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as syria says president assad can step down only as a result of dialogue between the government and the opposition on t.v. looks at how media spin turned this story around. bonn from talking about torture and silence that's military tribunals the complaints of attorneys for gone ton of the detainees to say the defense of prisoners is being jeopardized. after months of protests over a failing economy report on how spain's recession affects more than just its people as many of the country's horses are condemned to death by their own earnings. news from russia and around the world this is our see with me thanks for joining us
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syria's deputy prime minister says foreign military intervention would be an infringement of the right of the syrian people to decide their own future the comments came after a meeting with russia's foreign minister in moscow to look at a political solution to the ongoing crisis but is also used loosely couple of reports western media came up 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 there are. 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 do we are ready to talk about anything even this 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. but as you can hear right there which was talking about is the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example other 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 had taken place was in arabic as they were translated to russian and then into english but what this really serves to highlight is 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 a lot of us the battle continues to rage in serious 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 have claimed disputed those claims and what
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all of this really serves to highlight is again the lack of balance information coming out about this conflict there really needs to be a middle ground in this escalating conflict what we're seeing instead is a sort of black and white paper trail 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 the 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 could 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 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 this conflict that doesn't further make this ongoing war and even worse in the past. most fail so says that for diplomacy to succeed western countries amongst most of his trip to the norms of international no on the u.n. charter but war correspondent and columnist eric margolis believes the chances of that happening are slim. as an old good as a historian all workers things i see are these stumbling towards a possible armed conflict here and it's states there's no strategic interests in
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syria what this is all about and the fact that the us are sensible action here with this pressure on the obama administration to do something the republicans are screaming to do something in so let's hope that the threats and verbal i'm still hoping that there will be a diplomatic solution in the foreign minister has been urging the wording on but chances are receding as political pressure grows and the united states and behind us let's remember that these rare yoopers pushing very hard to do something. overthrowing the government and even support some fronts syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious and ethnic tribal. lines that are just this eleven 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
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happen. to stay tuned for our interview program coming up in twenty minutes as a look at the outside forces fueling the syrian conflict chris yassin head of the syrian friendship association gives his views on what the west has in mind for damascus and the whole middle east in the long term and here's a preview. it's such a powerhouse in the region it's sourced from. the node the big old iran first i have to think of syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next door to bits will be hezbollah in lebanon and one of these two allies or third in outs. they will concentrate one hundred percent on the them. be internal conflict is quickly growing into a regional one would take a look at how turkey might be feeling the effects of the crisis of its southern
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border it's now believed that our current links to the syrian rebels are backfiring or bring you the story interesting here minute. the diplomatic spat over julian continues with ecuador saying it could take the issue to the you were an international court all the details are coming out. attorneys for the inmates had gone time of day say they've been banned from bringing up this subject of torture in 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 shut it down years ago . report. as the saying goes everyone remembers their first walk talk mode will be closed no later than 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
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military commissions act and it here to the geneva conventions i've said repeatedly 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 the advocates to defend its account of his torture in the course of treatment the government's justification for that is that disclosing that information in court could be damaging to u.s. national security interests at a pretrial hearing at guantanamo bay the defense attorneys will challenge u.s.
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secrecy groups and a litany of other restrictions that experts say undermined the right of detainees to receive a fair trial and defense counsel may want to communicate or send a letter you know provide the current updates on news and 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 revealing 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 prisoners were forced to take mind altering drugs often against their will before being interrogated a story first broken by truth out's lead investigative reporter jason leopold what
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the inspector general said was is that detainees were interrogated while they were 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 then 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
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of five suspects the u.s. president meanwhile is campaigning for his second term apparently forgetting about the monumental promise he made when beginning his first marine aboard i am artsy here. and we spoke to colonel morris davis the chief prosecutor at the notorious prison how he explained what caused 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 an argument whether it's morally justified to engage in torture to collect intelligence to maybe prevent an attack this eminent but then to take that same information and hand it over to me. 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
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despite recent economic reforms some full cost per day expansion is set to slide deeper into recession the country's difficulties have seen thousands of people rally a repaired of many months but they are not the only ones suffering as a rush. 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
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a herd of more than ten seven more dead bodies were recently discovered by workers 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 a condition known as did if there are 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 that price are often being sold 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 feast cover our expenses and were 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. 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 use for human consumption and twenty percent is processed into any more food this shelter hasn't seen any state subsidies in four months but private donations ensure it's 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 google standing out for itself in court. but there are still we are peabody and you know so i don't think this judge is either a moron or crazy so there there's there's fire there somewhere so google denies any
