Republican presidential hopefuls took the stage in the US state of
Colorado Wednesday, for a televised debate centered on the the
economy. The top 10 polling GOP candidates tackled topics from fiscal
policy to bankruptcy. Republican front runner Donald Trump was
expected to spar with Neurosurgeon Ben Carson who is catching up in
the polls, but it seems the GOP candidates were more concerned with
attacking mainstream media than the policies of their challengers.
Patrice Howard has more from New York.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
GOP Candidates Attack Media, Spare Each Other In Latest Debate
Republican presidential hopefuls took the stage in the US state of
Colorado Wednesday, for a televised debate centered on the the
economy. The top 10 polling GOP candidates tackled topics from fiscal
policy to bankruptcy. Republican front runner Donald Trump was
expected to spar with Neurosurgeon Ben Carson who is catching up in
the polls, but it seems the GOP candidates were more concerned with
attacking mainstream media than the policies of their challengers.
Patrice Howard has more from New York.
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Colorado Wednesday, for a televised debate centered on the the
economy. The top 10 polling GOP candidates tackled topics from fiscal
policy to bankruptcy. Republican front runner Donald Trump was
expected to spar with Neurosurgeon Ben Carson who is catching up in
the polls, but it seems the GOP candidates were more concerned with
attacking mainstream media than the policies of their challengers.
Patrice Howard has more from New York.
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Monday, October 19, 2015
NATO starts larges drills in more than a decade
NATO is starting military maneuvers in Spain, Italy and Portugal in what are the alliance's largest exercises since 2002 - widely seen as a display of force for Russia to see.
Meanwhile, NATO says it will extend its 14 year military presence in Afghanistan as unrest in the country intensifies.
From NATO's HQ in Brussels, Jack Parrock reports.
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The drills come as tensions increase between the 28 country alliance and Russia over Moscow's alleged violations of Turkey's airspace and continued airstrikes in Syria.
The exercises known as Trident Juncture involve 36,000 troops, 140 aircraft and more than 60 ships from 30 countries including non-Nato member Ukraine.
NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, says the drill is one in a series to ensure allies are ready and capable to react in the event of a crisis.
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"Of course this exercise takes on additional significance because of the changed security environment that we find ourselves in- the rising challenges from both the south and the east to which NATO is adapting and continues to adapt."
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The maneuvers are testing a fast-reaction force created after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The force of 5,000 is designed to deploy in less than a week if necessary.
General Hans-Lothar Domrose is the commanding officer for Trident Juncture. He says the maneuvers give the alliance members an important opportunity to work together.
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"Well let me take the analogy of a football player. They are all super. They have a goal keep. They have strikers, but they have to form a team, and now when they come together they need training to win next Sunday's match. The same is true for NATO. All the forces that will be deployed to Italy, Spain and Portugal are excellent national forces, but I have to bring them under the NATO umbrella because only when we train then we can achieve a lot."
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Although it was organized well before Russia's recent military actions in Syria, which have caused contention between Moscow and the alliance, many observers say NATO is using the exercise as an opportunity to showcase its military might.
Paul Ivan is a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Center.
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"There are elements that have to do clearly with the threat posed by Russia to security in Europe, and the Russian's will clearly observe them and might react with drills of their own, but that remains to be seen."
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Other observers say they NATO must address all the threats in its neighborhood.
Ian Lesser is the Director of the Brussels office of the German Marshall fund.
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"But it is, in fact, not just about Russia in the east. It's also about a much less direct, less focussed but nonetheless less challenging set of problems in the South for crisis management, counter terrorism, surveillance, border control, the whole set, maritime security, human security, energy security- the whole set of issues that are emanating from the South. I think the alliance is keen to demonstrate the capacities it has and the ones and the ones that it will build are just as applicable, just as useful looking towards the Mediterranean."
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Russia, who performed exercises in the Mediterranean earlier this year, was invited to observe the exercises.
In the meantime, NATO announced it intends to keep it's military forces in Afghanistan over concerns about the ability of the Afghan national forces to fight a resurgent Taliban.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Hillary v Bernie in Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Intro:
The five contenders vying to get the US Democratic party's nomination to run for President in 2016 have been facing off at their first debate in Las Vegas.
The contest lived up to its billing as a fight between the current frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her nearest rival Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders - as our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick reports.
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The most memorable moment of the first Democratic Debate in this 2016 Presidential election season came not in a great clash of wills but in an agreement.
SOT - Sanders - Well I think the Secretary is right and that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing bout your damned emails! Clinton - thank you, me too! (10 secs)
That moment, which saw Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton shaking hands and smiling, came after the former Secretary of State had been defending herself over her controversial use of a personal email server rather than an official State Department email address.
But she didn't allow Senator Sanders' gesture to stop her taking him on - in particular on gun control.
