leave and theres nowhere they can go so the only way they can go is to go kind of underground to pretend that theyre not. But that they are Free Syrian Army that has been done during the Syrian Civil War the same fighters can have different flags and a bit different maybe uniforms are the same but then you wait mr thats most likely whats going to be there i dont expect any real big fighting happening i think there will be superficial skirmishes mr landon a lot of negotiation mr landis what do you make of that what will happen to the fighters of the sham and what would losing it lead mean for groups like them in syria are they just going to be driven underground well thats a big question so far the Turkish Operation is not to go all the way to the city. Which is the real headquarters of these a list of these al qaeda groups but to take a. Band. A syria thats closest to the Turkish Border and get rid of the al qaeda fighters from that area they can withdraw already there been reports of some turkish camps and trucks being escorted by to what is sham fighters so we dont know what negotiations that going on between turkey and hes tied a sham they may fall back allow the turks take this full court order in order not to provoke a full on battle because this would undoubtedly be a losing battle for them it would push turkey closer to russia and to the assad regime which they dont want but it is a very uncomfortable position for tided a sham because the more they pull back the further they arent the closer they are to assads troops and russia and assad will be coming for them eventually from the other side from the Southern Side and theyre going to get sandwiched between turkey and the assad troops assad is hoping to drive all these people into turkey itself and thats going to be the final negotiation will they stand and die as isis have been doing or will they work out some agreement with turkey in order to flee into turkey and get refuge there. To go to town want role do you see turkey playing and what mr landis has said also and the stablished meant off at lead as a day escalations on. Let me say this first time in. Aleppo war hero russia has expanded after experiencing tell their power war Russian Strategic Decision Makers i think comp to conclude that speech warfare in syria is not working so right now they havent different plan right now and they are trusting on the anchoress mediating power on daws you know sunni armed groups to in and around in there so i think this is the plan that they are planning to follow first they are coming with. Sort of proposal to daws armed groups right now in operating in and around good lip if you want to leave it then we havent proposal for you. For your families you know you can go to the north of you to resettle there to rehabilitate and to reintegrate meaning that at the end of the day if they accept this proposal and say yes then you really want expect their expansion of your officiant pocket so another option if they prefer to stay in their meaning that they all saw except this green to root for them they are the radical elements so i think. Russia needs our karrar smith ideations not to turn it their case into each warfare saw they want to provide them a way out of dawes. Sunni. Armed groups in and around saw if they accept this proposal and say yes we each have i think we can see as sort of a transfer of false fighters and their families im talking about there arent fifty to sixty thousand people to the north of. And we can dan see the expansion of uta frith shield and here is the case here is the tricky issue if this is the case then i think expansion of the universe should parker is unnecessary and im expecting the expression of to do rest so there is all ation of offering count on a day and off to day world work what for on crown small scopes of expansion of your official packet to the west and containment of your fridge are free and count on currently under the control of my puter four of those will get downed off today make one car at my school help it and if uncle and moscow are happy if they can establish these the escalation zones mr felt and how how far will what does that mean for for the civil war how far do these deescalation zones god towards ending the war do you think. Well the immediate success from the Russian Point of view of the coalitions is in the band central syria and southern syria is that all capable units can be concentrated or most of them in the roles or province where right now the main action is happening and where russia and the supporting the prous had groups hopes to take over or maybe the most important syrian natural gas and oil assets to give the Assad Government some kind of source of stable income which it doesnt have right now and fully depends on handouts from tehran and moscow so thats where the action is happening and here there should be right now a cease fire thats very important so right now more or less the russian main opponents are not really the fighters in the province but the kurds the syrian Democratic Forces supported by the americans which are moving also into the arrow zoran also taking over partially some of those oil and gas assets and the main problem is there and the russian right now propaganda in the Russian Ministry of defense is actually. Claiming that the americans are together with isis and the kurds are together with isis so there you have more or less russia and turkey having the same enemy and that same enemy seems to be the way p. G. And mr landis just how much of turkeys interests and backing moscow its mission for syria right now you know stands from the rejection of the u. S. Backed Kurdish Forces in syria who of course turkey season is an extension you know of the kurds that theyre fighting in their country well its very important and thats why turkey has lived away from the United States and towards russia because. The United States by choosing to enter in on the side of the kurds and called bani two years ago and then push it with the kurds down towards isis territory has of course ranked serious kurds and moves down just as american support for iraqs kurds get towards independence of some broad degree of autonomy and the kurds of Northern Syria are expected to come out of this civil war with a broad degree of autonomy if not independence and that of course has driven turkey into the arms of russia and cause them to look for a way to move together in provinces like you do there. So that they can Work Together with the kurds and keep the kurds firmly inside syria as orbit and we have we will see how that turns out with her from syrian foreign minister and want him lately saying that he can see greater autonomy for kurds in a post civil war syria mr goodchild and that is of course next to kurdish controlled often that weve been talking about does turkey also have its sights set on some kind of by the train move on off and do you think. At the end of the day i think this is. A strategic object to form in. If onkar has been moving you know its military and