qaida and al qaeda no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need a base. from which to fly really very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . british m.p. jeremy corbin thinks the u.k. and america risk making grave mistakes and repeating old ones by getting involved in yemen if the west goes in with our starts bombing on behalf of unclear who then i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge poverty and social issues it's the poorest country in the region it's median age a population is less than eight i mean it's the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help develop any government or political unity. to bring together all of the factions and all of the interests across the yemen i cannot believe that drove you to bring this about and in their haste to be involved the u.s. looked to me like you're in danger of making all the mistakes they made in afghanista

qaida is overstated for that very reason because using as the bogeyman in order to get us to invest in his government i'm not discounting the threat entirely but i don't think it's anything like what sally is said to us and we bought bad who are quiet and sinker apparently but it also gives us an excuse to stay there and try to keep the country stable saudi arabia's interest in yemen is profound and if yemen is going to go some way that the saudis don't particularly like the saudis are going to step in and make sure that it doesn't happen if i were doing something with a regional partner right now and i were doing something aimed at yemen that's whom i would be working with be working with riyadh's got its own problems i watched an interview today by professors very astute in saudi affairs and she said something like seventy percent of the people were under thirty and have a college education in many cases and have no jobs just an eight hundred dollars stock came from the government it comes from basically from all revenues this is no way to build a future so saudi arabia is sitting

the us had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with their nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the us military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the us starts to hit people who are members of the new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda their security. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack there the american military presumably ming at an al qaida training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in yemen his family and eight with the expansion of the wrong war it seems to go once the seeking only a misnomer legally binding on the client or analysts say some of them may be in terms of this

accelerating pace washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous al qaida outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country and stablish ing of basing the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin ladin swer placement iman also ari is not to be building up as already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left. field preoccupied instead was in nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the us military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the us starts to hit people who are members of all id new arabian peninsula and then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al-qaeda there's fury in yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to tack there the american military presumably min

qaida which are not and figure out how to bring a government back in place and this is why i've been critical of the drone strikes in pakistan we have too often gone after someone and killed them but in the process killed five innocents this is what we can do and this is why i'm a big proponent of going in physically boots on the ground we special operations guys and stepping away from the drones drones you think we need special guys in yemen you think we need more than pakistan you think and i need them in libya as well i think when we have to have. by force we have to be a lot more considerate of how we apply force don't forget that's why they decided to do the raid on bin laden that way they could have gone a drone strike at any time but for better or for worse the raid went down you had boots on the ground they grabbed earth killed a guy that needed to grab him and came out and there is very little collateral damage so it's better than to have a few or less collateral damage i guess but i guess at the expense of violating all kinds of international laws when it comes to nation so

other top stories from around the world classes in a southern yemeni town that's reportedly held by al qaida was there for at least forty people dead in the capital protests continue to rally since he stays away he's currently in saudi arabia for a serious injuries because it's back to this old. regime change. the u.n. security rights chief has condemned israel's deadly response to rest on the syrian border forty people reportedly guarding recent weeks they also expressed concern that syria for instance encouraged people to vote. test even though the area is filled with landmines israeli police fire on civilians who are protesting over on a. sixty seven least war which saw learned seized from some. extreme weather that's pounding several caribbean countries has killed at least twenty three eighty mudslides and flooding swept through crowded slums and rising hundreds of thousands still homeless of last year's massive earthquake authorities say many of those killed ignored warnings to evacuate the area aid groups with the severe weather could worsen conover break that's already killed an

well now they decided to task the cia with chasing down al qaida yemen and that marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of in cooperation with the yemeni counter in counter terrorism units but now amid the power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and courting to u.s. officials because the cia operates on a different legal authorities than the military the cia will have greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate there greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to go in the country the yemeni leader who is now out of the country have to months of violent popular revolt against him and his government for many years had been supported by the u.s. in exchange for letting americans go after all hiding in yemen and as we can. often covering up for t

