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today's news and the top stories that shape the week on our team the f.b.i. reportedly gets a russian wiretap where one of the alleged boston terrorists told to jihad look at why the u.s. might have dropped the ball on russia's wants two years ago. the u.s. and britain cite evidence of the syrian government using chemical weapons and made accusations their rhetoric sounds all too familiar with that preceded western intervention in iraq. no jobs no hope the new grim figures a problem violence in spain while the e.u. why did despair leaves iceland to cool on joining the struggling union. and a one hundred one tunnel prisoners are now on hunger strike the official number more than doubling since the military trying to break the months long protests by force
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. live from moscow you're watching artes of the weekend with me tom with day russia has reportedly given the f.b.i. the table of a phone call between one of the boston bombing suspects and his mother where they discuss the d.g. hide its soldier have been secretly recorded in two thousand and eleven their russia want the u.s. of all to one of the thumb my brother's radical religious views the u.s. found nothing suspicious about making checks his arteries gannets as you can on why the f.b.i. might have failed to take proper action. 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 and i have go off the radar after they've been warned about him multiple times over
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the last two years russia warned not only the f.b.i. about terrell uncertain i have did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball his no question he dropped the ball here there's no doubt about it she was on the radar and they let him go he's on the russians radar and why wasn't he a fly on i don't want to wear 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 east the 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 may have been the reason why u.s. authorities failed to connect the dots on tom along and i have another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and warship devalued the russian
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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 knew about science or was given asylum and now lives in boston off meds for russia's accuse 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 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 or lon may have learned about bomb making on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home according to
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a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make bombs from the internet which 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 farts are now if 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 when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist problem or political rather than purely law enforcement point of view that could be a recipe for future disasters in washington i'm going to stick on. justice and i have alleged confessions at the boston attacks well motivated by america's actions in the muslim world every night a debate about u.s. policies abroad they had its eventual dot com believes that getting involved in
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foreign conflicts has increased the terrorist threat at home. the fact that they cite us foreign policy as a motivator in fact for their attack shouldn't be really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know in a rock and and a stamp in pakistan and yemen palestine conflict and on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the muslim world to simply make his secret the bush administration is quite open obama has chosen to make all of this covert he's done the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia
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a lot of this is still going on and he still generating. it's hatred from a lot of people who resent us aggression. the mother of the boston marathon bombing suspects was added to a federal terrorism database eighteen months before the attack american officials will reveal that detail of her she accused police of murdering her eldest son. who was alive what they. want to know. on our t.v. dot com find out how she bases her accusations on the inconsistency is in the upper reaches account in the manhunt for this and i have brothers. britain and the u.s. the center this week there's growing evidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons the u.s. has warned that the use of such arms out crosses the red line is already called for intervention but the u.n.
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says the assertions do not meet its standard of proof while arms experts say witness accounts don't tally with the facts of the weapons historian gerald horne says or seen at this rhetoric before. it's deja vu all over again we will remember the disaster as an adventurous u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on allegations of weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty 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 vattel field of syria to laboratories of wonder and in washington was there or was there the possibility of contamination or file play or hanky panky with the samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know the next six divisions within the military is driving the conflict in
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both syria and iraq how do we know that some renegade soldier in the syrian military who is 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. syrians are not the only finals battling against president assad of the e.u.'s anti terror chief has warned that europeans traveling to syria to join the rebel could pose a threat on their return fears are growing up that impressionable young muslims could come into contact with a flame as factions of the opposition. reports. syria's two year old conflict is already seen to 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
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bashar al assad london based international center for the study verticalization put the tall figure at six hundred. full hearing down to build for the read it cover and shot the radicalization young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son i do believe she wanted son had joined a radical islamic group and had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring his son back. bill planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had contact with you you can reassure him he's here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who's in constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son. we don't expect that you will send me to see writing that's that's clear so that's also why
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i didn't. watch the game since he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago probably to us that certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there was some frances am. ok come with us and very slowly it started that he was really influenced and really brave to us we grew beards. started wearing other clothes. pritchett for every five times a day this ruby you had come into contact with isha rhea for belgium a radical islam is group whose leader followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence over there is judgement day if you're if you're a muslim you are you will go to paradise if you are this believer you know you will go to hell terrorism expert glowed many cases the rise of radicalized this is