you know forces right now we are talking about then. At the border line and also mechanized infantry battalion. It will be five to six hundred soldiers there could there to be deployed to exist to dissenters to monitor. You know the escalations on but at the end of the day i think on caress primary target these are free and according to trick perception often calm. For our saw the isolation and containment of aspirin to prevent the establishments of p. K. K. Or kurdish corridor stretching from around the region in Northern Iraq via region and also from dawson to countenance in the east of. A syrian kolbein account was and these are count on stretching from Eastern Mediterranean so this is worst Case Scenario for our current nightmare scenario our own kyra has been thinking that its desperately in need of preventing this to happen so the stormy encounter is the primary target for ankara and historically and how could turkey do you think make a military move on afrin without what russias approval. Most likely not and there apparently is some kind of threat tented if it were just understanding between moscow and ankara that africa right now is going to be separate case right now there russia has established a small. Military mission in for him its also important for russia to see that the african on quade controlled by kurds does not become a kind of american the americans dont appear there and so the russia would kind of try to keep the turks out of it for the time being and i think the un karrar agreed to that must work we are free and will be. Surrounded to some extent but going in right now is not an option thats believe in that theres an agreement on to do it mr landis how do you think the u. S. Is looking on at this cooperation between russia iran and turkey first of all in setting up deescalation zones and syria you know attempting to resolve the syrian conflict which the u. S. Has not been able to and also seeing moves possibly against the Kurdish Forces that they support. Well theres two different issues here one is al qaeda. And there i think that the United States is very pleased to have turkey moving in and trying to address this issue along with russia the United States does not want al qaeda surviving in Northern Syria as far as the kurds this is a very difficult problem for the United States i think increasingly we will see the United States remain in Northern Syria where theyve been Building Bases but today there was a big fight within the American Administration about how long and how much military support to give to the kurds and whether that was sacrificed relations with turkey because United States wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date its a big economy big military that they want to as an ally but they cant abandon the kurds missa go chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. To hottest on its border. I think its inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign car right now. I mean the Decision Makers are out there thinking that you know. Should stay and unity of syria right now is extremely important saw and also ancora as i said before the primary in a more primary target these daws you know. Why peter forces in the north of syria so unclear is in a sort of dilemma right now to play the enemy of my enemy is my france right a. J. So here who is the enemy. To play with it and. Fight against the other enemy so i think at the end of the day what we will see is a sort of initiation of negotiations between ankara and this is inevitable saw ankara needs such support. How can i say to contain this. Expansion and consolation of dollars carefully edited by peter forces in the north of syria i saw her i think it down there today we will see initiation of negotiations between south and im sure that this month is going to be very soon as the Falcon Howard just last question to you what role do you see russia playing in this engagement in shaping the future of syria right now world the russian strategies clear and rather watch a call so right now this the most important thing is the military operation in their roles or against the you after over Services Today in the main target this not just simply to destroy isis which was like and three years a kind of or get some kind of grew organization there in the syrian iraqi border area but to take over and control the gas and oil assets to give the mask mask. Income money for them to begin to rebuild syria and then theres going to should be different kind of negotiations to somehow integrate parts of the sunni opposition groups into a reformed pro i said or i said government which wont that more or less restore the control over syria maybe a bit federalized but still more west united syria and russia would keep Strong Military bases permanent bases in the coastal tartarus and in. Me me im thats the future that russia sees to felgenhauer thank you very much for that thank you to all our guests met in gold challenge Pavel Felgenhauer and Joshua Landis and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a. J. Inside story from Elizabeth Rodman the whole team here by for now. A new level of luxury has arrived. 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With the news that yet another boat full of refugees capsized while it was attempting to cross from me and more to bangladesh comes another reminder of the magnitude of this refugee crisis and the fact that her hands are refugees are still trying to flee and come into bangladesh this area you see behind me these people that are here they all crossed by foot into bangladesh just earlier today weve heard horrific tales from them about what happened to them was a woman over there who told us that her husband was executed in the past week by me and mars military theres a young boy over here showed us a wound on his leg said he got that when the me and maher army shot at the group that he was with very sad stories more reminders that this exodus doesnt seem as though it will end anytime soon thats one reason why aid groups humanitarian organizations are so concerned about the plight of these people until america has announced a campaign germanys refugee intake in an attempt to unite Coalition Partners following last months election the german chancellor agreed to limit the number of new arrivals to two hundred thousand a year it appears to be a passion parties Bavarian Coalition partner which has been one of the strongest critics of merkels refugee policy the trumpet ministration has outlined to congressional leaders new hardline immigration plans the proposals include limiting the number of green cards full family members of the u. 