qaida militants have managed to escape from a challenge yemen now turned serjeant's attacked the prison from outside they targeted security guards and seize their weapons killing at least one officer in jail is believed to house more than one hundred key al qaeda members among those who broke out were prisoners convicted on terror charges months of unrest in yemen have led to fears of al qaeda is growing influence. syria has poured scorn on you moves to impose sanctions saying it will simply forget europe is on the map a violent crackdown against anti-government activists in the country has left hundreds dead since the uprising began in march because activists are calling for president bashar asad to step down meanwhile the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has renewed his supplies to allow humanitarian missions into the country. the u.s. president is expected to confirm later today his decision to cut american forces in afghanistan by a third rock obama has called the scale of the withdrawal significant and said troops will start to return home by joe long the afghan defense ministry

qaida has left at least forty fourth day in the capital protesters continue to rally to. days away he's currently in saudi arabia and he's a serious injuries after activists want to use his absence to push for change. un's human rights chief has condemned israel's deadly unrest on the syrian border are up to forty people have reported the garden recent weeks and he also expressed concern over rights that syrian authorities encourage people to protest in an area filled with landmines israeli police riot on civilians and protesting one hundred sixty seven at least one and so learned seized from syria. the. severe weather that's pounding several caribbean countries has killed at least twenty three in haiti mudslides and flooding swept through crowded slums and it's present hundreds of thousands still homeless the last years a massive earthquake for saying many of those killed ignored warnings to evacuate the area aid groups warn the cyclonic could worsen a quarter outbreak has already killed wouldn't reference and. germany's health minister says the outbreak look at deadly n

doesn't help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not al qaida they are not terrorists they are fighting against who they see as invaders after one of the recent strikes that killed a significant number of civilians including children even the u.s. backed afghan president karzai had to make a harsh face saving statement warning nato that if they continue killing civilians the whole of the afghan population will treat them as occupiers actually it's not just the afghan people it's also the neighboring pakistan whose assistance is key to the u.s. efforts to u.s. efforts in afghanistan and nonetheless the secretary of state said the pakistanis would rather see the u.s. leave afghanistan take a listen they would be perfectly happy if we picked up and left tomorrow but what would we get for it and what would they do with it and i think the answers to those two questions mean that the president's approach which is this steady careful transition while we try to work the the diplomatic and political piece of this which includes pakistan. is exactly

al qaida is under more pressure than at any time since nine eleven together with the pakistanis we have taken out more than half of all kinds of leadership and thanks to our intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al qaeda had ever known here in the us the pressure president obama faces with regards to afghanistan mostly has to do with the enormous war spending and the number of casualties among american troops president obama was elected as a war and ended up waging more wars and spending more of taxpayers billions on inconclusive battles overseas that's what a lot of americans are frustrated about what doesn't get enough spotlight here is actually the results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they are cautiously talking about progress fragile progress as they put it but various reports on the ground say insurgency is growing among the afghans the systematic killing of civilians by nato strikes doesn't help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not all that they a

qaida groups in the east who are real war criminal so the i.c.c. the world court all of these groups are kangaroo joke courts like the vatican six hundred years ago you know ordering that different canings in england in places be arrested and it's a bunch of criminals basically legitimizing their genocide wars and their neo colonial invasions because they issue arrest warrants. for people who want to rob all right let me get in here alex i don't think i've ever heard you agree with the u.s. government on anything i think this might be a first here on since you've been on r.t. so why then are we hearing nato members and the western mainstream media come out and champion this as kind of a good thing as a success they welcomed it the reports from voice of america for example are that libyan rebel leaders are you know excited and welcome these charges so why that reaction if if the u.s. dismisses this court entirely because the united states knows this violates a chandran team and criminals in our government know that they could be charged for war crim

the rebels of afghanistan who then became osama bin laden and al qaida who then america went and has spent a trillion dollars in afghanistan so this is this this guy is like he is a racket he's a times square racket once isn't dana rohrbacher rohrbacher these the guys who play with nine eleven so this congressman then went from libya where he failed to shake down the population and he went to iraq iraq asks u.s. congressmen to leave over repave remark yes congressman rohrbacher showed up in iraq and said once iraq becomes a very rich and prosperous country we would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the united states some of the mega dollars that we have spent here in the last eight years the united states imports of oil to make its economy go go forward and the point of all this meddling is to try to keep the price of oil down so the us has a functioning economy that's the point of the wars it's not about renting out assassins for a few quick bucks to help your reelection campaign this guy is not only is he a horrible horrible musician and not only does he look like e

