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the family or internet activist irish one accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after a phase decades behind bars for downloading i could any documents for public use. now a no suggestions just under i made another slum in belfast and he speaks to both sides in the weeks old flood conflict as they struggle to explain what their demands actually are. on france gives assurances its military operation against the mali islamists will be short and they have warnings the country risks being bogged down in the conflict for follow longer than planned.
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international news live from moscow this is our sea with me you are a ship of our thanks for joining us the product of criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how they found this celebrated internet freedom activist summer swartz have described his recent suicide shorts phase decades in prison after federal prosecutors illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and plan to distribute them for free he has frequently interviewed shorts and our own marina porter nine now takes a closer look at the money and his case. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the
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target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty
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six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach decisions made by officials in the massachusetts u.s. attorney's office and at mit contributed to his death unquote many of swartz's colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the are a says program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress an internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this. ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robinhood one of our producers reached out to him in early january for an interview he declined
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in an e-mail saying that he was under the weather for many years also as did write openly about his ongoing battle with depression and at least one time wrote about the topic of death but his supporters his friends his family members believe that it was him being targeted by the federal government that caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own life reporting from new york. triggered a novel and show tributes on line from leading. a leading and like minded the german from the pirate reinhard believes they put on a punishment schwartz was facing for his activity was a way to. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fines for just downloading some music from the internet was squatting on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.
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store. where the fires came from said they wanted to put the fire on the internet anyway and it was just did a good job doing it i think the system with this case whenever it comes to freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then all the senators all the people in the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is no differences. there same side as hollywood does they are actually fighting for hollywood making the last of them just words this is scaring a very heavy legacy that really difficult to get political but there are a lot of people that have to fight for the same gold will try to go into what is what he was fighting for and i think their political movement that is fighting for . it is the strongest now and will get stronger and there is no risk that this very heavy loss for the internet community will bring
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a stop to the political movement. there's a shaky cam in belfast where dozens of police officers were injured in the latest spate of sectarian violence over the weekend that of western and northern irish capital began when the catholic dominated local council voted to tail the flying of the british flag at the city hall the move was fiercely opposed by loyalist protestants as first reports now there's no end in sight to the violence with the goals vague on both sides of the conflict. been a turbulent time for northern ireland it's been six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the flight city hall sparking. out onto the streets the weekends on saturday we saw some of the worst they like writing that has taken place. we have more than twenty nine police officers that were injured at the weekend and the damage that this is doing. much much further
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reaching. in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly. the riot sparked by the like this speech showing no signs of the baiting at the weekend lewis returning from the protest who passed the nationalist area both sides clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist riot his many in the nationalist community. angry young loyalists of pulling back old sectarian narrative
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a worrying sign to remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way. willing to accept. you have is in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is damaging northern ireland's image around the world well can be done to stop this happening right now what with these people respond to the politicians need to find listen to the people on the street they need to listen to the civilians and. children every day in the cold winter when do you think this is going to stop i don't think it's going to stop i don't really don't think it's going to stop the tough to the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on it but will demand some in fear
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what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority hugo's all beings of the sort of embarrassed majority will silent majority would do is that represents that term g thing is quite embarrassing when you hear that actually using the countries you see in these protests some people who test you see this you know think of belfast we think oh yes we'll have these marches in the grass the entry phase like us when we were coming maybe you could say they're shuffle the good things up in this way oh that's the culture of. the races now and to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full full roger. artsy belfast. still ahead for you this hour putting weapons ahead a welfare with
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a part of the introduction these are all approaching the question big government's priorities as the country splashes the couch hosting another large scale war game but ignores demands for economic change. and germany is said to persuade the greek opposition to better start needs some say bolivians making approaches towards what it believes will be the future leader of the troubled. john says the u.s. and britain are providing support foot's military intervention in mali french troops have been fighting in the african nations says friday to help the government regain the north of from the rebels they seized barrett nine months ago but political rights have barry lund believes a western nation is dealing with the fallout of they can paint in another african nation libya and the current operation or not it will be a long one and it's also part of young france's tradition has its colonial past or
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its great past him again i've seen west africa and also in pages and the french are still not forgotten and i think that's very much part of it also for economic interests there you're talking about a country just north of the mallee which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know he's there is how do you deal was up with a few hundred troops there is a way it's a potentially huge involvement and very long task what happened was after could afy fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him and who had a lot of very here be arms took off and came south and some of them originally from northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time. having their own homeland in northern mali he's with the wires. they
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were better than joined by radical more radical islamic groups and apparently. now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things. and don't forget we have more stories for you on our web site as always including sig badon find a new collection of clubs designed to hide the web of drugs and other means of protection is said to ban baled in london said to aunty dot com to read how one man can do big brother's watch for life. done so that not just cheering cause for the pope's prayer dance as members of the notorious ukrainian government group stage and they could protest right in the heart of the vatican online and got the details what sparked the women's discontent based on.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shelter on the day. your language. could make or without any federal. troops good to consider. to. be great to. choose the stories but in. truth access to. this is the welcome bag and no binding u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has become the target of the latest
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opposition moscow thousands marched in the sun told the council on sunday protesting against that and our correspondent in your piece who know that. the protesters are demanding that the e.u. the authorities abolish the law passed recently which bans americans from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the magnitsky act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states off while eating human rights of the reason why russian lawmakers chose to balance from adopting russian children is due to the meaning of pieces of lobby usually sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue adoption has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of
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a proper legal reaction from american authorities including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and it's fair to say that they do have quite a large number of supporters in society in russia just recently about why the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin we signed the bill in the end asking him to change his mind to abolish this law she explained it by saying that in many cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans and many foreigners but americans in this case they are disabled and they are simply not in. tension. probably the president's press secretary would be responsible to said that i was
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going to put in we'll review this was all just even though it's not an official request but also right before the end of last year one of the russians newspapers managed to gather around what are the thousand signatures now protesting this law and order of the degree also for the president the ball and also that protest also needed to point out that to do to the current agreement between moscow and washington all adoption all those people who have already been able to find the children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to the finalize the process so these kids who are already sort of approved to be adopted be will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. and of course i've got more pictures and videos from the latest opposition rally held in russia had to come for closer look.
