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them. breaking the deadlock russia says it's ready to back u.n. action on syria and tossing the peace plan put forward by the world bodies envoy to the country. but nothing was it will continue to pay any to doubt that this is a bill to make the un just the syrian government. dozens of children over a hundred injured in the latest spate of violence across iraq just one day after the nine hundred first read the start of the u.s. led invasion live analysis of that development short you naughty. and thousands of workers in the u.k. left struggling to find employment demand justice after learning they were placed on a secret police pact blacklist our top stories this hour. international
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news and common live from moscow this is the moscow is ready to pack a u.n. resolution on syria as long as it contains no ultimatums aimed at assad's regime that's according to the russian foreign minister who's voicing strong support for the u.n. special envoys roadmap to peace in the conflict for the country. security council is set to consider voting on a draft statement on syria later on tuesday. as the details. russia remains very much focused on what it said all along which is that is calling for a cease fire no holds to the violence in the country that is not going to start anything the same as putting an old native on the syrian government to. talk about solution is seen as simply backing one side now we know the foreign minister lavrov
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was meeting today with his lebanese council part and he's thinking about the trough resolution this is going to be discussed later in the security council that kids who play fronts and things to back a pin on six point peace plan calling for much the same things that the arab league observers mission had been asking for the whole to the coil and the bullets to the security forces from some of these conflict areas the release of political prisoners we know the caffeine and been to syria to discuss this with president assad that is very good at the security council can later on today i come to some sort of consensus and put there it's just a poor behind up plan but of course it is very much as we said going to come down to the wording of that plan and whether the security council will be able to agree on the times but russia has voiced support not only for a few nuns a peace plan in the clutch even to say to the growing calls the humanitarian
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ceasefire within syria we saw the foreign minister meeting with the heads of the international red cross yesterday backing these plans for the ceasefire within the country so that's absolutely essential and there is a lot of faith now that the security council itself can be full pos these barriers that they've been meeting way that things like the wording of these resolutions and katyn on sesame seed perhaps is a mediator between the west and russia is songs we've had foreign minister level saying the case you know doesn't put the ultimatum it doesn't put the pressure just on one side and say if this can up the pressure on. they feel does it i missed this that it is that it looks like there's some sort of hint that this can be great. when scripting it's serious resolution the u.n. security council should be wary of america's habit of using the world bodies' mandates to serve its own agenda that's the warning from washington based activist
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jacob. says we've seen in the past what the u.s. government does is it takes these what seem to be innocuous nice sounding resolutions and then drives the you know a mack truck through them and says oh well this justifies military intervention this justifies bombing attacks no fly zones and so forth i would assume that the russians are going to be very cautious about the wording of their resolution but but i think we should keep in mind it no matter what they do with these these resolutions these interventions they always end up with a worse situation where there's much more death and destruction is so forth if there is intervention my position is just leave this to the syrians to resolve what guides us foreign policy is getting their people into public office around the world and it's led to the disastrous consequences we see in iraq afghanistan and elsewhere around the world where people despise the u.s. that's right some of us are saying it's time to dismantle this whole regime change
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foreign policy of interventionism in under cleared wars. afghan human rights groups pointed to widespread torture in the countries prisons claims also state that some of the detainees subjected to abuse were handed over by america that's quite a ban on transfer as it looks at last some of these allegations which afghan officials deny can just weeks off the several atrocities were committed by u.s. soldiers in the country and he's kind of has more. every year 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
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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 the research primarily focuses on the afghan intelligence agency does business and at that it says that the u.s. in the business of the u.s. forces is just to hand over those detainees put three years america's old network of secret prisons in afghanistan as provided ample material through various reports can torture and unlawful 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 confirmation came after it 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 they're handed handed over by american forces to
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their afghan colleagues coming up in a few minutes here in o.t. blacklisted britain. why not obvious start you could have answered it let's put your horse in jeopardy have put your family guy from jeopardy here relationships in jeopardy can find out why union workers and whistle blows in the u.k. are fighting back after being kicked out of the workplace. now we report on how russian authorities are planning a new lease of life for the two hundred fifty thousand webcams installed journey recent presidential votes. a series of coordinated blasts of rope several cities in iraq killing more than forty people and injuring almost two hundred three car bombs exploded in the northern oil rich province of cook killing nine a further two car bombs at the predominately shares city at the bottom eighty kilometers south of baghdad killing thirteen other attacks in the capital into southern towns targeted local police headquarters the latest fallen scums nine
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years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq began and ahead of next week's arab league summit which is to be held in baghdad for more on this let's now talk to in its national human rights law and peace activist curtis doebbler he joins me live now from geneva in swift and switzerland. lou this was a massive coordinated attack and it would have involved a lot of planning who is behind it and what are their motives do you think i think unfortunately a lot of iraqis still see their country is occupied by foreign forces. iraqi is from many different. parts of society that are trying to remove those foreign forces. this is the ongoing situation that is part of so people started to ten years ago with the invasion and occupation of iraq about the suspicions of al qaeda to behind this all the trying to get a foothold of power there in what many describe as a failed state. you know before the invasion of iraq there was very little
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evidence despite some relegations or very little concrete evidence of al qaida having any role in the situation in iraq but since that time as you point out because the government has not been able to exercise control over many parts of the country it's very fertile territory for different types of terrorist organizations to settle in and to be able to carry out crimes attacks i mentioned earlier that some have called this a failed state there in iraq we had one guest on earlier saying the country's in tatters is that really the case and i think probably politically certainly and security wise that certainly adequate and. the consistent description of the situation in iraq right now i think the iraqi people have shown themselves to be very strong in adversity and can bounce back from such a situation if the indigenous iraqi people are given the ability to govern their
