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the red cross calls for and gave the ceasefire in syria to give doctors time to evacuate the injured and bring in medicine with russia having its boy. torture training human rights groups find the u.s. kept sending afghan detainees to prisons where evidence of torture had been discovered. and being out on the streets left them out of jobs u.k. construction workers demand justice as they find out police supply information about lead to them on a legal black list. ten
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am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story with more reports of violence in syria the red cross is calling for a daily cease fire in the country with moscow throwing its weight behind the initiative the two hour truce is needed to evacuate the wounded and allow in food and medicine u.n. teams currently in the country for a government led humanitarian mission and they're attempting to launch a monitoring operation to help end the crisis the recent spate of violence across syrian cities has made the regime point their fingers at saudi arabia and qatar say the arab states were involved in terror attacks the gulf nations have been accused by the assad regime of arming those behind the deadly attacks journalist michael hughes things to mask as has grounds for its accusations. so that is certain angele arriving it from battle between sunni and shiite dominance in the region there's actually more lucrative proxy war going on between saudi and
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iran and i don't know what hard evidence he has but it's not unreasonable to think that based on the nature of your pack. and the fact that it's coming closer to damascus in the embassies it's ok to which is unlike what the opposition has done so and u.s. intelligence feels the attack there the hallmark of. so there are some reasonable doubt. opposition leaders admit they're getting weapons from some foreign states dr bashar jafari syria's ambassador to the un says western and arab nations that are backing the rebels could be trying to capitalize on his country's crisis. those who fight for justice purity justice should engage and the government's called for measure that includes the. time the government is really serious and committed to making the includes the sea of the political process a successful one the opposition is not independent it's making decision they cannot
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think this is a good thing to greenlight from washington ok so we're hopeful to order to these capitals western countries those. who could be at the deviation they found what they were looking for in the it's collision of the situation in syria it's about the people prison it's about the standard suppose they are not serious about making any assistance to the sea of people they are harming the syrian national political aims by using these planes against the will of the seat of the. political you a syrian ambassador bashar jafari in about twenty minutes here on our team. the u.s. has continued sending afghan detainees to facilities where prisoners had previously been tortured despite banning such transfers last july the report comes from the afghan human rights commission assisted by international open society groups
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evidence of new torture has already been uncovered as are he's got a chicky on reports from washington. every year international 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 a new york based open society foundations were feels that what awaits the detainees after being transferred is often torture and denial of due process the report 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 to in that report beatings suspension from the ceiling electric shocks threaten or actual sexual abuse and other forms of mental and physical abuse which are routinely used to obtain confessions or other information that 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.
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forces is just to hand over those detainees put three years america's own network of secret prisons in afghanistan as provided ample material for various reports rampant torture and all 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 amir to the afghan government though these were courts come out about what happens to the detainees after they're handed handed over by american forces to 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 a van is spent on a regular basis the american soldier who apparently killed sixteen innocent civilians the groaning of the holy muslim books of u.s.
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marine you're an aging on dead afghans and more broadly a surge of violence there rampant opium production which terrorists. around the globe. yes journalists to focus on pop them split in afghanistan it seems there are more problems than time to report. human rights activists have also slammed nato for its campaign in libya as we reported a few minutes the alliance is under fire from the activists saying it failed to investigate more often see civilian deaths in libya last year. and well like the webcams may have uncovered more than intended to be dio's of given to russian authorities and new ideas of how to use the pricey project for what they say is the good of the people stay with us. these are the images seen from the streets of kandahar. showing hope for asians to rule the day.
