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will be . the our teacher into a crisis in ukraine the cng me about is the diplomatic solutions the content is a report for switzerland straight ahead russian president. what are your and took part in a show and that's even got a question. also whatever it's not a topic of surveillance more on that coming the pentagon to fund its budget from suggested cuts as u s military plans to potentially leave afghanistan is too much spent on supplies off the success of love later in the show a new. i
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am. you see i wanted to watch him four way emergency talks and wrapped up in geneva switzerland aimed at resolving the deepening crisis in eastern ukraine top diplomats from ukraine russia united states and the european union spent around seven hours wrestling to compromise the situation which has been called the worst is less crisis since the end of the cold war just a short time ago president obama spoke about the us response to the crisis in ukraine like cops military options are not on the table in ukraine. because this is not a situation that would be amenable to a clear military solution. meanwhile violence worsened in the days before talks in south eastern city of that ilk are free
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from russia mountainside and thirty were wounded when ukrainian troops repelled an attack on the national guard base in the black sea ports according to the cream interior ministry. internet speeds up the crittenden of the people's council said he wants a referendum on the eleventh ask residents if they want sovereignty and its lobby on its progress to militaries are firmly in control. u s it comes to send non lethal military eight ukraine which includes medical supplies helmets water purification units and power generators. earlier i spoke with our two little kids come from geneva and asked him to take us through what happened during these diplomatic talks. well this meeting lasted for over seven hours which is frankly much longer than initially expected but perhaps that shows how significant and complicated the situation in ukraine really is but back in the end the participants of the meeting here in geneva were able to drop a role not aimed at easing the years that the tensions there. in ukraine and doubt while eating foods that the demands
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for all the illegal armed groups in ukraine to put their weapons down and up to fifty two or three the buildings that the tasks are to be all set to refrain from any further violence or provocation is also an amnesty must be granted to all deeper downstairs except the bills were found guilty of capital crimes and the turn of the recent hit moss provide an effective and transparent pastiche of the form which would uphold the rights of all the regents in the country both in the west it's especially in the east and southeast of the crunchy produced only one of the most turbulent of regions of ukraine. it does look good on paper but the question is how effective a walk this road map to be in rio wants to start main sticking points for instance i mean all these armed groups are simply out of control with just a look at the right center for this is one of the most radical nationalist organizations there in ukraine. which basically was
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one of the main forces behind the recent uprising was the main forces which actually told the courant the forties themed gift to our question of how much control do these employees have with them right now also when it comes to reframe from further violence ends up provocations while the gap between the south seas off the train and see if the solar wind right now and then to the tensions are so high they could even be called hatreds between the cities of the group's sole strong. it's a question also what to do this. i missed even if there was introduced would that be enough to force them to stop the violence put their weapons down and so on and finally visit the big question is how effective would this constitutional reform be knowing that the colonel still isn't here for very skeptical. also this meeting here in geneva will together so in other words what they actually fall of this roadmap. even though it's also not slanted that's
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before situation there and how. this would be put in real life this road map. it's mostly controlled by the international community or the queen by the osce organization for security and cooperation in europe its representatives are there in ukraine right now but like i said there are so many sticking points that even he gets this world that does all of them well on paper it's a question of how effective would be relaxed. while the lse is on the ground that is going to start taking steps to tamp down violence that we've seen what about the economic sanctions we've seen that a random friend regarding the situation. well this is another aspect of this whole story which perhaps isn't so much the links to this situation either in ukraine itself but is more about political gains in between the west and russia sees both heard from us actor of stage and kate nigerian geneva pulling the stalks of blaming russia four of them. much of what's happening in the south east of ukraine. i'm talking about
