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the searing its own agenda wiki leaks is accused of trying to delinquents attention from a sex scandal involving it's found by publishing its latest revelation. plus we tried the youngsters going off the rails and as you drive the dangerous hobby of train surfing and sweets rushed. to the growing number of young couples in india facing jack shit families and communities is a chance to now reality it's just a constant. a very warm welcome this is all a lie from moscow with me honest have it now a tropical virus that's rapidly spreading in the south of russia has already claimed six lives while millions could be at risk of infection nearly two hundred
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people how safe the west nile virus which is carried by mosquitoes. never paul's from the volgograd region which has been the west affect it. no one is safe just one by trim an ordinary mosquito is enough to put a life in danger hundreds involved red region have been hospitalized with the west nile virus initial symptoms include high temperature headaches and nausea followed by seizures unconsciousness and death. the situation is grave it has been an unusually hot summer which allows mosquitoes to build up a high level of the virus there is nothing we can do to totally wipe out this interaction your good dog can has survived infection but his central nervous system has been damaged he has problems remembering his age and address. i was so steered when i felt myself slipping away i don't remember how the ambulance brought me here
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. but at least he's alive several have died already if only we had realised what the same times were and that we needed to get her to hospital she might have survived my mother was a strong and healthy when. the west nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes can fake both birds and humans although traditionally a mediterranean disease has been aggressively spreading through europe and america the first outbreak in volgograd was recorded only eleven years ago this year was already seen the highest number of cases. i've just heard about it on the news i'm terrified i don't know anybody who's died from it i reckon i'm not in danger authorities are warning people against complacency and advised to use mosquito repellent and cover as much exposed skin as possible to avoid bites containing hot weather has allowed the infection to breed we had more aggressively among
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mosquitoes doctors say the worst the worst season has not peak and of all claim many more victims before leveling off in october. r.t. volgograd. you know with r.t. still to come on the program. from spies suspect to celebrity on the chapman capitalize on her newfound fame with a photo shoot. and love knows no boundaries young people in india are trying to break the tradition of narrative. now wiki leaks is back in the headlines after publishing a classified cia report but with the document failing to live up to its height and with the site's founder currently under investigation into sex abuse claims it's led to accusations the online whistleblower is pursuing a secret agenda who are at it how to tell. there's been much less of a media florrie surrounding this than there was the beginning of the month when the afghan war diaries were released and i think there are people who reasons for that
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one because. it was seventy five thousand separate documents that came from inside the u.s. military and such a huge volume of information always creates an impression whereas to compare it with this this is just three pages although having said that it is a secret document from inside the cia. that came exclusively from the u.s. military. the other thing is the afghan war concrete evidence each of these documents was called the evidence of events to take place the death of civilian casualties and to report those casualties whereas this is an internal cia document describes a hypothetical situation which looks at what would happen if the international community perceived the u.s. as an export of terrorism it's written by departments in the cia called the red cell which is specifically charged with coming up with hypothetical scenarios and
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looking at what might happen so obviously the impact. on how we believe the world is much less than the impacts of the afghan war this report takes a couple of examples of u.s. citizens taking terror abroad it talks about young muslim americans who travel from north to pakistan allegedly were hoping to join the pakistani taliban while they were that case that you may remember from november two thousand and eight when a man called david headley who was a pakistani american was he took part in this valence meeting up by bombings which killed more than one hundred sixty people but we do have to ask ourselves why has this report being released now particularly as it socialism describes this hypothetical situation. has been in sweden and the last weekend it became. that two swedish women had come forward one of them was accusing him of rape and the other was accusing him of molestation rape charges being dropped but
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we recently heard that the sweetest most abusive will want to question. about the molestation charge which is a lesser charge it's been suggested that this is a smear campaign following the afghan war diaries the lawyers for these two swedish women say that's absolute nonsense as do the two swedish women themselves but we do have to ask ourselves whether this report has been released now in order to deflect attention from. legal problems. critics say wiki leaks is nothing more than a propaganda organization and its founder a simple cog in the wheel. it could just be a front organization and he could just be the mastermind that he's made out to be much of the media maybe not even the founder if we can fix who knows sometimes they say it was founded by chinese dissidents whatever that supposed to mean. but just a kind of the use of kind of the front and just kind of a mascot and actually do we know more about him. for instance about his eye
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teeth competence dosia does he have the skills to develop this supposedly wonderful system for uploading leaks securely which by the way is not currently working. until we know more about him i think the most plausible hypothesis is because just kind of a front i think there are very very serious questions to be asked about the motivations of the group and even what is the group the point is we know nothing about we clearly going into we know more about them we really don't know what they're up to . well spying to barack obama's promise to close the guantanamo bay prison at the beginning of the year nearly two hundred detainees remain as the claims of torture mistreatment and do you base interrogation techniques. can find the president in a special report coming up next hour. disarming saddam hussein.
