that's all i could say, reporting. so be great. when i'm hearing the facts, airbag content has been removed or restricted, i'll just say it was teams across the world. bring you closer to the hosp to the store. the i'm how much room and do a how and these are the top stories on algebra and we have some breaking news coming out of it. off a large blast has been reported south of the capital bunk bed in the bible province . military base used by the current military group, popular mobilization forces has been hit. at least 3 people are injured. all right, let's cross and out of my would have been why have joining us live from the capital book that my mood. what's the latest that we're hearing from officials and from other groups and that it off about this attack? the well,

how about the head of this security community in babylon province? it says that 5 explosions that were heard. and the, the attack hate emitted c based call. so the made it to base or can call so in a bad been the problems that is used by the popular mobilization units, including amunition depot and also a warehouse for tanks and other ottomans in the, in the area. now it is not confirmed yet whether or not it's drone or it's missing a tech. but remember that this is not the fittest time the units emitted through sites used by the public mobilization units being hit and did a suffering get a casualties. and even at depth is now in head into these all the coalition

forces, any rock have just to declare that at the have not taken part in that a pollution despite the fact that remember that the united states carried out similar attacks in the same province at before but remember that the public mobilization forces including the stomach resistors, which includes iran, outlined i'm groups have been cutting you thousands of attacks against israel, collision forces and do other states in the, in the area uh over the past 6 months. all right, that's how these, here's my, with the head live for us and book of that thanks so much my or in the occupied west bank at least 5 people have been killed in violence between israeli forces and palestinian fighters. a large number of people of interested after and is really raid in the north shops, refugee camp. this lasted hours. really, forces also rated several homes, while military bulldozer destroyed houses, shops and other critical facilities in north shops. at least 8 palestinians have

been killed in is really air strike on a residential home west to verify in southern gaza is comes of several western countries or warning. i guess some is really ground incursion there. more than one point. 5000000 palestinians displaced from elsewhere and gaza due to israel's war, are currently sheltering their urban global calls for restraint after and a parent is really drawing strike against iran. they had a bit. ron's army says air defense to shut down 3 unknown objects over is for han province. iranian media say a nuclear side and a military base in the vicinity have not been damaged. this really is yet to comment. and the us secretary of state anthony blinking has underlined the us forces were not involved is comes after israel threatened to attack you, ron again after that runs drone and missile strike on saturday. that in turn was a response to and is really attack on a ron's consulate building in syria. and the don't you have the region on friday, ukrainian president, but let him, there's lensky visited the front line. he inspected the trenches and looked at the armies defenses. his visit comes as the country braces itself for

a renewed russian offensive. us house of representatives has pushed forward with a foreign aid package of $95000000000.00, including funds for ukraine. the clearing of the procedural hurdle involved the rear coalition of congressmen and women from both sides of the political divine. the package also include aid for israel and ty, want. a gang violence has searched dramatically in haiti in recent months with criminal groups controlling much of the capital view in says the 1st 3 months of 2024. so a 53 percent increase in murders or injuries associated with gain violence compared to the previous quarter. social services are on the brink of collapse due to the persistent violence in puerto france. all right, those are the headlines. the news continue is here on al jazeera after the people versus agent orange. thanks for watching the

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i guess it meant no c o need. i'll get the helicopters flying over the ridge spring something. and they didn't even see the kids. the, the kids were all fishing or just playing by the river. and the kids were all choking and gasping that night. they were all really sick with diarrhea, they were having trouble breathing. we went down to the rivers that next day and that's when we found that ducklings dead crayfish trout. we called the fire service and they said, oh no, it's perfectly safe. it's a mixture of 240 and 2 for 5 t agent orange that was banned in vietnam and nobody realized that the same

chemicals were being used here is still going on. the agent orange was a tremendously destructive comments of the tremendously destructive war in its own unique way agent orange was the most destructive instance of chemical warfare in modern history. the gwinnett was still 5 years old or something. i read everything. it was still during the war and i read something about all the birds being killed like oil spills from ships being blown up. that's what i worried about during the war. it was all those

birds come in like because it helped me and i started reading letters. i'm not sure who i sent them to or wanting someone to take care of those birds please. that maybe that was the beginning of my active business. but we moved here in 74. the kids were just part of this landscape. they were down along the river. they knew everything that lived down there. my kids loved it, i mean they were part of it. there were beavers and honors from the rivers and to of course all the fish and heroines ask res. so they were part of that. they loved it was nothing to worry about. the