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alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually they don't convert because dude they convert because of a problem at one moment in their life most of them have no clear political ideas and they go to fight because the fact if they were they don't meet listen to convince them. they could be in a sect because the trapped in the net of people who have just talked writing them and for the convincing them that to be goodness team they want to go to so you have to sign no to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paying even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of some the youth fighting in syria have been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they can do short of going to syria themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia
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r.t. in belgium. you know where there are be more stories coming up a little in the program including afghan interpreters who helped british troops are now finding themselves at the mercy of the taliban which has branded them enemy collaborators. but it's not just the u.s. pointing fingers over human rights now beijing's laid into washington's violations after being mentioned on america's addle blame list. the eurozone and troubled week with protests taking place in several crisis head countries in spain almost thirty people were injured in clashes with police while over thousand protesters voiced their anger over a new record high unemployment figures the jobless rate as a profile of greece and in portugal the discontented comes as official polls show that trust in the e.u. institutions has reached an all time low the leader of the u.k.
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independence party told us that anyone with money invested in the single currency zone is now at risk. big investors should be worried about euro zone particular southern europe i mean i have been pondering is it what would happen when spain finally went back how would they possibly deal with the sheer scale of the bailout that would be needed which perhaps would be five or six hundred billion euros after this happened without huge american support of lobel help because what cyprus has done is give us the template of the what they will do in future is they won't by all countries. i will do it by stealing in protecting their properties and by forcing central banks into selling their holdings of gold i mean this is a truly a. situation so my advice to people is if you own property i've got my girl and so eurozone getting only how well do you because it's pretty clear that is their plan to go from their old river into one of these countries that are in trouble with the
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euro zone they were set to give it up parliamentary democracy and they did over there. arrogant troika. is going to break up the economics that break it up it may be civil disobedience or violence on a very large scale that eventually gets some of those mediterranean countries out. of the big question what is the european union for. well the years financial crisis is still running hard life sleds are getting cold feet over joining when we come back we report on the island nation that bounce back but things aren't as have turned decidedly euro skeptic. ski theatre on may the second to be a few new money in stevia to choose which is both a cultural contemporary i don't know logically survey or gory of the moment say on our t m a the second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best
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welcome back you're watching our team the number of hunger striking guantanamo prisoners suck knowledge by jail officials jumped into a hundred the squeak the figures has doubled this is the bill a tree conducted of wine and raid in the facility forcefully moving inmates refusing food to single men cells and imposing a lockdown two weeks ago but the numbers. still fondo of them some of the detainees attorneys claim now they believe as many as one hundred thirty people are taking part in the protests against mistreatment and indefinite detention many refusing food for almost three months now either way it's more than the house all of a hundred and sixty six prisoners current held the tents into what small twenty people are now being force fed a structure to a chair with a tube down their nose and throat and five inmates have now been hospitalized although prison authorities say their conditions are not life threatening clive stafford smith who's a lawyer for several detainees are shared with us some examples of the mistreatment
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that could have prompted the hunger strike when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six dressed up you notice if they're in darth vader outfits come in and basically better not to make him do that and into the floor and check it describes how this one guy who's three hundred pounds sits on and sometimes knees in the stomach and i've seen the bruises on him from this process every time i'm there and this comes up i write to the admiral in charge of the general in charge i've never yet got a reply from him i mean that one can do is complain loudly and tell the world when you get out what you see in this change there because unfortunately the federal judge. for all charge of cases through just last week that he has no jurisdiction to order the military to behave better under the circumstances. later the solemn hear more from clive stafford smith
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a lawyer for fifty one knees and today the last remaining british citizen and it's also available online at r.t. dot com. iceland is drifting away from the e.u. a euro skeptic opposition parties won moyes votes in apollo entry elections which is not expected to form a ruling coalition the opposition's a victory is likely to put an end on i flynn fashion talks with a european union that had been desperate to join in the office amount of its financial collapse but enthusiasm has since lames. is widely seen as a textbook example of official covering the itself the play stop comma says iceland has a nothing to gain from e.u. membership i believe it's because they are against joining the euro and i believe that's what the icelanders are voting for now is not to get into the euro which is which the socialists were doing they were to go shooting back with some sticking points but i think the senators just said they don't want to join the euro they're
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doing quite fine with their own right now they get almost all the benefits of belonging to the european union i think they belong to their trade already there their trade you again so they have all those benefits and they keep their own currency i would say that their main problem is that they need to keep their own currency to recover just as all that is doing now in fact the last. canada is planning to coin it in a with the new do chill dollar all mine we haven't they considering topping up state coffers stopping attacks on the queen's renegade online pharmacy. and presidential perks of former french leader nicholas because he sent barack obama lavish gifts with forty thousand a designer golf bag and crystal let's find out what other goodies made it to the white house and out.
