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Sanctions the would decimating his people saddam remained in power. In 1998 he drove u. N. Inspectors sent to disarm him saddam was a dangerous man dangerous 1st to his own citizens and dangerous to the rest of the world. Joe wilson knows iraq well in 1991 in baghdad he was the last american diplomat to meet with Saddam Hussein saddam was hemmed in he was not a threat he had been turned from a major Regional Power into a 3rd rate dictator. Just over 100. 00 days after the attacks of 911. 00 still fighting in afghanistan america looks for another war Richard Powell publishes what is essentially a declaration of war. The same day franks visits bush at his ranch in texas in front of journalists the 2 men speak of the successes against the taliban in afghanistan where taliban got the country secure the Country Stable we will destroy the Al Qaeda Terrorist Network inside afghanistan it will take as long as it takes thank you all. But in private bush confirms to franks the order to attack iraq. This change in priority worries the general who on february 19th 2002 confides in bob graham florida senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee. After a briefing which was quite upbeat with the progress that was being made the general asked me to meet privately in his office and the 1st thing he said was were no longer fighting a war in afghanistan i was stunned by that and i asked him what that he mean and he said that some of the important personnel. Such as special operations units were being moved from afghanistan to get ready for a war in iraq. Bushs decision is fraught with consequences the fight against terrorism is put on the back burner in favor of a conventional war in the middle east not the most predictable region in the world. In early 2002 the military machine is set in motion all the trimmings is to convince the public of the need to go to war with a country that seems far removed from the tragedy that struck america. Under base of each former army colonel and professor of military history. Having made that decision to go toward the political necessity was to sell the war to the American People that they had prepared a significant profit and operation to sell the war at a time when the press was very receptive to whatever the administration might be saying in its efforts to defend the United States against yet another attack and weapons of mass destruction seemed to people on the inside to offer the best mechanism to complete the selling job. W m d s weapons of mass destruction Chemical Biological nuclear for months this deadly arsenal will be at the heart of the iraqi deception the stakes are high in a power struggle between the proponents of war and those who oppose it i was listening to briefings detailed top secret briefings from the cia the Defense Intelligence agency and other intelligence organizations and they all believed believed very strongly that saddam had multiple programs to develop weapons of mass destruction in reality there was no consensus on the existence of w m ds for years american intelligence has been monitoring iraq and has found nothing we spend billions literally billions of dollars a year with what we Call National technical means which everyone knows are satellites and then not only take images but they have all kinds of other sensor data on that thing ok and guess what. Not one w m ds site was found in iraq since 1991 the specialists of alex running espionage the n. S. A. The National Security agency cannot find anything. William binney former technical director of the n. S. A. Was among those scrutinizing iraq there was no information collected by n. S. A. That that indicated that he continued his weapons of mass Destruction Program or even that he had weapons of mass destruction. This was no surprise Saddam Husseins arsenal had been destroyed after the gulf war. And. Before 911 american senior officials had publicly stated otherwise he has not developed any significant capability to respect weapons or abstraction is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors were. We are able to arm bomb him with not one not. One Saddam Husseins fate is decided the official tone changes and washington portrays him as an immediate threat. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil and. No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people in the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in iraq simply stated. There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. The existence of w m ds will have to be proven to help them the Bush Administration turns to im a child. B. In 1992 together with other opponents of Saddam Hussein in exile he formed the i n c the Iraqi National congress. All of them had a common interest in being ex exiles in that they wanted to take over the government and understood that the way they were going to do the act was by following a u. S. Army which was dispensing with the current government and with Saddam Hussein. Overlooked by bill clinton chalo be allied himself with the president s political opponents the i. O. C. Managed to develop. Clear and significant strategic relations with people in among the neocons and in the Republican Party at large and it with some democrats also to get support for america to do something about saddam. In january 2001 opportunity presented itself for the iraqi exiles so when president bush came to power. All those people who were advocating supporting us came to power with him. After 911. 