With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by code code hot pink but the url was already taken so we payment code pink. Host how do you pick your issues. Guest we started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. We just wanted to join the masses and mobilize to stop the invasion of iraq. And so we dead that. We got involved. We had tremendous support around the country. Without really trying we found we had hundreds of thousands of people that signed up t
Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11 and we started laughing about the colorcoded alerts. Remember that yellow, orange, red and seeing how it was to keep people in the state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alerts to say theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us and not a wholesale nation of countries and thats when we came up with the id
Survivors still waiting for justice plus Macedonia Police fire tear gas to stop thousands of refugees crossing the border from greece. In sport tiger woods find ishis range and the best round in more than two years after missing the cup in the p. G. A. Championship. We start on the Korean Peninsula where the south Korea Defense Ministry is urging the north to stop its provocations, tensions have increased between north and south following exchange of fire on thursday. Both countries say they put their militarys on high alert. North koreas leader kim jong un had an emergency meeting late on thursday and according to state media there he told the front line troops to be fully prepared to launch operations, the south korea government has moved 80 people on the border in bunkers after exchange of artillery fire and we have harry in south korea and its not the first time we saw racheting up of tensions between north and south korea, what is different this time around . Well, that is i suppo
Killed hundreds, we speak to survivors still waiting for justice. We start on the Korean Peninsula where the south Korean Defense ministry is now urging the north to stop its provocations, tensions increased between north and south between exchange of fire on thursday and both countries say they put their military on high alert and support leader kim jong un had a meeting late on thursday and according to state media there he told the armys front line troops to be fully ready for operations and said to take action first and to report it later and harry faucet reports. Reporter south korean president visited a military post on friday with the National Security advisor defense minister and senior commanders and the message being conveyed the personal command of the situation as north and south korea engage in a military face off. Translator the military should be for further provocations, if the situation occurs i want you to take action first and then report later. Reporter it followed
And is this property a steal . The 4 million home of leon trotsky with a few surprises. We have all the days sports including athletico in beijing under the shadow of doping allegations. There have been scenes of chaos on the border between greece and macedonia as thousands of refugees try to make their way further north across europe. Many are fleeing war in syria and iraq. They traveled through turkey and into greece. Some of them making sure to journey by sea to avoid european borders. Other countries have moved to harden their frontiers. In macedonia a state of emergency is in force and thousands of refugee spent last night in nomansland. Many moved through wartorn libya to reach the italian island. Many more have died in the attempt. Some continue their journey deeper into europe. This is the scene at cali at northern france, around 3,000 people have been camping there trying to cross the channel into the u. K. Emma heyward has more on the situation in macedonia. Reporter they spe