clear heading is one of the most insane things you could ever do. it's like strip mining a living organism with jaffar a stares, they weren't required to replant. and most of those clear cuts developed into huge brush fields. then all of a sudden they're faced with this a lot. it says you can't flip that unless you re plant within 3 years. so then they had to clear all the brush on these old clear cuts. so they could replant them. just all coincided with the end of the use of agent orange in vietnam. the

michael newton from oregon state university was getting cert plus barrels of agent orange that the air force couldn't use anymore in vietnam. and was praising the use of these things and how they were going to transform forestry forever. and they started just blanket these huge, clear cuts, lot of major arms and drift. so we could smell it. and within a few days our garden was dead. the kids were all sick again and the dog got so sick he died. a carol has been just a tireless champion for uncovering truth factual,

scientifically based information and trying to get that for decision making. these people were just literally at their wits end. and i remember sitting there thinking routes you somewhere, you gotta, you gotta help these people. they are literally, they know nobody's willing to help them. and i said, you've got to produce the experts that if you can produce the experts, i'll take your case on and we'll go to, we'll go to battle over the phone to be done by your machine. what was the most to be found on the corner? these as you

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she stopped at maybe 5 or 5 pleasure stapleton and melody the the stage of history is that for the 1st meeting between president eisenhower and senator kennedy's since the last, when eisenhower passed over the national security apparatus to john kennedy, how scared we had to be that communism was on the march, and we had to stop it. wherever it was. kennedy loved the idea that american ingenuity, not just big, scary bombs, but different more surgical kinds of technologies could be used to defeat these insurgencies and agent orange or besides, in general, was part of that strategic view. the

here with its own chemical company in midland michigan revolutionary chemical killers are being produced to help rid us of these costly this one of the newest. and most, most of the weapons in dallas arsenal of chemical warfare is to for dial. we'd killer to for d is a growth regulator type of we'd kill it. the action is busy a logical appearing to upset the plans. growth process is causing gradual but certain that the on the side govern government. in 1961 was a vociferous proponents of the use of her. besides in vietnam, the government was fighting a communist insurgency in the south. that was suffice. they

felt that the insurgency was a major threat to their existence, the mrs. in october 1961 things hadn't really gotten started, yet. these are telexes. it's a message from and bassett or noting, but basically just say present to him as begging people to spray crops. and there's so much doubt and confusion in washington about whether to do this or not the

operation ranch and had multiple components to have a food denial component. but the most notorious was the use of agent orange to take away the forest cover. take away the insurgents. capability to hide and conduct gorilla ambush operations of the but once the overall war escalated to fully ition program, just sort of followed rather mindlessly. right behind the spring. millions of gallons of highly concentrated or besides indiscriminately over

vast areas of forest. many times over is chemical warfare. it was highly destructive and it was massive. it was a weapon of mass destruction the branch and was for the herbicide to fully age programs around by the are and i was sent over to vietnam in may of 9071. to do the final historical right up another ranch and program, the i made friends with a young army lieutenant over there. he changed me one afternoon and said we have

received orders from headboard versus 1971. we are to drop the computer and erase it. not downloaded and shipped to wash job chase that you said if you want any of that information for your report, you're going to have to come with me to night and we'll go over to mac fee headquarters and i'll get you into my office and we'll print them out and he turned on the machine and we printed out a stack like that of my report indicated that there were some real problems developing from people who exposed agent orange i finished my report and it was immediately flashed by secret. and the government kept it locked up, or 35 years and denied didn't even exist in the

federal government. basically federalized all to come up with some place to do nothing but produce an agent orange and have the chemicals for the warranty. these not and they knew that some more, they produce more money they with me. so they, in order to deliver as much as they could as quickly as they could. they violated that existing industry standards for the production of herbicides by using a process that was much shorter at higher temperatures, that was responsible for the presence of the docs and in the ultimate chemical substances that were creed. and they knew that it posted risk to individuals. they knew that impose the risk to the land and knew that it was contained to boise and they knew that the, the effects to be the

while i was preparing our report. i came across the documents that indicated confirmed that we authorized production of the asian, ours, which is a mixture to, for these 505242 for 5, g with a higher concentration of di auction as a contaminant. it's a congestion is a 245, g compound. as we knew, dioxide is an extremely potent crusher to genet, mutagenic meeting. it causes chromosomes to mutate tiretta jennings, affecting the fetus of a woman. very potent compound national bureau standards estimate the half life for a dyson model. if you 2000000000 years. that's why