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iran says will retaliate for being cut off by swift the global bank payment network it says it may block a vital route to the persian gulf is as fresh reports suggest the u.s. and israeli intelligence agree that tara is not developing nuclear weapons but a political analyst and historian peter rushton thinks this is unlikely to ease pressure on the islamic state. what we're seeing at the moment has been is the culmination of a long term effort by iran's own is to force the iranian government into a corner to force them into a position where they're left with an invidious choice between on the one who having to steer a course between 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 are having
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their reports having burwood abused 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 slant or to spin to use the term that's become used recently just spin intelligence in a direction that forces people on the path to war we saw it in iraq where they were they were there were absolutely disastrous consequences from intelligence the intelligence process being abused and i think we're seeing it now here in iran. u.k. construction workers are calling for justice after some of them discovered campaigning for a safer jobs had landed them on a secret blacklist investigation found some of the information used to identify so-called troublemakers also came from police archy's laura smith. banned from working for speaking the truth these trade unionists and whistleblowers all
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fighting back after years of wondering why they couldn't get a job these skilled engineers now know their names were on an illegal blacklists. in two thousand and four form a union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously sucked and for the next four years he wondered why he couldn't get another full time job then a friend told him about it 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 and kill or perth's. political party political activists where for three or four part it was printed. and they were the employers were distributing this amongst themselves with this practice the organization. basically normally would offer people from employment much of the
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information in hadley style is clips probably left wing newspapers and the union magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police i was and their names as participants on another fascist demonstration know this information doesn't come from their employers could only have come from a place i mean we don't agree with the employers keep a blacklist it's no legal thing. mention when the security forces are kitman for business that it almost marks of a place that working on a building sites one. the most dangerous jobs in the u.k. . there were fifteen deaths in the construction industry many of the band's workers say the reason they're on the blacklist is because they blew the whistle on poor health and safety standards so hard they say construction companies make to increase profit filed held by the now shut down consulting association so the
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police are complicit in companies exploiting workers and destroying anyone who stands up to dave smith from the blacklist support group believes collusion construct the very top of the force it's not. you know. who's just found out and passed on misinformation because why would anyone. such a thing as a consultant association even existed i believe it's the most senior levels in place colluding with the directors of more national companies. because. because we raise concerns she's an open society because again our politics blacklisting devastates the noise of its victims highly qualified people unable to use their skills steve hadley is marriage breakdown. got a family to support when i was contract you know for me because it was.
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a choice and you're probably from away from your relationships and. you can't pay your bills anymore the company that held headley speil has now been closed down but he and his colleagues believe there are more blackness that happen yet carpets basi they'll fight until they know the extensive state security involvement in their persecution yours smith. can visit our home page or to dot com for more news and videos there also is our live here as well. a click away right now. three inferno after a football fans clash with police and even torch part of a stadium. and anonymous hacktivists strike again this time the website of a russian t.v. travel that broadcast a film claiming opposition protests were funded probe rawdon get the full story at r.t. dot com. with
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the core war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons this appeared to be the risk is not zero that something might be going off by this to be exposed to a lot of sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of a good friend who was in a desert through it all as an extra. you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this second sound is the equivalence of fire power the world's nuclear arsenal
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today. brighton if you live from studio.
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starts on t.v. don't come. by staying with us here on r t quarter past the hour here in moscow human rights groups say nato has failed to investigate civilian deaths caused by its air strikes on libya last year are calling on the alliance to address the incidents and also provide compensation nato says it carried out it strikes without most care any president parties falsely or has been. and the city international says that nato knives are properly investigated nor provided compensation for the civilian casualties that have could during its seven month operation i've been a statement amnesty international said that nato has made a lot of noise around protecting civilians and as such it could not merely russia sides its responsibility with vague statements of of great over civilian deaths
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from the beginning of the nato operation russia was very critical and its civic nature when went beyond its mandate of merely protecting civilians and hearing from amnesty international they know of fifty five civilian cases that include sixteen children and fourteen women nasa viber 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 they're a mission and their mandate in libya is over policy r.t.e. television and how we're activists david swanson things bombing campaigns for humanitarian reasons don't pay our. a war launched on the basis of a un resolution that did not authorize machine change but it was used for regime change so that we now have a humanitarian warriors pushing her war in syria and elsewhere arguing that the un
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got nato into libya for regime change when it did no such thing we have new b.s. held up now along with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war and no explanation of the number of lives sealed by nato and by the us in the process the lawlessness of the war the lawlessness of murdering the the ruler of the country and the chance that resulted so that there is no expectation in the forseeable future of a stable democracy with protection for human rights in libya as might have been predicted from the fact that we never achieve such a thing with our bombs before figured out some other stories making headlines across the globe french police say a guy in a deadly attack on a jewish school and to lose was the same that was fired in last week's killing of
