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peace draft under for moscow holds back a western push to amend its un roadmap on solving the syrian crisis which calls on all sides of the conflict to lay down arms. oil town kills ten in kazakhstan troops move in a striking workers disrupt independence day celebrations. plus a u.s. court rules iran played a role in the nine eleven attacks into fears of a mounting campaign against islamic state and a possible pretext to war. where you're watching r t twenty four hour news and much more welcome to the program. is
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defending its draft u.n. resolution on syria the u.s. and its allies want the text changed but moscow is confident its strong up of balanced approach to solving the crisis the draft condemns all sides in ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions the u.s. wants the blame for the bloodshed put on the mask it also went at knowledge that the opposition is armed despite of the engine of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime more than five thousand civilians are thought to have been killed in syria since march asia times economist thinks the west is looking to soften up the country before making its move. what's interesting is what the u.s. and nato countries consider and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they are getting weapons smuggled from the middle east to the borders in turkey any in
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jordan as well this has been already proved then about the un figures about a lot of people are seriously questioned this number saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost no one hundred that the effect so there is the father of three war is already dead so the russian move is an intelligent move because it is a preemptive i would say resolution it condemns both sides and asks for a u.n. peacekeeping mission in fact to solve the problem what nato wants is simmering civil war let's put it this way as a friend you for something much tougher had probably after the american people actually in one year. while the syrian opposition self-titled political leaders are holding their first congress in tunisia arab spring revolutions began a year ago is being seen as an attempt to rally support among arab countries to
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museums and union activists pressed into the conference eighth inning the country doesn't recognize the syrian national council but is sympathetic suppressed this real to me is this street protests which saw the regime toppled and elections held a summit there's little to show for the effort as a win for the scruples. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public ferry over corruption and poverty which led to the syrian president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. today a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. are vast for a very few things to upgrade the school to meet families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't got money thing those
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who came from abroad and reaped all the benefits their role in the new government but the simple folk are left with nothing. but the tunisian revolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater presentation but the voice of news according to some has been silenced. the new government is comprised of the elderly that shows what kind of new tunisia we're talking about the main problem is the political parties which haven't given a chance to the young people who gave their lives in blood for the revolution and the western media has hailed that there is an evolution as the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the history of the country or the african region here has passed and people who live here is the very few of the soldiers they have asked for absolutely can place they are going to loudly of everything as soon as it used to be the elections have come and gone and the town has a generous unemployment is still the same if not worse with the only things that
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changed you can now express our opinion but their relations main goals haven't been accomplished if that were the fervor which sparked a revolution maybe only a slow burn for no one but if the grievances which is parted for mean so with the people's inspiration all together it goes carty city was it tunisia. well coming out the military vengeance against a soldier's verges suspect bradley manning gets to a military hearing with a supporter saying that deadly day to hit the edge of the field should see him decorated instead of disciplined. deadly unrest in kazakhstan has left at least ten people dead in a western oil town clashes broke out when independence day celebrations turned violent the police reportedly firing live rounds at the crowd tom barton is the latest. the trouble seemed to start ahead of preparations for the country's independence day celebrations kazakhstan left the soviet union twenty years ago
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today a crowd had gathered in the central square where a stage of being set up but this crowd contains a lot of people who have been there for a long time since the summer in fact a crowd of oil workers striking and protesting when hundreds of their number were fired from a an oil company then for demanding higher wages police moved in to try and clear the central square and then what happened has been debated and witnesses and protests to say that the police opened fire on the crowd the police say that the crowd attacked them and that they were forced to respond by opening fire buildings were set on fire including the mayor's office and a hotel in the central square the prosecutor general of the country says that the trouble was caused by criminal actions as he puts it that there will be an
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investigation launched to find those responsible. and of course we'll be keeping across events in kazakhstan and bring you the latest teradata as we get it. coming up we focus on turning teens away from deadly trouble in the rest of the caucuses are inductors stunned to discover what's being done to help young people turn their backs on militant brainwashing. a new york court has ruled that iran provided material support to the plotters and hijackers in the nine eleven terror attacks the charges were brought by some of the victims' families but the lawsuit was settled by default because the accused which included leaders were not in court ron has been ordered to pay damages with quite how they're going to be collected is unclear tehran has always denied any connection to al qaeda training an american activist the. the case is made campaign the buildup to war. i don't see any evidence that is particularly
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compelling that iran had a direct role in nine eleven i know that we have seen. in washington there's been a campaign in new york to link iran very publicly to nine eleven on the anniversary of those attacks earlier this year there was a billboard campaign in times square with god's face and something along the lines of you know the silent partner of al qaeda. there's clearly a campaign right now to try to ratchet up the pressure for yet another u.s. attack on a middle eastern country and i just think this is so dangerous if you go back to when those attacks happened immediately afterward iran condemned the attacks that were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of top raud in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. and cooperating with the united states in
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helping topple the taliban who. is the enemy of iran as was osama bin laden what we're seeing now is this strange self-fulfilling prophecy process and i'm worried that this is exactly what we saw with iraq this is this is a campaign to go to war. no more world news now and the regime anger has boiled over in the egyptian capital clashes between the military and civilian demonstrators that left at least three people dead and two hundred wounded south the troops moved into the space of three weeks sit in protest amman an urgent end to military coup despite the second stage of the phased election process being under way under grew when it was rumored the said savagely beaten peaceful campaign . machine gun fire on the gaza israel border has left one man dead and two other people wounded israeli military said troops opened fire after hearing about explosion but it has not been confirmed that man was killed by military bullets
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becomes just a week after israel strikes on gaza killing five and injuring dozens more. sanctions had been lifted against libya's banks to try and lessen the country's tash crisis u.n. security council was followed by america removing most of its restrictions against tripoli they were imposed on the gadhafi regime in february at the start of the uprising when thirty thousand people dealt a blow to the fuse economy and it's part of the oil industry. but libya's civil war ended almost two months ago after shocks to resonate nationwide as all of the reports online paid ones on whether market daffy's killing was a war crime in the speculation over who could be held accountable. also on the website of the world trade organization construction we explore what that might mean at home and abroad provide more authority dot com.