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Says it will oppose the outright ban on bubs stock devices the powerful gun lobby says its open to regulation but against all the legislation banning the modification last weeks las vegas gudmund said to have used a bump stop another device could that semiautomatic rifles of the fully automatic weapons following a rifle allowing a rifle in fact to fire four hundred to eight hundred rounds a minute would you be ok with banning bomb stocks but we dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything what weve said has been very clear that if something transfers a semiautomatic to function like fully automatic then it ought to be regulated differently fully automatic to regulated differently in this country if something copies a similar matic into a fully automatic and those should be regulated as well a court and sorry over has acquitted a former Bosnian Muslim Senior Commander of war crimes serbia alleged men under nasser or chicks command to murder prisoners in Srebrenica Jory the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred two or its denied charges he violated the Geneva Convention the day after a massive march in barcelona against Catalan Independence spains Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said in a newspaper interview that spain will not be divided catalonians government says a cold virtual referendum it held a week ago shows overwhelming support for independence from spain and countries across latin america have been marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of shaker vajra several thousand people have attended a ceremony in the cuban city of santa clara to remember the revolutionary fighter ill be back with more news in thirty minutes here on aljazeera we continue with the day Israel Attacked america. Early june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the six day war in the middle east between israel egypt jordan and syria is underway a spy ship very lightly armed but bristling with antenna it steams into the mediterranean to eavesdrop on the conflict it is patrolling in International Waters off the egyptian curves. At two in the afternoon on june the eighth with the wall reaching its climax israeli jets and mo to torpedo boats launched an unprovoked attack on the ship they dropped napalm and strafe its decks with rockets cannon fire and armor piercing rounds before trying to sink it with talk paedos. We had no way to defend ourselves and it was just were just slaughtered and a shot of a life raft. That were put into the water and they shot i want to were still on more of a ship. Full of holes shell holes everywhere. The focsle the front part of the ship was just red with blood. Throughout the attack the ship flies the stars and stripes the flag of israels closest ally the United States of america its name the u. S. S. Liberty is freshly painted on its stern and the bow carries the distinctive numbers of an American Naval vessel. Out of a crew of just under three hundred there were thirty four killed and hundred seventy two injured enduring agrees to. Life threatening life debilitating injuries so that was more than two thirds of the crew. This audiotape which has never been broadcast before was recorded in real time by the Israeli Military during the assault the womans voice in the background is counting down the seconds it proves that israeli commandos knew all along that they were attacking an American Ship. America. For the first time this and other evidence allows us to reveal the true story of what happened that day and what came after when a deadly assault by one ally and another was covered up and an american president was manipulated by the secret agents of a foreign power events that have shaped u. S. Israeli relations ever since. The United States Navy Memorial in washington d. C. June the eighth two thousand and fourteen for every year on the anniversary of the attack on the u. S. S. Liberty survivors relatives and supporters gather together its a remembrance of those who who were killed that day the thirty four. On dave lucas i was in charge of the deck force i was twenty five my first child was born when i was one day. I had on that cruise so as long as there are survivors and and maybe children of survivors i think this will probably be an annual event and salute. The names of the thirty four killed or read out all. Right. Punctuated by the tolling of a navy bow. And the playing of taps the traditional military funeral lament. Its important to. Not forget what happened and to continue to try to find out why it happened and who made it happen. In the summer of one nine hundred sixty seven america was in turmoil an incendiary mixture of Racial Discrimination and extreme poverty exploded into a summer over rioting in cities across the country. But one issue dominated. The vietnam war you know ten thousand troops would die that year the americans were trapped they couldnt leave and they couldnt win. In the middle east to war looked inevitable there was growing tension between israel and its arab neighbors armies were mobilizing israel promised the white house they would not attack first but on the fifth of june they jammed radar sense of the u. S. Embassy in tel aviv so the americans couldnt detect their jets taking off to launch a surprise assault on egypt. Meanwhile the u. S. S. Liberty was sailing across the mediterranean into the war zone liberty was a state of the our intelligence gathering vessel of the time and what we did is we list it we were listening ship my name is light painter i was a Research Officer we could sent we could receive any signal that was out there low band high band anything intercepting it recording it and we did have on board some translators who could have an immediate translation of whats going on with actually bad things off and then back to n. S. A. We were were spiced im Jim Cavanaugh was a communication technician aboard the u. S. S. Liberty and i intercepted morse code were spice i mean intercepting messages from embassies military bases Police Anything and everything that we could get to ensure that the United States was comfortable what was going on in the world and known as conspiring against us and basically was to protect our interests. This was the cold war american president Lyndon Johnson knew that the russians already had substantial military influence in egypt he needed to find out what they were going to do next to make sure that a local conflict did not become a world war with the usa backing israel and russia siding with the arab cause. I was assigned as a russian linguist aboard the ship and Bryce Lockwood United States marine corps retired israelis our primary purpose was to intercept communications of the russian spy aircraft as it were at alexandria egypt and it was our job was to find them and they were not targeted against israelis life was very relaxing and one of the nice things about the liberty is we had air conditioning because we had Communications Equipment so we were cool in the hot days it was a very laid back very clean ship it was spotless the morale was pretty high i mean very high by the time the liberty arrived off the coast of egypt on the eighth of june the war had just two days left to run israel had seized the old city of jerusalem the west bank and the gaza strip Jordanian Forces were beaten and egypt was conceding defeat only syria held out. The