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and charged and given six hundred thirty seven dollars a ticket for no crime other than attempting to do this to the state protest nobody really knows what to make of this week lived in a country where we've always taken for granted the right to protest the right to express our opinion and so a lot of people right now are very very fearful and so there's an attitude that people want to go out they want to challenge this by law they know what's happening is not right but at the same time they're afraid. and coming out the ongoing timeline will tone syria stay with that's what i'm saying. i would live. in eternal silence. invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children sleep soundly at night.
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undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria the syrian government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around to doesn't go position however directs the blame at damascus also and political historian gerald horne explains why he believes the u.n. investigation will bad of hurt. this quiet from the north atlantic countries about this chemical attack speaks volumes that speaks loudly because we all know that if this chemical attack could be pinned on the damascus regime of president all saw that they would have been shelling from the rooftops about it the fact that they're not quiet about it all that we need to know if the investigation is a relative beginner and united nations security council it is possible to have experts from beijing and moscow on the ground investigating but we all know that the rebels and their backers in turkey and israel and in gutter and in saudi arabia
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or putting on a full court press we all saw what happened at the arab league meeting this past week where they were able to maneuver the rebels to take the heat of the all assad regime we all know about the recent entente between turkey and israel which does not bode well for a peaceful resolution of the syrian crisis therefore it seems to me that an attack of this chemical in an investigation of this chemical attack moscow and beijing in particular managers who want. sanctions imposed on iran by the west continue to hang the talks on iran's nuclear program and i just want of international negotiations have wrapped up in kazakhstan bringing no immediate agreement that the talks have been described as helpful as he spoke exclusively to go say to explain his country's position that. chancellor you know make threats against my people and nothing new there is u.s. administrations have level threats and taken hostile action against my people
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including the imposition of sanctions this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they're trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunity and at the moment their brand is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists know how to manage to build a rocket ship and same life creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much of what the actual fact they've done is deny an opportunity for their citizens businesses and corporations to do business with a very lucrative the radian market we also have to note that these sanctions have no legal basis to stand all because many countries including russia and china time and again have expressed their opposition to this. so the u.s. china russia the u.k. france and germany have been opposed to easing economic sanctions in return for
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iran stopping your aim which can cost twenty percent to one says it's responded it with its own set of countable puzzles based on the points made during a previous round of talks a last hour and that mr giuliani also says that while unfortunate over your aim is iran's indispensable right the country may consider suspending it in order to build trust the former head of the iran section at the british foreign and commonwealth office weikel axworthy has it's been a more positive meeting but there's still a long way to go out. what has happened seems to sound good do not close to some previous rounds and i don't think anyone quite yet should expect very dramatic developments with history this dispute is very long running. for a long time there's been. stalemate there's a lack of trust on both sides and i think it takes precisely these sorts of
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developments. gradually shift in position is towards each other to begin to. escape from our stalemate billions of dollars of well hidden offshore accounts have been traced to the world's elite secret stash as belonging to monarchs businessman and high profile politicians such as members of french president francois hollande election campaign team have been leaked investigative report by a group of international journalists and cyber security expert andy whole soul from the u.k. pirate policy points out that irony that some of those tax haven accounts actively promote austerity. some of these people appear to be in positions where they wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with sticking a lot of money onto an office into an offshore tax and it was clearly a disconnect between what people are saying in terms of taxes and austerity especially and what they're actually doing in terms of their personal finances have there been discussions about using this to actually take