00 the collusion between iraqi exiles and the Bush Administration becomes cooperation. That american administration. So that specifically asked us to see if we can introduce them to people. Who can provide information on w m ds. Chalo be complies enthusiastically he introduces the americans to iraqi defectors endless sources of revelations about Saddam Husseins deadly arsenal. The people in child abuse group wanted to get rid of saddam that so they were looking and searching in trying to come up with things that would help justify to us what our people wanted to hear that is we wanted to hear something would be weapons of mass destruction so we could justify its going to war with them. A shrewd politician and strategist chalo be also introduces his defectors to the press and through their provocative headlines the journalists lend credibility to all the allegations against baghdad opinion in washington is divided and it was clear from the very beginning that major institutions in the United States such as the cia and a large part of the state department were opposed. To this they had no confidence in us they kept that criticizing us they kept calling us exaggerated liars despite everything the pentagon refuses to question the revelations made by the exiles the idea that chalo be had information that he knew to be false and he presented it knowing it to be false is has never been established in any of the inquiries in there been many official inquiries into the activities the intelligence activities before the war. But the skeptics must be countered and to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon creating a power on those services the office of special plans and initiative by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. The office of special plans this was quite a quite a mess monstrosity they were set up as an alternative cia. The cia gathers information from a multitude of sources in general its analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a 1st in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need and. George tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. I have one of those hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him 3 white folders where materials about the some 550 sites in iraq where allegedly there were no weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it from. The exiles who did we the United States of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exiles provided information packets was accurate and the answer was 0. The exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. The collective effort by all those groups involved became a fabrication that became the policy of the United States and it was used to justify a war. Further information was provided by friendly nations. In rome a dossier from the Italian Military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. It eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by major. The German Secret Service offers its support as well. It provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile laboratories. A. War to liberate iraq weapons for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the country into a war. In august and september the drumbeats of war in iraq started to get louder and louder and there were some indications that the president would soon be calling on congress for an authorization of war against iraq. A mere formality as bush holds the majority but bob graham will try to stop. Swings too. And one of the questions was wed like to review the National Intelligence estimate on possible war with iraq and the answer was there isnt a National Intelligence estimate. What graham is asking for is a top secret document an estimate of what every Intelligence Agency knows about a particular threat. To be told that here we are about to go to war and no National Intelligence estimate has been done was astounding and we ask that it be done what happened was they kept their heads way down you know it want to do an estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq because theyre honest understand so was there any. In london player comes to the aid of his friend bushs publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. The intelligence picture they want to keep they can be deployed within 45 minutes and iraq is seeking uranium from africa to develop an atomic bomb but in Congress Graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central Intelligence Agency was very reluctant and said we dont have time to do this i said we dont have time to know everything we need to know before we commit u. S. Troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. It looks like the jig is up i will go have to do it estimate and the white house says ok mr tenet 2 things number one you have to do it in one and a half weeks usually an estimate takes 3 or 4 months and number 2 its got to come out exactly as Vice President dick cheney said it was. Tenet will once again due to the president s orders. Bob kerrey is a u. S. Senator and former navy seal. Well i think its a fair accusation to say that both president bush and Vice President cheney put pressure on the Intelligence Community to reach a conclusion that they had already reached Vice President cheney at one time went down and sat in cia did sat down at a in the chair next to the analyst looking at the data saying what do you have on weapons of mass destruction will lead kind of puts the pressure on the intelligence agencies to come up with something. Every reclaim news cycle brings a series of breaking stories this maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years during the listening post as we tend the cameras on the media donald trump shouldnt be the one deciding who is a journalist and who is it from focus on how they would call it on the stories that matter the most they move closer and closer to the front of the tire shut down both international and domestic News Coverage on aljazeera. 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Hello again im fully back to where the headlines on aljazeera the Chinese Government has reiterated its support for hong kong carry lamb following weeks of mass protests beijings top office on Hong Kong Policy also called for the violence to stop after another night of street battles in the city in response prodemocracy groups have accused the government of not addressing the main issues on sunday night gas and arrested dozens of protesters to care that off the streets. She was young actually. We call on all the people in hong kong regardless of their social backgrounds to unequivocally oppose in boycott violence the recent developments especially the acts of violence by a small number of radical elements have seriously undermined the broad interests of hong kong for prosperity and stability they pose a serious challenge to the rule of law and public order in hong kong and to life and property of hong kong residents theyve also crossed the red line of the principle of one country 2 systems and by no means should be tolerated. The president of nigeria has ordered a military operation to hunt down suspected gunmen who attacked a funeral at least 65 people were killed t. M. I. Degree the capital of borno state in the northeast doctors in sudan say 5 protesters have been shot and killed by Security Forces to this were protesting against the findings of an investigation into last months crackdown on a city in demonstration outside military headquarters in court to saddams military council is blaming a few role officers for the violence which the opposition says killed more than 100. 