e p a regard to as equivalent to plutonium, both units toxicity and, and it's longevity, how long can persist? so it doesn't go away, it goes away politically. this is the 1st time that the scientists have ever created a molecule, this toxic and, and that they, they know that even, you know, just one to 2 parts per trillion can cause birth defects, mutations, cancer, the seeing a larger for defects than we would have expected we saw a number of congenital hearts and i think it was 1978

delivered in. and so if i like child, that's a child that doesn't have basically the normal brain. in my lifetime of delivering babies, i would not expect ever to see one. and about a year later, we delivered a 2nd and then select child. those odds were just astronomical that a small practice like ours would have to and, and felt like children. it made me realize that there was something going on the god promised abraham. this is the land that is going to belong to you and to your children forevermore right here in my back yard sales. and our recent here, terrace realtors here just to make sure yeah, that was your ac central michigan. we have people here from united states,

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visit the cost on the web presence. and remember, it's a copy revised wells and increases systems cost on request a noon i'm how much room and do i have. these are the top stories on algae 0. we have some breaking news coming out of at off a large glass has been reported south of the capital, both bad in the bottom of the province. a military base used by the parent military group. popular mobilization forces has been hit. at least 3 people are injured by more than one head is following developments from the adoption capital. the head of this security come with the in the province. it says that the 5 explosions that were heard. and the, the attack hit emitted see,

based call. so the made it to base or can cause so in a bad been proven that is used by the popular and mobilization units, including an amunition depot and also a warehouse for tanks and other items in the, in the area. now it is not confirmed yet whether or not it's drone or it's missing a tech. in the occupied west bank, at least 5 people have been killed in violence between is rarely forces and palestinian fighters a large number of people of interested after and is really rate in the north shunts refugee camp. this lasted hours. israeli forces also rated several homes or military bulldozers destroyed houses, shops and other critical facilities in north shops, at least a palace and he had been killed and his really era strike on a residential home west of it off in southern gaza. this comes of several western

countries or warning against them is really ground incursion there. more than 1500000 and palestinians displacement elsewhere and gaza due to israel's war, are currently sheltering their hey, ron says its air defense systems have shot down 3 drones and is behind problems running and media, se a nuclear side and the military base in the vicinity were not damaged. it comes after israel threatened to attack you, ron again. following to ron's retaliatory strike on saturday. the us house of representatives has pushed forward with a foreign aid package of $95000000000.00, including funds for ukraine. the clearing of the procedural hurdle involved the rear coalition of members of congress from both sides of the political divide. the package also include aid for israel, anti one. those are the headlines, but it is continues here in algae or after the people versus agent orange. thanks for watching.

the when we started the litigation, this became a real david and goliath back because we had to us the whole us attorney's office, representing the federal government and the largest law firm in the state of oregon, representing i f. a which is a front group for the chemical manufacturers and for timber sprayers the fire service had been unwilling to do any kind of community health survey after

the spring to see if anybody was in fact being on it was simply saying, our chemicals are in harmony anybody but it wasn't looking to see if they were hard and it was very stunning. you know, that they would spray in area and within a month that miscarriage rate. and what they call spontaneous abortion rate would skyrocket. according to the hospital data, the between my husband and i and our nurse practitioner, we delivered between a 100 and a 150 children a year seeing a larger number of birth defects than we would have expected. we saw a number of congenital hearts and i think it was 1978.

i delivered an animal to file a child. that's a child that doesn't have basically the normal brain. in my lifetime of delivering babies, i would not expect ever to see one. and about a year later, we delivered a 2nd and then select child. those odds were just astronomical, but a small practice like ours would have to and felt like children it made me realize that there was something going on. and the something that i was aware of was fraud, cast, spraying of or besides, at that point it was mainly to for the overall water supplies because we drink surface water that the coast, the

kids were involved in the ho or beside battle, they were helping write the newsletters and draw the pictures and help with signs. there's the poster that daphne made. she did that when she was about 11 they were right in the thick of the we had like 5 minutes to come up with a name for this, for citizens against toxic sprays task and was in the most demand of work. i guess i, i and it wasn't until basically katz was for him and started questioning it with, you know, filing a court action. and then it suddenly got some attention. and there was

a lot of pushback from the chemical companies and the timber companies. chemicals are being used as, as a means of achieving environmental goals really uh the, the attack is not scientific. it's purely emotional. know the public does not understand and know we unfortunately haven't uh, successfully communicated to the public this yet. take 245 p, for example. to 4 or 5 to use about his toxic has aspirin. uh it, uh, the safety factor in the use of 245 t is 5 rated and the safety factors use of aspirin. and as a public understand that one saturday morning when my husband was making rounds at the hospital to phillips in suits, showed up at my front door and said they wanted to talk about the earth besides.