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a look at the whole area in the whole industry with a view of regulating it and clearly there is some regulation needed this may well change that having this kind of information have and may well cause this to be a much bigger political issue than a has been for a long time. it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and for most people everybody's known that offshore tax havens exist but haven't really understood the amounts of money involved in this case i think somebody suggested up to thirty two trillion pounds worth of cash assistance in the us. is sent offshore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked are monitored or available to governments that maybe should be so it's a vast amount of inflation it's a vast amount of money and governments don't seem able or moment willing to deal with it as best they can in terms of whistleblowing i think this might well encourage more people to think that they're in a position where they have access to information or data that they don't like the implications of the sort of same way that bradley manning maps on the u.s. may well decide that actually it's best that it gets handed over to journalists whether they are the traditional media companies or the likes of wiki leaks or
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other whistle blowing organizations that may well pop up clearly there is a desire for for this kind of question made public and clearly there is a will by people working within these organizations or with access to this data to make it public. and that turning to some other international news making headlines around the globe hundreds of thousands of muslims have wrong in bangladesh's congress all demanding to blast main rules that would punish those who insult islam they also clashed with government supporters outside the capital resulting in want a us demonstration went on despite a day long nationwide chandon all the muslim dominated country and acted by liberal and secular groups to denounce the rally. the sounds of protest as have marched in spain is that seashell bilbao demonstration against the treatment of prisoners from the basque separatist group. and they're demanding the release of detainees and the abolition of current legislation which they claim is unfair he's
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listed as a terrorist organization by several european countries and calls for creation of an independent state. so deeply including six americans have been killed in afghanistan in two separate incidents three u.s. soldiers and two civilians along with an obgyn doctor died in the country's southern province so both after a suicide bomber detonated a cart full of explosives and other markers civilian was killed in a separate insurgent attack and the country's east u.s. led forces plan to pull out all but troops from afghanistan by twenty four chain become true rains highly volatile with nato troops regulate coming under insurgent attacks. but crippled greek economies box in the headlines as athens resumes talks with international creditors to secure almost ten billion euros they privatize ational natural gas distributor a new property tax and civil service dismissals are seen as crucial steps for the next i.m.f. and bailout deal and as all she is told barton now reports the warning us territory
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has begun talking its toll taking its toll rather even on greece's historic woodland. the rolling forests of northern greece thousands of years old they're now under threat we had out of town and into the woods with the local forest patrol then they find what they're looking for an illegal logging site coming at night in small groups the longest take trees like this possible hundred year old oak is just one tree but if you add up the free for all over the hector the toll starts to look much more serious as the eurozone crisis but deep into greek pockets expensive heating oil became harder and harder to afford now the forests are paying the price to the author nastyass and his team take notes and record the damage but with thousands of hectares coming over the last few years they are hard pushed to keep up with the destruction and there's a bitter irony limiting their work. because of the economic crisis we can't afford
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enough fuel to patrol the area and stop this disaster that are still. elsewhere in the natural says area and lives up a stylus he has smoke coming from his chimney a cat on the garden wall and a pile of logs in his shed he says he's not involved in the illegal logging trade but with heating oil costs running to two thousand euros over the winter months and would priced at just five hundred he understands those who do. they are forced to go and cut wood illegally because they have to pay all these taxes that the government forces on us back in the forest are patrol goes deeper evidence of the tree felling appears around every corner of. the local government is trying to clamp down but is torn between that and sympathy for greeks who are struggling under severe economic hardship in other words where these are all going to are people who have been in isolated villages for the last two years they can't afford you can or will so. some financial aid has been planned to help people afford
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winter heating oil but no funding has yet been provided for it so until heating oil does somehow become cheaper. the timber will continue to fall up a storm is happy that his word is affordable and comes from legal sources but others here can't or won't pay a result they say of a crisis brought right into the home tom barton r.t. the village of arrested northern greece. the president of yemen has been in russia for the first time since taking office last year and cheering his state mr hardass poker i'll see and laid out plans for the country's future. and with mr president welcome to r.t. hello. mr president good subjects to discuss with the russian president vladimir
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putin during your meeting. first of all i'd like to thank artie's arabic channel for what it's been doing for the arab world as a whole and yemen in particular this is my first visit to russia since i was elected in two thousand and twelve i came to thank the russian government and mr putin for supporting the people of yemen at the time of the crisis in twenty eleven yemen was on the brink of civil war but its political forces the ruling party opposition parties together with our social youth and women's organizations agreed that we should take the way of peace and stop the civil war that had been raging in our capital city center for more than a year we all agreed that we were going to act according to the gulf cooperation council initiative and its implementation mechanism we then held an early election on february twenty fourth two thousand and twelve a compromise president was elected and we continued to establish peace in yemen according to the mechanism i mentioned above but we also managed to stop the hostilities in santa and other provinces because as you know the army and security