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the central russian. on the group's full force but it is the big question of how the relevance of that is to the actual foul relevant winning russia is to the actual situation that in ukraine and its also question why was talking about the control how much control or whether he controlled his moscow have any control over these armed groups pro russian even on groups in that part of the country also washington is talking about how the four issue of sanctions how much zach its relevance to the situation in ukraine itself says they're talking about either more sanctions and more pressure on moscow. if the situation continues to deteriorate for the mics with some of the sentence if he becomes better but perhaps in what many analysts have been saying they should really be focused in the two have a lot of influence on to your stories and cute pregnant perhaps they should be more focused on stopping the violence stopping the bloodshed and bed thinking about sanctioning moscow. alright artistic are not in geneva. thank you very
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much. in light of the violence in eastern ukraine to us the department has updated its travel warnings urging citizens to defer non essential travel to the country and all travel extensive regions including crimea ukraine government is also restricted russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering. this comes as antique if protesters launched a new wave of seizures. the latest being the donetsk airport which is reportedly now under their control. archie griffin on to report on what could trigger the roof. tensions continued to escalate yet in ukraine's east and south dakota two ladies to media reports and fourteen the siege of the hour was taken under control and government forces and the note that the greatest special events. it is that it also fixes it. these rates are also reports in its administration that didn't
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prevent it. this is probably due to it's new and very unexpected. meanwhile the planning authorities had banned all russian male citizens from sixty to sixty years old and alsoo ukrainian citizens. abbott's registered in twenty is a sin to rope the voice of a stubborn from answering you couldn't answer this but we hear from the countries want to control the activities that most days behind all the time as he and the spots of the country and i hate being this piece measures. these restrictions won't have minimized it means that potentially most remain a threat to the many joys is healthy activities can be covering that the santa situation so we have anyone to speak to one all the up one of them who has been at the scene in this book he told us the report of the law a group of about two hundred locals approached the airport johnson county government slogans. they were nice to be in school self defense forces the word of woman and they didn't have any minute to get to hear the outrage like team's decision to ban
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russian men aged from sixteen to sixty from entering ukraine. they say they're not going to obey these rules in the currently staying in the tunnel yet none of the services to be disrupted yet alastair parker parties' with an option the televised question and answer session invited to address the crisis in ukraine with russia's brawl house band and will continue to be. he also received a video call for nsa whistleblower adverts know that i wanted answers about any programs russia may have its nukes or services online information. bart's correspondent alexia shots he tells us more from moscow talking about the situation in the south and east of ukraine like an abortion came up with darren criticism of tea and al thornton said that the only way out of the situation is by means of a dialogue. clayton did not spare any words to describe the situation south east of the country and gives the moment i really love the look the way you might get calls from people in the seventies to lay down arms. i tell my partner stinky and that it's a great
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cold chicken is cool the army away and civilians. she completely out of your money this is such a piece these tanks artillery. it's really you don't use the austin healey and crockett lot of questions given regarding the situation crimea the referendum and sensational and it wouldn't admit it but those were indeed russian troops on the ground in crimea but this was the only way for the referendum to be held and to avoid any sort of bloodshed because nobody had to take measures to prevent the situation from developing the wait is now in eastern ukraine with tanks and well um radical nationalists. of course behind the self defense units of crime eons we had our service men they acted very recently. the same time decisively and professionally. another thing you ever question coming from i well no matter how full the nsa whistleblower edwards noted i can during his twenty sessions he asked whether boss is conducting a massive online surveillance asking for the personal data online
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which is said that of course certain cases like that exists but this is the only opponent this is an oboe quartet and russia has no mass faces of online surveillance. the bazaar to corresponding alexia shops key for moscow. it's not as far as i'm backing down it comes to handing over his son's information the government wanted to be encrypted e mail service used by snowden has lost its appeal to a contempt of court ruling applied earlier draft the government had issued an order to access meditated on accounts thought to be students of lettuce and found her mother that refused to comply and was then found in contempt of court the government had previously forced him to provide encryption keys to the security mailing services part of its investigation of snowdon. this then forced into china's business in order to avoid violating his privacy agreement with customers. he spoke to the counter a short time later the goal of the loving correction system was true love a bit from the surveillance equation