and i said that was fine. my 2 children were running around very happily playing. they didn't really say where they were from i said, come on in, have a cup of coffee because i had had a number of reporters and other people show up. and when then when they said, you know, at all times where your children are and i realized that i didn't, i and i said it was time to end the interview because it was clearly a threat against me and my children and and it worked on top of van that had dark tinted windows on both sides suddenly showed up outside of carol. and steve's house, who were the leaders of the citizens against facts explain movement,

say the the car was parked here, but they were walking up here or the other day or obviously thinking i wasn't home . they didn't really explain why they were here with one. i realize the other guy was sneaking up there and talking to the kids. then i got kind of angry. he was asking them all about what kinds of different creditors we had in the freezer because we did, we saved a bunch of them hoping to get them analyzed out and see what was in them. but the rear door flew open as it drove away and they could see that there were large video cameras in there. the phone company itself, their employees told us that our phones were being tapped. it was an obvious attempt to try to intimidate the folks who are bringing this litigation to try to reduce the herbicide areas. frank, well, we won

a temporary injunction. what the judge in the caps case, thanks to all those scientist and studies that we were able to compile ruled was that hey, you've got to include in your environmental impact statement, the effects of these chemicals in vietnam. and this, that was a blow to the fire service because by then there were some really documented impact in vietnam. we strayed 20000000 gallons of that stuff over there. their water sewage are contaminated, their rice fields are contaminated, their wells are contaminated depending on who you want to believe or 4 or 500000 adults contaminated within half a 1000000 children. the

ladies at the extra. yeah. as soon as you get the means, you'll do the demo of yes ma'am. i do for fun, for swan control. so it could be the there were negative feelings towards what we were doing. the propaganda put out by

the chemical companies and the timber companies. that number one, there's nothing wrong with the sprays. and number 2, these people are just the lunatic fringe. they convince the loggers or some of them anyway that they were gonna all be out of work if. if they couldn't use that or besides, the house was on fire. carol came up the driveway house was totally in flame. patrick said he stopped her that she grabbed the knife of his belt and started running up the hill. and he just grabbed her and held her and he felt sure that carol was going to try to take her own life. that night advanced from children were, were gone,

the and we all crumbled. we all just couldn't believe it. the, the fire fighters send was our son the i don't, and it's hard to talk about it. i just can't really they had done the absolute worst thing anybody could do to me and they couldn't do anymore. animals are still here. i think that's what kept me

going and you know, it was what was left of my kids was what they loved. you know? oh boy here years ago. okay, so the big 130 years old. he's very intuitive. like if you're really upset about something, he will come in just like leaning against you and be comforting you rudy duties. he wants to help you come on, feel better. i don't know. i rely on him. this was the garage. there was no floor here. and so we put a floor in and i just was living in this in this room. and i still am in a way it was. and in honor of my kids, i had to keep going. they, for this fight to, it wasn't just me. and i the only thing was to keep going for their sake,

the newly released court documents to indicate that the company is which manufactured agent orange knew as far back as the 19 sixty's. the one of its ingredients known as 245 t contain the toxic contaminant dioxide, the

my father said he could hold me in his hands like this. i was so small. i'm missing my right leg below the knee my fingers. and i'm missing those big toe and my other toes are were wind. but yeah, yeah. my story is not very much unlike many, many children in vietnam and other american children as well. so we share the same type of birth effects may as still have and none of the mom who would need the victim or the national. how should you know? i don't get any benefits from the government. they deny that the children's meal vietnam veterans perfected so i'm hoping with your lawsuit that things will change then it'll be, it'll stick this time the

case. it's frustrating the these companies have been able to avoid accountability for what they've done. i think your case is incredibly important as sort of the last opportunity that we may have to hold these, these, these companies accountable for the, the wrong doing that. they knew they were engaged when they made this poisoned his product. the national forest here is no longer sprayed and the reason is a series of lawsuits that began with the caps lawsuit. but what all those other