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forces were divided tribes were divided and the capital itself was divided and people went to polling stations while they were still barricades and guns on the streets because they wanted peace not war now we're moving towards implementing the initiative put forward by the gulf countries and establishing ceasefire as well as withdrawing troops and forming a national coalition government the national consensus government was formed in such a way that the prime minister represented the opposition and the president was from the ruling party i was chosen to be president in the nature of a compromise we are following the plan outlined in the initiative we promise to fix water and energy supplies open the roads that connect the provinces we as well as the militants withdraw our forces and send them to the free abyan province from al qaeda militia made up from the local population helped us to do that we forced al-qaeda out of abidjan and we've partially freed shower province. we have started
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refresher training and the reorganization of our military and now in the process of countrywide restructuring of our military forces the interior ministry and all its departments all in accordance with the initiative a special commission made up from our jordanian and american experts is giving us a hand with that there's also a u. commission working with jordanian counterparts that helps us restructure our interior ministry what we're doing now is basically building up our military and security forces from scratch where you find bugs on the path of a national reconciliation dialogue i talked about all these things with russia's president vladimir putin as russia is one of the five permanent members of the security council which backs the gulf cooperation council initiative and the mechanism of its implementation we discussed a number of standards that our armed forces is supposed to meet as you know the weapons we use in yemen were made in russia as well as tanks planes and helicopters
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the lifespan of some of these weapons has expired and we agreed to continue military cooperation in this failed we spoke about economic issues and i also thank russia for preventing yemen from degenerating into a civil war russia has played a role in this by taking a firm stance to support the gulf initiative a civil war in yemen could have reverberations both across the arab world and the global community. the monocle mr president earlier you mentioned our military relations with russia so we expect any agreements to be signed in this area in the future even though models here. well. we've got plenty of long term military agreements with russia i informed president putin that other countries have provided him in with financial help in order to help it out of the crisis we do ask for support but we do not want russia to simply invest into yemen we would like russian companies to help us extend the working life span to fight isn't cargo aircraft tanks motor vehicles and supply replacement parts to us about how the
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f.e.m.a. has to come up the national dialogue conference is now about a little and why and how would you estimate the results that have been achieved so far after two months of work when you might have a model. this is the first conference if there isn't a mind held in yemen or any other arab country at all we've been preparing this conference for six months abiding by the initiative states and its implementation mechanism this national dialogue is now underway and it's going to last six months or more that one of the issues will be placed into nine main divisions the discussion will kick off with a dressing down problems of the southern part of the country and then we will move on to problems inside our province or issues and national building in yemen with seventy five percent of the population is under forty five years old so this new young generation is looking forward to change and these changes can be carried out by the previous generation which has been in power for fifty years and the new
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generation must take part in building their own future that is the reason why the youth will mean civil society organizations small parties and new parties established off the events are involved in the dialogue and there will be five hundred sixty five representatives from these groups and they all will be a party to the process and the dialogue will be headed by the president of the republic of yemen he will be guided by the needs of all social layers so what needs changes for fifty years they've been internal conflicts going on in the. country in the past there was north yemen and south yemen and there was bad blood between the two states in one thousand and ninety they were unified in the republican but even this move didn't make the parties adjust their course so it led to the war of ninety ninety four one party pushed another aside from power up but such actions don't fit with modern conceptions you can't just overthrow another party the people