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three soldiers of north african descent a massive manhunt now underway for the killer who shot dead a teacher his two young sons and a schoolgirl or a teenage boy was left seriously wounded or french schools will observe a minute of silence tuesday morning while guards are posted outside religious schools and buildings. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says north korea has invited it to resume monitoring parts of its controversial nuclear program the move comes amid rising tension after pyongyang announced it was planning to test a rocket by launching a satellite north korea agreed to suspend enriching uranium and missile tests last month in return for food aid from the u.s. . heavy rains in southern peru of lead to massive landslides threatening local households and dozens of homes already destroyed by the mud flows and farmers say they have suffered serious losses to no casualties yet reported but authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season started in
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january. election webcam secured not only transparency during russia's presidential voting but also provided people with hours of entertainment now authorities are left deciding what to do with a billion dollar project and how they could give it a second life or he's a kinder groucho but checks out how would zach lead big brother could be if you. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya 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 morny tour any possible fruit but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the ins taman provided some have already dubbed the election the most expensive live show in russia's history the system cost almost a billion dollars. we've brought the most advanced software to the most remote
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regions of russia if not for the elections it could take another five to ten years from now we can do video conferences scholars can be lectured by the best professors from russia and abroad. 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 or one of those carriage should be installed in the head of official state by corruption a monitor that everybody. should do the same the center for a few players where they can't even keep the ball in the back of the net for seven years. and while russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to mourn it or and control not entertain the all seeing eye of the outcome will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are so where critics of argued for a while need to come under greater scrutiny but equally up to several people
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digress and probably injuries received while in preliminary. the interior ministry is investigating a police station in cars and 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 training where you're proposing just remove cameras from police stations should be installed in. the route to the policeman on duty and in the rooms where suspects are questioned it would not violate the rights of those between does live would be hauled to see. between 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 logging for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v.
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watching it's crucial for us all children during all types of exams on equal terms that they do their tests without help of our that they don't use the internet otherwise those who don't cheat have a worse chance to get into a good university that there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair competition that there had been no proof now that there will be. a war with so many ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best brought you to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big brother looks set to stay through the grandchildren our t.v. scale. computer israel says it will start rewarding shareholders with a dividend and the buying back some of it started the same time the cells of the new i pad tablet have hit record levels in a financial year max keiser speculates on the future of me or. people america the
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one. compares the other group of buyers. there is a lot of similarity here it depends on how you view the future on folding either it's a. goal larger goal nirvana where the more computer power you have in your hand the more processing speed and pixels you have in your hand the more power you have or it's a dystopian nightmare of food and energy shortages where the more a magnet for the more bullets the more gone strength you have the bigger the loss. the better but i don't see these two coexisting it's either going to be one or the other. because a report coming up in an hour here on our team will start to check in with the
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latest financial goings on of the business world katie joining us with all of the market updates katie yeah that's right well there are some markets now i cannot see not and it's a positive takeoff full of them but at this hour watch after seeing significant losses on monday well as well as losses as we can see that. this is a light we'll see watching them all day long seeing how they get. china's open stage a council for a public holiday in china stocks are pulling for the first time in the retirees after the government raised fuel prices by the most aid to the years although if you felt that a significant boost by this of profits to say ten companies drops in the first two months of the year if we look at full price is that now we'll be able to see that they happen to look slightly down in the u.s. there's been some to my stick concern its national concerns have been causing the
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sponsor a slate but right now putting severe pharma administration there saying that i do refineries in the u.s. could really affect. the shortages and the therefore the prices of course that's a concern at the moment if you look out the us a finished up yesterday because it was a disappointing day after all it was disappointed so it was very good indeed actually to do that now because of course going to talk about apple that was a top story yesterday people still excited about it i can also tell you that ten year treasuries also extended their longest slumps is two thousand and six and that's because sensibility in the u.s. economy is strengthening so to clarify it's a good day yesterday let's get on to the current says we can see the euro is now losing against the dollar that we've got mixed sentiment from the ruble which is now open for business now gold is an interesting stock for today precious metals are under pressure themselves and this is
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a strike by jewelers in india india is the biggest consumer of gold we know that i love it another country is reporting they made by thirty five percent less gold this year and that's because of an increase in import tax so that's affecting the prices right now as you can see silva's not doing too well a top post gold russia's top gold miner has suspended plans to join the c one hundred index the decision comes after delays of receiving approval from russia's foreign investment commission the company had planned to list seven and a half percent stake in england raising a potential seven hundred million dollars. ok talking of russian stocks we can have the figures for you in fifty five minutes time to come back join me for that.
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