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asked majority of iraqi citizens. disadvantage brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. is again over embassy in kabul. generous to launch occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. believe. it is appropriate to that it according to his book just became if he did even. if a slap started slap if you can. so that it shocks them especially if you're going to sleep but you don't actually break any bones could deter a geisha techniques that we use in. horror but the senior leadership of our government. we believe.
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well the russian president who does i mean choir into the investigation of the death of a high profile lawyer was in custody last year thirty seven year old sort of magnitsky died in jail in the on awaiting trial for types crimes his supporters blame prison officials and they claim tonight in the medical attention he needed when he fell ill international lawyers association last month pleaded with me to be vetted to punish those responsible. and i was trains rushed so does the adrenaline for a growing number of youngsters in russia they're taking part in the highly dangerous activity of trains ride on the outside of carriages artie's jake agrees means the only people who are willing to risk their lives. some would find these acts stupid even crazy but for those who take part in what's become internationally known as train surfing is about the adrenaline rush the great involves riding on
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top or at the side of fast moving trains clinging on with their hands or the aid of a belt the danger of boldness is for many a major attraction but authorities are worried that those taking part are fully aware of the risks running along these cables above me off three thousand volts of electricity if you touch one you most likely be killed and that's just one of the dangers riders also risks feeling from the train and being crushed but that hasn't deterred these guys they took up the hobby at an early age claiming it gave them an unbridled escape from reality. in you and me but we mostly just ride the trains are not pulling any crazy stunts this is just a hobby the guitar adrenaline up. and as if that wasn't daring enough maybe even taking to riding the metro just to get their daily kicks to these young men is also become
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a form of expression and i don't see why this is tree sport is being seen differently to other why the practice pastimes of the people skydive or climb mountains we ride trains on the outside certainly there's a risk but we plan all our steps we know trains very well where different things you can hold on to are we have certain safety guidelines. they and other adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured but. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andreas are likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price
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they might pay jake agrees r.t. . just remind you've got many more stories the website schools all the dot com we feature barry's guides their fashion columns and even some space blogs here's a quick people what's online for you the minute all russians think a skating rink rushing pope may be out of the salt she lympics although he's continuing training will find out what he was polish. and singing in the rain but spirits will fall from down the first russian u two calls that wrong with tens of thousands of fans bumping to the nudge and i respond. now not content with provoking an international incident between russia and the
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u.s. firm fertile on a chapman is back in the news now the face of the reasons by scandal is being sued by a glossy magazine it claims she broke a contract by posting pictures of a recent photo shoot on her facebook page on his own boss and how to do sales. the name anna chapman that sticks out more than any other she seems are synonymous with this big spy scandal and one of the reasons unavoidably everyone knows it's her looks and she has realized this she came back to russia greeted as a hero after the exchange of spies in vienna back in back in july and she has capitalized on that almost celebrity status since it's in the hotel behind me the hotel bulge chick that she recently conducted a photo shoot she seems to be enjoying it very much in videos posted on the internet using her glamour this was for the russian edition of heat magazine but she since got into a bit of trouble it seems putting photos up on her facebook page of that photo
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shoot before he did wanting now to take her to court the whole spice scandal and this whole thing has also opened up a wider really fascination with spy stories in britain america has a story that one of the screenwriters on or on a james bond script was investigated for many years by a mice live for possible links to the old cold war k.g.b. another example is that it's been found that a russian spy was recruited by the nazis in world war two and then proceeded to go to norway and steal british plans for an invasion of norway handed them to the nazis which relate enabled them to defeat the british invasion which then led to the collapse of the british government and the election eventual of none other than winston churchill so huge ramifications really and it seems that with many spy stories the details are as fantastical as any fiction you could make up but it
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seems that many people want to get their teeth into these stories and i think the public have found it all very amusing the person who isn't joining at the most though is miss anna chapman herself she's found her firm fertile status is bringing her a lot of attention and she seems to be enjoying now very much. so international news in brief you this hour on the u.n. is reviewing security policies for its aid workers and buckle staal after threats from the taliban u.s. officials have warned that militants plan to a time foreign is helping provide flood relief all some aid agencies have hinted the downsizing relief operations might be necessary and that could be a big blow to the seventeen million pakistanis affected by the fighting in need of assistance. in the southern philippines gunman dressed as police have killed four people they flagged down two of the dead were police marshals the bus was traveling through a sister a muslim rebels operate when it was stopped being followed the attackers said the vehicle on fire and fled the violence comes just days after next it's been in the
