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sirrah says president assad can step down only as a result of dialogue between the government and the opposition in our team looks at how media is there got it all wrong. also this hour banned from talking about torture on simon steps military tribunals the complaints of attorneys will go on top of the detainees who say the defense of prisoners is being chappie dies. after months of protests over a failing economy report on house pays recession affects more than just its people as many of the country's forces are condemned to death by their own.
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international news live from moscow this is r.c. with me here our thanks for joining us syria's deputy prime minister says foreign military intervention would be an infringement on the right of the syrian people to decide their own future they comments came after a meeting with russia's foreign minister in moscow to look at a political solution to the ongoing crisis but as our lucic of enough now reports western media came out with a rather different picture of what was actually discussed. i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the talks that was grossly missed interpreted and exaggerated in fact in some of the news headlines all over the net and recommending resignation as a condition before conducting any dialogue means that you can't attend to the matter at hand the dialogue can discuss any problem i don't we are ready to talk about anything even question can be discussed but a resignation before any mechanisms in place for the syrian people to express their
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opinion is a democratic approach. plus you can see here right there which was talking about is the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example the requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russian government of course we do have to keep in mind that the press conference that the take place was in arabic was they were translated to russian and then into english but what this really serves to highlight is that the lack of accurate information and balance information coming out about the eighteen month long conflict i also want to bring into the discussion the example of aleppo as the battle continues to rage in syria's second city several news outlets have reported for example what the free syrian army spokespeople have said that they have taken the trolls of nearly two thirds of the level of the syrian government of president bashar al assad has
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claimed disputed those claims and what all of us really serves to highlight is again the last of the balance information coming out about this conflict that there really needs to be a middle ground in this escalating conflict what we're seeing instead is a sort of black and white trail of the trading of barbs sort of the lack of ability for the different sides to come together to really move this forward in a diplomatic way another thing that's really not helping. the potential of a peaceful negotiated solution to the crisis is some of the language that we've seen coming out of from the the united states as of late on monday because president barack obama had really caused quite an international stir when he said that the movement or use of chemical or biological weapons by the government of president bashar al assad could trigger would cause the u.s. to reconsider its opposition to military intervention this of course goes to the against what sergey lavrov has been continuously calling for which is a unilateral action by any outside power that this is
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a conflict that needs to be really resolved from within unilateral action by any country outside of this conflict will only make matters worse the russian foreign minister had said that it looks like there may be a willingness to discuss a potential solution to the conflict in a diplomatic matter of the many factions both within and outside of syria did not wish to see a peaceful resolution succeed and so it really remains to be seen whether there could be a way out of the sponge look that doesn't further make this ongoing war even worse in the past. in most cases not for diplomacy to succeed western countries must of his tribute to the norms of international and the u.n. charter but a war correspondent and columnist eric margolis believes the chances of that happening are so that. united states has no strategic interests in syria what this is all about and ron and the fact that the u.s.
