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will will will will will eye the state of nature. i ask us. civil rights records and ron killings and more. this comes just ahead. a leading medical technology. for apprentices and patience his life and death in the african kids are just precious time more on that coming alexander's last day is the dress since the flight agency surveillance program was revealed in june he has
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defended the nsa factions ten years later a fan. i watched twenty eight ip and your options. our team united states voted against the united nations resolutions of resolution today requiring states using arms and runs an anti terrorism operations to comply with international law the resolution sponsored by pakistan yemen and switzerland urges transfer and record keeping and independent investigations of human rights violations and reward. although the us carried out the majority of these types of attacks country along with france and great britain. against the resolution saying it was not appropriate for the forum to discuss weapon systems nevertheless a house with twenty seven twenty seven states in favor. meanwhile another un human rights
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watchdog released a report this week criticizing the last one drum program and its human rights record. our teas green importantly it brings us more on the report it's the practice for the us initiation to criticize other countries for human rights failures but now the tables are being turned to the un human rights committee has released eleven page report on with the us catalog in a string of serious concerns regarding mass surveillance torture drone strikes america's notorious prison system. capital punishment and that washington's ongoing failure to close one time obey the guantanamo bay prison now the committee has said that that i miss the secret surveillance programs first revealed by edward snowden have had an adverse impact on the right to privacy and un officials are calling on the west to overhaul its surveillance activities to ensure they comply with u s and international law additionally me about initiation is urged to create
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a legal pathways for restitution that can be taken by people what they might just be spied on. speaking of justice the un committee by denouncing the us prison system for jailing homeless people in juveniles and allowing thousands of non violent offenders to blame bush in prison for decades as a result of mandatory minimum sentencing. the us is being urged all set to end its death penalty and would make its use of solitary confinement. however america's justice system if it can be handed on to everyone the report criticized the ministry said for failing to prosecute senior members of its armed forces and private contractors involved in targeted killings. us officials found only a meager number of criminal charges have been brought against low level operatives. meanwhile america's drug program which is used for targeting killings. it also came under speeding attack the human rights panel has concluded
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that the program is cloudy and a lack of transparency and is on the air of who qualifies as a legitimate targets. officials say every us us drone strike should be subject to independent oversight right now that is not the case we should mention that not all the findings in the report was that the key un human rights committee has praised us for making improvements such as the two thousand ninth and on c i a torture and interrogation helping to curb human trafficking and taking steps to and racial profiling such as that stopping first program in new york city. the catering apartment in reporting but presidential elections looming in ukraine politicians in kiev are increasingly at all to one another. the coming race appears to be dissolving shaky alliance which helped bring the opposition to power turning revolution ally to bitter rivals arsenal fc are
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shocking reports. situation surrounding ukraine is still pretty much cleared out both domestically and externally first off when you kong which is breaking out between the so called light snack to be a radical. for all the protests in t town of those in power right now in the range and high capital i've always been. one of the right sectors activists the time and wished this week barely get me to get him on the wii. it's the reason is that to step down and out of place. consequences for what he believes to be having orchestrated the golf frontage the interior minister refused to step down of the parliamentary he was initially to review his resignation but. late on thursday evening and several hundred activists of their rights back to the beach we tried to storm the ukrainian parliament several other than
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just getting that demanding the resignation of pink and industry minister and the doctor in question was meant to be raised at the morning session of the parliament again attended by several hundred dollars provides actor activist with clubs knives and some even reported to have guns on them essentially armband in the long run of the parliament decided against sacking the interior minister at the moment of promise to create a special commission which would investigate the mysterious death opens out into the school also known as such in the ligue one of the activists of one of the probably most well known activists of the reit sector and only then make conclusions whether the interior minister would be sad that this is something which has been long coming according to a maniac with ukraine because local people as i got to be independent with no corporate is raking in the mass protests over the past month have been happy with the way the new authorities have been handing
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themselves the authorities themselves are fighting with each other we know that they are three parties in that idea because something crazy to see eye to eye. also on the interesting part of the story happening right now is the information coming mostly from the ukrainian media that the russians are i'm kinda late teens or to send them to have the war toys near the border with ukraine in the southern part of russia summit in the argument according the top two hundred thousand russian soldiers may be. on the grass on the border with ukraine as well as a lot of times that these yarns and different machinery of war machinery as well. this is something of the russian foreign ministry is denouncing sharply saying that yes indeed there is a drill and electric drill in the southern parts of russia but it's not violating any kind of international laws and in fact the international observers from the boise have conducted
