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Today. Its five oclock. Our main story. Two british medical students who travelled to join so called Islamic State almost two years ago have been killed in fighting in the iraqi city of mosul. They were pa rt of a group of british medics, many of them of sudanese origin, whojoined is in 2015. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. The Young British medic who travel to join so called Islamic State, then made a Propaganda Video to encourage others to follow. Ahmed sadi khider was ...

Threat to these activists because they think that reproductive freedom and womens rights will mean more white women out of the home and not having enough babies to maintain the birth rate. we see african american communities even distant ones in the case of buffalo, as a threat because they simply present a threat of interracial marriage and a threat to the white majority. and the white nation. so all of this together is a profoundly violent ideology. there should be no space for it anywhere in ...

Originated several years ago from france, and its been largely on the fringes, basically this idea that a particular group of people in this case, you know, largely to believed to be democrats, are deliberately trying to bring in immigrants so that they could disenfranchise or basically water down the rights of people that were bornht in this countr. this is something that, as i mentioned, was considered on the fringe for a long time, but weve seen this increasingly creep into mainstream discour...

Atrocious act. what weve -- wanted to set out to demonstrate is that rhetoric demonizes and dehumanizes migrants, the kind of language that was relegated to fringe websites, to more extreme groups as in a short period of time become commonplace in the mainstream discourse mostly of conservative politicians. >> its rhetoric often that dehumanizes -- its the same in rwanda, they were talking about the infestation and these people are cockroaches and they can be killed just like you would a cockroa...

Outlets and the shooter. >> it was striking to us. its tough to read the writings of this killer. but the word invasion and invader are used six times throughout the document. he discusses replaces americans with migrants. thats a stark parallel to the language and the rhetoric that we hear from some of the most predominant platforms in the right-wing media world, fox news, rush limbaugh, these are platforms that reach millions of americans on a daily basis and we decided to go back and look, ho...

Documented to be hoaxes. a couple of those people have recanted, a couple. there have been hundreds of these incidents. and if you read breitbart, youre told, dont worry, those are hoaxes, liberals are making that up to trick you, make you look bad. its an example of how breitbart provides an alternate reality, one that donald trump has sometimes bathed in and repeated. i would describe bannon as a dirty political trickster, and its not always a bad thing. sometimes you need that to get things d...

Reflects its sort of flinge -- fringe status in mainstream discourse, in terms of the tactics and tone. todays latest point was from a 61-year-old florida mailman named doug hughes who taught himself to fly a teenie tiny little ultralight gyro copter thats a bicycle with wings he put on his mailman suit, put a postal service insignia on the side of his gyro copter. loaded up mail bags containing letters to every member of congress demanding that they support real reform to get money out of polit...

Mainstream discourse in terms of the tactics and tone todays latest point was from a 61-year-old florida mailman named doug hughes who taught himself to fly a teenie tiny little ultralight gyro copter thats a bicycle with wings he put on his mailman suit put a postal service insignia on the side of his gyro copter. he put letters on his gyro copter and flew into restricted airspace into the no fly zone at the u.s. capital. he purposely landed his gyro copter on the west lawn of the capital. he t...

From the start of this conflict, the death toll in gaza 231 including 48 children. back with us at the table, nora, let me start with you, five palestinian deaths reported based on sources from palestinian media there that were still looking to confirm and an incursion that weve reported israel says does not have any artificial time line in its view. is this a proportionate and precise operation? >> theres nothing proportionate about an all out massacre of civilians who are defenseless. 231 pale...

Let me start with you, five palestinian deaths reported based on sources from palestinian media there that were still looking to confirm and an incursion that weve reported israel says does not have any artificial time line in its view. is this a proportionate and precise operation? >> theres nothing proportionate about an all out massacre of civilians who are defenseless. 231 palestinians in ten days. 77% are civilians, 48 of them are children. 14 in the past two days. there has been this colla...