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the red cross hall is to be allowed to evacuate the wounded in syria and bring in medicine with moscow adding its voice for a daily ceasefire. handover of abuse human rights groups discovered the u.s. is still sending out detainees to prisons with torture records. and paying for justice with their jobs british construction workers demand their livelihoods back after fighting a police were involved in the lending them on an illegal blacklist. noon
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in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t with reports of more violence in syria the red cross is now calling for a daily cease fire in the country with moscow throwing its weight behind the move a two hour truce is needed to evacuate the injured and allow in food and medical aid to 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 for human rights watch has accused the syrian opposition of abuses including kidnapping detention and even torture of security force members a recent spate of violence in the syrian cities has made the regime point their finger at saudi arabia and qatar calling the arab states being involved in terrible lies journalist michael hughes says damascus has grounds for their accusations. i think some of it in our recent banter we are right in it. now which means sunni and shiite now i'm going to review and here's you know. fracking or the field or proxy
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war going on between saudi and iran and i don't know what hard evidence he has but it's not a reasonable bet based on the me to be a fact. and the fact that it's coming closer to the math isn't the embassy's. which is unlike what the opposition and. so us intelligence feels the attack bear the hallmark of. so there is some reasonable doubt. opposition leaders admit they're getting weapons from some foreign states dr bashar ger far east syria's ambassador to the u.n. says western nations and arab nations backing the rebels couldn't trying to capitalize on his country's crisis. the fight for justice purity justice should engage and the government scored for the nation and he was indicted and 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 decisions because i
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think this is it without getting the green light from washington or traceable to our culture or the saudi arabia because these. people need. to create a deviation they found what they were looking for in the it's collision of the situation in syria it's about the people because it's about double standards holders they are not serious or making any assistance to the syrian people or the art of harming the syrian national political aims by using these claims against the will of the seed of people. full interview with the sharjah authority serious of basser to the un in about twenty minutes with us. the u.s. has continued sending afghan detainees to facilities where prisoners had previously been tortured despite such batting such transfers last july their report comes from
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the afghan human rights commission assisted by international open society groups evidence of new torture already being 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 and a new york based open society foundations were built that 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 detailed 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 and the research primarily focuses on how the afghan intelligence agency does business and
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i think it says that the u.s. the business of the u.s. forces is just to hand over those detainees but for years america's old network of secret prisons in afghanistan has provided ample material for various reports rampant porcher and no lawful practices have been reported at so-called black side 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 mayor vase to the afghan government though these reports come out about what happens to the detainees after their hand 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 afghanistan on a regular basis the american soldier who apparently killed sixteen innocent
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civilians the burning of the holy muslim books u.s. marine you're an aging on dead afghans and more broadly the surge of violence there rampant opium production which terrorists around the globe feed off yes journalists to focus on palm's but in of ghana's that it seems there are more problems than time to report. so he's got a chicky on reporting there. iran says it will retaliate for being cut off i swear the global bank payments network it says it may block a vital oil route in the persian gulf is as fresh reports suggest u.s. and israeli intelligence agree tehran is not developing nuclear weapons but political analysts that a syrian peter rushton thinks that's unlikely to ease pressure on the islamic republic what we're seeing at the moment has been is the culmination of a long term effort by iran's owners to force the iranian government into a corner to force them into a position where they are loath with an invidious truce between on the one having
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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 provoke under allowing themselves to be forced into a confrontational position diplomatic and intelligence professionals are having 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 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 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. stay with us you're on our team here is lots to come in
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a few minutes nato under fire from activists who say it's failed to investigate or compensate civilian deaths in libya last year. and all lection web cams may have uncovered more than intended the videos give the russian authorities an idea of how to use the pricey project or what they claim is the good of the people. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. construction workers in the u.k. are demanding justice after some of them discovered campaigning for a safer jobs had land of them a spot on a secret block list investigation uncovered some of the information used to identify the so-called tribal nature makers actually came from police artie's laura smith reports. working for speaking the truth these trade unionists and
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whistle blowers are 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 sacked and for the next four years he wondered why he couldn't get another full time job then a friends told him about simplest held by a private company and accessed by some of the u.k.'s biggest construction sure enough he uncovered a sixteen page file on himself to cause him to get to our poets hi i was sorry what political political activists were three teenagers were apart it was clearly. they were they the employers were distributing this amongst themselves with this blacklist an organization. basically not only me but over
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a paper from employment much of the information in hadley style it's clear to a newspapers and union magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police i was in there named as a participant on an on the freshest demonstration know this information doesn't come from the employers could only have come from a place i mean we don't agree with employers keep a blacklist it's no legal thing but at home we don't mention when the state security forces ok before the knesset it almost makes a place that working. building sites one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.k. last year alone there were fifty tested the construction industry many of the banned 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
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so the police are complicit in companies exploiting workers and destroying anyone who stands up to the t.v. smith from the blacklist support group believes collusion comes from the very top of the force not. you know on the plane who is just happened to have found and passed on this information because why would. such a thing as a consultant association even exist and i believe it so the most senior levels complies with the directors of no national companies. because. because we raise concerns. and because of politics blacklisting devastates the lawyers to be its victims highly qualified people unable to use their skills steve hadley his marriage breakdown. of the work for me to support. when i was
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contracted for a. possible. start you can. make your relationships and your break. any more the company that held headley style has now been closed down but he and his colleagues believe there are more blacklists that haven't yet covered they say they'll fight until they know the extent of state security involvement in their persecution and or smith. visit our home page r.t. dot com for all the latest news videos and analysis here's what's a click away right now. inferno after enraged football fans clashed with police and torch a stadium. and anonymous hacktivist strike again this time at the website of a russian t.v. channel which broadcast a film claiming opposition protests are funded from abroad at the full story.
