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the international and the very heart of moscow. the latest news in the week's top stories here on our team as u.s. investigators dig further into the details behind the boston blast questions are raised over by the washington we want to consider evidence from moscow for granted the f.b.i. from taking action against the suspects. or hawks at their sides in syria amid rumors that the military there has been views in chemical weapons while damascus balance its arsenals are under a law concrete called the charges they are face life. clashes and protests as unemployment records batter the eurozone with even brussels this week sounding the alarm over the cost of it's a strategy. and the official number of guantanamo bay hunger strikers reaches one hundred doubling over the past week as the figure grows so
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does criticism of the harsh methods being used to force feed those who refuse meals . that are to live from moscow with me marina joshie and us media say russia has given the f.b.i. a tape of an intercepted phone conversation between one of the alleged boston bombers and his mother the recording was made back in two thousand and eleven and reportedly contains vague references to jihad and the time russian authorities notified the u.s. that it was concerned over one of the suspects extremist views are just going to she can reports on why moscow's warning failed to prevent the tragedy. in the wake of the boston bombings it's the f.b.i. now bombarded with questions how could they let the alleged boston bomber tamerlan
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to and i have go off the radar after they've been warned about him multiple times over the last two years russia warrant not only the f.b.i. the balance are naive did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball his no question but they dropped the ball here there's no doubt about it she was on the radar and they want to go he's on the russians radar why wasn't he a flare put on him or the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings disrespect repeated warnings from our lawns are now i have someone you tube page full of radical content friends driving a car with a license plate that reads their own easter number one all of this was missed it's possible that they were too down by some preconception of who would be a possible jihadi that they were not able to see something in front of them maybe they work thinking well if these guys are chechen you know they hate the russians they don't hate us politics have been the reason why u.s. authorities failed to connect the dots on tom a lot or not i another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and
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warship devalued the russian record something that the russian president says has to be fixed if we truly undertake a joint effort we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if one more possible the us authorities politicized the intelligence given the fact that russia's concerns had been ignored before you yes ahmad if the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists science was given asylum and now lives in boston. if russia is accused of heinous crimes against innocent people is still seen in the us as a chechen freedom fighter the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states many ask whether tom airline may have learned about bomb making
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on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home but according to a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make from the internet is newsworthy to know that nobody has to travel anywhere or get any specific in person training from some expert somewhere in order to access instructions for making explosives when joe parts are not i woke up this week he reportedly told the authorities that he and his brother were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan many terrorists have tried to politicise their heinous acts but that doesn't change the fact that there are heartless killings but when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist or more political rather than purely law enforcement point of view that could be a recipe for future disasters in washington. reforms also suggest out the mother of the brothers has also been on the raid or the u.s. security services her name appears on the terrorist database more than
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a year before the boston bombings took place a woman asking. cytherea abandoning her american citizenship one of her sons was killed in the police manhunt and the other faces the death penalty zubeidi our turnover however insist that her older son was in fact murdered by police after they captured him alive she reached that conclusion after seeing video of food it's posted online that allegedly shows being put into a police car naked after he was searched for a slow service the next day images of his dead body were released and here's what she had to say at a press conference earlier this week i want to do you know what. you. were really. like we want you out of the line why. why. why. the tension of the city of the suspect has sparked widespread speculation that the bombings word the
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wrecked result of terrorism spreading abroad from russia's north caucasus region that's not the case warning to eurasia atalissa clemence. the chechen nationality or ethnicity of the two prime suspects is actually somewhat misleading for instance they have not actually lived in russia for the last ten years that actual time they spent in the north caucasus appears to be relatively small and there's some disagreement about that and i actually think the most likely outcome is that these guys are probably going to be self radicalized rather than having direct links to militants in the north caucasus details surrounding time alone and his younger brother are somewhat sketchy the moment to go into too much detail would be to speculate too far however there does seem to be some signs around the older brother tamerlan in particular to suggest that he was struggling to adapt to life in the united states which is a sign of previous people who become radicalized in this sort of a way indeed this kind of disengagement with society can often lead people to look
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for alternative sources and indeed radical islam can be one of those kind of people can turn to as as a means to sort of direct their lives. the e.u. also faces the specter of homegrown terrorism an alarming number of young europeans joined the uprising against president asad in syria and that sparked fear they could bring terrorism back home details just ahead. also nato top officer criticizes the e.u. for leaving the united states to bear the financial burden of keeping the lines of float as a fancy dies its effectiveness. hawkish politicians in europe and the u.s. are stepping up their game after accusing syria of using chemical weapons against rebels the mask is though calls the charges brazen lies reminiscent of the build up to the invasion of iraq and its weapons experts are now asking the questions first