people, how well people write down the road that i have private timberland around them that's getting sprayed the

they're going to keep these chemicals on the market. no matter what the only house is for the community right to move them into, keep insisting that we have the right to protect all of our communities from being poisoned. and maybe it's a pipe dream. but if these corporations have human rights according to the supreme court, well damn it, they should be subject to capital punishment. just like an individual would be the only design i got to. yeah. my name just got because i yes it is. or do you also did policy do, or that means on that that long pauses on law the like you will seeing a demo golf on the survey to try as i said, my gosh,

is it the yeah, in the highest alexis so common bit tasa the ideal seen the most song, so keep the mid day as i'll see it. another pause to allow us to type on the jo natasha with the people. those go to the image not go sample the phone with the the to see sort of course, the amount of both of the testing done to that. i showed you that, that her, most of the company is to add to port of shape. we'll see the black down to the left side, domonique or me if this,

the sewage to see me is that the, you see the who this might be on the sample. see me fucked. if i could look a lot. oh huh. a. going to be okay with the law says for the facilities to be added, it is, or is it in the ceiling list over the last? all huh. little time. with the best receipts of all the functionality, the

we call ourselves the document junkies. documents accumulated over 40 years of freedom of information actions that i did, including several lawsuits to try to get documents out of the ca, pcb law suits the agent orange law suits trying to stop the government spraying out here and then i had a bunch of stuff from dow chemical that they hoped i'd never get i couldn't afford to store them anywhere. and that's when peter ron stackable, it's a canadian journalist,

drummed up some funding to get them off scanned. and that was how the poisoned papers that we must have scanned was close to $200000.00 pages. he could upload them as they were scanned, 10 hours a day, non stop. a lot of the documents involved the fraudulent testing of chemical products. so lawyers, now in reading these lawsuits are being able to find that information i hope they'll make trouble. i mean that's the whole goal is to make them available to anybody that needs them. the interesting document. so we look at down is i think someone's interest soon. just

be populate it. don't want to have to be an interest in to the to accommodate googe and i thought and anything the vocabulary account of the addition of that is it a yeah the see that's how they don't get so many balance valleys. wanna nice, probably don't sell it after the is it meets your needs as soon as you do tie. and richard is that the only thing styles that even demo as possible. the simple fact her mammy, danielle foster c book, the send. yeah, yeah. there's just this, as i said, the navy team, the new c. no, said monique, and i'm millie victim. i mean i can see is the sacking the skin, the hawk of default, the

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so, because it's a general trends to cooling, whether it's cold air running across this path of canada, but equally the windows and doors we're, we're down to the gulf coast. so that will tend to push those shells for the safe as they go east and get squashed into florida. but the cold follow suit and bring snow, but it's you to also out and temperature is really much better than they should be in the midwest and open plains states. but it is sunny. and right back to the california and coast it is sunny and improving. significant child abuse funding recently and has been you're under a multi carbon both haiti, i'm the dominican republic, possibly in jamaica. and you follow the line and your eyes made a lights on nick around your big shelves potentially here as well. and in the lee with dogs and possibly the winwood says, a wet time around the caribbean as it is endorsement, brazil. this is the seasonal rain which comes and goes, it's coming again, stretching back towards that quinoa, maybe western columbia, those big, big gap. and in fact something brazil option tina power gone, uter guar or having

a quiet time which is unusual. i have to say the phone counting, the cost germany is being gauging with china on trade. why consul in breakup with badging? materials? currency has rebounded all the economic reforms working, and we speak to the president of the un general assembly about has called action on sustainability. council, the costs on alice's era. why have american evangelicals become his real strongest factor? is us president joe find the right to stand with israel with no red line, as long as us support continues? is there anything that can stop is real, solve on concept, from going on in? definitely a quizzical look at you. that's the bottom line. one of the biggest selections of 2020 pools in the general election will administer now render movies be taking

increase its food across the country. how will economic uncertainty and you've sent employment sway voters in key states and will the media be able to cover the vote sweetie and fairly ongoing coverage. but in the selection on out is the era the blasts of the base and that off to used by the parent military group popular mobilization forces, at least 3 people are injured. the i'm how much in boom, this is out 0 live from don't also coming up at least 5 people are killed in the occupied westbank during violence between israeli forces and palestinian fighters. now a people have been killed by and is really there striking.