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i'm not allowing us time to get access to users' information. well really we realized based on what happened. just because i don't have access doesn't mean the feds can gain access the judge who denied the appeal so that the court's decision was made because of a procedural error of the appeal. well the pentagon is not too keen on plans to cut the world's most expensive military action in a report released this week the us the common defense has plans to cut the military's budget by fifteen billion per year through twenty twenty three with the us gambling with military readiness. and a statement the state department parents for the department of defense said. overall the report says the question level cuts would result in a military that is too small to fully meet the requirements of that strategy thereby significantly increase the national security risks both in the short and long term. these budget cuts will be made to what is by march the most expensive military in the world. in twenty
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thirteen us made up thirty seven percent of all global military spending and laos the frustration is producing those expenditures the drawdown of troops in afghanistan is also bringing down spending. but as our cheese making lopez reports are still eight hundred military money sitting in the desert of afghanistan we're talking right now probably at least twenty to thirty thousand people involved just simply in the breaking down moving in to put it back to us. it's the countdown to draw down at the end of the year nearly all us troops police afghanistan before they head out the military must decide what to do with everything from microwaves to the max should scrap or sell them well pentagon officials are largely clouds again in the afghan national army's capability. we have seen increasingly used afghan forces that are capable of shooting the week. there are major concerns about leaving the equipment behind like they iraq by a monster
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but the us left six hundred million dollars worth of military equipment to iraq which included vehicles to transport soldiers and tanks and some army vehicles like zombies. rock as per reports from the us military equipment worth ten billion dollars. that's because of rob had a well established army before the u s attorney i served in the former iraqi army general and air defense police. i worked until the fall of baghdad the iraqi army before u s invasion had great capabilities especially after the iraq iran war afghanistan's army on the other hand was mostly comprised of local tribes before the us to day and still struggles to perform missions on excel. before the us intervened to the afghan army. i really did not exist. to the extent that it does today. the afghan national army is essentially one of the first efforts in afghanistan to build up a national security institutions thus barriers
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also make an email for the equipment to the afghans difficult because it was designed for english speakers but the only wage more than half of the afghan security forces are functionally illiterate he can read street signs. they can read maps this is a big problem. a huge problem for any military institution any security institution particularly international national army whatever is left to the army also risks being stolen by the columbine. i think is the very strong fear eighteen in washington that would probably not even publicly in a lot of these large heavy weapons tanks helicopter gunships things like that. they can very easily end up in the wrong hands in a country like afghanistan. the pentagon tries to find a new home for some of the happiest equipment is also looking to afghanistan's neighbors like pakistan india and uzbekistan as possible by yours pakistani officials have expressed keen interest in acquiring the army's mine resistant ambush protected
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vehicles or am i out for short. but in a region rife with distrust. common complaints the weapons could just as easily end up on him and has demanded the west not to provide equipment to pakistan. a request washington has largely been like. even if some is acquired by these countries there will still be a lot of crying. the rule. he was running fast food franchises like burger king and dairy queen and over six billion dollars worth of everyday items. things like tables and desks in the microwave. it will be scrapped. we built little americans. if you will in these countries. that's why you have so much there we made life very comfortable for our soaps with the assumption that we would stay and you think that we brought too much equipment to afghanistan all absolutely hot it was only when we decided to wear to make the afghan people more like us. when we decided we're going to bring all of america to them as we chatted this huge influx of technology
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equipment and other things which really i would argue put us in harm's way more than actually help results for storage and former marine david reese disagrees. after being a guy on the ground. i did three tours in iraq what that goes for the military mission is the key to the flexibility to prosecute cops. no doctor or mission um not just a single wave based on the equipment you have a cool sunday was most in a december deadline the more pressure the military will be under either ship scrap or solve these relics of war. it is only a question of who will get the equipment but what will be done with it as the so called little america is or over three hundred military bases in all moved back to afghan hands in from the pentagon and make him up as artsy. geologists in ohio plates beneath the appalachian mountains mainly caused by tracking. a state investigation into five tremors last month and youngstown area found that the process of injecting sand
