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russia echoes the red cross call for a daily ceasefire in syria to give doctors time to evaluate the injured and bring in medicine. torture train human rights groups find the u.s. sending out again detainees to prisons where rampant torture reign. being out on the streets left them out of jobs u.k. construction workers demand justice as they find out police supplied information that led them on an illegal blacklist.
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a.t.m. in moscow and match reza good to have you with us here on our team our top story moscow has called us to join the red cross call for a daily cease fire in syria it's easy to evacuate the wounded and allow in food and medicine u.n. teams currently in the country for a government alleged humanitarian mission and they're attempting to launch a monitoring operation to help end the crisis the recent spate of violence in syrian cities has made the regime point the finger at saudi arabia and qatar saying the arab states were involved in the terrible last gulf nations have been accused by assad's regime of arming those behind the deadly attacks journalist michael hughes thinks damascus has grounds for the accusations. so that it's probably certain angele arriving from battle between sunni and shiite dominance in the region there's actually more killed in a proxy war going on between saudi and iran and i don't know what hard evidence they have but it's not unreasonable to think that based on the nature of the attack
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. and the fact that it's coming closer to damascus in the embassies it hated which is unlike what the opposition is today so u.s. intelligence feels the attack bear the hallmarks. so there is some reasonable doubt . position leaders admit they're getting weapons from some foreign countries bashar jaafari syria's ambassador to the un says western and arab nations backing rebels are trying to capitalize on the country's crisis. for justice purity justice should engage in the government's court for measure that includes the diet and the government is really serious and committed to making the includes the sea of the inlet political process a successful one and the opposition is not independent it's making decision they cannot think this is it without getting the green light from washington or cohesive group no political risk to these capitals with them computers. could be
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a deviation they found what they were looking for in the ice is collision of the students it's about the people please it's about the standard school and the i'm a serious about making any assistance to the syrian people the heart of the syrian national political aims by using these claims against the will of the sea of people . the full interview with bashar jaafari syria's ambassador to the u.n. coming your way in a little more than twenty minutes. the u.s. has continued sending afghan detainees to facilities where prisoners had previously been tortured despite banning such transfers last july their port comes from the afghan human rights commission assisted by international or open society groups evidence of new torture has already been uncovered as are he's got
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a chick ya know reports. every year or national forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and the new york based open society foundations were deals that what awaits the detainees after being transferred is often torture and denial of due process the record refers to very specific cases and testimonies and basically asks whether the u.s. is complicit in torture there we're talking about some gruesome reports of abuse detail in that report beatings suspension from the ceiling electric shocks of threatened or actual sexual abuse and other forms of mental and physical abuse which are routinely used to obtain confessions or other information the research primarily focuses on the afghan intelligence agency does business and i think it says that the u.s. business of the u.s. forces is just to hand over those detainees but three years america's own network of secret prisons in afghanistan as provided ample material for various reports
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rampant torture and no lawful practices have been reported at so-called black site interrogation centers by the way the u.s. government has admitted the existence of those secret centers but the admission the confirmation came after many years of denials so now as the u.s. is in the process of handing over its presence including the infamous prison on blogger mayer to the afghan government though these reports come out about what happens to the detainees after their hand handed over by american forces for their afghan colleagues this pullout operation is becoming increasingly challenging for the united states at times plain embarrassing because of the bad news coming from afghanistan on a regular basis the american soldier who apparently killed sixteen innocent civilians the burning of the holy muslim books of u.s. marine you're an aging on dead afghans and more broadly this surge of violence there rampant opium production which terrorists around the globe feed off yes
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journalists to focus on problems in a van is that it seems there are more problems than time to report. stay with us here on r.t. still to come the scars of war or a poor by human rights activists says nato failed to investigate or compensate for civilian deaths it caused in libya last year. and well like in web cams may have uncovered more than intended the videos have given to russian authorities an idea of how they use the phrase you project for the good of the people. iran is once again warned it may block are by the oil route to the persian gulf it's threatening to retaliate for being cut off from swift a global bank payment network meanwhile fresh reports suggest the u.s. and israeli intelligence agree that tehran is not developing nuclear weapons but political analyst and historian peter rushton says that's unlikely to ease pressure on the islamic state what we're seeing that the moment has being the is the
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culmination of a long term a third ploy ron zonen is to force the iranian government into a corner to force them into a position where they're left with an invidious troops between normal having to steer a course on the one hand seeming to be bullied and giving in and appearing weak and on the other hand alone themselves to be provoked and allowing themselves to be forced into a confrontational position diplomatic and intelligence professionals things their reports having for would abuse for political and or geological reasons there's a political ideological agenda in washington and tel aviv to an extent here in london as well to willfully misinterpret intelligence to slum to just spin to use the term that's become used recently to spin intelligence in a direction that forces people on the path to war we saw it in iraq whether they
