A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
The band. The bands cult following continued to grow until a tragedy in the 80s, when lead guitarist, ricky wilson, died of aids. We didnt know he had aids until he passed away. So we were told to be silent and that was very very difficult. Her first break into music was a protest band in the civil rights era. So we were the sun donuts and we all wrote and one of the girls wrote about environmental. You know, tomorrow there would be no more sun. Now, after decades in the bs, kates going solo with a song guitars and microphones a look back at her life. The video; however, backfired among some in the Transgender Community who called it stereotypical and degrading. I care a lot about gay marriage and equality and ive always been very supportive of trans people. I spoke with kate pierson at her private Recording Studio in woodstock, new york where she lives with her partner monica. I think most people look at you and their reputation of you is beehives, crazy dancing, love shack, what more
Pierson said beneath the beehives, there was a message. We felt we were misunderstood and we felt like everyones just calling us wacky, wacky, wacky and they didnt understand the incredible seriousness of the band. The bands cult following continued to grow until a tragedy in the 80s, when lead guitarist, ricky wilson, died of aids. We didnt know he had aids until he passed away. So we were told to be silent and that was very very difficult. Her first break into music was a protest band in the civil rights era. So we were the sun donuts and we all wrote and one of the girls wrote about environmental. You know, tomorrow there would be no more sun. Now, after decades in the bs, kates going solo with a song guitars and microphones a look back at her life. The video; however, backfired among some in the Transgender Community who called it stereotypical and degrading. I care a lot about gay marriage and equality and ive always been very supportive of trans people. I spoke with kate pierson
A long walk across europe, extreme risks to find new lives fire and fury on the streets of beirut as thousands protest about the governments inability to provide the most basic services. After hurricanec katrinis a, new orleans pause to see remember the devastation. Back in doha, i will have your sport including yet more blues for chelsea. The champions crash to another defeat in the English Premier League. There has been worldwide condemnation in the jailing of egypt of three al jazeera journalists. A court in cairo found them guilty of aiding a terrorist organization and broadcasting false news, claims which they have strenuously denies. The retrial as they had been found guilty in june of 2014. The egyptian Bahar Mohammed where he got a 3 and a half year sentence, the producer in the cairo office and six months more than his colleagues because he was found with a spent cartridge which he maintains he picked up at a protest. Al jazeeras cairo bureau chief, the canadian mohammed fahmy
Resign. Plus. Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated new orleans, the city remembers its dead. The sentencing of three al jazeera journalists in egypt was condemned worldwide. The three were given three year jail terms on charges of helping the now banned Muslim Brotherhood. Al jazeera called a verdict a deliberate attack on press freedom. Hope, then heart break in an egyptian courtroom as two journalists return to prison. A retrial was supposed to give them a Second Opportunity to clear their names. Instead, justice was denied yet again. I dont know how im going to survive this without him. The judge said he wanted to make clear to the people of egypt that these men were not journalists and doctored videos for air and they were sentenced to more prison time. 3 years for two and 3. 5 for another. They have spent more than a year behind bars already. The one with wont serve the time because hes deported in australia but it will limit his ability to work as a foreign correspondent.