Super bowl for the 1st time since 1970 s. The 49 ers after the play that nobody wanted me to San Francisco its the biggest day in american sport. Hello we begin this news hour in iraq thats where there are reports that protesters have been killed in the capital baghdad after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the city dozens are said to be injured in the latest round of mass demonstrations rallies are also broken out in a number of cities in the south of the country including measure. Protesters have cut off the south of the country by blockading major roads lets bring in imran khan whos joining us from baghdad and as were reporting clashes have been taking place throughout the morning in iran and the numbers seem to be getting larger. Right where we are right now ill just get that out the way to give you a closer look is about how off comments are way from where the clash is all taking place in effect a front line between the protesters on the police now you can
People in chief of their countries large arms contractors. And this is the template used by large defense contractors around the world. Companies might be a lot of the sort of effect to be part of a government but theyre effectively above the Law Corruption is not merely a dirty little detail on top of the arms trade its actually in a lot of cases what drives the International Arms trade many of these deals would not happen if they did not provide opportunities for personal enrichment i would be offended if i thought. We had a monopoly on corruption. To pay more for the right drugs we made a run to run for 20 years it was there a 1000000. 00 every year the mine off. As i was being dragged out right at the last 2nd im going to still fail remind everyone that this guy is a war criminal can i just say actually called the record what he said about iraq and j. P. Morgan is completely and totally untrue ive never had a discussion with them now im not suggesting that it was a phone call betwe
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A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from virginia is recognized. Mr. Kaine mr. President , thank you. I rise to speak on a topic ive often spoken about on the floor. Weve been at continuous war since september 14, 2001, when Congress Passed an authorization of military force to go after the perpetrators of the 9 11 attacks. That was 16 years, one month, and 18 days ago as of today. The war in afghanistan is the longest Armed Conflict in americas history, and it shows no signs of abating even six years after the death of osama bin laden. The conflict has been going on so long that many are somewhat immune to it. I heard a high schooler recently say war is all i have ever known. Its the status quo. Its the background music to daily life. And yet only. 4 of the population of the United States serves in the military. Thats down from 1. 8 in 1968 and 8. 7 in 1945. So its increasingly unlikely that many of us even know those who are deployed and fighting in this ever