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is in a very sensitive election year with this pressure on the obama administration to do something the republicans are screaming do something in so let's hope that the threats and i'm still hoping that there will be a diplomatic solution in the foreign minister has been urging the wording on. chances are receding as political pressure grows in the united states and behind us let's remember that these rare yoopers pushing very hard to gain something of. overthrowing governments and even support from fronts syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious and ethnic tribal. lines that are just as a living on wasn't the one nine hundred seventy s. this is a very frightening prospect and we have to work hard to make sure it does not happen. stay tuned for our interview program coming up in about twenty minutes time
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as we look at the outside forces feuding the syrian conflict and chris young son had all these seaward friendship association gives his cues on the war the west has in mind for damascus and the whole middle east in the long term and he's a pretty. it's such a powerhouse in the region it's sourced from. the node the big old iran first i have to big old syria and i'm convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next order bits will be hezbollah in lebanon on the one of these two allies or thirteen outs. they will concentrate one hundred percent on the them. but internal conflict is quickly growing into a regional one and later this hour we take a look at how turkey might be feeling the effects of the crisis on its southern border so many analysts now believe that i encourage links to the syrian rebels are
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backfiring so we'll bring you the story in just a few minutes so stay with us. and also the diplomatic spat over julian assange continues with aquittal saying it could take the issue to the un's international court all the details are coming out. attorneys for inmates have gone ton of obey say they've been banned from bringing out this subject of toolchain court and they also claim that a number of other legal restrictions are stopping them from building a proper defense in cases that could result in the death penalty the notorious prison is still open despite promises by president obama to shouted down years ago . a report. as the saying goes everyone remembers their first walk talk mode will be closed no later than about one year from now and us president barack obama's first executive order delivered on a promise cemented over the years as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and it here to the geneva conventions i've said repeatedly
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that america doesn't torture and i'm going to make sure that we don't torture nearly four years after america's change took office one hundred sixty eight detainees are still being held at guantanamo awaiting their day in court before a military commission but even then the obama administration will not allow them to testify about the alleged torture and harsh interrogation techniques some claim to have suffered according to the government there is no scope. to have it it's defended six count as he's torture in the course of treatment for the government's justification for that is that disclosing that information to court could be damaging to u.s. national security interests at a pretrial hearing at guantanamo bay the defense attorneys will challenge u.s. secrecy grooves and a litany of other restrictions that experts say undermine the right of detainees to
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receive a fair trial the defense counsel may want to communicate and the letter you know provides and current updates on news information to inform them of certain things that that may apply to their case and every one of those pieces of correspondence is then run through a vetting system where the government is reviewing all of that to determine whether or not it's proper material the confidences are being contaminated directly by the u.s. government over the years the u.s. military has gone as far as dosing detainees with high levels of psychotropic drugs . according to reports released by the pentagon good most prisoners were forced to take mind altering drugs often against their will before being interrogated a story first broken by truth outs lead investigative reporter jason leopold what the inspector general said was is that detainees were interrogated while they were
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on drugs that is known to produce or will end up producing unreliable information so then you have the government going into the d.c. circuit ok and arguing that all of the detainees statements are true critics accuse obama of following in the footsteps of his predecessor george w. bush by continuing a system that revolves around censoring defendants in the name of national security this is not a legitimate process how do you prosecute someone cheney years after the crime when you have full control of their body and the evidence for that an entire period of time nearly eleven years following the september eleventh attacks the us military commission is set to hear the first set of arguments in preparation for the trial of five suspects the u.s. president meanwhile is campaigning for his second term apparently forgetting about
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the monumental promise he made when beginning his first marine aboard i am artsy here. and earlier we spoke to colonel morris davis the former chief prosecutor at the notorious prison and he explained it would cost him to leave his post. what really put me over on the other side was being compelled to use evidence obtained by torture i think folks could make a an argument whether it's morally justified to engage in torture to collect intelligence to maybe prevent an attack eminent but then to take that same information and hand it over to me and say ok now use this as evidence in an american criminal proceeding to obtain a conviction a potential potentially a death sentence was just a step too far and so rather than go forward with tortured evidence i chose to resign. and if you have missed some of our stories you can always find them online