00 people. The lawyer of russian Opposition Leader says he has been poisoned with an unknown chemical while in prison according to nirvana his doctor has been released from hospital and is now being taken back to jail position leader was hospitalized on sunday with signs of an acute allergy has been serving a 30 day prison sentence since wednesday after calling for antigovernment protests. And in the us the government has shot dead has been shot dead by police after he killed 3 people at a Food Festival in the usa a california it happened in the city of guild wars south of San Francisco another 15 people were injured it those are the headlines iraq a deadly deception continues next stay with us. In early october 2002 in the u. S. Congress a resolution authorizing the war is put to the vote the cia finally presents its estimate on iraq classified as top secret it is not until 2015 that the estimate is made available to the public it is in a state or text 95 pages long the dissect Saddam Husseins weapons of mass Destruction Program most notably however the estimate is exceedingly cautious citing doubts and conflicting opinions coming from the core of the Intelligence Community. To keep these drugs from being taken into account the white house symbol taney asli publishes a shortened version of the estimate on iraq 25 pages embellished with color photographs and maps. They had a very clever sanitized version of the estimate which. If a sentence said we think it possible that Saddam Hussein had this then the take out the possible this version makes official the allegations that have been circulating for months baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles saddam could get his hands on a Nuclear Weapon within a year the Sales Campaign that took place i would characterize as aggressive deception theres no question that the headlines leave a different impression of whats in the document itself the october 2002 and i e is not conclusive. It is the headlines that will sway congress bob graham knows this he votes against the resolution to go to war. By taking that action according to our own Intelligence Reports i will tell you friends and i would encourage you. To read the classified Intelligence Reports which are much sharper than what is available in the classified form we are going to be increased the threat level against the people of the United States i found the document to be a very unpersuasive and it was a significant part of my ultimate decision to vote against the war in iraq or october 10th 2002 that. Congress approves the war right roll touring the course of history 4 out of jackson. The deception is successful. American officials bear the responsibility of having allowed questionable evidence to dictate their decision and this for political ends this vote was going to be taken in october of 2002 just a month before the november election so there were a lot of people who felt that from a political standpoint. They didnt really want to know too much because they wanted to be able to tell their constituents this is what the president said was the right thing i accepted his judgment the vote by congress is a resulting victory for the Bush Administration. And the iraqi exiles and it leaves the antiwar proponents with a bitter taste of defeat. Really. With a vote of Congress Security it is no time to rally public support to do so they have a dossier on hand. Remember that dossier from rove the one that conveniently emerged from the archives from the Italian Military secret service sees me. And so bianco former minister of the interior has closely followed the extraordinary story of this dossier chaired a local made the ball up at the u. S. C. It called going to let me introduce the polish women ian it let raise a laugh at that and it. A key but they will tease out. That food soldier is Rocco Martino a long time sees me agent informer to french british and American Secret Services he is the one who circulated the seemingly explosive dossier among his socalled clients. This is it it contains official looking documents that allude to a sale by nisha to iraq of concentrated you rhenium or yellowcake. The yellowcake dosey he finally lands on the desk of Vice President cheney in february 2002. When dick cheney saw this report from the Defense Intelligence agency about yellowcake iraqis seeking yellowcake in Darkest Africa and asia where. He asked the cia briefer or you think about this this year briefer said well ill check it out and to verify it the cia summons joe wilson on february the 19th 2002 wilson is familiar with the 4th largest uranium producer in the world he was posted there earlier in his career when i got there the 1st person i went to see was a u. S. Ambassador. And she said to me we have already looked at this. And we have determined that there is nothing there will some returns to the United States and gives his report to the cia the amount of uranium that was being talked about represented about a 25 percent increase in annual protection levels and any such increase would have had been approved through the consortium that ran the mine you could not hide that. Wilsons conclusions are related to cheney who ignores the Vice President is sticking to his dossier from italy. And yet the italians gave the americans fair. Are warning the documents in the sherry and yellow cake are false. Ends of being young girl who has been demanding a commission of inquiry for years. If i took it shes still in opposed to the 80 that up but then into the visit of e. C. Kists hes come to that then talent. It cost him votes