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water and chemicals into the ground to release oil and gas could have triggered the quakes this is the first time comers in the region and links to this part of the tracking process. earlier studies had only weak links to the disposal of tracking wastewater into d injection wells which altered pressure points causing the subject in response to the findings ohio officials will start implementing stricter rules beginning friday. seismic monitoring equipment will be installed new drilling sites near no fault lines and or with a history of seismic activity. one claims the magnitude or greater tremors felt drilling will be cause for evaluation of the elite eight to cracking is pinpointed the operation will be halted. the findings are likely to send regulators across the nation to watch the ohio study for learning how this could impact the drilling industry. a year ago fifteen people were killed in what the two hundred were injured when a fertilizer plant exploded a rock and the tiny town of west texas. the blast
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destroyed hundreds of homes in small town causing one hundred million dollars in damage making it one of the most costly chemical disasters in us history. a year after the tragedy the city is still a long way from recovering part two was among the first news agencies on the scene there. i choose among going to shows us how the town is trying to help and heal. the life of thousands of people were transformed in an instant phone the explosion at the west fertilizer company that house with them. that my kids and we're headed out the door of the hallway and around. an explosion the windows blew in and everything there was the structure next door that was fully engulfed was total chaos coming in was that he would just run and scream and holler and you run into the streets comin' up their homes. he was just shocked residents vividly recall the floor. fifteen people died in the disaster. most of them were first responders
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our trucks were part of the mangled metal left behind the blast site. a nearby school in a senior homework to do but the force of the explosion. in a town of less than three thousand people. almost everyone knew one of the victims. you know is that responded with us all out. all of this the bigger they get that many of them sam and there were no words were alive today because you know there are heroic actions the audience in this family did the half mile from the fertilizer plant. years later. he has rebuilt itself the menu was neighbors are still trying to pick the emotional damage. she beckons reflect on things they like you see unlike while. he really goes into its own. like a scene of the movie will suit up for some people post on west mayor tommy much the same set of the more than two hundred homes were destroyed when
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under thirty have been rebuilt. two schools were badly damaged in the explosion. they've since been demolished but have been rebuilt stooges go to class in temporary facilities the school district received a twenty million dollar grant from pima. in the auto loans are state. the tiny town is now considering a new fertilizer. they're much that all presidents the new facility would be made with steel and concrete the ammonium nitrate behind last year's explosion was stored in wooden bins. the u s chemical safety board investigator the west explosion was brought into use only in that community on tuesday. in our lives the station she is a kid who were wounded. the agency's chairman rafael more eros oh where is that more chemical accidents are waiting to happen in other parts of the country. yet that the disaster was the question remains what lessons have
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been led. the chemical industry is vital to the us economy. but federal investigators claim the facility which holds hazardous materials such as fertilizer plants and oil refineries could be put into the danger is that thousands of communities across the us those facilities into ones like the chevron refinery in richmond california where huge fire in twenty twelve said toxic fumes into the air sickening thousands of people in the sentences kobe area. the chemical safety crisis was again exposed when a chemical spill was virginia contaminated the water for hundreds of thousands of people. we were in the main commitment to. tool. it's tremendous in texas alone at the city for other sides have bookstores of the potentially explosive ammonium nitrate according to the dallas morning news twenty thousand people live within a half mile of the sites. the state fire marshal has suggested
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changing the way chemicals like ammonium nitrate are stored. the business minded lawmakers have been resistant to new regulations. while regulators and policymakers wrestle about how to make their city safer the residents of west remember the victims i know and and and when exposed to all. neighborhood with a check on each other. not even thinking that there may be a second explosion and go on that's the kind of people that live here with us people who don't care about the nie on iraq also as much as they can about the neighbors. that's what people did that awareness these people. i'm proud to be a neighbor of us may still be a long way from full recovery but their faith in each other. keeps them are boys. ramon valley though our team. mel and falling a major prison guard corruption scandal in baltimore