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today violence is once again. these are the images the world has been seeing on the streets of canada. during operation through the. nato supreme allied commander in europe has got american traditions to the alliances defense spending and of balance and accuse the e.u. of getting a free ride of washington's expense is not the first to sound the alarm over europe shrinking military spending let's see how that trend has affected nato so far now together european their nations have slashed these forty five a billion u.s. dollars to germany's and tie up military budget the cuts have led to military personnel in european they to save declining more than twenty five of the century down to survival now depends almost entirely on who is spending which makes up
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almost seventy five percent of the budget by dreger rose often activism from stop made to international says u.s. contributions to the alliance saw a mainstay 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 lloyd's of countries and the condition of our economic just the duration and i think particularly those in eastern europe after the collapse of the socialist war let's recall twelve new members of nato in the post cold war if you're all going to meet in one decade from one thousand nine hundred two thousand nine hundred thirty year and these are countries that have been forced to send troops that would act of war zone the individual armed forces of each nato nation are going to become less and less mass more and more and more internet more and more sort of subservient to brussels and ultimately to washington a more design for expeditionary adventure such as those in libya afghanistan in the
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indian ocean in the mediterranean sea in the balkans and so forth to protect their own rights. activists some waiting for the british prime minister to decide on whether to grant asylum to afghan interpreters who worked for u.k. forces showing military operations this week sixty thousand supporters signed a petition launched by one of the intemperate says he's been forced into hiding by the taliban who consider him an enemy collaborate to as artie's point to reports that hundreds a lot have. it was a dangerous job that required courage many of these translators are 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. shadows. or you are all sent for those you have to be if i catch your then
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i would if you rafi were to camp prince in the helmand province because 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 if it's a threat it's a pretty life but seen by this how about this having brought it with the enemy and dave in 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 the life on the mine for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former interpreters with a term forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u.k. . the key word here is individual for the moment it's
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a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the personal circumstances are recognised case by case the sign of claims can take months and years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpretations of 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 in events overseas in the future tree clearly will have people helping them but who is going to help our military if they realise they're not going to help themselves see a military and pick a figure urging the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy and 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 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 we were
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with the aggression forces in afghanistan which are so-called the no two forces or ice of forces but to every other national. aggression forces and once they leave. the people who be endangered and will pay for us to some wrongdoings of the americans who we deserve can interpret there from. r.t. london. a wave of sectarian violence cost over two hundred deaths in iraq this week with bloodshed spreading across the country look at the deepening division between the sunni's and the shiites which is feared to be driving the state toward civil war. and a more bodies are identified after the inferno the russian mental facility where investigators suspect hello smoking to be behind the fire more on that later in the
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program. beijing's a bit in back over because of global audits of inequality high crime and human rights violations the annual report highlights of cummings in china so it's issued with one of its own alexia chef skis taking a look after years of all the accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the u.s. published its scalding human rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge. let's 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
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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 a 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 can brains which really decide the winner is the largest part of the us report was dedicated one writes 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 cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic employees 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 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
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human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on 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 counter claims of who it believes get its own house in order it is quite clear beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights the news continues here on our athena few minutes when we take a look at one of russia's leading opposition activists is facing embezzlement charges de stay with us.