should it no no no cause and if it says negative at. The event that you get the one the. Family the anything in it will davids out that the costs read it theyll be better at them in the fall save for the maturity to not respond or not elaine that is the last battle that is to be in that case ducts suspicions that the program or camp will ignore for them the yellowcake dossier is a godsend it fuels a fundamental fear that of a Nuclear Apocalypse the only weapon of mass destruction that truly. Is a weapon of mass destruction is a Nuclear Weapon chemical weapons and biological weapons are battlefield weapons but a Nuclear Weapon is a society altering weapon. Fear of the iraqi people reaches its pinnacle in september 2002 the New York Times publishes a headline about the threat from baghdad it eludes to aluminum tube was seized by the americans that were to be used in the production of centrifuges to enrich uranium from africa and finally to make an atomic bomb it all adds up. At the end of 2002 the Media Campaign in the United States works like a charm according to the polls almost 80 percent of americans believe saddam has an atomic bomb or is close to having them in the end the yellowcake dossier will have a remarkable fate president bush himself will get behind it the British Government has learned the Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa pronounced by the most powerful man in the world this little sentence is an unequivocal condemnation and yet bush had been warned when the president when the state of the Union Address was being fair the cia told the white house you cannot use this. Same that saddam attempted to purchase uranium from. There. To proceed to despite of the cias reluctance the white house attributes these revelations to the british who spoke of yellowcake in their september report. With respect to iraqs attempt to acquire Nuclear Material in the air the. The British Intelligence official the head of British Intelligence at the time to this day insists that that information was correct and no one can say with certainty that it isnt it isnt true in fact the british white paper was simply circular reporting it was our story that ended up in a british document it was the same story. The french government which essentially controls the exploitation of the rainy of minds looked into the yellowcake affair and concluded it was fraudulent. Dilla sub was the diplomatic advisor to french president Jacques Chirac at the time said i felt a little kid you wanted a cool extra point. 6 people. Killed much oily. I dont fully understand us you want us to show each to pretty under to some of our a commander. When early 2003 the American Government decides to present its case to world leaders. Colin powell stands before the u. N. To deliver a scathing indictment of Saddam Hussein he repeats the accusations already presented during debates before congress he stresses the existence of mobile laboratories for producing biological weapons these are the revelations made by curveball the iraqi defector who spoke to german intelligence. Finally he accuses saddam of wanting to get his hands on an atomic bomb and he speaks of the i am an e m tubes that for months have been presented as a refutable proof. We watched colin powell and we said whoa this is really theatrical well done and we gave him an a for presentation and a c. Minus for content which would. Be. Just under 6 ski or more policeman the vile that. General powell. Nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which they named curveball. Curveball whose real name was rough fede ahmed as a knobby would later admit that he made it all up so he could stay home germany. Richard powell had superficially defended the idea of going to war has no problem admitting that many of powers allegations were unfounded the mobile laboratories that were described in that Intelligence Report that turned out to be completely false there were no mobile laboratories the aluminum tubes which could have been part of centrifuges. Turned out to be aluminum tubes for launching small small rockets colin powell now is lying yeah he did. Why did he do it because the president told him as though it taking their case to the un the american seek to justify their actions in front of the International Community weapons inspectors return to iraq but have yet to find w m ds but washington applies an indisputable logic of hussein in the case that he has weapons of mass destruction that he is violating United Nations resolutions then we will know that Saddam Hussein again to see of the world if he says he doesnt have any and i think that we will find out whether or not Saddam Hussein is saying some of the we believe will be verifiably false. Fronts wages one last diplomatic battle. On february the 14th at the u. N. Dominique de Villepin States the french position these are still a force. If you. You know you dont its even a game and on march 7th director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed El Baradei denounces bushs claims about the yellowcake from africa bailed on analysis. Has concluded. With the concurrence of outside experts that means documents which form the basis for the reports of release and unit the iranian plans action between iraq and these areas are in fact not authentic. We have therefore conclude that the least specific allegations are unfounded. Well we know its a forgery now and we know that our country suffered the indignity of the. A director saying before the u. N. Security council it took us a day and a half our experts but we looked and internet and really looked elsewhere we hired experts and we found out that zs documents were not authentic. In paris. Announces that he will veto any resolution in favor of war. Related i get it was all appeal to solution the americans will ignore the advice of some like the conclusions about a guy and the opinion of the un. The night of march 19th the war begins 3 weeks later columns of american tanks roll into baghdad Saddam Hussein flee his. From the outset of the operation in iraq american soldiers search for Saddam Husseins awesome they find nothing the politicians blame it on the Intelligence Community you know intelligence agencies frequently make mistakes intelligence