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there comes a story which acts on the ground how many russian troops and russian war toys out there can be found nothing suspicious and there's absolutely no grounds to talk about a possible integration of ukraine something which is now being peered inside the country and many have been talking about it. a couple so this is one of the points where the us president and where washington bound edition of ease the pressure on russia saying that most go must withdraw troops on the border or else with grace and for the sanctions coming from us and probably he knew the foreign ministers of russia said that this has no grounds and russia is not letting any sort of innovation so still remains pretense that both domestically and study but some experts in ukraine with their opinion that this weekend may be crucial for the for the development in the story of course we keeping track of everything which is happening in ukraine
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thirty some years after reporting. as afghanistan gears up for next week's presidential elections violence the country is scaling up. the last of its capital kabul on friday when guest house came under insurgent attack the taliban claimed responsibility for the assault that killed a child. afghan capital was just meters away from where the insurgents attacked. this is the third attack in ten days now i guess the field the icon the excursion that happened in the guesthouse afghan and foreign citizens i'm told that about four pm we were actually about eight hundred meters away. when she heard a loud explosion last stop on the mobile billing into the air. the guillotine afghan authorities the insurgents detonated a bomb at this point guesthouse many gunmen entered the scene shortly thereafter and for several hours we witness a
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prolonged. the site and afghan forces what a riot on the seat of course afghanistan is heading to the polls in just about a week to elect a new president and this comes as violence has spiraled and escalated in the country not just the price of gas and here in the capital on tuesday insurgents attacked an election commission office here in the capital and just a week before that about that ten days ago we saw a very devastating attack against the highly fortified hotel cure the serena hotel in which nine people were killed including a prominent journalist could tell by how much worse this selection against intensely first ever democratic handover of power and bake another data shows that these insurgents are certainly bent on making good on that i was promised. in kabul. a sixteen billion dollar arms deal back in two thousand camels washington's largest in the us on huge amounts of weapons to saudi arabia a huge amount of whale is coming the other way. in
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two thousand eleven alone riyadh supplied america with crew that worked over forty six billion dollars. as president obama visit to saudi arabian counterpart today our keys and the future may look closer into the relationship the fan imagine convenience between two part is completely different minds off it a try surveys of love relationship but that it was a strong stable married for many years to have grown quite used to meet up. nobody with at that israel is that in the first day of the u s i know we are able to say that the kingdom of saudi arabia. three of us this despite that the union between the western saudi media has recently hit some bumps in washington to negotiate with iran the three the blessing. just as well as the center right government in the area where
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the trail. it does not want washington to sign the us president is now twenty fifth and a half. it started to go and visit. be sure the united states were renting. all i saw it. this is obama's first trip to the top twelve olympic games since two thousand and nine. i don't think they'll keep reading the news to hear the words by using the word oil. this all goes back to back sixty years ago. washington and now they possess the largest oil reserves in the world as far as we know the theoretically the state. it's much more than one of its keeping these two who to get the saudis have influence in the arab world in washington as the guarantor their military security of the key is the only arab nation that
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consistently remains in the top ten countries with the biggest military budget in the world which has tripled over the last decade because both kutcher dollars the stories of the enormous amount of american products primarily one tsp. american corporations have made enormous profits on sale throughout the years most recently canadian subsidiary of the u s arms maker announced a fourteen year and million dollar weapons contact without a break the relationship is not without some investment of course. despite any human rights violations in other words the pressure that would be typically an acceptable to the west the us remains were in the house and she still looked the other wing. or is it. to start to wonder whether he should be. oil firms elsewhere in the world seems like he is so nice can
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get away with just about anything. understanding so we left the shares on issue the thought of the adamant about a divorce between the two is not in the cards in the near future especially with the west taking steps to make sure it's temperamental partner feel special. over yet. math t washington dc the texas prison agencies been forced to disclose to supply a new batch of execution for putting two inmates that next month according to a state judge convicted killers tommy lee and salad scheduled to die april third antonio hernandez my last job site people nights have the right to know the provider of panto barnet on saturday to use for lethal injections. the inmates lawyers filed suit claiming that it can cure any potency and integrity of the drug is in knowing their clients can't evaluate the risk that they will be subjected to cruel and unusual pain in violation of the eighth amendment and executed. they could apply paint embarked on