airwaves were dead the only voices we did get while those of israeli or hebrew were what we were hearing my name is bob wilson i worked for and on june eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty seven when what we were trying to monitor find something coming from the direction of egypt there just wasnt i think they own the skies in their own and everything that. I dont think there was anything moving at the time that they didnt know about it was listening to the chatter night before knew it was American Ship that came into the area they knew who we were five fifteen a. M. First light the ships log recorded an israeli photo reconnaissance plane flying over the liberty. It was easily identifiable as a nor atlas or a craft and those are photo Reconnaissance Aircraft israeli records obtained by aljazeera show that they recognizance plane reported that they body as an american spy ship number g t five well i was on the bridge im john scott i was the damage control officer. Circled the ship kind of a broad circle and headed back towards israel israeli planes then continued to fly over the liberty all morning. And they would do half moon passes over us and we saw that they were israeli they were slowly lumbering over our ship and we were waving at them they were waving at us they were sophisticated almost as sophisticated as we were as far as surveillance and technology they had everything we supplied it with all the technology to this day and i felt that we werent we were in great shape because they knew we were there our friends we felt safe actually was a secure feeling to see them there was one other thing which made the crew feel safe we had an American Flag flying the standard and then we put up the holiday colors which is a huge American Flag and it was a bright sunny day with the wind blowing i dont five or ten knots the flag was unfurled you could see it for miles meanwhile Israeli Military jets were on their way on the real time audio tape obtained by aljazeera at one fifty three p. M. The pilots asked the base control about the ship. Right. The u. S. S. Liberty was the only ship of any size in the area. The american six three eight including two Aircraft Carriers was five hundred miles away oh it was a great day hello im jim smith damage control man in engineering i mean im twenty years old its a time i come from a small town you stole hay bales and in a summer time for bucking our sun was shining blue sky clouds nice people sunbathing on it that we had lunch and five minutes later maybe here came the jets and when nobody really knew what was happening then we started a fire. Captain said to me alert the forward gun that were under attack and i tried to raise the the two sailors in the forward gun mats i looked at and they were they were blown to pieces by the rocket when the attack started and we realized that we needed help we tried to communicate with the sixth fleet they were jamming both our distress frequencies and our tactical frequencies the tactical frequencies is all right but the International Distress frequency is a violation of International Law to jam them and the israelis were jamming and we could not get a single rose heres a question i have to ask who would know the frequencies other than an ally and who is the ally in the war who was in egypt it was israel they would know and only they would know in this conflict what are frequencies would be. Now cut off from the outside world the crew on the liberty was defenseless we had four fifty caliber machine guns on board that were basically there to repel any boarders that might come by you know a pirate situation. Certainly werent designed to bring down jet aircraft that were hammering at us but you cant shoot a jet going six hundred miles an hour with a fifty caliber machine gun work it was just a surreal scene people whod been standing there earlier joking and laughing were now dead dying and with the walking dead and wounded it was just unreal gasoline barrels stored on the deck of the ship best into flames the crew rushed to try to put out the fires my was watching the aircraft is they circled around and when they got to coming back towards the ship i just holler at him down theyd fire circle back around we jump back up and keep fighting fire the rocket noise was horrendous when iraq and explodes. You cant escape iraq now here where you go. What the crew didnt know was that at three minutes past two the israeli pilots bolted to use a new much deadly weapon. That the biggest problem i guess from from that was the napalm which they dropped from the airplane the napalm had burned scorched almost seen tire from part of the ship the bridge area. The whole top side of the ship and the fire and was all charred it was no longer a navy grey you have to stop the fire stop the fighting to keep the ship afloat thats your home youve got nowhere else to go you cant pack up and go down a road because there is no doubt the road up above the Israeli Military argued about what should happen next and who should sink the liberty. Then who. Was. I remember thinking i was in pretty good shape then i thought i said i think i can swim to the shore. And i thought sharks and i thought a lot of things ill call quickly you know. At eleven minutes past two with the israeli jets running out of ammunition the pilots were instructed to fly down and confirm the identity of the ship. It was now twelve minutes past two and the israeli control tower knew for certain this was an American Ship the same one its forces had first identified at five fifteen a. M. That morning and then buzzed again during seven additional reconnaissance flights throughout the day. The jets then pulled out but three israeli navy mo to torpedo boats were already on their way. The u. S. S. Liberty was a spy ship in the event of an attack it was standard procedure for the spies on board to destroy everything just in case it fell into enemy hands everyone was destroying material everyone was. Stripping information off of computers ripping computers open pulling information out thats something you just dont want to hear aboard ship youve done all this work collected this intelligence and processed it and now you have to destroy it you just didnt want the enemy or to get a hold of anything classified at two thirty five the israeli motorboats fired five torpedoes for missed but one hit. It had been over nine hours since the Israeli Military first identified deliberately israeli planes had flown over it repeatedly and twenty minutes earlier that control tower had confirmed it yet again as an American Ship twenty five americans were about to die in a single moment. This is what it looks like when it took paedo hits the ship the size of the liberty. The torpedo through a step in the air like a rollercoaster felt like one coming down dead silence lifes all smoke and haze everywhere i went back to the drinking fountain and i filled it with blood reached down to get a drink and black man stared back at me. And when its all back to get right he just kept