coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. began about one pm eastern friday nine pm. the precision guided assault lit up the. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage in base nothing. with excitement and enthusiasm there were cover it was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome weaponry and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be

coalition forces now begin striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. began about one pm eastern friday nine pm in. the precision guided assault lit up the. first team change for the iraqi people. the media coverage. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they could percent war this way and i started to search for real information their independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody wars ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about that and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair or w

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. began about one pm eastern friday nine pm in. the precision guided assault lit up the. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage in bass note. it out with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and this is not dealt with by any of the people who are leading u

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. about one pm eastern. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage it was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information three independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about dead and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair on whose only experience of war of television or whether it be mr

will also protect iraq's oil from sabotage by saddam hussein the row with news media in times of war is all about propaganda it's couched in terms of supporting our troops paying attention to the commander in chief explaining to the public what is being won how the bad people are being punished for their deeds and of course that doesn't come out of a vacuum because before or coverage is pre-work coverage this whole process of agenda building what we could call waiting flagstones on the path to war and that's very methodical and you go back and you look at every war of the last several decades there was the media build up to the war people have pentagon the white. house understand very well that as much as any military technology any bombers any missiles and the satellite guidance systems you need to mean to prepare the ground we have taken these actions because intelligence reporting indicates that while of those sympathetic to their cars are still a principle threat the principle threat. iraqi state agents iraqi surrogate groups other regional extremist organizations and ad hoc grou

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. about one pm eastern. the. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent filmmaker i wanted to understand how they could percent war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes war i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair on whose only experience of war of television or whether it be to

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a concerted campaign. about one pm eastern. the. first team change for the iraqi people. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent filmmaker i wanted to understand how they could percent war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about history to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair or who's an experience of war of television or whether it be mr bush or trying to serve h

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a concerted campaign. about one pm eastern friday nine pm in. the. first team shame for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes war i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and this is not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair who is going to experience of war of tel

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. about one pm eastern friday. the. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage. it out with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent filmmaker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody wars ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair on whose only experience of war of television o

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. about one pm eastern. the. regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage. with excitement and enthusiasm there were coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome weaponry and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes war i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about history to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair who's an experience of war of television or whether it be to bu

coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. the allied bombing began about one pm eastern friday nine pm in. the precision guided assault lit up the skies striking government buildings the u.s. hopes regime change for the iraqi people. the mass media coverage in base nothing. with excitement and enthusiasm their war coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome left injury and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent filmmaker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes war i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death

hussein government yes sampson be clear he was central he was the closest adviser to saddam and so on in that sense he's completely guilty however it's also the case of the masses of conflict the fifth. go unchallenged and the defeated the people who pay the price and that's in my opinion that's not justice but how realistically did you see the thousands of civilian deaths and torture in iraq that's been reported recently being brought to account in terms of people being prosecuted for that i mean do you realistically think that's going to happen the u.s. government said it's not even though allow any investigations. now exactly that's what i'm saying what the wiki leaks show is the scale of torture was huge it was widespread and even more the united states and britain were absolutely complicit this is not a matter of a few soldiers turning a blind few bad apples in the barrel this is a case of the american military issuing central command to not to act its own sort of torture and breach of human rights and so on and if there were any justice in the world not only would the torture be

in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy has been sentenced to death a court found him guilty of persecuting islamic parties the head of the russian parliament foreign affairs committee says however the verdict was it deliberately timed to distract attention from the brow over the latest wiki leaks revelations four hundred thousand a leaked us secret files provide a gruesome litany of widespread killing and torture in iraq since the american invasion with tactic in prisons with little difference to those which applied under saddam hussein the verdict on these was also criticised by british m.p. jeremy corbin he says executing a member of the old regime is wrong when more recent abuses need to be investigated the reason they're doing it now that you are correct of this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks exposed the top. that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for me is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out to do nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we