She said Mr. Sanders, who represents pro-hunting state Vermont, was mistaken in how he handled crucial votes:
SOT - He was going to give immunity to the only industry in America - everybody else has to be accountable, but not the gun manufacturers, and we need to stand up to that and say enough of that, we're not going to let it continue... (14 seconds)
Meanwhile, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley was the only candidate to attack Donald Trump on immigration -
SOT - A lot of the xenophobes, the immigrant haters we've heard like Donald Trump, that carnival barker in the Republican party… (8 seconds)
But he and the other two less well known candidates, Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee and Virginia Senator Jim Webb, struggled to make headway against a frontrunner at ease on a stage which she, unlike any of the other contenders, has taken before.
And ultimately, Hillary most benefited from her rivals' caution - they all seemed wary to tackle her head on - perhaps because they know she still represents their party's best shot at keeping the White House next year.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Islamic State propaganda seeks to portray the good life
The Islamic State group is producing more propaganda than any other jihadist movement and is concentrating on attracting recruits with promises of a flourishing and happy society.
That is the conclusion of a report by the London-based anti-extremism think tank Quilliam which studied a months worth of output from the middle of June.
Well over one thousand items including videos and photo essays were produced around the world, with the vast share emanating from Iraq and Syria. Catherine Drew sat down in London with Charlie Winter, the lead researcher on the project.
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Charlie Winter has spent months analysing IS propaganda in all its forms…. his conclusion…that the Ismamic State's sophisticated propaganda machine has changed focus…. and is now promoting the good life enjoyed by those living under IS control.
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They;re trying to create this aura that everything is going on as normal, in Islamic State held territories, but actually better than normal, that there's economic activity, abundant wildlife, lots of happy children everywhere. I mean it's a very transparent way to sell itself as a utopia.
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And there are testimonials, such as this video purporting to show an Australian citizen who joined the group and now works in a Raqqa hospital.
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Winter found the group produced well over one thousand items in the month he analysed, about double the amount he expected to find. Of those only 19 videos or photo essays featured the brutality the group has become known for… and appeared to be intended to keep their own population under control.
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The focus has really moved away from taunting the west with Jihadi John or with the mass killing of christians which really did create a massive massive media halo for the Islamic State, it's moved, it's more focussing on intimidating the internal population such that they don't think about dissenting or think about engaging in espionage.
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Charlie Winter says the sophisticated propaganda operation that makes full use of social media is unlike anything seen before.
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This is a propaganda operation on a really industrial scale. There's nothing like this in any other jihadist group. Of course jihadist groups engage in propaganda, they all do, but nothing like this.
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Quilliam says governments will have to scale up their counter propaganda efforts dramatically if they are to take on the Islamic State's narrative and to rethink how those counter messages are delivered, to reach those that might be tempted by promises of an islamic utopia
Catherine Drew, sign off, London
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Obama apologizes for doctors' deaths in Kunduz airstrike
American President Barack Obama has phoned the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières to apologize for the accidental killing of 22 people in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.
American military bombed the agency's hospital in Kunduz on Saturday.
The phone conversation happened just a few hours after Médecins Sans Frontières called for a special body to investigate.
The charity says, most importantly, it now wants to find out if war crimes were committed.
Nick Harper reports from New York.
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Five days after the U.S. attack that left 12 of his colleagues dead, Médecins Sans Frontières' Executive Director Jason Cone faced the world's media to demand an independent inquiry.
SOT - Jason Cone, U.S. Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
"The point of calling of this commission is really to establish the facts and whether to understand if in fact a grave violation of international humanitarian law has taken place and whether of not it amounts to a war crime. That's our main focus right now."
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Cone wants the inquiry carried out by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a never-before used investigation team.
SOT - Jason Cone, U.S. Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
"This commission does not investigate for criminal prosecutions or human rights violations. It is designed purely for humanitarian law. Although this body has existed since 1991 the omission has not yet been used. Governments until now have never activated the commission. The tool exists and it is time to activate it for this purpose."
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Just hours after the press conference US President Barak Obama phoned the charity's president, Joanne Liu to apologize. He told he the US investigation would "provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident". He also promised to implement changes to ensure this sort of thing did not happen in the future.
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22 people died when this hospital in Kunduz was hit by a sustained American airstrike. Afghan forces fighting in the area asked for support to repel Taliban fighters who took the town last week.
MSF maintains it had previously given the coordinates of the hospital to the Afghan and Coalition forces, and the aerial assault continued for thirty minutes after they told the military they were targeting a hospital.
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The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, told the Senate Armed Services Committee the strike had been a mistake.
SOT - General John Campbell, US Commander of International Forces in Afghanistan
"To be clear, the decision to provide aerial fires was a U.S. decision made within the U.S. chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility."
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But, mistake or not, Médecins Sans Frontières wants honest answers to ensure its doctors don't again get killed while doing their job.
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And they feel the only way to achieve that is through this independent investigation. The U.S., NATO and the Afghans have ordered their own internal inquiries, yet Médecins Sans Frontières does not believe these findings will be completely impartial.
However, for this new commission to proceed both the U.S. and Afghanistan need to approve it. And that may be difficult.
