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breaking the deadlock russia says it's ready to back u.n. action on syria endorsing the peace plan put forward by the world body's envoy to the country. that. dozens were killed and over a hundred injured in the latest spate of violence across iraq just one day after the ninth anniversary of the start of the u.s. led invasion. and thousands of construction workers in the u.k. struggling for employment demanding justice after learning they were placed on a secret blacklist supported by the police.
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a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. the russian capital is ready to un resolution on syria as long as it contains no ultimatums regime and this is according to the russian foreign minister who was voicing strong support for the u.n. special envoy for peace in the conflict on country let's get details now from our correspondent. standing by the u.s. is hailing the latest from moscow. position on syria actually changed. some people are going to be this is the. famous. all alone. which is the cooling for
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a cease fire the whole of the violence in the country that is not going to back anything is seen as putting the ultimatum on the syrian government to. back a resolution is seen to think backing one side but now we know that for the last progress meeting today with his lebanese council part and he spoke about the trough resolution this is going to be discussed later in the security council that by france and things to back a field on six point peace plan in syria now we need to take you down somewhere between to syria to discuss this with president assad that is how you put it the security council can later on today come to some sort of consensus and put their it's just a point behind up plan because it is very much as we say going to come down to the wording of that plan and whether the security council will be able to bring on the times but. several international peacemaking efforts to mediate some sort of
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resolution in syria have failed over the past year realistically speaking it's already optimism about the success with this run with kofi annan. does he does seem like they're opposed to science he said russia has voiced support not only for. peace plan in the country but also for the growing calls for a humanitarian ceasefire within syria we saw the foreign minister meeting with the head of the international red cross yesterday backing these plans for the ceasefire within the country so that's absolutely essential in case you know he's playing calling for much the same things that the arab league observers mission had been asking for the whole to the violence of the. security forces from some of these conflict areas the release of political prisoners. the arab league observers mission subdivided into numbers stumbling blocks and. there is a lot of now that the security council. pas these barriers that they'd
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be meeting later things like the wording of these resolutions and case against the perhaps is a mediator between the west and russia is strong we've had foreign minister left are saying that. doesn't the ultimatum it doesn't put the pressure just on one side and say if this can now put pressure on the field position on assad. but this doesn't look like the some sort of consensus can be reached sort of life in central moscow in front of the ministry of foreign affairs thank you. well meantime human rights watch the syrian opposition for committing abuses including torture and to retribution killings but some countries including qatar and saudi arabia are still backing the rebels with reports indicating they're even smuggling weapons into syria independent james corbett thinks foreign forces are willing to support anyone who is fighting against president assad. well unfortunately the cycle of violence
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shows absolutely no signs of abating and absolutely that was terrible particularly worrying because they were of course targeting the air force intelligence and national security buildings so it does seem to prove the point that assad has been making for some time that there is clearly some international coordination and arming of the police so put cold rain tag rebels who are who are supposedly doing this it would seem to point out that there's been more reform in syria in the past year and there has been in the past fifty and if that's not enough to to at least bring the sides to the table to start some sort of negotiation and one we have to imagine that nothing will so regime change seems to be absolutely be inevitable course that. the west and others and set their eyes on at this point certainly arming and giving weapons to be insurgences it is absolutely designed for nothing else than to cause more bloodshed and and the idea of doing that in
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a humanitarian fashion i think is laughable on its face and once against it goes to prove the point that there really diplomacy isn't the end game here the end game is to get rid of assad and unfortunately we see that from the playing out right now so one has to hope that recent initiatives lately their red cross called for the ceasefire on a daily basis and things like that could have some sort of effect but at this point it really seems the cycle of violence is just that's going to be. coming your way in about twenty minutes time with our teams special interview with dr bashar to other countries. where. a series of coordinated blasts have rocked nearly a dozen cities in iraq killing more than forty and injuring almost two hundred three car bombs exploded in the north an oil rich province of cook killing at least nine and a further two car bombs hit a predominantly shia city of karbala eighty kilometers south of baghdad that killed thirteen other attacks on the capital and to southern towns targeted local police
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headquarters the latest violence comes nine years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq began and ahead of next week arab league summit to be held in dad and he will campaign david swanson says that despite u.s. efforts iraq is a country in tatters. demolish their country we've destroyed what was one of the most advanced civilized countries. standard of living in that region we've destroyed it per for over twenty years we've had a pair of wars and in most bombing in sanctions and it's we saw in million six lives just in the past nine years we've killed over a million people in creative four million refugees refugees in the world or now from iraq or afghanistan and we've ruled their infrastructure trillions of dollars worth of damage to the infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know the
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answer then hiroshima everyone in given birth and asked the same first question is it normal only we have to strongly that chantry. and watching are a lot from moscow an afghan it human rights report indicates that torture in the countries prisons is widespread and detainees handed over by america are subjected to abuse u.s. officials said they are looking into the allegations which come just weeks after several atrocities were committed by american soldiers in the country all the details now to what he's got a touch of. 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 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.