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lead to a trade of hong kong tourists hostage killing a. new york's empire state building could see be pushed in the shade or else the city council gave the go ahead for a new skyscraper however the owners of the empire state all enraged by the way if calling the planned high rise and assault on new york city the proposed three hundred sixty. penn plaza would impede the view from the iconic scase cry of his most famous observatory. despite calls discrimination being illegal in india many face harassment and hostility on a daily basis because of their social status while they're choosing to tie the knot with a number of a different cost and can find themselves rejected by both their community and family but as long as these cameras thing reports more and more young people are trying to break with tradition. and have upset their families well into different gods they would expected to marry one of their own but they have
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broken what is considered. an intercourse marriage is considered a sin here our society wants to continue its traditions that people have been following for centuries her family has a much higher cost than mine this hurt their ego but the bridegroom is lauren started. the couple have enlisted the help of outsiders the ngo the unite humanity movement often deals with him because marriages there have been more than one thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the be hard state. we want to and discussed based society just based mindset and caste based discrimination a customer society can only be brought about by inter-caste marriages and interreligious marriage us the perk and she cautioned tomorrow it looked ten years ago to tie the knot chickens father filed a case of kidnapping against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple. my family allowed me to visit them only after seven years but not with my husband
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and even now if i do visit my father doesn't speak to me he is still angry with me . the police in bihar are increasingly dealing with aidid five police and young couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old. formatting a new comedy impulse and we are seeing many cases such as these with both a boy and girl wanting to get married if a girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the person of her choice but if she is younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes. a divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities gas divisions are now less important while in rural india many refused to let go of their traditions and anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by us no one in the village gives the couple any water or food or even
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tax that if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. cost is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation the ration who considers caste and even if we do the next in the ration will definitely not even think of it discrimination on the basis of past is illegal in india but in large parts of the country to remains the overriding factor when choosing a life partner the sooner this changes the sooner we'll divisions over the past lose their relevance here got unseeing r t india. say with all the latest with the headlines at home path the author now back in the member of the european parliament claims the e.u. if it is alternate the u.k. should quit the union he spoke in depth with laura.
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today i'm talking to gerald batten who's a member of the european parliament for london he's with the u.k. independence party which is a euro skeptic party and he's recently announced his intention to stand for leadership of ukip battened thanks very much for talking to r.t. you're welcome just but you won't write one small point in your introduction you describe this as a euro skeptic party that's not true skepticism implies some doubt we have absolutely no doubt we're one hundred percent membership in the european union is bad for britain so we're not skeptical about that and one of the key tenets of your
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opposition to the european union well first of all it's it's an economic and democratic disaster first of all there is no reason for the european union i mean the white soul was sold to people forty years ago and has been ever since is that we must have it for try and jobs we don't need it for trade jobs even the even the european union has its back now rather than what we need is trade with europe and the rest of the world friendship and cooperation we don't need to be members of this vast bureaucratic organization in order to achieve that the other thing is the loss of democracy which although membership the cost us billions of pounds every year which is why state money was actually worse than that is our loss of democracy the germans calculated in two thousand and six that about eighty three percent of new laws now come from the european union not from their. parliament and in this report by. question whether german we really want more because of this it's equally true for the u.k. a similar time of qatar the country eighty four percent of our laws now come from
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the institutions of the e.u. which is not democratic and the european union has this mission to become a super state to rival united states and i think it's a very wrong road for us to go down and britain should leave as soon as possible and we are living in a globalised world there is it possible for the u.k. to just step out of the but what does that mean what are the global laws will means it's much easier to get on an airplane now and go anywhere you like very quickly which is one of the reasons we have such a problem with uncontrolled immigration that kind of globalisation it's a reality but it doesn't mean to side that you have to sacrifice your independence and so government governance in the modern world in fact quite the opposite i think the problem with the modern world is that people are losing their control over their elected representatives and their governments and we're becoming less democratic i think necessarily a bad thing you have said in the past that the e.u. is an illegal state can you explain what you meant by that yes because under the lisbon treaty it basically became the constitution of the european union we have