human rights abuses it was the belief that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction which turned out to be wrong well i mean the wiki leaks information also showed that you know he did have some chemical weapons but they weren't weapons of mass destruction and one of the justifications that they had the bush administration had made was this guy's a bad guy and we're going to go in and take him out so it's not i mean that was it wasn't always only that the unit had weapons of mass destruction now but they did that they were also going to acquire more and they were going to be more of a threat that was a judgment based on intelligence available at the time which turned out to be incorrect and we can debate whether that was knowable at the time or whether it was only something that was noble after the after the war started switching gears a little bit what i want to ask both of you what we can start with you what do you make of this tendency by mainstream outlets to sort of villainize wiki leaks and focus on julian a songe the man and wiki leaks the organization rifle strife and all

in iraq saddam hussein's a former deputy to rick has been sentenced to death a court found him guilty of persecuting islamic parties the head of the russian parliament foreign affairs committee says how well the verdict was deliberately timed to distract attention from the brow over the latest wiki leaks revelations four hundred thousand leaked u.s. secret files provide a gruesome litany of widespread killing and torture in iraq since the american invasion with tactics in prisons a little different to those which applied under saddam hussein the verdict on these was also criticized by british jeremy corbin he says executing a member of the old regime is wrong when more recent abuses need to be investigated . the reason they're doing it now and the correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for meteoric is easy is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be nothing to reconcile peop

well staying in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy was sentenced to death this week to recover these was found guilty by the country's high court of person of persecuting opposition shiite islamic parties international human rights groups have condemned the decision to hang the seventy four year old and some x. words you the sentence doesn't attempt to divert attention away from the wiki leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn says the priority should be investigating the allegations connected to the current regime. the reason they're doing it now you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the terek of the user is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cou

in the weeks ah the main news as saddam hussein's deputy faces death world crimes against humanity we investigate whether the tariq aziz verdict was time to take the heat out of the latest revelations from wiki leaks whistleblower has released poor hundred thousand classified u.s. files and forgery killings which happened under washington's watch from. the u.s. overestimates the threat of terrorism and therefore squanders billions of dollars on military operations abroad and that's according to anti-war activist blogger and author tom engelhardt who's been speaking to his interviews coming right up. to sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media.

and stay in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy was sentenced to death this week terry because he's was found guilty by the country's high court of persecuting shared islamic parties the decision to hang as these two seventy four has drawn much international condemnation and some experts view the sentence as an attempt to divert attention away from the we can leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn is among the critics of the trial. the reason they're doing it now and the correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for me to use it is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issu

staying in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy who was sentenced to death this weekend targus he's was found guilty by the country's high court of persecuting opposition shiite islamic parties the decision to hang as easy as his seventy four has drawn much international condemnation and some experts view the sentence as an attempt to divert attention away from that we can leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn is among the critics of the trial the reason they're doing it now correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks if exposed to torture that has gone on systematically and i think the sentence pronounced for the territory is to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human r

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions one of the nuremberg principles that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white house y

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the world in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white h

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that and then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the whit

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white house

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite but no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white hou

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white ho

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite but no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has faded very well in the other's absence democracy khiladi exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white ho

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles but that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were berthed wins in the future united states figure up together and neither has favored very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the wood in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white ho

allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the deepest caught since the nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform rages saw even though the retirement age rise was approved late on friday r.t.s. got that out of our reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite that no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions what of the nuremberg principles that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has fared very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the would in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white house

hussein is like hitler and you're ready for prime time everyone knows what you mean but if you have something else to say something a little outside the box say u.s. officials are guilty of war crimes. well that actually fits into the soundbite but no one knows what you're talking about they think you're crazy they haven't heard that before you need to explain yourself what are war crimes what are the geneva conventions one of the nuremberg principles that takes more than eight seconds and you don't have time for that and then they say it's not a political ad it just don't fit in to the mainstream for freedom and freedom of communication were birth twins in the future united states they grew up together and neither has fared very well in the other's absence democracy cannot exist without an informed public and these mega media companies are not informing. the. public. it's a war of ideas and and the people who control. the world in this twenty first century would be the people who control the ideas bush could not have done it alone if he had a megaphone on the steps of the white hou

of saddam hussein's it. sees has been sentenced to death for persecuting islamic parties however some say the verdict is to distract from the exposé of secret american farms showing widespread killing and torture by the us regime which were placed on. the russian security services its international. terrorism in the north caucasus he said the monies have been behind a surge of recent terror attacks in the region. now debate with the gloves off peter lavelle asks his guests whether the concept of corruption is being used inappropriately in both rich and developing countries that's all and cross talk next right here on our. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle corruption in one form or another .