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crunchie i think right now there's still a significant amount of outside interference that prevents that from happening as long as that outside interference is. is prominent in the country they're going to be people fighting against it and that's going to prevent stability and security in the country you say in the lead in the government is failing obviously to provide security and to govern the country effectively in many parts of the country at which these latest attacks perhaps suggest the security services that do need further help perhaps the allied forces of left too soon. well there are two ways i think of thinking of security one is that you try to have a bigger force than the people who are trying to disrupt security and that the perspective for you right probably occupying forces can play a strong role in it but another way to look at it is that you should turn over the security of a country to the people of that country and i think that if the indigenous iraqis
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are put in charge of their security instead of outside forces and don't create be mistaken there are still thousands of outside foreign forces particularly american soldiers on iraqi soil that are contributing they would say to security i would suggest to the situation of insecurity in my view the best thing that could be done for security is to ensure that the iraqi people themselves are in need to be responsible for their own security and that cannot be done while there are foreign forces in the country and what about the question of the country really finding its identity these attacks took place in the run up to the arab league summit next week now this will be the country's debut as an important player in the region how will these events really affect the rocks if it's to establish its identity its position on the world stage but i think one thing it should be aware of is that this would be a effort by the government which is essentially the government that emanated from the
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occupation all have been elections there they've been limited elections not elections and where anybody could stand for election and it is that government that is trying to legitimize itself in the view of its own neighbors and i think some of its neighbors would also like to see it legitimized that is different than seen that we are giving the country to the people and they are going to legitimize the country which is what has to happen first be a real solve an entity under international. to have optimism then for the future of iraq at this stage. i have a lot of optimism in the iraqi people's resolve to try to build their society and develop a society iraq before the first gulf war in one thousand nine hundred two was on the verge of being a developed country so under the current circumstances i have very little faith in the political authorities of the country mainly because they don't reflect the will of the majority of the iraqi people. and the will of the their the majority the
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iraqi people but what about the future of democratic development of the country federal elections where we see. a more democratic nance cape pen that you think. i think that the people will determine their own form of democratic participation when they're allowed to do that without outside interference and i think we might be surprised at the way that the iraqis would determine their future direction but we can't do that even if we have so-called elections yet that you know election when part of the population and all the baths for example are excluded from those elections you know election has to give all iraqis whether you like their political politics or not the chance to stand for office and to vote in that election that doesn't happen right now and has not been in any election since the occupation. interesting here thoughts curtis doebbler international human rights nor and peace
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activist we really appreciate you joining us live here on r.t. thank you for being there in geneva. for. the greek parliament set to approve the country's new international bailout deal later today has more protests against austerity measures in return for rescue funds planned athens received a second bailout this year combined with its first rescue package the country stands to receive over one hundred seventy two billion euros in loans from eurozone countries and the i.m.f. greece's creditors claim the country's most recent austerity measures could be accident prone experts say the country may fail to lower its debt burden to the specified targets later requiring more risky loans greece is in its fifth year of recession and many believe it needs to recover before debt reduction plans can have anything to ternium professor of constitutional law at georgetown from below says the bailout money still isn't doing greece much good. it's not becoming such plain about how the best scenario in two thousand and twenty we're going to cover this
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same level of that as we for this mechanism or for. rescue as they call it or the other kind we are in abusive so the economy can bite the. five percent because the additional reduction risk of recession into the society this is all it is a kind of for a slow death of a downward spiral that does not seem to catch up with them for us all of this new money is not going to kill the economy recover is practically going to go back to ireland and three if you look at the math this bailout has reduced our actual. hit by about one hundred five billion euros and the week of it taken at this funeral one hundred and fifty billion dollars of new debt so actually the state of having our debt refused the balloon and it would be
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a good thing if all this money was going to kill the good it can employ people all the economy but it is not doing their. so world news in prefer you this very nearly sixty minutes past the hour in the russian capital one of the biggest manhunts in france's history is underway after four people were shot dead in the southern part of the country a government on a motorbike killed a rabbi the rabbi's two sons and a young girl at a jewish school in the city of toulouse police of last week shootings which resulted in the death of two soldiers of north african descent the country's issued a skull as alert for the first time which allows tighter security including military patrols. for the first time in three years north korea is invited u.n. inspectors to monitor the nuclear freeze deal with the u.s. equipment includes the suspension of uranium enrichment and missile tests in complaints out of the country announce plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite notions and says the move will break last month's deal in which the u.s. offered food aid in return for
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a partial nuclear compromise. italy's prime minister has begun a final push for a deal with unions over a revamp of labor laws and monti wants unions to abandon rules that make it virtually impossible to fire workers for misconduct italy's not just leave the group is resisting the changes claiming the deal is impossible to convince union leaders all strikes within his coalition parliament. and over a thousand kurds have clashed with police in turkey's bartman province a dispute broke out of the group was stopped from marking a spring festival in the kurdish new year police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd as they hold stones and firecrackers at offices turkish authorities said new year's celebrations can take place on the actual holiday but the ban was defied in several cities throughout the country. 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
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the victims many of whom complained of safety standards too left wing and troublesome and led to their sackings and made reemployment impossible a correspondent or smith as this report. banned 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 these skilled engineers now know their names were on an illegal blacklists. in two thousand and four former union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously stocked and for the next four years he wondered why he couldn't get another full time job then the friends 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 with detail reports. what
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political party political activists were. it was pretty. they were the employers were distributing a small. spark listing organization. basically. people from employment much of the information in headley style is clips probably left wing newspapers and magazines but some comes from a different source altogether the police i was and their names. participate on and on the freshest demonstration this information doesn't come from their employers could only have come from a place i mean we don't agree with employers keep a blacklist it's no legal thing. it opens up a whole new dimension it's security forces ok for all the knesset and all the smirks of a place that working on a building sites one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.k.