nothing that would strengthen the hand of al qaida and promote them a western intervention in yemen particularly the west who supported presence for all these years sold him large numbers of arms and weaponry and now seem to be opposing him in all that to try and create some of the settlement i think the western role should be to try and promote a political dialogue between the various factions which is not impossible to achieve that and try to bring about some kind of resolution and peace there but if the west goes in with our. starts bombing on behalf of. who then i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge poverty and social issues it's the poorest country in the region its median age of population is less than eighty and it has the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help it develop its historical reason why to get involved in yemen i mean obviously used to control part of yemen maybe wants to gain ground over

launch there for us well time now to take a look at what else is making headlines in the world and al qaida top african militant has been shot dead in somalia with the killing reportedly confirmed by d.n.a. tests fossil of dol mohamed was the most wanted man a continent with five million dollars bounty on his head is blamed for the nine hundred ninety eight bombings of american embassies in kenya and tanzania were over two hundred people died in the blast. voters across turkey are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections on sunday two parties are battling for power with current prime minister tayyip erdogan running against the secular republican people's party a victory for our dance party would mean a third consecutive five year term empower. our russia celebrates a holiday twenty one years ago to the day russia declared independence from the soviet union beginning its break up just one year later the country voted in the first free presidential election in its history. that has more on russia day. june twelve nineteen ninety one millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's

is seeking only in the south in the fighting al qaida analysts say some of the main theories of this new war the facepalm are not having to take into account the border of the mayhem that they're bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to their meters that had not carried out the last battle let me ask you where the american is marty and fostering terror at the same time i am going to check out with pretty. hard. to have a child diagnosed with a rare into saving disease is every parent's worst nightmare knowing that a treatment exists should be a welcome relief but in russia many hopes are dashed by extortionate costs lack of state support for some poor soul for price can be a child's life. the first match followed in february this year fourteen according to his birth certificate he looked half that his hearing was rapidly declining his vision almost gone he responded only to this old strokes of his mother who gave up everything to care for him. hardly just to wake up and see him breathing sometimes he smiles and it's the greatest thing for me he wasn't always this way t

qaida that war has evolved over a period of ten years into not a war against al qaeda there are maybe according to all intelligence estimates are all talks coming from the white house and so forth of about fifty maxon to one hundred al qaeda people in the country the war has morphed into a war against the taliban the taliban have morphed into a war which he was tied to nationalism and so what you have is that in my experience having worked as a newspaper reporter in the one nine hundred eighty s. there of the new york times in the last ten years more from c.b.s. that many people in the countryside do not see a difference in their eyes because they are judging solely upon the people who are killed in their villages in the continuation of this war and the lack of reconstruction in their eyes that the soviet union and the united states are both infidels coming close in the united states is coming close to being seen as an occupying power. that was driven by key is journalist and author of the book captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban. now this is the part of the show where once a

qaida from coming back to have a safe haven in afghanistan is failing to come to grips with the reality that al qaeda is already well ensconced in pakistan that is the safe haven that they have carved out over the past ten years it's extremely secure much more secure than anything they ever had in afghanistan there is absolutely no reason to believe half that is interested in going back to afghanistan the real problem is pakistan the united states is essentially denying that again because of the political interest and ok i'm going to have to jump in here we've run out of time so we'll see if the americans and its allies will ever leave afghanistan many thanks to my guests today in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember rostock rules. league. president obama fails to get authority from the house of representatives for further u.s. military involvement in libya. the lawmakers voted against cutting funds for the u.s. participation in that war i'll be back with more in just a moment. of u.k. stands accused of handing ove

fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations. well many more stories are available for you online twenty four seven at r.t. dot com and here is what you can find there right now on a legacy of civil war with side of the united states while a few enthusiastic way dressed up to reenact history millions of americans are still fighting for equal rights one hundred fifty years later. and that the designers of a dancing branch in southern russia face criminal charges for stealing over half a million dollars after a massive flaws were revealed in the reconstruction the full story is that our teams are. in the war enough north africa to. moscow's ban on european vegetables the range of issues facing russian and european leaders meeting on the banks of the volga river the traditional russia e.u. summit is being held in the city of nizhny novgorod hundreds of kilometers from moscow and r.t. if you got there he is there for us. on the first informal day of the

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