getting wrong camp sank and sank. We just waited all of us waited thinking that this was it well going down. And i figured that was the end of life for me. And the tall paedo had blown a huge hole in the hollow thirty nine feet by twenty four killing twenty five americans in a single hit the top you know hit the room that i was in and it was just luck this guy died this one live that died it was how much shrapnel was coming in your direction you know the Old Fashioned typewriters i had the letter h. Sticking out of my left foot i had. Eighty pieces of shop on my lower extremities. And the place filled up with water that. Totally black totally filled with. Powder. And oil it was like. Gagging and you only had about eight or ten inches of. Space where you could catch a breath. The only way i could go in that direction was drop down and swim underwater for five strokes come back up and then frantically catch a breath and try to find Something Else and hold on to. I got pulled through the hatch and onto the deck others were not so lucky my friend Ronnie Campbell had a desk right there and i remember ronnie saying you fellows can do what you want to so im going to write a letter home and he stuck a piece of paper in his mail is typewriter and began typing dear eileen you wont believe whats happening to us and just seconds after that the torpedo struck and. Killed both the two moraines killed. My friend Ronnie Campbell and my job was to try to get probably twenty or thirty wounded sailors out to the main deck and to the life raft so i went up and looked at myself before i try to get a went out and thats when i observed a motor torpedo boat is really plainly marked with a star of david. Machine gunning our life raft. The crew of the liberty were now trapped on board the ship with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide the torpedo boats came and closer and began to machine gun the ship using armor piercing projectiles the armor piercing the shells that they were using were leaving holes about that big around in the Metal Plating just. Peel it out like it was orange peel. I close range the armor piercing rounds ripped through the steel hull of the ship no way i was safe this bullet was retrieved from one of the navigational books at the rear portion of the bridge to penetrated the skin of the ship going through at least one other book and then stopped and in the second book this is part of an armor piercing shell the outer portion or jacket makes the whole of this thing goes through and im bullet like this that hit a seam and Francis Brown and and killed him he died on the spot just fell of the floor dead is just barely eighteen. There were enough helmets to go around for everyone it was like sitting in a Cardboard Box and having somebody shoot through it the boss or just coming everywhere. Throughout the attack the liberty had been silent to the outside world all its ariels why the smashed or jammed. We had one would band to know which had worked an entire cruise and it had a bullet hole in it one of the radio minutes taken a reel of coax cable and ran it from one of the transmitters back there to that with antenna. And took some shrapnel in the process he got out and made a fire box firefox this is rock star rock star under attack by unidentified surface and naval air units require immediate assistance. The american six fleet was five hundred miles away and picked up the signal so did the Israeli Armed forces the attack stopped shortly afterwards the american Aircraft Carrier they summoned the American Naval attack a and told him that been a terrible mistake. The american planes were recalled as they returned israeli helicopters flew out to the liberty this one had some personnel from. The Israeli Government and the u. S. Naval attache dropped a brown paper sack on the deck and for part of the ship. Weighted down with an orange added Business Card in it. It landed right next to the severed leg of. One of the deck personnel and the note said. Do you have cancelled. Pretty obvious that there were casualties. I mean theyre still body parts and blood streaming down the balkans. But so his message to you have casualties was kind of. Out of place. One of the sailors carried that sack back to the captain of the captain took out the know and read it. Looked up at the helicopter and bought the sofa for her reading of. A rite of passage preserved through the generations my cousin was laying down there until a screaming she was helpless the woman i have to endorse as faculty of pain for what that menai meets the women affected by it at g. M. And those reshaping perception do you think people will abandon this even thought about to do is take on aljazeera correspondent the count at this time. Chinas property. Fields become cities rivers water parks forests parking lots mostly empty the iran upbringings International Performance the illusion of a thriving metropolis and the mix of an image on the bill economy chinese dream of a witness documentary at this time on aljazeera english. Hello your geologists there im so whole robin these are all top stories the United States and turkey have suspended Visa Services for each Others Nationals turkeys Foreign Ministry has now some of the officials from the u. S. Embassy calling for an end to a dispute between the two countries is the latest in an escalating diplomatic incident over the arrest of a u. S. Consular worker in istanbul now hes accused of links to the u. S. Base cleric who take he claims was the mastermind of last years failed coup the International Committee of the red cross says it will reduce its operations in afghanistan and it follows the deaths of Seven Members of staff in the country this year in february six red cross workers died in an attack on an aid convoy the Organization Says however it will not be leaving the country altogether at least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying written directly g. s from myanmar to bangladesh capsized is the third such incident since people started fleeing violence in near mars reichian state in august one glimmer call has announced a camp on germanys refugee intake in an attempt to unite her Coalition Partners following last months election the german chancellor agreed to limit the number of new arrivals to two hundred thousand a year it appears to be a concession to her partys Bavarian Coalition partner which has been one of the strongest critics of merkels refugee policies the troubled ministration as outlined to congressional leaders new hardline immigration plans the proposals include limiting the number of green cards for family members of u. S. Citizens tribe who wants to employ an additional ten thousand immigration officers and judges to deport criminals and unaccompanied children. The u. S. Rifle association or in our little oppose an outright ban on bubs stock devices now the powerful gun lobby says is open to regulation but against any legislation banning the modification last weeks las vegas gunman is said to have used a bumper stop device