American expansion, as a rule, chooses several directions either rebelliously overthrow the government, or invent. A reason to fire missiles and then profit from the loot, just two stories, but how many tragedies . On march 20, 2003, operation shock and awe began, despite the discontent of the un, Us Army Forces invaded iraq. The official goal of the operation is the destruction of weapons of mass destruction. Western propaganda actively shouted about this at every corner, and then it became quiet, no weapons were found. It was only. Active hostilities lasted until may 1, 2003, forces the invasion amounted to almost 200,000 people. A little later, the contingent increased to half a million soldiers. By occupying baghdad, uncle samms forces officially announced the advent of freedom and democracy in iraq. Freedom and democracy in iraq began with tens of thousands of civilian casualties and the execution of saddam hussein. And then the americans got their hands on what they were for. The
Ican hear i can hear you all groaning. And you too. Lets talk about Elise Christie. Yes, all overfor her in young chang, she leaves another winter Olympic Games empty handed. Thanks 0lly, and susan has all the weather. Good afternoon, this will cool you down, this is what is coming all the way from siberia, a biting easterly wind, this should make a difference to the way things also coming up. The pressure of dealing with debt when suffering from Mental Health problems. A charity says thousands of people are being pursued for money while in hospital. Good afternoon. This is afternoon live. I am simon mccoy. The chief executive of oxfam has said sorry for the way he defended the charity after claims of Sexual Misconduct. Mark goldring had accused people of gunning for the organisation, declaring that no one had murdered babies in their cots. Appearing before mps, he revealed that thereve been 26 new reports of misconduct since the haiti revelations emerged. The scandal has taken its tol
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good friday morning. At 5 01. I am kristen sze with leyla gulen and meteorologist mike nicco monitoring the storm. The flood watch will show you what exactly this is going to rain. Until 6 00 tomorrow morning all of the north bay is under the flash flood warnings and under wind advisory so expect the wind and rain to pick up in the morning and afternoon with southern winds at 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour so the bridges are going to be bumpy. Scattered light showers north of san jose and you can see san rafael is dry on 101. The day planner the next 12 hours, full of rain and wind and temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s during the evening. Right now, leyla gulen has commute problems. C. H. P. Issued a high wind advisory which is what we are look at with a few big rigs. Keep both hands on the wheel. It is light and dry. The richmondsan rafael toll plaza is not showing water off the roads yet. Dry conditions so for. If you think you
About his possibly the case and i would love for you to. I kind of did ask. To follow up and say that we now have interagency structures to raise red flags to the highest level. How is it possible that the state department wasnt looking at this intentionally in november and december and i think that is a followup opportunity. And he did play an important role. They were convening behind the scenes at the state department was the key of sharing information in august, september, october, and november. And they did have open sessions with the partners so that we could express what we were seeing. And that would not have happened without this and still are questions are what happened in march and were does the atrocities prevention said on parallel with other National Intelligence priorities. If it was irrelevant until these atrocities were occurring, how are we better elevating that prioritization framework and how can we get ahead. And had we put a better emphasis ahead of the curve inst
The conditions are such that that is a legitimate concern. In the negotiation of the geneva statement, the u. S. , the e. U. , and the ukrainians all urged the inclusion of a sentence that referred to the may 25 elections and the need that they be carried out in an orderly and transparent way. The russians refused to include that in the text of the statementle. The disruptions were already taking place in the ukraine that are bound to complicated the election efforts and we believe that those that the instability there is being fomented by the russians. Thank you, mr. Hartley, ms. Friedt. The chair will yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Meeks, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me, you know, there was a beginning where we thought that wed be entering a new world, we would be able to have with the new stark treaty, not abolishing ewe near Nuclear Weapons altogether, we were moving in the right direction the senate ratified the treaty and the Russian Federation ratifi