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. 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 poor health and safety standards so called base a construction company. make 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 deed smith of the blacklist support group believes collusion comes from the very top of the force it's not someone you know. who has just happened to have found and passed on this information because why would any on the. such a thing as a consultant association or even existed i believe it's are the most senior levels compliance colluding with the directors of more national companies. because of trudging is because we raise concerns why it is an open society and because of
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a lot of politics blacklisting devastates the noise the bits of victims highly qualified people unable to use their skills steve hadley his marriage breakdown. of the world got it from me to support when i was contracted it was a little for the part of the council's highly qualified. scot you can advance and it's pro-choice and you have really put your grammar away from your relationships and. you can't pay your bills anymore the company that held headley style has now been closed down but he and his colleagues believe there are more black lace but haven't yet caught it they say they'll fight until they know the extensive state security involvement in their post exception nora smith. videos free on a website or t. dot com here's a taste of what's there waiting for you right now or should you love one it's no longer the golden age for gold it's the precious metals is it shop is dropping two
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months ago in a red light. and cubans very soon be forced to start their famous ago was restaurants across the country opera bouffe your way to doing all that. more is waiting for you online at all t. dot com. thousands of web cams were installed across russia to monitor the presidential election this month but now with even 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. looks at where the cameras could be pointing next. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to something was 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 old polling stations don't want to tour any possible fruit but the relatively few
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violations were overshadowed by the entertainment provided some have already done after the election the most expensive live show in russia's history a system cost almost a billion dollars. most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia if not for the elections it could take another five to seven years now we can do video conferences callers can be lectured by diverse 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 causing a trim and died from syria's injuries sustained in custody a string of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too much money to train 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
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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 diagnose and paint problem injuries received while in preliminary. and we're proposing a bill i suggest we should move cameras from polling to police stations they should be installed in preliminary custody cells or we should be directed armed policeman on duty and in the rooms were suspects a question it would not violate the rights of those detained as they are for. he says would be hard to read but it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse you really mean meanwhile parents want to protect big children from another type of abuse corruption in schemes with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june we are logging for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v.
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. it's crucial for us all children during all types of the residence and equal terms that we do there is has to go to help that are that they don't use the internet means or otherwise those who don't actually have a worse chance to get into a good university there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair competition when there had been no proof now there will be. any ideas on the table authorities have launched an appreciable competition for the best project to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big rather looks set to stay if you grandchildren r t scale. time now for the latest from the business world and daniels there still are a sea of red on the markets generally this stage of the day yes i'm afraid so shares are suffering for a second day in a row let's have a look at the. nasdaq up the moment wall street's down around half
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a percent we could commodity prices also take a giant no shedding four percent of the first quarter profits slid europe's had another miserable day both london and frankfurt down over one percent mining stocks dragged off the b.h.p. billions as the chinese demand for oil in or was falling also of course is suing the european commission of blocking its merger with the new york stock exchange brussels as that would hold competition for sports opening hoyer more school followed europe into the river in being one point seven percent down as the fourth day of losses in a row let's check movers on the my six now here's from indeed loft reporter was the white. prices industry energy majors generally had a poor day on the we could crude price and gold miner pulis was also on the slide because off the russia's top gold miner suspended plans to join the footsie one hundred firm blames delays in getting approval from russia's foreign investment commission police had planned to list seven and a half percent in the raising some seven hundred million dollars and precious
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metals are under pressure with some holding suffering two months record falls silver is now down two and a half percent today after a strike by jewellers in india boosted fears of a monster in the world's top consumer crude is no shedding almost two dollars today down from a two week high in new york on signs u.s. supply is rising and finally exchange rates the dollar's pretty flat figures the euro at this hour after killing blacks and recent losses but the ruble lost against both major currencies and that's the latest i'll be back in fifteen minutes you can find more stories on our website altie dot com slash business headlines are next nazi.
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