convert semiautomatic rifles or just fully automatic weapons allowing a rifle to fire four hundred to eight hundred rounds in a single minute a court in sarajevo has acquitted a Bosnian Muslim commander of war crimes serbia leasure men under nasser chicks command murdered civilians in srebrenica during the bosnian war in one nine hundred ninety two or it denied the charges that violated the Geneva Convention ill be back with the news hour in thirty minutes stay with us here on out is there. June the eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the height of the six day war the u. S. S. Liberty an american spy ship had just been attacked by israeli jets and two peter boats while in International Waters off egypt badly damaged two thirds of its crew were dead or wounded. As soon as the news reached washington the attack on the liberty instantly triggered a domestic political crisis according to documents released under the freedom of information act one solution suggested in American Government circles was to sink the liberty so journalists could not photograph it and inflame Public Opinion against the israelis the n. S. A. Rejected this idea with an impolite comment handling the media became the top priority and i was taken to my home and why dont maryland man name is sap patricia bluer shacharis and my husband was killed on the liberty. And by the time i got there there were any number of people from the National Security agency they are they were there to make sure that i didnt speak to anyone from the press and i didnt they stay night and day back in the mediterranean the liberty was now listing at ten degrees a massive hole in the hull above and below the water line. The planes that they said they were sending to us never arrived what i was afraid of and i think most of us was that we were going to sink next was it was pretty much littered with the wound looks like something out of a horror movie with people standing around or lying wounded and dead and stunned heads missing parts of their bodies the liberty had only one doctor on board with very limited medical resources there was not a table that wasnt being used by the body on or wounded body and the doctor fixed compound fractures and treated but it entrapped the wounds while blood transfusions were given to. It was. It was real bad and the doctor said to him you want me to operate he says youre probably going to die if i do and youll certainly die if i dont and he said go ahead doctor and so when the doctor operated. We held in this tight as we could as horrible pain im sure for him and all of a sudden he went he went limp and he died right there. Other wont ever see anything like that again. Captain mcgonagle received a pretty bad leg injury lost a lot of blood. He was navigating by the stars we had it a little bit of power and tons of water in our belly which meant the ship way back and forth all night long the next day American Ships arrived to take the injured in the dead off the liberty the American Government now made sure that no journalists could get anywhere near the crew when i took the severely wounded to various parts i actually posted guards on the room so that no one could be interviewed by the press the told press blackout was in effect. Back in washington the government ensured there was Little Information for the press while politics went on behind closed doors. I was told to go up personally to the. Seventh floor. Oh my name is bill lloyd i was in charge of the arab israel desk sit in because the secretary of state himself dean rusk had summoned. The master harman of israel to come in or gently and. So i sat through the meeting taking notes and in a loud voice secretary west was really demanding some explanation for a why and what had happened the ambassador himself. Seemed to be ignorant of the incident she immediately said i cant believe what youre telling me its it would be impossible it would be unheard of it was especially tough for Lyndon Johnson to date the most pro israeli american president in history johnson was a very tough mood. Im tom he was director in the state Department Director of intelligence and research at the time of the liberty incident and sixty seven attack on the Liberty Johnson himself briefed Newsweek Magazine off the record that the israelis had attacked and the reason that attacked was that they thought this was an intelligence ship that was intercepted perhaps israeli as well as Egyptian Communications but then everything changed the fact that johnson of self was the leaker and briefer of newsweek was soon leaked and this alarmed of course the Israeli Embassy and their leading friends in the jewish organizations the Israeli Embassy regarded this as a major problem. And that. What johnson told newsweek practically amount of blood libel declassified israeli documents show they were going to threaten president johnson with blood libel gross anti semitism and that would end his political career blackmail. This is what i know bobbie are among Us Navy Retired former director of the National Security agency. But they know if he is thinking about running again hes going to need money for his campaign. So alleging that hes blood libeling is gonna rouse the jewish donors the Israeli Government hired teams of lawyers some of whom are Close Friends of Lyndon Johnson and began an all out offensive they lent on the media to kill critical stories and slanted others in favor of israel. There was a campaign mounted to see if what could be done about returning johnson to his normal. Predictable pro israeli position at the time johnson was still undecided as to whether to run for president the following year efforts were to be made to remind the president of the delicacy of his own position that he personally. Might lose support. For his run for reelection in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight israeli tactics were clever they identified johnson soft spot the war in vietnam and gave him two extraordinary gifts neither of which were made public at the time the first was political. Johnsons complaints about israel was that many of the jewish organizations and the heads of. Leaders in the Jewish Community were opposing him. And there were several becoming more silent as the liberty versus moves so he also knew that there was a move back and his favor if he was moderate. His room there was a second gift much more secret but vital to the american president the dreadful death toll in vietnam was dominating the domestic news agenda the North Vietnamese had russian surface to air missiles which were bringing down american aircraft on a daily basis. The American Military attacks in israel got a surprise visit from a senior Israeli Intelligence officer took some helicopters and one across the north red sea to the surface to air missile sites and now only captures them put took back everything the launchers the missiles from the manufacturing thats manuals harassed them and then he went to the u. S. Embassy there and shane said i think i have something you might