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don't you feel like a. human treatment. military
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haring off the suspect has opened with bradley manning's noised officer seeing his case steps aside they claim his other role investigating websites found. makes him biased running is accused of releasing secret but a tree in diplomatic data to wiki leaks and made his first public appearance since being detained for you know. all the private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually past two weeks and the aiding the enemy could face life in prison if convicted but antiwar activist brian becker says simply hearing from his second farces and revealing the truth. i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand in it is obviously willing to pay
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a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged and. when next we head to one of russia's most unstable regions and the battle to
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stop the young falling prey to terrorists. target star appears in russia's headlines almost every day with reports of exchanges of foreign explosions eighty percent of all anti terror operations in russia carried out in the troubled republic medina questionable reports efforts are also being made to wipe out radicalism and its roots. the caucasian republic of dagestan in russia is one of the most volatile areas in the country groups of militants operating in this part of the caucasus are reported to have strong links with al qaida or look to draw people in when they're young and to tell rays are constantly carried out in a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and
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government officials tourism has often go into the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also affected peace their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day would speak. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a called mr winter morning in the speed line a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts to ring right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organization created four years ago and now known across the region to d.c. to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children will sit on the brings food clothes and talks to her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that
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they have not been forgotten here probably should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago with lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and lost valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. if i knew then what i know today my rights the right people i could have saved him i could have found out where he was going to have done something. as you said lois son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still doesn't know these accusations are common in this region young and immature people often become the victims of terrorist brainwashing high unemployment also boast this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial or social prospects and c going
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into the forest at use them as room for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mariam and it cost her her life she had a difficult childhood was raised without a father and her mother couldn't provide for the family her mother honeymoon remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that. at first i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real nuisance and we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened shown listened to her new friends who were. her new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these doubly skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region literacy led by
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dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of pakistan have become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning. to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from an dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago their wife in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe it. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again
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every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question r.t. close up in the republic pakistan. has been an insurgent attack against a police station in the afghan capital their once been hurt but it's the latest in a string of assaults which the taliban has been mounting across the country recent months says it's confident it's making progress in the war zones which a contributor thinks they need a reality check. the pentagon chief addressing the u.s. forces at the forward operating base sharyn are impacting your province afghanistan made a very unusual statement he opened up claiming that they were asses winning in afghanistan and here wrapped up his short address by admitting that we have not won in this conflict the only panetta has managed to make a very big time disservice to the u.s.
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commander in chief effectively distracting and postponing their realistic risk assessment of the situation only the ground in afghanistan and across the border until the white house we'll take your reality check despite a no due to the false assessment coming from their former cia and current pentagon chief their white house after going to him will be doomed to do more of the same expecting some dramatic unrealistic results to the detriment of the u.s. image being paid by the us military blood and the us taxpayers money. the internets was built on a backbone of freedom for all who use it but on all aimed at curbing online piracy being debated by us congress is being seen as a smokescreen to stifle free speech weapons program at schwartz says it has little
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to do with copyright protection. the government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial to find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement that turn out to be licensed in one way or another part of this is a larger crackdown on freedom of speech there's pretty much no other law that would give the government the power to censor the internet that wouldn't be laughed out of congress you know if you said the government needed to censor the internet to protect national security it would be widely seen in america is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale but by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with a whole range of other things one of the interesting provisions in this law is it doesn't just shut down websites it also increases the penalties for people caught in gauging and copyright infringement so for example if you make a video on you tube of yourself singing and copyrighted song this bill would increase the penalty to that to ten years in jail so there's all sorts of people
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who do these things that would just be considered part of natural life as a teenager that now are facing huge felony charges as a result of this law or a freedom of speech means having to be more savvy when it comes to filtering the facts in mainstream news not harshness now here's from people in new york about whether they're tired of being could. are you sick of the media being biased this week let's talk about that do you feel like the media's biased sure they are just going to pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one are wrong i know. you're going to listen to them all or make up your own mark when do you case a political party is the government is in power but i can't. see things on the media i absolutely do think it's important for the noose a try to be on bias but unfortunately everybody brings their own slant to their
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reporting i don't think it's avoidable even though it's desirable obvious possible for anybody to be on bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because they're professionals who journalists job but they're still human. well they have a lot of stuff you either read or the news is untrue and a lot of it to a lot of it isn't that a shame that the news would be untrue. but the thing is it sells papers and it sells news and people watch it people watch the channels that bother you no not at all just the way they were. believe what you want to believe do you think it would help people be more informed if news organizations admitted their bias. i think sober people wouldn't believe them and then they'd turn whoever was biased anyway there's a lot of people that think the some channels are fair and balanced other channels aren't leaning in any direction well i mean i think we all know that's not true
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right we all this into the news every single day and we all hear the ridiculousness on both sides yeah but i think fox particularly will report both sides in both views and they have people of opposing views on very frequently so you don't think they're biased that i think they themselves they may be yes client but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good service to fox news they are they are but that's ok they should just admit it they do i think i think some know they're fair and balanced they say orders and each person can be these experts they come in every individual has his own personal bias you can't get away from that maybe instead of demanding our media be less biased we just start demanding they admit their bias and maybe bad at least be accountable for the opinions they report. but up ahead stacey take on time magazine's controversial choice for the person of
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