organizations by their very nature are working with imperfect information with conflicting accounts with things that its impossible to to interpret with a high degree of certainty the cia which had been so suspicious of the collaboration between the exiles and the pentagon will be forced to take the blame notably for the most blatant lies that little sentence 16 words in all spoken by bush about the african yellowcake and the documents that inspired it no one knew it at. Im in arthur but maybe someone knew down in the agency but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery this insistence on defending the official lie finally gets the better of joe wilsons discretion. It was at that time that i fully understood that the government was not going to get there it that it lied to the American People and therefore i had to write the story myself. In the New York Times he publishes the truth about his mission tunisia and the fact of the white house was well aware of his conclusions. Given the structure of the consortium that operated the mine it would be exceedingly difficult for niger to transfer uranium to iraq. The cia must once again shoulder responsibility and george tenet releases a statement. The 16 words should have never been included in the text written for the president this was a mistake a small price to pay for a very lethal lie at the white house the issue becomes a subject of humor official inquiries will denounce the incompetence of the Intelligence Community for the erroneous information about Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction this was fraud and i cant say that often enough no mistake fraud. The man who was complicit in this deception refuses to be held soley responsible. Have to believe that an exile organization with limited means can fool a major superpower the only superpower in the world of a time. With with bill tens of billions of dollars on sophisticated intelligence gathering into war against saddam. This is fiction. It will be 3 years before bush admits that saddam did not have w m ds. The main reason we went into iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction turns out he didnt but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass but also talked about the human suffering interact. Bush brushes aside the stated reason for a war that has destroyed an entire country. In iraq the invasion turns into a bloody occupation. The downward spiral. Started with the occupation the coalition specially the americans lost the moral high ground and they became the jailers of that if people the bedlam the chaos the violence in iraq now its a natural consequence of what bush and cheney did in invading iraq. Iraq is quickly torn to shreds ripped apart by religious and ethnic violence. I think the most convincing argument was that in order to enhance israels position in the middle east and its security the nation surrounding it that formed an anti israel a bloc had to be broken up into smaller confessional a homo genius nation states so in the case of iraq a kurdistan a shia sanin a sunni stan. This objective was openly declared as early as 996 in this document. Signed by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith a text that accuses iraq of posing a threat to israel. Today the chaos in iraq has spread into syria entire provinces are beyond the control of baghdad and damascus. And the west has a new enemy the Islamic State of iraq and the levant isis also known as dice the United States bears considerable responsibility for the fact that the Islamic State exists. But not because the United States intended to create the Islamic State rather that the Islamic State came into existence as an unintended consequence of this immensely foolish war the americans and the british had they not occupy the country have had they cut of corruption when it started that. We would not have that the violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of victims day to many and is up rooted 1000000 innocent iraqis in the seventys you have hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving the area and nobody asks nobody asked what caused this what caused this terrible human catastrophe it was an earthquake it was a typhoon it was an invasion of a country that was reasonably intact when we invaded. The iraqi deception has cost americans almost 2. 00 trillion dollars according to some estimates. Much of this public money has been directed to the defense industry. Peace is bad for business war tension is always very good for business so money of course was a major factor so the United States finds itself today essentially engaged in permanent war. In as a permanent ward that that benefits some people there are some people and some entities that are making a lot of money. In from this endless war. Profits rarely mentioned relegated to silence as all the americans who have died in iraq like the son of andrew bass of age killed may 13th 2007 i think one of the saddest aspects of our iraq war is how quickly americans have chosen to forget it. There seems to be an unwillingness on the part of the American People to acknowledge and to confront this enormous failure we aggressive deception is totally incompatible with the fundamental principle of democracy a failure the result of a manipulation that has shaken the confidence of americans in their own institutions. The man who wanted to see the end of Saddam Hussein did not want to see the end of iraq and he was sidelined an emissary of president bush told me if you oppose the policies of president bush we will bring to the full weight of the United States to bet against you i know that the americans are going to target me. Well there was a there is a finding of the National Security council signed by president bush and april of 2004 and titled marginalise challenge. 