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off they say witnesses witness accounts from an alleged sarin gas attack did not match the actual effects of the gas origin's oil samples said to be contaminated in such a strong girl so obscure and form the basis of the accusations but washington london and paris remain undaunted demanding action now to secure syria's chemical weapons stockpiles for historian gerald horne this all sounds very familiar. it's deja vu all over again we will remember the disaster as an adventurous so u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on allegations of weapons of mass destruction proved to be faulty of therefore we must ask some very difficult and searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the battlefield of syria to leverage stories of london and in washington was there was there the possibility of contamination or
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foul play or hanky panky with these samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged. weapons and since we already know the security and divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that some women gave the soldier into the syrian military who was actually collaborating with the rebels watch these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered well native syrians are not the only fire is battling the forces of president bashar asad that tara cheve has voiced concerns over the number of europeans joining the ranks of the rebels the main concern is that europe could see all these people returning radicalized after the conflict and r.t. says our cillian every four pts. serious to you roll calls does already seem to
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spill over some neighboring countries but now it is extended far beyond that it's estimated that hundreds of europeans from fourteen countries mostly young men have joined the rebels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad london based international center for the study of radicalization put the tall figure at six hundred. people here now to build for the media coverage of the radicalization young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son dimitriy wanted saw him sort of radical islam his group had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody. built planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we had a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with a year and we shoot him he's here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer that
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wasn't pontac with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son euan we don't expect that you will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's also why didn't he. was eager to go in self he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago a problem with the u.s. that certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there were some friends who say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us we grew a beard and. started wearing other clothes. created for if we five times a day this rupee would have come into contact with the issue really for belgium a radical islam is a group whose leaders. followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and
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calls justifying the use of violence over there is judgement day if you're if you're a muslim you will you will go to paradise if you're this believer you will go to hell terrorism expert glowed many cases the rise of radicalized us is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually they don't convert because due to make they convert because they were programmed at one moment in down life most of them have no clear political ideas but to fight because the fact if they really didn't meet mr you convinced that. they could be in a sect the conduct of people who have just talked writing them and for the convincing them that to be goodness mean they want to go to so you have to sign or to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paying even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of some of the youth
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fighting in syria have been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they could do short of going to syria themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium ross for anat who runs a very against violent extremism network says monitoring fires returning from syria is essential for the e.u. security. there is a threat which emanates from those individuals who have been radicalized overseas and come back because they are far more effective terrorist operators than individuals just radicalizing in their front room because they only receive training in terms of what their what the europeans can do to counter this threat and it's very important for them to monitor not just people who need it but almost more so individuals coming back because we've seen this happen before and in afghanistan in the eighty's bosnia in the ninety's and iraq in the two thousand
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that those individuals that have gone overseas receive combat training and come back can encourage them to go and do the sent and also can provide training and leadership. a wave of violence swept across iraq this week leaving more than two hundred people dad. fear three could cross the brink into civil war between sunni and shia muslims that's coming up. now we take a look at the investigation into a psychiatric ward fire in the moscow region that killed thirty people this week carol smoking inside of the drug so sided as possible reasons for the high death toll that's coming up shortly. my ski theater i'm a the second to be obese money in stevia to two which is both a cultural contemporary i wanted to logically serve the auditorium so joining me to
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the boat international airport in the very heart of moscow. it's been a disheartening week for the euro. with unemployment in spain breaking twenty seven for santa's reaching a new high and friends figure so grim and sad that they've left brussels questioning the benefits of a stereotype the president of the european commission declared on monday that europe has dropped to slash spending as reached its limit and while there have been a worrying signs of public unrest fresh protests have been held across the eurozone with official polls showing the stress toward the two shifts as more than doubled paul have pulled from the newly launched alternative for germany party says that repeat of blunders by leaders have left little room for optimism. in the petition that the european union especially in the euro states has done such a lot of things and all. the treaties we made and which we had to be kept all the
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time that there is no face of evil in in our exports to stabilize or even to defeat a crisis my impression is that we try again you know to convince our european partners you must do it the german way but the other countries especially in southern europe they have to find their own their own to what they want most important to get back to their old currency i think that these countries are all that's on their own they have to manage their problems for it and they'll treat and the troika has the tools specially not into naturally the two it would help countries like portugal spain or greece. well when the euro crisis raging on the clamor to join the union is dying down coming up in the program. we turn to success the way you know one word the opposition is going to win the general election void by its and message.