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accusations that a bribe blog is to make them support the web giant in a high profile lawsuit plus interest a few moments in our business update with diario. russia joins the world trade organization today amid warnings that it's not the promised land many hope for imports are. putting call me because like gas in particular we speak to experts in business in toronto. is investigating the possibility of syrian involvement in monday's car bombing in texas southeast it rocked an industrial city close to the syrian border claiming the lives of nine people including children take officials were quick to put the blame on kurdish militants who deny any links to the time on for a claim that kurdish separatists are capitalizing on the chaos and told syria and have accused the fund raising of stirring up the conflict by only because of syrian
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soil international relations professor mark almond says the turkey's asking for trouble by supporting syrian opposition right one of the reasons why ankara had been so supporter of bashar assad was that he was very close the border. into turkey what we're now seeing of course is border between turkey and syria is open to incorporation into syria rebels and also. supplies that were open as you all have a blind eye to the border into syria there's always the risk of course porous was more where. there's also a number of. mind is there a risk or religious extremist. group rude. from the men who don't necessarily recognize any water between syria and turkey so we want to create a culture states actually wish to create a kind of color. called we have no great chance of doing so they could cause of
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course the one who trouble in other countries who cause trouble sometimes well there are reduced to minorities who get into he said because along the border. four people have died and over eleven thousand were left without electricity to heavy flooding in russia's southern cross nodar region it happened after a river busted spines due to extreme rainfall they want and huge systems in three villages around the city up top say were also damaged officials say an early warning system works effectively and that's people were successfully evacuated from their homes in time there much as the ministry has sent rescue teams and trucks with drinking water last month more than one hundred forty four people died as flash floods swept through a different possible to reach him. and some other international news in brief for you as the spillover from the syrian conflict
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continues in lebanon at least seven more have died and certitudes three hundred bottles of gun battles raged overnight in its northern city of tripoli the armed forces have been moved to the area in an effort to despise the clashes the fighting between sunni muslims and otherwise have been fueled by the tension in neighboring syria the two countries share a tangled web of ethnic and religious connections. the greek foreign minister antonis samaras says his country needs more time for reforms that's ahead of his meeting with the head of the euro is a to discuss it greece has done enough to ensure its next much needed bailout payment so mars is also due to meet with his french and german counterparts later this week tough spending cuts have already proved hard to swallow for the greeks forcing thousands to rally in protest earlier this year. i could do more in president rafael correa rares says he might turn to the un's international court for help with resolving the case of julian assange it follows comments by
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a sort of justice ministry official that wouldn't be handed to any third country if there was a risk head face the death penalty that that's after the u.k. threatens to enter the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrest him the wiki leaks editor has been staying there to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes which he denies and laws kieth from the u.k. pirate parties that sweden's assurances are not firm enough asan. holds. but it's difficult to see how we will get out to domes and moan. and seems to be returned to try and out of its own or produce from. a mode to staging the ordinary. common ground to third countries don't know. well that's a question of the jest penalty so i don't think these insurance given to.
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you actually satisfy. what needs to happen is that there is actually much stronger assurances coming from sweden now it's correct technically insured since i actually don't have much kind of. finding nature because this is a common practice doing the math to me. time to try and. route. around 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 pace to comment on line in favor of the company's google had been sued by oracle for breach of intellectual property law and its use of and draw its 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
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university christopher chambers believes the internet giant has serious question started so. there's been a jury verdict in the copyright in the actions this is after you know the smoke 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 thing and because oracle who had 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 something was going on here or he just looked and saw you know article upon article blog post upon blog post lining up 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. it's no secret that finland is home to one of the was the largest mobile phone manufacturer is and
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as old as it sounds you know that the sports desk will explain how that's affected the country sports scene it will certainly try to yes indeed you know russian winters are tough when summer's come i absolutely adore it's no snow plenty of sunshine ice cream all that but most of all it's time for the summer silly sports season this is one of the events it's the world more biled throwing championships taking place in finland we've got more and not iran in twenty minutes time plus the rest of the lesser court coming off as well you know. and the w t o isn't the holy grail many fill time daniel is here with us and how big that explained to. us today russia joins the big warnings it won't bring the prices or help troy that much but w. but this of all it's the big benefits. we're now living in the twenty
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first century do we really need to be that don't meet your. absolutely i think is an dispensable part of operating in the global economy operating and then the vironment of bettas competitive that provides the impulses for change really sounds like you view it as a look at the motive for change but other countries such as vietnam say that they are 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 a billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this figure of two to three full but this is really up to each country to decide how much it
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can try to reap from w.t. accession because obviously w.t.r. accession benefits the pound also on the accompanying policies of countries and their companies argentina this week filed a w. two complaint against the european union i can be w. 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 now in the. existence against
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russian exports abroad. in america will screw up cold war trade restrictions on russia within days as the head of the w t o the one nine hundred seventy s. jackson founded commitment balls favored trading with russia although the reasons behind the act of long disappeared. u.s. business will miss elting if washington fails to act fast. the fears of a chinese production bubble are growing or news is false steel mills failed to cut output this month both global demand and missiles prices are falling and then listener fear ignoring those market signals means of bubbles about to burst you traders are cautious ahead of merkel and meeting this week with greece's debt problems the euro's also says that it's in several poised losing some of yesterday's big games moscow is heading for its biggest slide this month as investors cash tuesday's three percent jump on the u.s. and the billionaires race to be russia's richest man is heated up as
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a cup tries do you come good you need mickelson on the left there tip to bob. off his perch off the point chemicals will be subdued last year for a fraction of his current value because it is currently just behind mining magnate with a net sixteen billion dollars he's expected to talk his rival is a good gears up to list on the stock market you're up to your level you know good stuff thank you very much indeed for that update daniel and i'll bring you a recap of today's top stories after a very short break. my
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