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while the news whenever you wanted has come of course a failed experiment as the trip anees government allows fishing and distress to fukushima nuclear plant the capturing some warring. plant the debate and dividing germany criminal charges that filed against a rabbi in barbaria for performing every child circumcision go to r.t. dot com poll that teens have. downloaded the official publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from arts l.t.v. is not required to watch arts here all you need is your mobile device watch r t any time. despite recent economic reform some forecasts predict spain is set to slide deeper
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into recession the country's difficulties have seen thousands of people rally over a period of many months but they only want suffering as aussies alexy here russia. for several months thousands of spain ers have been protesting loudly and angrily as the government's austerity measures spark rage among those who feel those cuts most painfully the recently published financial forecast for twenty thirteenth suggests that should madrid stick to its current financial policy things will be looking even worse for the pensioners and the unemployed. but while these people can stand up for themselves these four legged fellows cannot voice their discontent since spain plunged into an economic crisis horses have also become its victims this looks healthy now but a month ago he was barely alive he is the only survivor from a herd of more than ten seven more dead bodies were recently discovered by workers
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of this animal shelter in madrid. the number of horses we have to care for has increased dramatically with the crisis people can't afford to keep them that's why they dispense with them find them into about condition always did it through excrement and drink green water to survive keeping one horse costs around three hundred euros a month something many private families and horse riding schools to not now afford . are often being sold at almost half their value for seven thousand euros instead of twelve c. boy this last us we're losing money is good if we can please cover our expenses and we're afraid we might have to sell our horses to slaughterhouses if we don't find the means to survive and that is exactly what thousands of horse owners have done since spain plunged into recession this year the horse meat industry registered in increased. input of thirty percent less poor sweet is not so popular with spanish
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consumers so it is usually exported abroad to countries like belgium france and russia about eighty percent is for human consumption twenty percent is processed food this shelter hasn't seen any state subsidies in for months but private donations ensure its survival expired groceries from local markets may not be much of a delicious treat for these horses but it's better than becoming food for someone else as austerity measures continue to strangle spain many of these once loved animals will most likely pay for human economic mistakes. ski r.t. reporting from madrid in spain and coming up just a bit later this hour goal standing up for itself in court. for the sale will pay anybody you know so i don't think this judge is is either a moron or crazy so there there's there is fire there somewhere so i googled denies
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any accusations that bridal blog is to make them support the web giant in a high profile lawsuit.
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going on now and corey's investigating the possibility of syrian involvement in monday's car bombing in turkey's southeast it rocks an industrial city close to the syrian border claiming the lives of nine people including children texas officials were quick to put the blame on kurdish militants who deny any links to that time ancora claims that kurdish separatists are capitalizing on the chaos and war to all syria and have accused assad's regime of stirring up the conflict by arming because of syrian soil and international relations professor mark almond says that turkey is asking for trouble by supporting syrian opposition fighters one of the reasons why i've been so supporter of bashar assad was that his very close the border.
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into turkey what we're now seeing course is the border between turkey and syria is open to incorporation into syria rebels and also. supplies that were open as you all come a blind eye to the border man who was firing into syria was always the risk very of course the force was small where. there's also a number of which will be mined is the risk for religious extremists. who rudeness fundamentalist groups who don't necessary any water between syria and turkey who don't necessarily want to create a kurdish state though she wished to create an account and they've called we have no great chance of doing that so they could cause of course a lot of trouble in other countries they could cause trouble sometimes. the minority are going to. because we're on the border.
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and so more international news and briefing you this hour as the spillover from the syrian conflict continues in lebanon at least seven people have been killed thirty three wounded as a gun battles raged overnight in its northern city of tripoli armed forces have been moved to the area in an effort to disperse the clashes the fighting between sunni muslims and other whites has been fueled by the turn in neighboring syria the two countries share a time gold web of ethnic and religious connections. greek prime minister antonis samaras says his country needs more time for reforms that is ahead of his meeting with the head of the eurozone to discuss if greece has done enough to ensure its next a much needed bailout payment smar is also g to meet with his french and german counterparts later this week and tough spending cuts have already proved hard to swallow for greeks for the greeks forcing thousands to rally in projects earlier this year. the eighteen year old russian quits to join the world trade organization