be interested in and of course those were the same missiles that our aircraft flying over North Vietnam were encountering they today and countermeasures was a huge issue. So grateful was the American Government they gave israel to gifts in return theyd be supplied them with the weapons they had just lost in the war and the liberty inquiry run by the department of defense the d. O. D. Was watered down all thats influenced by what have we benefited from from the capture they say two missile sites so johnson did respond and took a much more lenient lie and wish that the whole incident could be put behind as soon as possible johnson softer approach to israel was immediately reflected in the American Navy inquiry which was now underway on board the liberty. We began to realize that a cover up was was this list descending upon us a lot of people that were in a key position to offer testimony were not given an opportunity i testified to the machine gunning of life rafs to the captain state of mind and it was that those two issues in particular are totally a matter lloyd painter was not the only officer to have his testimony ignored i saw what looked like unburned vaseline and i scraped a little bit of it off and put it in the jar and sealed the cap on and i presented to the court of inquiry and thats the last i saw that jar there was no mention of napalm and im sure thats what it was they want to hear any of that i didnt know that at the time i didnt know until many months later that not i had been recorded looking back on it it was a total sham the us court of inquiry reported in just twenty days it was a rush job full of spelling mistakes much key evidence ignored no israelis interviewed and it exonerated them from blame i read the court of inquiry and realized that my statements have been stricken from the record and never recorded so i knew then for certain that the cover up was it was massive the israelis then rushed out their own report which concluded that the whole affair was a series of mistakes and that no one was to blame the only dissenting voice was that of the israeli ambassador in washington he sent a secret telegram back home arguing that israel was clearly guilty he cited the audiotape of the attack the existence of which was known to top israeli officials and mentioned the crucial twenty minute gap that followed the libertys identification and the launch of the torpedoes against him he said they should own up to what they had done and put the guilty on trial his advice was ignored the focus now was to repair the damage to american israeli relations and the israelis have always been very skillful. Tracking what the u. S. Government is doing saying thinking and after ten flights and theyre by no means the only country that does it many do theyre just more effective than it must and the great advantage they have as compared to other countries is their influence in the congress around the time of the attack the Washington Post had noted that the jewish lobby could help determine the outcome of one hundred sixty nine of the two hundred seventy electoral votes needed to win the white house the big emotive words about the attack disappeared from. Press releases at the pentagon much more bland neutral sounding. Discourse occurred and this was true of the private briefings that official people in the vatican made about the ends but whatever was said to journalists every u. S. Intelligence had believed the attack was intentional one of them wrote a nice whitewash for a group of ignorant stupid and inept x. X. X. Jewish community has always been more generous than many of their other counterparts and supporting financially. Elections political causes process that does translate into influence many of johnsons closest friends and advisers were pro israeli and they reported back to tel aviv on his every move is really story constantly shifted to counter whatever new intelligence the white house received so sensitive with these communications that the israelis used code names to protect the identity of their white house agents but for the first time. The members of the ring can be named hamlet was a Million Dollar fundraiser for the democrats when he rang johnson took his calls he was a find. Menashe a was Arthur Goldberg the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations was David Ginsburg a high profile washington lawyer who also represented the Israeli Embassy. With Supreme Court justice abe fortas. Lyndon johnson had dinner with him on the eve of the six day war the strategy worked the u. S. Israeli relationship proved to be stronger than the killing and injuring of more than two hundred americans the american israeli relationship was very much at stake. Was brought back from the precipice the crucial intelligence came from the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations after goldberg he wore in tel aviv that the United States had the audiotape which revealed israeli pilots knew it was an American Ship before that time. The tape was quietly buried. And i think their conscious decision was my to sweep it under the rug to put it behind my reading is that the u. S. Government had made the decision to accept the apology and reject the other us now but dont push it further. With the politics sorted the only remaining issue was the fate of the u. S. S. Liberty badly damaged and now in malta for extensive repairs the torpedo hole was massive and was revealed to be much bigger once they got the ship into dry dock and drained of water the sealed compartment was a water filled too full of bodies body parts and top secret equipment. You could smell death and you could smell the oil thats what i remember and soon as the air hit the bodies it began to deteriorate rapidly you knew what you have to do they were. Still are the navy was more concerned with parts than they were body parts but when i went down i knew that you couldnt separate the two we had to start shoveling up the the parts one hundred sixty eight bags worth elsewhere the make up artists were getting to work we were in the dry dock about six weeks and three hundred maltese workers are working two shifts a day and i think seven days a week to try they were cutting out the shell holes welding plates over that. And fabricating metal to cover the torpedo hole and then in one day they painted the entire ship we looked like nothing ever happened we took it across the atlantic it was like being in a cemetery but when we pulled into port we look good in this press and everything with air and we look like basically nothing really happened so its great for the press to downplay what were going to happen to us. While the survivors met the widows and friends the one hundred sixty eight bags of body parts and top secret equipment were quietly taken to an incinerator and. A year later and the liberty captain William Mcgonagle was given the medal of honor americas highest award for gallantry the tradition has always been that it is presented by the president in the white house. I look at these two. And