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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 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 how the afghan intelligence agency does business and that it says that the u.s. the business of the u.s. forces is just to hand over those detainees politically 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 vase to the afghan government though these reports come out about what
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happens to the detainees after they're handed pay 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 civilians the burning of the holy muslim books of u.s. marine you're an aging on bed afghans and more broadly the surge of violence there rampant opium production which terrorists around the globe feed off yes journalists tend to focus on palms put in of ghana's then it seems there are more problems than time to report. he's going to kind of courting right there where you are with r.t. just to come your way in a few minutes black listed britain. were not stopped you can imagine it it's put your horse in jeopardy a culture from where they from jeopardy your relationships in jeopardy you can't
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pay your bills anymore find out why union workers and whistle blowers in the u.k. are fighting back after being kicked out of the workplace. and we report on how russian authorities are planning a new lease on life for the two hundred fifty thousand webcams installed during the recent presidential vote. the greek parliament is set to approve the country's new international bailout deal later today as more protests against austerity measures in return for rescue funds are planned athens received a second bailout this year combined with its first rescue package the country stands to receive over one hundred and seventy two billion euros in loans from the eurozone countries and the i.m.f. greece's creditors claim the country's most recent austerity measures could be quote accident prone experts say the country country may fail to lower its debt burden to the specified targets later requiring more rescue learns greece is in its
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fifth year of recession and many believe it needs to recover before debt reduction plans can have much effect i have more on this now we're joined now by attorney professor of constitutional law at george cukor on gotta live from athens i think it's we're coming out today a report by the by the i.m.f. the european commission and the european central bank all raising new concerns the reforms in greece might not be moving as swiftly as hoped all these concerns justified. well listen the new bailout is not the solution that greece needs first of all it is not becoming such they are the best scenario and. we do not have the best scenario usually with our worse scenario coming through in two thousand and twenty we're going to cut this same level of that house before this mechanism or for. any excuse as we call it or the other kind we are.
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going to me. by twenty five percent because the ideas from the leader of the decision into this aside it is all it is like all four of us a little bit of a downward spiral that does not seem to have done for us so as you say you greece is in a state of a slow death you mentioned that the debt is not sustainable greece is nothing receive its first batch of the second bailout we're talking thirty five point five billion euros of the one hundred thirty billion promised how long will that money last. well listen all of this new money is not going to kill me because it's practically going back to our lenders and if you look at the amounts this bailout used. bit by about one card didn't and by billions of euros. taken at this you know one hundred
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thirty billion dollars of new debt so actually the state of. the refused the balloon and. it would be a good thing if all this money was going to kill the good it can employ people all the economy by the design. this is that's why i was talking about circle thank you as you say i'm sorry in truckee here but you know we're talking tens and even hundreds of billions of euros as you say going to the lenders are not going to the greek economy if that's the way if that's the future here then what is the future for the country how can greece get out of this what you call this this constant state of deteriorating life or death as you put it. i think if the only solution is to stop following this. to have a completely saint's of policies because i believe that saying yes to whatever our
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lenders want to for now i think it's their moment and we are going to cover elections in less than forty days to give a different answer to that i think the only possible solution for us is a restructuring of power again that is going to be made by our parents by the parents of other lenders. solutions like that at the national level beginning from what russia has done in nineteen ninety eight. has done in two thousand and one has done. it is not so. good this is not meant to die let's let's listen just one more thing i must say you know it is quite astonishing when you when you talk about these billions of euros being given to greece the e.u. saying this is a saving of salvaging method the billions go to the lenders and not to the economy but can you bring us down to the street level how is the debt crisis the fifth year of recession affecting the average person is it just
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a case of not making enough money to pay the bills or is a much more tax for mental than that it is not any more of a question about paying the bills this suicide's have been now ten times. higher than two years ago. so the schools are going hungry. there must find a way to feed them. we cover a society that is completely dissolved. that these are not born that this or for solidarity are not anymore strong enough to support this downward speed of this flow that i mentioned that's why it's a question of life or death for greece to escape the smallest now greek officials are meeting with investors from turkey to. showcase a sale of state run assets this is reflecting reversal in the fortunes of the two regional rivals to think. well i think about the besides
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the new political orientation of the we told you are completely new set of policies we need dogs who are we start selling off our economy if you. bought our resume and also with other international partners we view the new mix of a chronic policy as well as this perceive the world. because it makes all right i ga wranglers i wish we had more time for this attorney a professor of constitutional law joining us live from athens thank you thank you very much. this is r.t. now thousands of construction workers in the u.k. have discovered they were placed on a secret employment blacklist which enjoyed police support the illegal files deemed the victims many of whom had complained of safety standards to left wing and troublesome and later their sackings and made reemployment nearly impossible now these details and i want to explore
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a smith. from working for speaking the truth these trade unionists and whistleblowers all fighting back after years of wondering why they couldn't get a job he's skilled engineers now know their names were on an illegal blacklist. in two thousand and four former union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously sacked and for the next four years he wanted why he couldn't get another full time job then a friend told him about a 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. to approach. political activists were three. part it was clear. they were p.p. employers were distributing this amongst themselves as blacklisting organization.