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one hundred one town of a bay detainees are now officially on hunger strike and that's the latest number recognized by the u.s. military and it's almost double. told over the past week but the figure is still far lower than the side of by the detainees attorneys they believe as many as one hundred and thirty people are taking part in the protests well that is out of one hundred and sixty six prisoners held the detention center as you can see on the chart here twenty people are now being force fed via nasal tubes and which is said to be an extremely painful procedure and five have been hospitalized although courting to prison authorities their conditions are not life threatening the strike began to protest intrusive searches and mishandling of khurana but law professor jonathan hafetz believes true reason is deeper than that the hunger strikes as military officials themselves have acknowledge are triggered at bottom by the
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system of indefinite detention and the prolonged but you know chuck trial the way forward is to and the system of indefinite detention to repatriate individuals who . are not could be charged with crimes and the the few that are going to be charged should be put for a court and given a trial i mean that's the that's the only way forward that's the only long term solution to the problem otherwise we're going to continue to see hunger strikes. continue to happen things will continue to happen unless the us puts. puts these measures into place and it's just it's just politics that are politics and a lack of political courage a lack of commitment to principles now for a look at what the current time of prisoners have to endure we spoke to clive stafford smith a lawyer representing one of the detainees to watch the full interview here in our team in about twenty minutes time. and china is blaming the united states for
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a barrage of human rights abuses extending far beyond guantanamo bay that's in a report out this week from beijing games filling reasons america has no claim to occupy the global war on high ground. while the same party is that oversaw iceland's economic collapse in two thousand and eight are now poised for a spectacular return to power vote counting is in full swing they're following saturday's parliamentary elections the opposition's victory though is likely to put an end to iceland's session talks with the european union the island nation was desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial lab enthusiasm since wayne reykjavik is seen as widely as a textbook example of the fish and recovery had it all happened without any major sterrett cuts dr stephen a colleague from birmingham city university believes iceland's independence from the e.u.
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is actually helping it to recover. there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that so the question that they they realize that they're sort of their best stretching for recovery is true my isolated or to sort of to be independent as it were europe does not offer salvation i mean what iceland does have is the the fact that it's in rhodes who serves on the edge of the world i mean it's in the sort of the it's an isolated nation. and indeed is an island and so it's effectively as we say in this country it stuck its fingers up at the rest of the world and so we're not given your your money back home what can you do short of invading iceland which was never on the agenda it has been able to sort of to look to its own sort of look after itself if you like for other european economies they're much more interlinked into europe iceland is not and so what he's been able to do is to sort of concentrate on reinventing the things it's good up which it's as i say it is indigenous industries they have
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a soft officer has called for more financial help from the e.u. in order to keep the alliance afloat he's accused the blog of getting a free ride with washington their responsibility for the majority of the fans spanning well they'd already suffered cuts amounting to forty five billion dollars which equals germany's entire military budget and under an alliance his popularity among european soldiers also nosediving as the air number in the block has plummeted well nato survival now depends almost entirely on u.s. spending which makes up almost seventy five per cent of its budget recross of from and activists from stop nato international says u.s. contributions to the alliance are a means of buying influence. the fact that the u.s. is paying seventy five percent or you know the expenses of nato is not so surprising considering what the u.s. gets out of the u.s. can purchase you know the political loyalties of countries and their condition of
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economic destitution and i think it would certainly those meester in europe after the collapse of the socialist war let's recall twelve new members of nato in the post cold war period all incorporated into nato within one decade from one thousand nine hundred two thousand nine hundred thirty year and these are countries that have been forced to send troops and an act of war zone the individual armed forces of each nato nation are going to become less and less national more and more international more and more sort of subservient to brussels and ultimately to washington a more designed for expeditionary adventurous abroad such as those in libya afghanistan in the indian ocean on the mediterranean sea in the balkans and so forth there and to protect their own lands sixty thousand people signed a petition for the u.k. to speed up the granite sand afghan interpreter afghans who helped british troops are now finding themselves in a mercy of and all taliban has branded them anime collaborators.