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governor martin o'malley has signed several new pieces of legislation designed to curb abuse its allies are suppose to prevent the smuggling of contraband into prisons by guards and make it easier to investigate guards suspected of such violations. this legislative push follows a scandal in which twenty seven baltimore jail guards were indicted for eighteen criminal operations within the jails headed by the so called black guerrilla family prison gang which operates nationwide presence the guards were charged with for example smuggling of prohibited items into the jails like drugs cell phones. several cars were found to have sexual relationships with the inmates some of what's result in pregnancy is. one of the provisions guards caught smuggling a cellphone and two out of prison could be subject to define years. i walked out and a three thousand dollars fine another part of the law makes it easier to suspend officers without pain immediately upon being caught in possession of contraband items. there were objections from the guards union that immediate suspension without pay was a violation of due
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process rights. the bill passed with bipartisan support and minimal debate the laws will also provide for the hiring of one hundred more correction officers and for some facility upgrades put your surprise when i was gabriel garcia marquez has died today according to county spokesman. best known for his nineteen sixty seven masterpiece at bay hallucinatory novel one hundred years of solitude he also penned otto of the patriarch and loving the time caller he was born in colombia but spent thirty years living in mexico. one skillet or nineteen eighty two he was the first colombian and forth black american to win the world's most prestigious literary award that does now for more stories to cover dot youtube dot com stock chart e america the website also hard to accomplish usa comes upon the mind the difference asians i am i. the finish
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line. they're gone. bill what is needed. hiring thousand people with cyber security jail in the next three years. nowhere was
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recorded and available tasked with defending us against major cyber attack to wit i pay good luck with that the un is having a huge problem getting any hackers to work for them enough right now in the us government has awesome programs begin qualified candidates to take her to have. the one of them called the record which started in two thousand. we acknowledge that the covers to wish them both and professional development crude has died at twenty to thirty thousand dollars and either after school the thirteenth irving government that if the mind that i get the funding of about three years in chile this week's meal plan and not on the peculiar that the contest and the program is also an authentic project three hundred or so people that care the government out one hurdle. when the defendant to write out
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the back that eliminate more than that many. grace and computer engineering. well to get seventy percent of kids going to have this cold here are for. back to it that the government can offer as much pay it back. let the mind lifting bridge by brand with topic that the ad was posted in twenty thirteen and advertised salary of between thirty three and fifty four thousand dollars a year. when going to school for hacking will know that they can earn double that at least in the private care while the game to get down to the private company to protect the us government and make a bucket load more data so both of those at very good returns for kids not the end of the us government they could also be bad. now people like to hack don't wanna work in the us government. the giving tree packer is worse than read this locking them up for a decade. our government by the fact that it is pretty
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much the worst criminal act or on the planet. no wonder that no one wants half of the us government. maybe if they provide their own hacking i'm proud of. but finding those eight thousand private security workers. i think you should forgive with the reputation of building they're going to need all how they can get tonight's talk about that but i mean to but as the rest of them. we'll get to watch disney sea world you were ever you go three inmates the apps for your own tablet access program schedules on demand video hello my name is pete over by play ball. enjoy the us versions available to secure the marketplace today in search of a tv network. new
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new new livingroom the while companies lainey this friday the eighteenth and casting call and she ends her tail. some diplomats from the united states and russia or ukraine and the european union have agreed on steps to lower tensions in ukraine. he issued a joint statement following seven hour talks in geneva a dream that one is on illegally armed groups in ukraine to the designs can also cause for production activists today he illegally occupied buildings. it has also agreed to send a

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