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his weekly injections in texas expires people first prison officials contend that the new name should be kept confidential. after threats were issued to a slight surprise me with the not immediately clear if the agency will comply or appeal the ruling love this headline became a hot topic in our newsroom today. he will be kept between life and death. the first suspended animation trials. suspended animation. non hospital and pittsburgh surgeons are trying this as a last resort and trauma patients by ponting called sailing through the body instead of their block. the nesting pair of eyes time because this body can tolerate not having buffalo for more chemo is just a few minutes by calling them you can buy time by slowing down on the processes that occur was no blood flow to the vital organs like heart and brain. this allows surgeons to her decency to patients the anesthetist had
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to cut the doctor and others joined earlier by dr said dr reddy from atlanta for more details you first asked her how this procedure is different from an induced coma like the one thing is on formula one driver michael schumacher now. the twenty she has a brain injury prevention of harm is often done to get to bring candidate. it's time to kill steal and love are talking here with this preservation with this totally new to me how did the same thing that slightly different obviously what we're doing here is trying to prevent further injury by israel showing of the body and a lower temperature to hear wheezing actually about fifty degrees fahrenheit and i to navigating the doctors a chance to repair a major injury to where we are in the andes connotation for helping the brain peeled carrot right and i sometimes read carol it's a gunshot wound to defend the principle that this new process but
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they seem really hasn't been really down to them. many exciting to read about what to say the injuries exactly is this procedure being used to act. to what the thing she has an operating range are trying to find that invades your internal hemorrhaging from a state car accident or a gunshot wound something medication comes in is essentially lost most of their bloodline was actively leading to cardiac arrest it's going to be the only people that are on death's doorstep a few well. ok so this is the first ride on a pig's back in two thousand tyranny was an apparent success obviously it's a big week trying to find humans there's lot of consents had to be given. i've been to the communities with ease. if this hospital is is located and to let people know that they would be doing a site if anyone came in with a track injury. well yes and this will only be assigned patients that are considered clinically dead. how did it legally test this out on humans to make sure that that
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it's allowed. to all institutions have something called the irb its institutional review board in any of these are testing was carried out in the team that can are multiple experts this is i do believe that the fan to be approved by the end of the evening will be the governing bodies like the fta had to prove this trial. talking about you since you have no other hope he gets the apathy how it could be done conceded patients enter places that are basically a party to clear data to trying this last ditch effort hoping to make an impact here. so how are doctors measuring the success of this procedure beyond just bringing someone back some of that test need to be done to have this become more widespread. i practiced because as with the case they did the experiments on they said that the cognitive abilities returns. how would they have this house to make sure that the humans coming back for
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our ok. greg and i had a cognitive functions the arnott is it necessary to the ceiling like eggs come in bunches give you a bit differently open up your brainpower even actually know what they're going to look for is not the free memory issues bringing issues really option leads a person to wake up and function normal stuff but that person x undergarments resuscitated process and are a lot of neurological testing will be basically how their brain is functioning as if it isn't every normal able to do simple tasks and as a normal person. or we are nice people backing could they have majored in no doubt that fits like brain damage or have too many brain injury. maybe this is not the way to go. we need to be established how we do this to hopefully she will come in to function as a kid and c centers like welcome one and the beach at their own functioning they'll bill be printed at the scene year's test regarding brain function memory and tasks and things like that. when it
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comes to putting someone in a suspended state so as you mentioned they can fix this the structures that have been compromised. it's a gunshot wound. etc how long can a person be kept in a suspended state. not to the insta three short a time as possible because the address bar and she answered still function at that point that lower temperature. the theme now more than i would imagine it again is that kind of research lean right now and i were to ask the most cannot be seen a shorter time there under this process the better. the meal. most people have heard about a young child or adult that's fallen into like a week and into the freezing cold water and how they're able to be a lie in the water because their body temperature has gone down what happens in by temperature lilies is your cells function this lower level. you can actually serve by law that we would have to change this with me making that process hoping to put the bunny started to sleep
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while the duties major surgical repair so again. be sure that i'm better but i imagine it's good to be anywhere from an hour to see that not much more than that it's very exciting to see how these clinical trials are carried out a few with the results of the doctors to dr reddy from atlanta thank you very much. thank you lindsay. and it's general keith alexander's last as rector of the us national security agency. here's how the u s intelligence service the sixty one year old is retiring. since june last year he's been tasked with jogging accusations and providing explanations for the nsa secret surveillance program. the agency's practices became when a government contractor address noted week thousands of classified program to the media. stephen and david looks at how the links became the precursor to the end of general alexander's korea even though today officially marks the end of his tenure as director of the national security agency to fifty thousand thirteen is likely the date that alexander will