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were absolutely disastrous consequences from intelligence the intelligence process being abused and i think we're seeing it now here in iran. human rights groups say nato was failed to investigate civilian deaths caused by its airstrikes in libya last year they're calling on the alliance to address the incidents and pay compensation they go says are carried out the strikes with the most care and precision as more nato began its operation in libya on the thirty first of march last year and ended in late october and the goal of that operation was to provide protection to the civilian population against the forces of the four million leader moammar gadhafi but instead scores of people who were unrelated to the fighting were either killed or injured during the nato bombings of the various libyan cities and this international says that nato neither properly investigated nor provided compensation for the civilian casualties that it could during its seven month
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operation and in a statement amnesty international said that nato has made a lot of noise around protecting civilians and as such it could not merely brush aside its responsibility with vague statements of great over civilian deaths from the beginning of the nato operation russia was very critical and it said that nato when went beyond its mandate merely protecting civilians and hearing from amnesty international they know of fifty five civilian cases that include sixteen children and fourteen women now survivors and victims' relatives say that they have never been contacted by nato for the side of the story or for any kind of compensation nato has responded by saying that they deeply regret this but that they mission and the mandate in libya is over policy r.t.e. television. or war i could as david swanson brings bombing campaigns for
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humanitarian reasons never. a war launched on the basis of a un resolution that did not authorize regime change but it was used for regime change so that we now have a humanitarian warriors pushing for war in syria and elsewhere arguing that the un nato into libya for regime change when it did no such thing we have an india held up now along with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war ends with no explanation of the number of lives killed by nato and by the us in the process the lawlessness of the war the lawlessness of murdering the the ruler of a country and the chaos that resulted so that there is no expectation in the first or future of a stable democracy with protection for human rights in libya as might have been
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identify so-called troublemakers came from police archy's or smith as more. for more king for speaking the truth that these trade unionists and whistle blowers all fighting back after years of wondering why they couldn't get a job these skills engine is now know their names were on an illegal luckily. in two thousand and four form a union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously sacked and for the next four years he wondered why he couldn't get another full time job then a friends told him about so blacklist held by a private company and accessed by some of the u.k.'s biggest construction firms sure enough he uncovered a sixteen page file on himself the cause and the details are probably it's hard i was robbed by political of my political activists were right through agencies were
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part i was pretty unique and they were they the employers were distributing this amongst themselves as blacklist an organization. basically part of not only labor over people from employment much of you have. nation hedley style is clipped to a newspapers and you need magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police are was and their name. demonstration this information has uncovered could only have come from a place i mean we don't agree with blacklist it's an illegal. mention. forces. of the knesset it almost marks of a place that's working on a building sites one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.k. last year there were fifteen deaths in the construction industry many of the bands work say the reason they're on the blacklist is because they blew the whistle on
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poor health and safety standards so they say construction companies make to increase profit filed held by the now shut down consulting association should the police are complicit in companies exploiting workers and destroying anyone who stands up to the thieves smith from the blacklist support group believes collusion comes from the very top of the force it's not. you know. we just happen to have found and passed on this information because why would any on the base such a thing as a consultant association even existed i believe it's the most senior level. employees collude with the directors of no national companies against people that i don't like because. it is because we raise concerns. and because of politics blacklisting devastates the lawyers the bits of victims highly qualified
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people unable to use their skills steve had lee's marriage breakdown. for america support. when i was contracted for part of the. because it was highly qualified. when all government stopped you can imagine it's a choice and jeopardy had put your farm i phones are pretty your relationships and . you can pay of those anymore the company that held headley style has now been closed down but he and his colleagues believe their own blackness to happen yet they don't cut it they say they'll fight until they know the extensive state security involvement in that prosecution notice makes policy. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe french police say the gun used in a deadly attack on a jewish school in blues with the same fired in last week's killing of three soldiers of north african descent a massive manhunt now underway for the killer who shot dead
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a teacher and his two young sons and a school girl while the teenage boy was seriously wounded all from schools will observe a minute of silence tuesday morning while guards are being posted outside religious schools and buildings. u.n. nuclear watchdog says north korea has invited to resume monitoring parts of its controversial nuclear program the move comes amid escalating tension after pyongyang announced it was playing to test a rocket by launching a satellite north korea agreed to suspending enriching uranium a missile test rocks a month in return for today that from the u.s. . heavy rainfalls in southern peru led to a massive landslide threatening local homes dozens of houses have already been destroyed by mud flows and farmers say they have suffered serious losses no casualties yet reported but authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season began j. . election webcams secured not only transparency to russia's presidential vote but