and among the week's main stories saddam hussein's devaney faces death for crimes against humanity we investigate whether the tariq aziz verdict was time to take the heat out of we can we expose a torture and killings which happened under washington's watch. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program now it's been confirmed that russia will build viet nam's first ever nuclear power plant and the deal was signed by president viet of who's been on a visit to her noyo southeast asia is one of the world's economic powerhouses but needs to modernize its hangi supply to continue its rapid growth cutting as our in our reports. one of the things that most news outlets will be focusing on and everybody will be focusing on is the agreement signed to build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant a deal that is said to be worth over five billion u.s. dollars and is said to significantly boost viet nam's energy resources and of course to spell more stable existence and economic growth a deal.

allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. the british and french have a tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the deepest cuts since the one nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform rages on even though the retirement age rise was approved late on friday but that in a lot of our reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to

allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of ministers bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are all the way in the u.k. against the deepest scots since the one nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform ray just saw even though the retirement age rise was approved weight on friday artie's got there you know a lot of our reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to a

hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. some other news this saturday the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the davis cup since the one nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform rages on even though the retirement age rise was approved late on friday covering those are of a report now from power. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to t

allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of ministers bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq now the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the death of scots since the one nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform ranges on even though they were talking of age rise was approved the late on friday parties got to do you know a lot of reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like

allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the deepest cuts as the nineteen twenties and the axing of half a million jobs all across the channel the french fight against pension reform rages on even though the retirement age rise was approved the late on friday got there you know a lot of our reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to that

and among the week's main stories as saddam hussein's deputy faces death for crimes against humanity we investigate whether that's how we can see his verdict was time to take the heat out of wiki leaks exposé of torture and killing switch happened under washington's watch. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshua welcome to the program now it's been confirmed that russia will build yet. first avenue clear powerplant the deal was signed by president medvedev has been on a visit to her no way southeast asia is one of the world's economic powerhouses but needs to modernize its supply to continue its rapid growth cut u.s. army now reports one of the things that most news outlets will be focusing on and everybody will be focusing on is the agreement signed to build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant a deal that is said to be worth over five billion u.s. dollars and is said to significantly boost vietnam's energy resources and of course to a more stable existence and.

hussein's former deputy terry because he is has been sentenced to death the decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the latest we can leaks revelations showing the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn. the reason they're doing it now and that you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for me to the user is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it would mean nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in

killing were much higher than they were under saddam hussein and now we are left with an iraqi government that commits torture. sanjay a lot more to say as well to us at r.t. if you'd like to catch that streaming any time you like to catch up with it. page and more opinion on the latest wiki leaks now i spoke to brian becker the director of the antiwar i'm sick coalition he told me he believes that u.s. officials could be held to account for atrocities committed during the war in iraq . the police force is an army that were trained by the americans who are allegedly the protectors and guarantors of iraqi freedom engaged in systematic torture abuse rape and it was unreported in unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing as a result of these revelations the un chief investigator for torture for instance has called on barack obama to investigate those in the u.s. military and civilian government for criminal acts against the iraqi people if the u.s. takes now actions to repress wiki leaks it may very well backlash backfire a

hussein's former deputy terry because he is has been sentenced to death the decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the latest week in leaks revelations showing the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn the reason they're doing it now and that you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks isu because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territories here is to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will do nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in e

and stay in iraq were saddam hussein's former deputy terry because he's has been sentenced to death the decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the way just we kill x. revelations showing the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corbyn the reason they're doing it now and the correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks of exposed to torture that has gone on systematically and i think we've got sentenced pronounced for the territory. to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three council the death penalty a brand of the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and just. just look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the valu

and among the weeds main stories as saddam hussein's deputy faces death for crimes against humanity it's being claimed the verdict was time to divert attention from the latest revelations from wiki leaks now mind whistleblower releasing four hundred thousand classified u.s. files for torture and killings which have been under washington's watch. let's get the latest now from the sports desk editor farm boy hi there andrew it looks like the need is looking back to the winning ways this afternoon. after losing the first game of the season last week they're looking for win number eighteen this afternoon which would give them more daylight at the top of the table discourse from sunday just after that. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. targo choices needed to restore six point lead at the top of the rushing and rushing football season enters its final week. plus bumppo wins losses overcomes a car crash to reach the final of the w. . th or championship. and texas school that way back into baseball's world series with victory over san francisco. but first