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Five days after the U.S. attack that left 12 of his colleagues dead, Médecins Sans Frontières' Executive Director Jason Cone faced the world's media to demand an independent inquiry.
SOT - Jason Cone, U.S. Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
"The point of calling of this commission is really to establish the facts and whether to understand if in fact a grave violation of international humanitarian law has taken place and whether of not it amounts to a war crime. That's our main focus right now."
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Cone wants the inquiry carried out by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a never-before used investigation team.
SOT - Jason Cone, U.S. Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
"This commission does not investigate for criminal prosecutions or human rights violations. It is designed purely for humanitarian law. Although this body has existed since 1991 the omission has not yet been used. Governments until now have never activated the commission. The tool exists and it is time to activate it for this purpose."
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Just hours after the press conference US President Barak Obama phoned the charity's president, Joanne Liu to apologize. He told he the US investigation would "provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident". He also promised to implement changes to ensure this sort of thing did not happen in the future.
TAKE VO
22 people died when this hospital in Kunduz was hit by a sustained American airstrike. Afghan forces fighting in the area asked for support to repel Taliban fighters who took the town last week.
MSF maintains it had previously given the coordinates of the hospital to the Afghan and Coalition forces, and the aerial assault continued for thirty minutes after they told the military they were targeting a hospital.
TAKE VO
The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, told the Senate Armed Services Committee the strike had been a mistake.
SOT - General John Campbell, US Commander of International Forces in Afghanistan
"To be clear, the decision to provide aerial fires was a U.S. decision made within the U.S. chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility."
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But, mistake or not, Médecins Sans Frontières wants honest answers to ensure its doctors don't again get killed while doing their job.
TAKE VO
And they feel the only way to achieve that is through this independent investigation. The U.S., NATO and the Afghans have ordered their own internal inquiries, yet Médecins Sans Frontières does not believe these findings will be completely impartial.
However, for this new commission to proceed both the U.S. and Afghanistan need to approve it. And that may be difficult.
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CAMERON ADDRESSES SYRIA, EU, CORBYN AT CONFERENCE
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says Syrian President Bashar al Assad must go if the civil war in his country and the refugee crisis are to be solved.
Mr Cameron used a speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to insist an open door policy for refugees in Europe is not the answer to the issue.
He also promised to secure reform of Britain's membership of the EU, and launched a scathing attack on his opposite number.
UK correspondent Olly Barratt reports.
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It's his first Party Conference speech since the Conservatives won May's general election, David Cameron said bashar al assad can't be a part of syria's future.
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This as NATO and western countries criticism russia for air strikes in syria which they claim are aimed at propping up the assad government, not at targeting the islamic state, although moscow denies this.
Mr Cameron also tackled the thorny issue of EU reform which he's promised to win ahead of an in-out referendum on membership of the bloc by 2017.
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But this was also a speech aimed squarely at voters in the centre.
David Cameron believes they will be looking for a new home after leftist jeremy corbyn took over the leadership of the opposition labour party.
And he attacked mr corbyn over a historic comments in which he'd called the killing of osama bin laden a 'tragedy'.
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Polls suggest Jeremy Corbyn is unpopular with much of the voting public despite having strong backing from his own party membership.
But the Conservatives are heading into another period of austerity and budget cuts - so can't afford to be complacent as they begin to bite.
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Monday, October 5, 2015
6th October: Trans Pacific Partnership Approved
The next step for the Trans Pacific Partnership is for the governments of the 12 Asia-Pacific nations to ratify the agreement.
Trade ministers stayed in Atlanta, keeping the negotiations going for five extra days to find common ground on contentious issues, including automobiles, beef & dairy and intellectual property.
Our U.S. correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:
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The repeated delays in finalizing the Trans Pacific Partnership
reportedly came down to cows
specifically, greater access to global markets for New Zealand dairy products.
But a few short hours after that final part of the agreement was inked,
Trade Ministers - including Tim Groser of New Zealand - were hailing the twelve nation deal as historic
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While the deal does comprise some 40 percent of global trade and economic output
There's one big Asian nation missing.
China is not part of TPP
But Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed was careful to say, it's not too late for China to join free trade pact.
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Here in the United States, the big question is, will the U-S Congress actually approve TPP
U-S Trade Representative Michael Froman was heading straight from the completed talks in Atlanta back to Washington and upto Capitol Hill to begin briefing lawmakers and putting the agreement on the table for public comment.
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Some of that debate is already underway...
with presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle denouncing TPP
Republican Donald Trump calls it a bad deal
And politically progressive Democrat Bernie Sanders has said repeatedly,
he wants it voted down.
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It's a message repeated by America's labor unions
who worry TPP is bad for workers and manufacturing jobs are likely to be shipped to lower wage countries.
That said
the White House notes
TPP will eliminate tarriffs and other barriers on some 18,000 products
and expand export opportunities for Made in America products and thus...create more jobs.
Priscilla Huff, Washington
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