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a constitution in this country written down in different places like for example the sixty nine hundred bill of rights which says that they solve these is the form of all power and the sovereign cannot acknowledge a higher power and i will you're a monarchist or republican it doesn't matter that's our constitution what we did with the with the with the lisbon treaty is we acknowledge the officially a higher authority the union for example now has a legal personality has only come by treaties on its own so that in fact means that britain we are living under any legally constituted government talk to me about their legal integration taking place in the e.u. particularly about the european arrest warrants european arrest warrant is the first part of the process whereby we are integrating our legal systems with those of the european union and of course what you got to remember is that. the anglo-saxon common war model adopted by the united states and canada and sex in countries around the world is completely different from the continental napoleonic
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system now under our system you have to be charged with a specific offense the police have to gather the evidence before you're arrested goes to a trial we have five years corpus all these things that we take for granted on the continent you can be arrested as a suspect you can spend a year eighteen months in prison while i investigate the case before i even bring it to court against you now under the european arrest warrant we got rid of all the safeguard now if you are required for extradition under the european arrest warrant the court deciding on that has really little power to refuse it now what's also in the party line is things like be european investigation order to go back coming along with trials in absentia which means that anybody can be tried in a in a european country not even particularly aware that this trial is going on they are supposed to let you know that they can't contact you could suddenly find the british police turn up on your doorstep ever arrested you they will exploit you many bug area any country in the european union and you will go straight into the prison system and the legal system. and of course all this is going to be presided
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over by european public prosecutor europe paul which very insert interestingly in its charter has complete immunity for anything all its offices have completely munity for anything that they do or anything that i say in the course of their duties now even the n.k.v.d. in stalin's terra didn't have that protection against against recourse if they did something wrong technically anyway but this is what we're lining up for us elves and we are destroying our own legal system and you know you kipps party spokesman on immigration what's your view on a cap on emigration it's nikkei immigration into our country has been out of control for a very long time now purely on on the numbers basis we are one of the most about the most densely populated country in europe we are one of the most densely. populated countries in the world if you actually look on a league table and here our population is set to grow from sixty two million currently up to seventy million within the next twenty odd years and there after up
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to eighty eighty five million exponentially it is absolutely absurd to have effectively unlimited uncontrolled immigration into this country we have anyway from within the european union where we can't stop people coming we wanted to and we don't really control it from outside either a recent report has shown that with a cap on immigration british companies might find themselves sort of workers particularly as some immigrant workers are more highly skilled than that but his counterparts what do you say to that oh yes i mean i know quite a lot of foreign people especially me come to work in the harley qualify the got a great work ethic they're lovely people but if you look at the number of jobs created in the economy ninety eight percent of the jobs created since labor came to power in ninety seven up until last year went to migrant labor now how does it benefit your economy so you drive wages down for indigenous people you poor housing prices up toby what is actually worse off in the long and of course big business
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loves. immigration because they get cheap labor that's what they want what we would introduce would be. very very limited immigration for permanent settlement and i've suggested a figure of no more than fifty thousand a year and even that could be revised down but people could still still come to work on a job permit basis for one to three years if we can't fill that post with an indigenous work and at the end of that process if the person wanted to become a british citizen why would have a right to apply for citizenship on the very on the you know the annual limit that would allow him for that purpose thank you very much.
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her. mother took. her courage on her because. this history still keeps its secrets but now it's time to move feel that the soviet silence me keaton seems to off the pitch black night on oxy.
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wealthy british style stock. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. a deadly exum disease hits with nearly two hundred people have been infected with the west nile virus the mosquito borne diseases spreading across the region in the wake of the sun was breaking from way.

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