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is now is the country has officially become a full member of the global trade bloc and daniel is at our business desk so good achieving this goal daniel become a springboard for the russian economy moving north it's not the promised some hard hope for originally russia will have to import call me because like the voters in particular on the pressure will be speaking to. about the business in around five minutes to an. ecuadorian president rafael correa rares says he might turn to the un's international court for help with the revolving resolving rather the case of julian our son should follows commons by a swedish justice ministry official that assigns you wouldn't be hundreds. any third country if there was a risk it had faced the death penalty that that after the u.k. had threatened to enter the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrest him then we
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could leaks editor has been staying there to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning of alleged sex crimes which haydon eyes and laws coyote from the u.k. pirate party sweden assurances are not for the now fi son. clearly he can stay in the embassy but it's difficult to see how we will get out to damon's announcements from sweden and seems to me that attempts to try and get out of this stalemate but essentially. amounts to staging the orderly. it's common kind of two countries don't like when it's a question of the desk penalty so i don't think that these insurance given today will be money to actually satisfy the. what needs to happen is that there is actually much stronger assurances coming from. now it's correct technically insured
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since i actually don't know how much kind of. a binding nature of this is common practice doing the math to me. time to try and. brauer. iran between the computer technology giants google and oracle which began last year has taken a fresh twist a court ordered both to reveal the names of bloggers who were allegedly pays to comment on line in favor of their companies so google had been sued by oracle for breach of intellectual property law and its use of android software google firmly rejected claims that it had bribed online commentators to make them support the company in the case the court has set a new deadline for evidence to be disclosed and journalism professor at georgetown university christopher chambers believes the internet giant has serious questions started so. there's been a jury verdict in the copyright and patent actions this is after you know the smoke
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is cleared this judge is doing this it's it's utterly utterly. unprecedented i do believe in there where there's smoke there's fire and because oracle who'd lost you know who was the plaintiff you know had you know one or two people that they said they had dangling there must have been something there must have been some. camera as they say in latin to the judge that you know something was going on here or he just looked and saw you know article upon article blog post upon blog post lining up you know in google's favor and said there's got to be something going on here i don't think this judge is either a moron or crazy so there there's there is fire there somewhere. so the w t o isn't the holy grail in many thought and daniel is here doubt business desk please explain to you that today russia joins the trade body finally amid warnings it won't bring prices all trade we spoke to export your list of ali
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well living in the twenty first century do we really need to be. absolutely i think. an dispensable part of operating and the globe. economy operating and then the vironment abettors competitive that provides the impulses for change really sounds like you view it as a little mood change but other countries such as vietnam say that they're not reaping the expected benefits of the. well actually if you look at the dynamics of foreign direct investment flowing into vietnam what you see is that before w t o membership the country was receiving approximately around three three and they have billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this figure went up two to three fall but this is really up to each country to decide
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how much it can try to reap from w t o accession because obviously w.t.r. accession benefits the pound also the accompanying policies of countries and their companies argentina this week while the w to complain against the european union can be dealt with chill sensually be an effective mechanism of resulting trade disputes yes so far actually one of the more efficient parts of the operation of the w t o is precisely in the sphere of settling disputes and this is something that russia could certainly use after w t o accession especially in an effort to lift restrictions against russian steel exports for example and the exports of chemicals there are almost one hundred restrictions currently
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now in existence against russian exports abroad. but we chose expects americas to screw up trade restrictions russia within quote days the nineteen seventies jackson funded commitment balls favored trading can do. with russia although the reasons behind the act have long since disappeared. did u.s. business will miss out if washington fails to act fast. fears of a chinese production bubble growing old news its vaal steel mills haven't called el put this month both global demand and metals prices off fooling analysts fear ignoring market signals means a bubble that's about to burst is sending down earnings and weak japanese trade reports also hurting the euro's stadion morning trade off to hitting seven week highs in the previous session investors still wait to see if the e.u. will move to stem is dick crisis question mark is just the slightly lower tracking that downbeat sentiment in asia and the billionaire raised to be russia's richest
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man has heated up after a cup prize deal leonid mickelson on the left there tipped of ship off his perch off the chemicals monopoly symbol last year for a fraction of its current value because it's currently just behind mining magnate with a net sixteen billion dollars he's expected to top his rival gears up to list on the stock market you're up to date with european opening figures for you next year great stuff thank you very much jan you will be back with a recap of the headlines in just a couple of minutes to stay with it. culture
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