i see. Captain mcgonagle never heard words like these were his commander in chief there was no Television Coverage for him as he was sieved his medal in a quiet ceremony in the navy yard president johnson was just four miles away at the time he stayed in the white house to hand out diplomas to schoolchildren. The reason was revealed in this internal memo which advised president johnson the due to the nature and sensitivity of these awards they should be given by the department of defense not by him the advice was clear no press release regarding them should be made when i received my purple heart and in a secret ceremony in a captains office i was admonished threat of Court Martial dont ever tell anyone where you got this dont ever tell anyone how you got this medal. The following Year American aid to israel increased for folks and president johnson agreed a treaty classified above top secret with israel for the Mutual Exchange of intelligence and arrangement which is still in place today code named stone ruby. One of the things about this me is. There wasnt a nice explanation of what went on no one wants to talk about the why. The big secret the israelis want to protect was their next move they had told the americans that this was to be a limited will not a land grab but on june eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the forces were poised to attack and seize the Golan Heights and invade syria something they wish to keep from the white house until theyve done it. Successive American Administrations both republican and democrat have refused to deal with limiting even the issue of war crimes against unarmed americans has never been addressed there was a war crimes report filed by the Liberty Veterans Association to address the issues of such war crimes as firing on life rafts that was never answered properly i dont think was answer period the people who were responsible for attacking the Liberty Liberty were you know by and large the military individuals in the war room i dont know how many for eight ten. Those are the people who came up with the plan those are the individuals who are responsible for the attack the pilots the personnel they were ordered you know you dont follow orders go to go to jail so they have to follow through it wasnt the israeli people who ordered that attack it wasnt the average jewish person who ordered that attack we really need. To exonerate the average jewish person israeli from the us and goats wards those individuals who are responsible for the attack no one was really willing to take this on not the star state department the white house not the congress its in everybodys best interest to just let this go and thats exactly what they did but by doing that they laugh a lot of pain for the survivors and for their families because there was a lot of broken families broken marriages alcoholism depression. Posttraumatic stress disorder. So those those crew members suffered a lot but so did the family the hardest part was that the reaction of our own government toward us and we were actually the fingers were pointed to us and they israelis where they were that they were never questioned as to why they did it they only questioned us. The families still want answers from their government which remained silent for many some memories never fade we had a wonderful time just being together i met out one. At a party and we spent a lot of time talking throughout the evening and at the end of the evening he said to me. Are you busy tomorrow afternoon and i said well no and he said do you think we could get married then i was told that he was among the dead it was absolutely the worst moment of my life because that doesnt go by or think about those guys i mean i went through hell but they left the earth. When im walking up to the mass grave i still feel a connection with those people. Hard to explain but its still there. I want to remember that connection. As long as i can what we shared what we felt. It took thirteen years of haggling before both sides finally agreed a compensation deal for the ship by nine hundred eighty the bill plus interest was just over seventeen Million Dollars israel offered six the americans accepted then sold the liberty for one hundred thousand dollars scrap. The settlement for the victims was quicker but many are still unhappy with the today. Not feel it was a fair settlement i would have thought it but i was so. Sad and broken. I just didnt have the energy to take on that fight and it wasnt a fight that i thought i could when the state department. Were very eager for the survivors to make that settlement they sent a check for the the amount and that that that was. The American Government came up with a formula for the israelis to compensate the widows and children for their loss this included the payment for shock and mental anguish the widows got twenty five thousand dollars with ten thousand dollars for each of the children over five an American Government lawyer doubted that children under five could sufficiently comprehend the event to suffer shock and grief. The us proposed they should therefore receive nothing and offered the israelis accepted. Since the attack on the liberty the usa and israel had grown ever closer at the time george ball the us under secretary of state noted that it seemed clear to the israelis that as american leaders did not have the courage to punish them for the blatant murder of american citizens they would let them get away with anything. From the neon lights of asia. To the city that never sleeps. Hello there weve had some very intense thunderstorms over parts of south america recently is all we know out of this area of cloud here its been affecting us in the northern parts of argentina through parts of paraguay and into the southern parts of brazil and here weve seen a lot of very intense hail storms which have caused quite a bit of damage to cars down some branches of trees as well now this system is still going to be bringing acim intense storms as we head through the day or monday so still expect some during the day today but then eventually as we head through into tuesday the whole energy will be going to be lost so well still see some showers but they wont be quite as intense as those that weve seen over the last day or so as that system gradually slips away then for sunshine the temperatures will be rising again thirty one will be our maximum here meanwhile towards the west force in santiago here its a lot cooler here it will only get to around seventy after the central americas weve still got plenty of cloud with us but a few less of them around parts of cuba also haiti and jamaica so more in the way of sunshine here the showers that well the further east at the moment for some of the Lesser Antilles very very wet here and then that gradual begin to ease as we head through the day on tuesday and this time we see the showers begin to sparkle five a positive haiti and across cuba again here it will turn for wetter. 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