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they also provided people with hours of entertainment now the authorities have decided to give the billion dollar project a second life archy's a carrot to go travel looks at how exactly big brother could use. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations to money tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the name and provide it some have already doubts the election the most expensive live show in russia's history the system cost almost a billion dollars. the most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia if not for the elections could take another five to ten years now we can do video
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conferences scholars can be lectured by the best professors from russia and it ruled. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras popular russian comedians came up with some more what should be installed in the house of the official stop by corruption monitor their every move . to do the scene with some of her from pool players where they can even put the ball in the back of the net for seven meters. and one russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to monitor and control not entertain the all seeing eye of the webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere critics have argued for a while need to come under greater scrutiny but equally after several people do. chris and kate probably received while in preliminary. the interior ministry
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is investigating a police station in cars zein after a man died from serious injuries sustained in custody a string of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too much money train and we're proposing to just remove cameras from polling to police stations who should be installed in preliminary cause of the skills the route to the policeman on duty and. questioned it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faces would be hauled to see. themselves for police abuse. meanwhile parents want to protect their children from another type of abuse corruption in schools with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june they are lobbying for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for us that all children during all types of exams on equal terms that they do their tests without help or that they don't use the internet means
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otherwise those who don't yet have a worse chance to get into a good university there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair competition that there had been no proof now there will be. a war with so many ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best project to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say big people's big brother looks set to stay fifty two grandchildren r t more scope for computer giant apple went out as it will start rewarding shareholders with a dividend and buying back some shares of a same time this is sales of the new i pad tablet have hit record levels our financial guru max kaiser speculates on the future of. people in america. one group. example computers the other group is guns. but
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there's a lot of similarity here it depends on how you view the future unfolding either it's a technique a logical nirvana where the more computer power you have a hand the more processing speed and pixels you have in your hand the more power you have war it's a dystopian nightmare of food and energy shortages where the more magnum the more bullets the more gun strength you have the bigger the lock in your hand the better but i don't see these two co-existing it's either going to be one or the other. i know a few people who own apples and guns but because a report coming up broke today here on r t so check it out. trying to track the latest business news katie joining us now with all the latest from the business of
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how those markets looking right now well it's just a mixed picture actually mother all over the place i'm going to get started with because they're up for business today they are indeed and having said that let me carry it they are closed for a holiday so much fun i'm talking about china in particular and there's a lot of sentiments coming out of this region today and the big the big news is the central bank is to work towards interest rates to liberalize and we know that china is always increasing their interest rates to deal with that inflation right now to save announces the bank of china. crisis parma to buy out for percent so investors ought to impress are a little bit on guard and a little bit concerned now china has got a lot to do with oil prices at the moment as well because their government has increased gasoline and diesel prices for the second time in six weeks after crews have hit is biggest monthly gain in a year although interestingly energy firms didn't benefit from the increase in
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price if we look at the prices now we can see for this hour they've actually dropped slightly and that's because u.s. in eventually is has risen to the highest level in six months as imports from canada increase if you look at the u.s. markets we'll see how they closed up yesterday and i know you were talking about apple macs and dividends and buybacks and that's for the first time since nine hundred ninety five of the cars report we tell you about that later also other sentiments from the region ten year treasuries extended the longest love to see two thousand and six as investors bet the economy will continue to with the strength that if we look at the currency raise for this hour we can see this is how the ruble finished up yesterday so the ruble will stronger against the u.s. dollar and the year right the euro is now losing against the dollar after three days. it was higher actually the russian markets managed to finish in the red just about out by all accounts it was the day of trading for the russian markets not
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closing up just under two hours time she now in the ten o'clock hour. see how they saturday if we look at the individual did you see that spat. percent had denied rumors over conversation it's a pro audio russo. vote was expected and net profit for last year i come on this was a top performer on the my site so i was off to the. same at the bottom of the ten percent. in the russian make up if we get into gold this is an interesting one because it continues to decline as a strength now this concerns in india there's been strikes by the jewelers and we know that. gold they can see a lot of a we're talking about of the percentage of. gold consumption a lot like also not as much as i can see so about that. now in.
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gold rushes hope top gold mine suspends it pounds join the footsie one hundred index the decision comes to lazy receiving approval from russia's foreign investment. the company have planted this seven zero zero if they kidnapped raising a potential seven hundred million dollars. serious money i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with another business update.
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