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never forget. anthony alexander would learn about edward stone and computer specialists working as an in state government contractored f classified documents detailing the extent of america's global surveillance national security agency has reportedly installed software computers around the world grandma nebraska. the nsa know us are looking at your internet access as well looking directly into facebook and google youtube yahoo and five other big names snowed in on the twenty nine year old source behind the gift weekend and in state history and mom he went in to explain his motives. we were actually in false and misleading the. alexander went down defending the agency in recent years these programs together with other intelligence have protected us and our allies from terror strikes across the globe to include helping prevent the terrorists that are potential events of over
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fifty times since nine eleven meter of my town's independent review board would determine a pianist a ball that india program was largely ineffective doing very little to prevent attacks all the while media reports on the week continued revealing dragnet surveillance programs like actually score a total allowing the government to search through the databases containing details on line chats and browsing histories of individuals. again alexander found himself on defense this time trying to assure the american people email communications are not being spied on. the reality is we don't do that. and if we did it would be illegal we are. i think it held accountable. but with the news organization publishing not to think d tell the extent of the surveillance. if the information kept saying alexander's nine saves and by october of twenty thirteen
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alexander. he's extremely critical of the press even falsely accusing reporters of selling the documents reporters have all these documents fifty thousand whatever they have and are selling and giving them out as if he's just doesn't make sense. without it in nancy mom has announced a general alexander and his deputy johnny was leading the nsa it wasn't until november that we would learn the four star general has actually offered to resign from his post shortly after stunning began leaking classified documents. but the administration when mike and eighty seven alexander resignation would indicate to me who had won. and even though the general is donating his forty years of service just nine months after the end the week began he doesn't feel defeated it's clear that in alexander's mine field and is the one who stands to loose this will haunt her dresses
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here's a young guy who made some changes. so you're not careful it's a given community and bring him back in the camp that says justice. our cattle washington interrogate and rt. don't forget to tune in at nine pm larry king that. i guess our former ucla basketball player and a pen and colored the hostile were involved in a landmark case again fiancee doubling his assessment of what's to come collins mr ball player can play professional baseball right. you can earn money playing baseball and played basketball for scholars. true the us. so we can earn money there. guess i'll play. we can't sell his jersey. to someone right track. what about money he can receive any work in a bookstore senior royals there's an absolute prohibition on any athlete earning any money
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other than what we can see the lace specifically exempts which is of a sport. it can be anything but they did they decide in their own private time and that's the difficulty nobody knows exactly what it is we had one last walk on them from the university of minnesota who is on the wrestling team who were on his own song. and they prevented him from earning any compensation from that song because he was an unsuitable af way and they told him that if he continued to use his name to sing the songs he refuses to go. i am liking to her. now for more stories they cover to study due to the qantas lounge. our team and come and check out our website are two conference usa can also follow me on twitter at twenty three. i knew. i was
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for it. that's what effect it needs to brussels nato ally and mad at them for not spending enough on defense we got to lead. everybody's got a chip and bring them into worry. yes everyone on the us believes freedom isn't free. the country in the world. in eighteen starts pete peterson foundation compiled twenty eleven pm how cute they are warring as
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the proportion everyone out i'm sure we keep hearing that the us is going to shrink and dance like that but come the end. looking back we've been in the event that happened. each night industry hit by lightning he presented anywhere in your mouth the us also spent most of media attention in more than thirty three thousand soldiers to it and in recent years. i presented the costs will come close to that britain is the second biggest contributor of troops but just can't help it. not only because no one else had over thirty hour the us to spare for nato in its own country the models that about me a quote from concerned about diminished level of defense spending our partners and out many willing to pay for the now the training required to make sure that we have a double needle for it back in to treat sports. and i badly need the forest that believes other countries into
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doing what the us and its brand of needles. we'll have twenty member countries and it's supposed to represent the interests in the atlantic region. the staff in cooperation with you and where other international air conditioning because it likes to pretend it's the world and olympic diving. according to mail it to safeguard the freedom and security of its members. the political and military me. i might add anything new as good friends will contaminate the crap out of other countries and to do what they want. but the us and its brand for not having an outdoor toy it. they better watch out. president obama but reasonably clean the blue and i talk about that by filing and they're at it. ch. i was losing when we
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will. i want to miss the inky night to tell. west preston parker palmer and his russian counterpart their content has spoken about the crisis in ukraine be going uptown to discuss an american proposal for a diplomatic solution and agreed to have their foreign minister spoke about the next steps. what else officials say obama is to pretend to support the ukrainian in compartments and that's amend the constitution and hold elections. the seal on the restricted to pull back troops from the border with ukraine and reduced response in writing. staff at

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