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and this week a fire broke out a psychiatric ward outside of moscow killing thirty eight patients and staff only three people made it out alive are going off with the scene looking out the possible causes of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse at that tiny psychiatric hospital in the village located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she trying putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly of course we saw the front entrance catch fire we dashed forward and broke the door to one man line and cautiously we try to help others but there was too much smoke and we had to run away one of you locals saw was happening some of them rushed to the hospital to try to help with the fire was already too powerful for them to handle only two patients and that nurse made it out alive while dozens of others didn't and this is a psychiatric hospital and patients are given drugs and investigators say you know
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that could be one of the reasons why so few people made it out alive they say that most of the others it's very likely simply were not able to wake up when the fire started due to the heavy medication another problem is that the nearest fire station is located around thirty miles away from here that combined with bad roads were the reasons why it took over an hour for the first rescue teams to arrive investigators say that some of the patients died from smoke inhalation but most simply burned to death in their beds. the nurse who worked that night is in stable condition in hospital but she is obviously shocked by this terrible and painful experience experts were already able to investigate the building where the fire took place and they see it's most likely that it started in the sofa backing up rumors that one of the patients could have left a lit cigarette on it. it's not allowed to smoke there most probably someone
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lives a cigarette in bed and it all caught fire obviously right now many questions need answering there's lots of uncertain information and contradicting information as well but hopefully the ongoing investigation will help shed some light on the reasons behind one of the worst hospital fires in russia in years you've got this going off our moscow region well stay with us for more of the week's top stories and the latest news there shortly.
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welcome back here with our team now more than two hundred people have been killed across iraq this week in a series of bloody sectarian attacks one of the deadliest to place and how widger near the northern city of kirkuk on tuesday when towns fire fire broke out a security forces raided a sunni anti-government protest camp the clashes stoked anger between sunni and shia muslims that analysts warn could drag iraq into civil war president nouri al maliki said on saturday that violence in neighboring syria is fueling a religious tensions are just this has been taking a look at how the first attack swept across the north of the country. iraq is a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here this is the largely sunni provinces over here is the semi autonomous kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the least wave of violence really began new york your kook this
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is close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tuesday things came to a bloody boiling point when government forces had raided the area the government says that the protesters had opened fire the demonstrators meanwhile say that these security officials are the ones who opened fire first and news of the attacks there in the region had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks and rosell in other areas north of baghdad in the anbar province and people feel that this was perhaps retribution perhaps basically just the straw that broke the camel's back with essentially largely peaceful demonstrations turning into no violence collations and expressions of outrage from these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really see
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a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to go home now they want massive change activists are waiting for the british prime minister to decide on whether to grant asylum to afghan interpreters who worked with u.k. forces during military operations this week sixty thousand supporters signed a petition launched by one of the interpreters he's been forced into hiding by the taliban who consider him an anime collaborator and is a boy who reports there are hundreds like him. it was a dangerous job that required courage many of these translators working on the front line so they're working with soldiers risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their work possible are being left to fend for themselves this is your group or. where you are all sent for those you have to be if i catch you then i would rafi
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worked at camp prince in the helmand province says he gets regular calls from the taliban some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right to settle in the u.k. most times when you when you finish the job and you've done it very well there's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk your life seen by this how about this having collaborated with the enemy and david the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators by the taliban have doubled r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office who are responsible for the interpreter's asylum claims this is the response we've got people who have put their life on the mine for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure it's given by former enterprises with a term forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u
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k. the keyword here is individual for the moment it's a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the person stance is a recognized case by case sign and planes can take months even years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpretations offer them some kind of special program visa program asylum britain's the only country that has an interest or dragging its feet on this we will be involved in events overseas in the future and all military clearly will need to have people helping them but who is going to help our military if they realize that they're not going to help themselves senior military and political figures urging the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy in campaigns gaining momentum over sixty thousand people have signed an online petition urging the british foreign secretary to offer a bulk resettlement program while the politicians think it over and here the men
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that risked their lives to help british forces say that the waiting game is getting deadlier by the day we were helping the people but all they see is that real war with the aggression forces in africa. which are so-called the no two forces or eyes of forces but to every other of the national. aggression forces and once they leave. the people who would and will pay for some wrongdoings of the americans. and interpreters and. london. and to go to our website for a lots more news including the government is considering topping up the state coffers by slapping a tax on bitcoins running it online currency and you can guess that if you are to.