and staying in iraq the death sentence handed to saddam hussein's former deputy terry cozies on tuesday has drawn much international condemnation many experts see the decision as a bid to divert attention from the wiki leaks revelations that show the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corcoran wiki leaks if exposed to torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territory is to divert attention to policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it would mean nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir zs any more than executing anybody else it w

absence of rule of law and arbitrary killing were much higher than they were under saddam hussein and now we are left with an iraqi government that commits torture. and you can watch the full interview with journalists on our website. and as the massive we keep the headlines around the world actors have started analyzing the key. spoke to brian back at the direction of the anti who also coalition who believes that as in the us who drove the war we including former president george bush should be held to account for atrocities committed in iraq the police forces an army that were trained by the americans who are allegedly the protectors and guarantors of iraqi freedom engaged in systematic torture abuse rape and it was unreported in unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing as a result of these revelations the un chief investigator for torture for instance has called on barack obama to investigate those in the u.s. military and civilian government for criminal acts against the iraqi people if the u.s. takes now action

hussein's former deputy tariq aziz on tuesday has drawn much international condemnation many experts see the decision as a bid to divert attention from the wiki leaks revelations showing the iraqis government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy corcoran. wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territories it is to divert attention to policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will mean nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir zs any more than executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutali

saddam hussein's former deputy has been given a death sentence from the iraqi high court tariq aziz was found guilty of the persecution of islamic parties and of russia's duma committee on foreign affairs says the verdict was deliberately time to distract attention from the row over the latest wiki leaks revelations e.u. officials have also criticized the sentence and carol turner from the stop the war coalition suspects the verdict was politically motivated i think there is something very political behind this i think it's it's it's partially something which is not so much justice as. retribution you know i certainly think if you make the comparison with wiki leaks what tariq aziz is being sentenced to compare to what other people are getting away with is is certainly an interesting contrast see scale of torture was huge it was widespread and they thought any justice in the world not only would the top be punished but so would the american and british authorities what iraqi citizens are looking for is a better a more secure and stable future and society to live in and the execution of

absence of rule of law and the tree killing were much higher than they were under saddam hussein and now we are left with an iraqi government that commits torture. and you can watch the full interview with julian assange on our website. as the masseur we kill a grabs the headlines around the world x. plus have started analyzing the huge archive he spoke to brian becker the director of the antiwar answer coalition who believes those in the u.s. who drove the war including former president george bush should be held second for atrocities committed in iraq. the police force is an army that were trained by the americans who are allegedly the protectors and guarantors of iraqi freedom engaged in systematic torture abuse rape and it was unreported in unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing as a result of these revelations the un chief investigator for torture for instance has called on barack obama to investigate those in the u.s. military and civilian government for criminal acts against the iraqi people if the u.s. ta

hussein's former deputy tariq aziz has been sentenced to death a decision has been criticized as a bid to distract attention from the latest we can leaks revelations showing the iraqi government's alleged involvement in torture among the critics of the verdict is british m.p. jeremy. the reason they're doing it. correctly is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks of exposed the torture that is going on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced from tara to the user is to divert attention but i see absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out it will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation of the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three counsel a death penalty a brand of the whole idea of the death and instead look at least use of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir sees any more than executing a

and among that week's main stories such as saddam hussein's deputy faces death for crimes against humanity we investigate whether the tariq aziz verdict was time to take the hate out of we can weeks exposé of torture and killings which happened under washington's watch. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. when we return joshua welcome to the program it's been confirmed that russia will build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant the deal was signed by president medvedev who has been on a visit to her annoy southeast asia is one of the world's economic powerhouses but needs to modernize its hannity supply to continue its rapid growth as our has more . one of the things that most news outlets will be focusing on and everybody will be focusing on is the agreement signed to build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant a deal that is said to be worth over five billion u.s. dollars and is said to significantly boost energy resources and of course. more stable existence and economic growth a deal hailed by both sides as a.