on the 7th of october. all major un agencies are calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, in israel s armed response. jeremy bowen sent this report from southern israel, near the border with gaza. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across beach camp in gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living as well as avenging its dead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl from jabalia camp is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us. bricks fell on us. i asked, where s my dad and where s my mum? she is asked, where were you? i was here, in the house. we were at home on the roof came down on us. we looked in on the war this afternoon from sderot, the closest israeli border town. israel has refused an american request to pause military operations to allow time for humanitarian convoys, or talks to free the hostages. israel might be able to break hamas as a military force, but what happens then? history shows israel s army cannot su
Coming up in the next sixty minutes. What we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it was born turkish president vals to crush us plans to build an army inside syria. Pope francis arrives in chile on a visit modern the controversy of child sex abuse allegations. Well there was a. Deadly shootout in caracas in an operation to capture the pilot accused of leading last years rebellion against the government. And gymnastics golden girl from the rio olympics simone biles says she was sexually abused by a former u. S. Aid. The Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that the formation of a zone controlled by. U. S. Backed rebels could lead to the partition of syria the u. S. Has confirmed its helping Syrian Kurdish fighters set up a border fulls of thirty thousand personnel there the troops would patrol the borders of territory called out of Northern Syria by the Syrian Democratic forces the s. C. F. Which are mainly composed of kurdish fighters now the m
The same as gorbachev has been a real throwback for me. I can those days after one dictator after another emerged, they all had very human aspects. They liked jazz. Music, anddixieland so there is a kind of Human Element to him. Rouhani is a man of the system. Ease up your product of the system he is a pure product of the system. And lived age in it in at all his life. And now here he is at the top. People dont talk much about what he is really all about and what he really wants. Why does he take all of these different positions . Because the main game that is being played inside iran right among the various factions is who is going to succeed khomeini. Khomeini is believed to be sick. I mean, its true. He should have died long ago if he is a six at if he is as sick as some would say he is. But no one would be surprised if he dropped dead tomorrow. Characters,f these the rouhanis, the ahmadinejads, the rafsanjanis, etc. , they are all maneuvering for succession. Theyre all trying to ma
Says, i dont know who that is. So i published this in the daily beast that the foreign minister doesnt know one of irans most famous Political Prisoners. And it got picked up from there. Thousands wrote him on facebook a lot of pressure they released him on furlough for about a week. And then when the media pressure died down he was put right back into prison. 15, k interesting was my 20 minute debate confrontation with the u. N. Ambassador at the time when i approached him about the same issues, i said why is it that the foreign minister gets to post on facebook when its banned in iran and he said, word for word, are the facebook and twitter band in iran . I assured him that they were. And i list add whole bunch of Political Prisoners. And i said when will they be free . And he says i dont know who that is. Then i sad have you heard about this one . And he said shes the only one ive heard of because her name is in the media. I think hes lying about the others but its a testament to th
Dissident movements inside authoritarian countries by speaking out in supporting them. This help gives them the power to rise up. That is another issue that the west does not understand. I agree with michael about missing the conventional wisdom of the arab spring. Tois fantastic to look back supposedly smart people in 2009, they said the best thing was a wise, charismatic leader call bush a alassad. They said he was a partner for these, prosperity and stability. An israeli newspaper said syria was an island of stability. Others talking about egypt is a rock of stability. All of these were falsehoods. Dangerously wrong. They werent listening to these dissident movements and the fact of double thinkers is always bigger than we think. The number of true believers is typically lower than we think. Im going to push you on a little bit. Thats not mean less emphasis on the nuclear issue. Regime has nuclear weapons, the amount of progression oppression would make whats going on now seems smal