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if you do. you believe it. is going to be a bottle of austerity when they german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding firm against the boat in bond austerity strategery alex it's a press is expected to demand international lenders change the terms of the international bailout from greece and political economist yanis varoufakis says there's also a particular reason why germany is interested and this meeting. what we saw a lot was in a position from mrs michael if you talk to him and then find it much harder to stop
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and that was relationship with him once he became president of the french republic similarly mrs bush may well be in government after the next election in the future in greece so germany still have modes of communicating not in order to be either refused to give us a boost to keep us going to be so bullish about that i wrong. thinking but that would be some kind of communication. and let's not have some other international news stories and brave and a government protesters in bahrain have reportedly clashed with police said that he knew of an activist who died after being overcome by tear gas that followed this series of demonstrations urging the current government to step down the uprising in the gulf monarchies started an early twenty levon as the shia majority began its push for greater political freedoms and rights. thousands of
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activists have begun their march on the pakistani capital after their leader voice his discontent with the current political system is all about has tightened security and warned us traitors of possible terrorist attacks some politicians playing the march was initiated by the state military to disrupt the polls ahead of the general election and bring the cleric who has sponsored the movement says the government should deploy drastic reforms and break up the corrupt regime. nigerian military forces claim to have captured a key figure from the islamist group boko haram mohammed as indiana was reportedly caught in the country's northeast and a city believed to be the hospital being surgeons group the government is trying to the islam is group which has recently responsible for thousands of deaths during a time and civilians. israel is increasingly under fire for a settlement plan with the latest wave of international criticism sponsored by the
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forceful eviction of the palestinian project count dozens of anti settlements activists were detained after police raided the site despite an earlier court order preventing the government from such action and were shocked a palestinian man who took part in the nonviolent project and he believes the upcoming israeli election is the reason behind a commotion. five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with the sources of an armed does that by itself is violent but even within the process of actually. many. activists many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even exist. or less but they suffered brutal beatings we had at least six or seven of thought there's an activist treated in the hospital and a lot of them are hostile to see doctors for severe problems that they suffered
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from the beating it's a political issue for. the going ahead with the plan. to connect violent means to them and to do so that they don't want anything with the legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a lectures that are coming out of the netanyahu as to how to take the tough. tough position on on this particular case. meanwhile israel has hosted or it's been called the largest ever multinational air force exercise with more than one hundred fighter planes taking part the combat training came just a couple of months after another large scale military drone conducted jointly with the u.s. under the parliamentary election and just in the country just around the corner a growing number of israelis are questioning such a huge expanse of war games as policy explain. its role in the united states
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military drills be given any they've done in the past thousands of troops and millions of dollars but with social grievances that still need to be addressed and a prime minister looking for votes ahead of early january elections israelis are asking themselves yet again if netanyahu has his priorities straight the ten yo he's a couple lists and under his term as we saw in the last few years of the cleavage between poor and rich will go. the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money and netanyahu is chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing
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more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire i mean what i meant to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sued my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echo the pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us netanyahu couldn't care less he will win again i know this will be the same it's a disgrace. the prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address the concerns of the most i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget in proportion look at. security of society it's more important not.
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choose be access to your doctor. could be some of the ever often. gone under left nothing to live. for precious children. and i on my project shoulders. leave it. on our to. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day
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definition of all i'm a woman i'm a clown i'm married to the stage so people choose to be clowns not because they have fun lives but because they analyze the struggle between good and evil within. your sorrows are hidden behind make up. i want to eliminate that terrible word that starts the letter midget. little people on stage are not some sort of joke or not something to be laughed out or people.

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