10 hours after this interview. He was found dead in his bed. And autopsy concluded it was a heart attack. Saddam hussein arrested and judged is hung december 30th 2006 george bush is reelected in november 2004 Richard Cheney remains Vice President colin powell leaves office in january 2005 conda lisa rice replaces him at the state department george tenet resigns in july 2004 citing personal reasons Douglas Pfeiffer resigns from the pentagon in january 2005 Paul Wolfowitz is appointed president of the world bank in june 2005 Donald Rumsfeld leaves the pentagon in november 2006. Richard perle divides his time between washington and the suffer from. Hello the rain in southern brazil is about to disappear the stone that fell in bolivia is gone now theres precious little cloud left so its winter sunshine for the most part which gives temperatures about normal so when its areas. And also a Pacific Coast for santiago about 60 degrees. Certainly down in the southern and these is still snow or rain falling disappointing lack of showers i have to say and basin even throughout the northern half of the continent at the moment theyll be a few in colombia and venezuela but not as many as they were even a couple weeks ago but some good downpours in costa rica recently but the obvious massacre is just when he runs through all the small islands bush recently montserrat heading towards hispaniola and probably cuba whats more of a lump of rock than individuals thunderstorms so thats something to watch the next couple of days as it just specs and in towards haiti hasnt quite got there by tuesday to the west of that is remarkably quiet yet looks like some parts costa rica and possibly or nicaragua will get some of that rain otherwise its quite quiet mexico shall seem to be bigger than in the u. S. Is developing system there for would midwest here but i think your foreign show is running down through the plains states right down towards the southwest and moving east. Sponsored by can. We. Give to the people who will be attending the minimal workshop will listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also a terror right we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. An army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. But there are. Tree to a Church Shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. Smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of Northern California leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than 12000 structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. Local Officials Say there isnt enough Housing Stock available. 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Part with sports including colombias 1st winner of the Tour De France on the all in a days work the 16 year olds just become a c 3000000. 00 richer player computer going. Thank you for joining us a challenge to the rule of law thats how the Chinese Government does this weeks of protests in Hong Kong Beijing has reiterated his support for the territories he did carry lamb in a rare Public Comments after another night of street battles in the city a Chinese Government Spokesman Says the demonstrations are no longer peaceful and cannot be tolerated. She was younger actually could you should we call on all the people in hong kong regardless of their social backgrounds to unequivocally oppose and boycott violence the recent developments especially the acts of violence by a small number of radical elements have seriously undermined the broad interests of hong kong for prosperity and stability they pose a serious challenge to the rule of law and public order in hong kong and to life and property of hong kong residents theyve also crossed the red line of the principle of one country 2 systems and by no means should be tolerated. Prodemocracy politicians say the Chinese Government has proven that is clueless about whats going on in hong kong we are responding with cofounding regret to thanking the fish that this is in the 1st place and that coming up understanding of hong kong theres. Inflation theres inflation of hong kong is simply not fundamentally wrong this is the song far away from the hong kong people is really listening to this. Clock now with the latest from hong kong. Well is a rare appearance by chinas top policy office which oversees hong kongs state of affairs is theyve condemned these violent protests and so that they far exceeded the scope tolerated by the chinese authorities they said beijing fully supports kerry land whose hong kongs chief executive said china will not allow hong kong to undermine or be used as a platform to undermine china it said china will stick to that one country 2 systems policy but its urgent call for hong kong to punish those people behind all those protesters behind the weeks of violent clashes weve seen here in hong kong that have lasted for about 2 months and now we also have more demonstrations planned this week the prodemocracy groups have said they will go ahead with these rallies despite chinas calls to end the demonstrations weve got tomorrow a strike tomorrow being choose say here in hong kong the mass transport. Which is the empty Transit System it mobilizes millions of people here in hong kong there are strikes planned for the morning during peak hour we also have more protests and a rally planned for friday saturday and sunday in the governments response is they prepared to potentially mobilize their own anti right vehicles which have not been used as yet and they were commissioned back in the occupy hong kong protests which paralyze parts of the city back in 2014 those particular vehicles could be deployed if this violence and if these clashes continue to escalate lets just remind you now of how we this point on june 9th an estimated 1000000 people poured into the streets to demand the government drop a bill that would allow such suspects to face trial in Mainland China weeks of largely peaceful protests followed and forced the government to shelve the bail she chief executive kerry declared it dead but refuse to drop it altogether protesters are also angry over Police Brutality theyre accusing the officers of using excessive force. And canoed in with suspected gam members who attacked demonstrators at a metro station last week and for 2 weekends in a row they have targeted the office of beijings representatives in the city demonstrators are not calling for greater democracy and political reform tom grundy is editor in chief and founder of Hong Kong Free press an independent publication he explained why he thinks beijing will keep taking a hands off approach to hong kongs political crisis its very rare this office