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of yemen have found themselves in a crossroads choosing between a civil war and nationwide reconsolidation whereby the system of governance would be reformed peacefully so that none of the communities would feel oppressed and discriminated yemen is in a complicated economic situation right now in the one nine hundred sixty s. we launched a bold campaign to eradicate illiteracy poverty and disease it is a war but fifty years on we still find ourselves living hand in hand with illiteracy and diseases. even though there have been reports in the media and the destruction of a terrorist network those planning attacks in order to prevent dialogue i made a public statement as well mr president kind of saying that our forces at the center to upset all efforts of reconciliation who do you think might be indestructible commission a nationwide dialogue for a sea of consolidated in yemen and more. hu whenever there is a change underway there are those who support it and those who oppose it there are
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also domestic and external players for example iran doesn't like it that yemen should deal with its issues at its own discretion they have a different attitude and different methods we arrested their vessels and they are wrong as i requested them to help yemen and resolving is a problem but rather than export more problems in. britain with poverty we have six million people aged between fifteen and twenty eight who are unemployed we have six hundred thousand university graduates from both humanitarian and technical schools and others spent the last ten years looking for employment some of them despair and commit suicide and some of them join al qaida that's why we don't want our friends and neighbors to export more problems into the country if we can barely handle our existing difficulties eleven and we don't want to have weapons smuggled into our country so it was yemen is already one of the most heavily armed nation. father believes that unemployment has been one of the reasons for the increase in al qaeda
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is a presence in yemen. yes. the government had a plan to combat al qaeda in yemen and you did take some of its presence in yemen what kind of a little autonomy isn't it possible to say today and the al qaeda network in the country has been destroyed how you can call on and. let the al-qaeda has not been destroyed completely just as it hasn't been destroyed in any particular country there is no kind of presence in the united states there is an al qaeda in europe there is al qaeda in russia and in any country it maintains its presence by way of the so-called sleeper cells al-qaeda has become a network without borders as we were wrestling out beyond from them we came across al qaeda fighters who would come over from pakistan chechnya europe the us and other places that intended to establish their own government in yemen and when hostilities broke out in the sand i they thought it was time to set up their government in abuja but with god's help and with the support from popular
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communities our military security forces managed to take down the government that al-qaeda was trying to impose on the province however they still have their sleeper cells in some parts of yemen as well as outside the country. the government of yemen is address the united states with several requests to have you many inmates of kuantan will be on the parwan detention facility in bagram afghanistan return to yemen why has this issue remained unresolved to date. i spoke with the u.s. justice secretary during my visit to the united states that we've agreed that they would hand over to us every yemeni national detained at one time obey and we have made arrangements and we're now moving towards a transfer of detainees under those conditions i hope we'll have this accomplished and then there is future we believe that keeping someone in detention for over ten . years without due process is a clear cut tyranny and he will be difficult to rehabilitate someone who's been
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through such an excruciating experience thought of me like ten years of imprisonment without due process the united states is fond of talking democracy and human rights but when we were discussing the prisoner issue with the american justice secretary he had nothing to say i told him your country is always out there promoting liberty and human rights so are you ok with someone being kept in your prison for ten years without due process he said personally i'm not happy with that so we made a deal to have them handed over to yemen as soon as possible before. god willing it will be done. anything of the russian street and represent us and what we. should we expect more of you know what i'm three and russia and then you can see all of my. models here. yemen is open. for all the. oil exploration of fact there are several areas with
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supposed the oil fields in our country thirty four companies including russian ones began drilling. into the twenty eleven events we're going to ask these companies to return to the same area where they intended to begin developing what they spend two three years on a geological survey all they had to do was to start a drilling some of the russian companies discovered natural gas one exploring oil but they all some of the gas field held talks and asked them to return but there was sort of a natural gas is considered to be more valuable because it's one of the source is some of the cement and other industries are running on gas it doesn't. mr president it's actually a bigger message to the people of yemen it's a moment. and i'm telling you the public may not be for leave in dialogue but those who have elected a cause they take down the road and i mean it's just
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a sign and it's really not you yamin aspiring level we wish you had success in the dialogue we wish you to him in another the shore of stability and security want to know what the medical history of safety was awarded in your b.m. i knew that but i managed to get high so question. i mean so can only a city in europe come the host of the twenty fourteen winter the fish. c. a a. a. such. a. way a. dog days of. pride days it. makes common. sense says it's so
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