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basically par for people from employment much of the information in headley style is clips from left wing newspapers and union magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police i was and their name. participate on the demonstration. this information hasn't caught their employers could only have come from a place i mean we don't agree with blacklist it's an illegal. mention. the forces involved in this it could almost marks of a place that working on a building sites one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.k. last year alone there were fifteen deaths in the construction industry many of the 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 company. make
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increase profit filed held by the now shut down consulting association so the police are complicit in companies exploiting workers and destroying anyone who stands up to the dave smith from the blacklist support group believes collusion comes from the very top of the force it's not. you know. who is just happen to have found and passed on this information because why would anyone. such a thing as a consultant association or even existed i believe it's the most senior levels. colluding with the directors of no international companies against people that i don't like because try doing a series because we raise concerns my own pride why it is an open society and because i think politics blacklisting devastates the lives of its victims highly qualified people unable to use their skills steve hadley as marriage breakdown.
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of the world from really support. when i was contracted for part of the cause it was. stopped. it's. probably a quarter from where they from your relationships and. you can pay your bills anymore the company that held hadley's file has now been closed down but he and his colleagues believe there are more black myths that happened yet been uncovered they say they'll fight until they know the extensive state security involvement in their persecution. r.t. . there's always more news and videos on our website at c.n.n. dot com let's have a look at some of the items a. rhino if for example it's no longer the golden age for gold the precious metal sees its shoppers drop in true ones signaling a red light for investors. and cubans may soon be forced to give up their famous
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cigars. restaurants decide to go smoke free but all that much more waiting for you want to see. these are the. corporations. in. the market updated with thousands of. presidential election earlier this month but now with the most remote regions of the country having the most advanced software the authorities have decided to give the billion dollar project a fresh focus. where the cameras could be pointing text. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive
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workouts five hundred years worth of live video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations don't want to tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the ins taman provided some had already dubbed the election the most expensive live show in russia's history the system cost almost a billion dollars. we brought the most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia if not for the elections it 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 is investigating a police station and after a man died from serious injuries sustained in custody
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a string of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too much money training and while russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely want to 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 we need to come under greater scrutiny but equally up to several people died chris and kate probably received the well in preliminary. are you proposing to just remove cameras from polling to police stations they should be installed in preliminary cost of the stills directed on policeman on duty and in the rooms with the questioned it would not violate the rights of those detained as the food would be hard to see but it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse.
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meanwhile parents want to protect their children from enough the type of abuse corruption in schools would be 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 that they don't use the internet 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 that there had been no proof now there will be so with award. any 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 the people's big bragger looks set to see it see the grandchildren r t scale. and i strode over to the business desk otello to daniel we haven't heard any
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good news you and i have been talking stocks for the past twenty four hours now and you've told me nothing positive can you put me in a better mood perhaps for a little cut or it is a bit of a cocktail of bad news at the moment let's check those figures you mark as they're continuing their miserable start to the week mining stocks are dragging on executive at b.h.p. billiton said china's demand for oil and or was playing out. on the pressure of the m.v. b.m.w. is down another three percent on the docks you know the new storage of bourses the suv the european commission for blocking his eighteen billion dollars merger with the new york stock exchange russell says the deal would damage competition it's following europe into the red off the opening higher this morning both indices down over one of the hottest said this hour let's check some main movers on the my six problem is the company reportedly was the high prices for industrial users by a further twenty six percent in october. is also retreating despite net profit rising on the half percent. gold has also slipped into the red because of the
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polish suspended plans to join the footsie one hundred index delays in getting approval from russia's foreign investment commission had planned to listen and a hundred percent in london raising a potential seven hundred million dollars project under pressure with some holding suffering to mulch record balls astroid in india has boosted concern that demand could slump in the world's biggest consumer all has dropped from a two week peak in new york on size u.s. crude supplies rising china is also reported seven percent growth in petrol prices that's the biggest jump since twenty ten and let's say this could hurt the country's consumption exchange rate finally the dollar gained on tuesday clawing back some of its recent losses against major currencies investors see it as a safe haven in the current economic on certainty and that's all for this hour i'll be back in fifteen minutes headlines next.
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