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blame it on thick nicolas sarkozy has been sending u.s. president barack obama lavish gifts worth forty thousand dollars including a designer golf bag and crystal lamps find out what other gifts made it to the white house on our web site. the news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation to rule the day. one of russia's leading opposition activists alexina vali has gone on trial on embezzlement charges he faces up to ten years behind bars for allegedly stealing half a million dollars worth of timber from a state owned company of ali denying the charges insisting it's
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a stitch up and the case against him is purely political he's also facing criminal charges and several other cases which include fraud involving mail deliveries as well as that of an opposition party funds yvonne is a prominent blogger his name is more often associated with a wave of russian opposition protests that started in december twenty seventh. you show us face charges of spying on its citizens a lack of democracy and ingrained discrimination this week after beijing released a report into right abuses in the country china is used to taking flak over how it treats its own citizens but. explains these findings raise questions over whether the u.s. has any right to preach morals to other nations after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the u.s. published its scolding human rights practices report know china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge. let's
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take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints the sounding people and cispa bills to control internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s. government approved interception of private text messages and e-mails for security needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china's single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its wife back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people but the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the when is the largest part of the us reporters dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the
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cheap labor force onset has long been debated beijing hit back with scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic and bullies earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the u.s. report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on all deaths in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty twelve it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it believes should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights. and i will take a look at some of the stories from around the world bangladesh police have again six people over when the factory collapse which killed around three hundred sixty
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people among those arrested were two engineer is responsible for the building's construction and owners of the staff rescuers who have been working around the clock since the tragedy say the voices of survivors can still be heard from under the rubble and are getting weaker nine hundred people are still missing trapped under the debris. in the u.k. hundreds of protesters have marched outside the royal air force base after it started operating in manned aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate and to the program because of the high civilian drone attacks the ministry of defense has confirmed reports that the first man that was seized wife was recently directed from britain the missions are sad to be mostly for surveillance although operators have the option of using those on board weapons. to explosions rock pakistan on sunday in a surge of violence ahead of the may eleventh general election one blast targeted
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a shiite politicians office in the northwestern city of parchin are killing six of his supporters and another five were killed in the city of hot outside the headquarters of a local election candidate follows a series of terrorist attacks in karachi on saturday that killed at least four people no one has so far framed responsibility by the taliban recently threatened political parties that it sees as two secular including those targeted in the attacks. the backstory. of the british resident being all the wind tunnel bay without charge speaks to r.t. and the interview that's in just a few moments coming your way. we are facing a lot of problem you know. because no one thought to drink no good school.
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the last remaining british resident at guantanamo bay says he says he will die there as a result of what he calls systematic torture forty seven year old sachar all the has been at guantanamo bay for more than eleven years now without trial or charge let's now speak to his lawyer clive stafford smith he's also the director of legal action charity reprieve thank you very much for joining us when was the last time you spoke to check on the i spoke to shackle last week on the telephone i was trying to get another i got a message from one of my clients that one of my other clients that he desperately needs to talk again but they're not letting me have another one till next week what did you take in the last. well i'm in the heart of we went on for an hour and it was basically mainly about the hunger strike but i think he was more down he had
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lost a lot more weight in the days between that call and when i'd had before. and he was really concerned that he was fading it's been more than two months now that the hunger strikes how is his health his health was terrible before he started the hunger strike and. do you think when you stop eating for two months he's being horribly abused us unfortunately is taking a very vindictive attitude only much of the camp seems to have an absurd position on how you treat people the colonel said to one of my other clients. we know how to deal with you because i've got children myself. and this response which i thought was quite humorous was if he's treating his children like you treat us we need to send the social services around that is straighten them out when prisoners talk about the be said yourself seeing evidence at that shack is going through what they now call f c a which is forcible cell extraction it's
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a euphemism that's gone through many transitions last years he used to call that. emergency reaction force to check your cold street oppression for us. and what that is is when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six guns dressed up you notice if they're in their outfits come in and basically beaten up to make them do it the pen into the floor and check it describes how this one guy who's three hundred pounds who he sits on and sometimes needs him in the stomach and i've seen the bruises on him from the process this is happening to me time now that because they have a process where anything he asked for they want to just give it turn they send you to him and so if he wants a bottle of water they send the games in if he wants his medicine and they send the kids in and we're told me last i talked to him this is just not asking for his medication anymore because he doesn't want to get beaten up to get it this is one
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of the being to guantanamo bay i've seen very little information about what goes on inside what is it actually like inside the detention camp you see in the breeze is was it was in that place well i've spent my whole life representing people on death row so i've been to most of the death rows of the southern states of america. one time no for all the norms that the military puts out about it is worse than any other country different but first you got the physical treatment of the prisoners there's no prisoner prison nights in states where you could be to prison or up and not get sued into the next millennium so it's worse because no one controls the military. but on another level it's fog with and that psychologically. the military got upset at us way back when when we called it the guantanamo do that because they didn't like the soviet union in the old days so to take that analogy a bit further which i think is totally fair i don't think it was
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