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with the end of the core war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared with the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of the victims who was in a daze it threw it all as an extra bit but 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 it people don't wake up to move through weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal
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today. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so horribly silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture please. please. well. technology innovations all the developments
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around russia we've got the future covered. quarter past the hour in moscow thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. human rights groups say nato has failed to investigate civilian deaths caused by its air strikes on libya while you're there calling on the alliance to address the incidents and also paid compensation nato says it carried out of strikes with the utmost care and pursued and arduous polls leader has more from television amnesty international says that nato knives are properly investigated nor provided compensation for the civilian casualties that it could during its seven month 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 of great over civilian deaths
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from the beginning of the nato operation russia was very critical and it's clear that nato when went beyond its mandate of merely protecting civilians and hearing from amnesty international they know of the fifty five civilian cases that include sixteen children and fourteen women not survivors and victims' relatives say that they have never been contacted by nato for base part of the story or for any kind of compensation nato has responded by saying that they deeply regret this but that the mission and the mandate in libya is over. there where i could as david swanson says bombing campaigns for humanitarian purposes 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 libya held up in our on with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war and no explanation of the the number of lives killed by nato and by the u.s. in the process the lawlessness of the war well lawlessness of murdering the the ruler of a country and the che os 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 could never achieve such a thing with our bombs before. stake a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a series of lives have rocked almost a dozen the iraqi cities killing thirty nine people and injuring more than one
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hundred a car bomb hit a crowded shopping restaurant area in karbala eighty kilometers south of baghdad other attacks in the capital and the northern city of kirkuk and two southern towns largely targeted police headquarters the violence comes a day after the mine kind of burst through of u.s. invasion of iraq and the head of the arab summit in the country. french police say the gun used in a deadly attack on a jewish school in toulouse was the same fired in last week's killing of three soldiers of north african descent a massive manhunt now under way for the killer he shot dead a teacher his two young sons and a school girl while a teenage boy was seriously injured while friends schools will observe a minute silence tuesday morning while guards are being posted outside religious schools and buildings. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says north korea invited it to resume monitoring parts of its controversial atomic program the move comes amid rising tensions after pyongyang announced it was planning to test a rocket by launching
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a satellite 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 triggered a massive landslide threatening roekel houses dozens of homes have already been destroyed by the mud flows and farmers say they suffered serious losses however no casualties yet reported authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season started in january. thousands of election web cams were installed tamara rush's presidential vote but they also provided hours of entertainment value authorities have decided to give a multi-million dollar project a second booster it is a carrot approach over tricks are exactly how big brother could be of use. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of light video recorded on one single day was
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part of electing the next leader of russia what cameras were installed at all polling stations don't want to tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were obvious shadowed by the entertainment provided some have already done after the election the most expensive light 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 election you could take another five to ten years 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 the interior ministry's investigating a police station and a trim and died from syria's injuries sustained in custody a stream of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too
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much money train and one russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to control not entertain the all seeing eye all the webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere critics have argued for a while we need to come under greater scrutiny but equally after several people died recently injuries received while in problem. just remove cameras from polling to police stations that should be installed in preliminary cause of the sills directed on policeman on duty and in the rooms with the questioned it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faces would be hard to see but it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse. meanwhile parents want to protect their children from another type of abuse
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corruption in schools where 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 all children during all types of exams on equal terms that they do their tests without help that they don't use the internet names otherwise those who don't cheat have a worse chance to get into a good university there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair competition and there had been no proof now there will be so with 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 peoples big brother looks set to stay if you graduate r t scale. computer giant apple's announced it will start rewarding shareholders with dividends and will be buying back some of its stock at the same
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time there's the sales of its new generation i pad tablet hit record levels our financial guru max keiser speculates on the future of apple mania. people in america. one group is apple computers the other group of guns. now there's a lot of similarity here it depends on how you view the future unfolding either it's a technical logical 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 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.
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area throughout the day here on our t.v. time now though for the latest from your t.v. business desk katie is following the markets for us so the european traders just rolled up their sleeves what's the sentiment there that's right they just. see the european markets are indeed. mining stocks particularly suffering seen exactly that the. the the china's demand for i knew it was last spring so that is a concern we've also gotten depressed in germany and the once what south point nine percent down as you see the puts the on the dance around top of that in negative territory this al we've got some sentiments coming out of the u.k. stays love inflation and we tell think it's to. for if we stay closer to home and for now we've got the russian figures to look out for now they are indeed alone
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with this. drop of i say they are in supposed to you last hour but now it's not looking to going to told us how to get out those dogs we can see gas willfully a piaf from the sea how about once getting out after the company is now reporting maybe for a twenty six percent price hike in october that since negative territory all major roads there is also down is net profit rose at nine point five percent last year for the us in russian accounting standards if we look at gold at some of the best performers these. plans are dropping its plans to move along the decision comes after delays in receiving approval from russia's foreign investment commission the company had seven and a half percent stake in london raising a potential seven hundred million dollars. let's have a look at those gold prices now as you can see both gold and silver are down zero
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gold is suffering because of some strikes going on in india as you know is the biggest consumer of. very popular danes and they all reportedly going to import thirty five percent less goals this year after an increase in imports so it's definitely a one to watch boil if i can use to tell you that that is indeed now we've had reports that there's some oil to refineries in the u.s. so the some domestic concerns as well as international was on oil at the moment if we look at the current says we can see that the dollar is now are using it or in back some of those losses against the major currencies around the ruble is indeed makes against the major currencies at this hour it's higher against the dollar and lower against the euro right that's how the markets are looking at this hour we're going to be more of saying the european markets for now i'll give you the latest russian figures as well join me about fifty five minutes.
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