would speak out or have a press conference rather in fact its the 1st time since 1970 and. Usually beijings tentacles operate in more shadowy ways in hong kong but their statement basically reiterated what theyve been saying for some time saying that they hope on congress will oppose violence uphold the rule of law and the political conflict the red line we wait to hear about is this notion of sedition or approaching the pendants movement and certainly when. Activists through income the chinese and when this was seen as a challenge to chinese sovereignty but these murmurs of military involvement weve been hearing lately theres no real proof of that happening anytime soon if anything the police have other toys that they can break out to suppress these protests such as water cannon so now it seems to me from their press conference that theyre going to continue to be hands off and on contact handle this having said that the local governments have been pretty absence if this was any of the city you might be seeing daily briefings on the situation meetings with protesters or reactions to thats going on but we seem to be stuck in this loop whereby there are escalating protests that we can still be some condemnation by the government and the police and then they tend to disappear for days on end and you dont see any of the officials and so there is yet more protests as we go into the following weekend. In other world news nigerias president has ordered the army to hunt down gunmen who killed at least 65 people in the North Eastern borno region the victims had been attending a funeral theres been no claim of responsibility and a rival regularly carry out attacks in this part of the country Priyanka Gupta has the details. These shad remains are whats left of what once was someones home this village in northeast nigeria is now the scene of the worst attack on civilians in the region this year gunmen attacked mourners gathered for a funeral on saturday in the battle that took them to yet immediate acute into. When the will be manageable and. Then they went after them. To the villages have gathered again this time to remember the Staggering Number of lives lost in just one day plus another kenyatta on them are sincerely sympathize with the prominence. Not of those. Whod. Lost no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but the armed group is suspected to be behind saturdays carnage local government Officials Say armed villages 40 of a boko haram ambush 2 weeks ago 11 fighters were killed. Preston marmaduke hari has ordered the air force and army to hunt down the attackers. Borno state is the epicenter of the armed rebellion by booker her tens of thousands of people have been killed millions have been displaced after 10 years of violence book has been largely driven out of the areas the once held. But the attacks continue and this time. Even funerals have not been spared. Aljazeera doctors in sudan say 8 protesters have been shot and killed by Security Forces High School Students and activists who are protesting against the findings of an investigation into last months crackdown on a syrian outside military headquarters in khartoum to diannes the military council is blaming a few rogue officers for the violence which the opposition says killed more than 100. 00 people lets bring in here but morgan our correspondent is monitoring developments from addis ababa in neighboring ethiopia haber what more youre hearing about the circumstances of these killings and where they happened. What call it started a north court of fine state specifically the city of 8 High School Students came out saying that they do not want to resume studies under these circumstances under the military rule that is currently governing sudan they say they want independent investigations into the killings of protesters at which attack of protesters at the sit in on june 3rd and theyre saying that they do not want to resume studies and till there are fair and independent results now we know from the Sudanese Central Doctors Committee that at least 8 people have been killed some of them due to gunshot wounds to the head by sniper bullets according to the Sudanese Central Doctors Committee so we know that students have been protesting and we also know that from a low baytown themselves have joined a protest condemning the violence condemning the killing of protesters we also know that the governor of north korea from states has ordered the closure of all schools high schools and primary schools and till the situation calms down that is all we know for far so far but the sensitivity Central Doctors Committee is reporting that there are not only 8 people dead but there are so many more injured and that theyre concerned that there will be more violence with the presence of the military and Security Forces in a way town so it seems that the protests demonstrations are continuing not just in khartoum but in other areas too what does this mean for the power sharing agreement between the military and the opposition where does it leave it. Talks are expected to resume between the forces for freedom and change coalition that is the Opposition Coalition that represents the protesters and the ruling military joined later today its not clear what impact this would how weve heard from the Sudanese Professional Association just a couple of days back following the announcement of the results of the investigation saying that nothing should hinder the process of trying to form a Transitional Government but fully a lot of people are not happy about the fact that this that the coalition is talking and negotiating with the military in the 1st place theyre saying that they want accountability and justice 1st before any Transitional Government is formed so its not clear if the students and the activists and the protesters on the streets will accept the fact that the Opposition Coalition is resuming talks with the transitional military joint down what we do know is that the protesters have called for more protests more voices to be heard and to a reject the fact that there was violence in a great town this morning thank you for that paper morgan reporting there live from in ethiopia. 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