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welcome back sectarian violence in iraq has led to two hundred deaths of this week it's not at all to with a deadly fight a fire fight in the north the way the military raided the sunni anti-government protest camp more than fifty civilians died in chooses attack the bloodshed continues throughout the week a with the latest incident claiming ten more lives during a rally near the country's capital with no sign of peace between the sunni and the ruling shia communities iraq's prime minister warns the state is dragging itself into a civil war which is mr geffen of was in iraq of this week his whole report. 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 that the latest wave of violence really began cure kook this is
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close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tuesday thinking to a bloody boiling point when the 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 and how we had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks in mosul 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 now violent escalations 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 be the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really
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see a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to hold now they want massive change political analyst to dengate sprigs says iraq's current violence is easily traced back to the western invasion. i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was adopted about six years ago by the u.s. and saudi arabia in particular if you look at the way that the occupying powers are behaved ever since two thousand and three since the start of the iraqi occupation they've done everything it seems possible to try and all men sectarianism the constitution introduced was completely based on confessional identity not on national citizenship sunni militias were to be equipped financed armed by saudi arabia and qatar in order to wage basically sectarian war against shia muslims and we know that these two powers set saudi arabia and qatar and the forefront of representing imperial u.s. and british interests in the region so nothing gets done without the say so of
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these other powers. one of russia's leading opposition activists the anti corruption campaigner lexan of army went on trial this week on embezzlement charges he's accused of setting her familiar as it was of timber from a state owned company when serving as an aide to the local government and could get ten years prison if convicted of all he denies the charges calling them bogus and that the case against him is purely a political problem blogger and kremlin critic was behind a spike in russia's wave of protests that started in december two thousand and eleven while earlier being often associated with the nationalist movement recently he publicly stated his willingness to eventually run for president. now a quick look at some of sunday's world news an apartment block has collapsed in order in front of leaving at least two people did nine others were injured when a suspected gas leak exploded at the four story building rescue teams have been deployed to try retrieving bodies from under the rubble of the destroyed complex.
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two police officers have been shot a did they tell you prime minister's office in rome the killings came as a legal letter on his cabinet who were being sworn to add to the president's palace a man has been arrested and it's not clear if today's events are linked it's a democrat led earlier this week a wish put an end to a two month political stalemate. hundreds of protesters that march outside a royal air force base in a bridge and not extracted operating unmanned aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate end to the program because of the high number of civilian deaths and linked to drone attacks the ministry of defense confront reports that the first unmanned overseas flight was used to directed from britain the missions are certain be mostly for surveillance but are equipped with on board weapons. two explosions rocked pakistan on sunday in a surge of violence leading to the may eleventh general election one last august it
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is shiite have. politicians office in the northwestern city of partition are killing six obviously porters another five were killed in the city of course headquarters of a local election candidate that follows a series of terrorist attacks in karachi on saturday that killed at least four people no one's admitted they have to the attacks but of the taliban recently threatened political parties that it sees as to search. nine victims killed in a fire in a psychiatric ward near moscow friday have been identified the blazer claimed a total of thirty eight lives with investigators still scrambling to find the exact cause you gold piece was at the scene of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse that tiny psychiatric hospital in the millage located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she tried putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly so that of course we saw the
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front entrance catch fire we dashed forward and broke the door we saw one man line and cautiously we try to help others but there was too much smoke and we had to run away one view local 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 that could be one of the reasons why so few people meted out alive they say that most of the others very likely simply were not able to wake up when the fire started due to the 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 burns to
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death in their beds. the nurse who worked that night is in stable condition in hospital but she is obviously shocked by this terrible 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 worth of you're not allowed to smoke that much most probably someone lit is cigarette in bed and it 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. up next to the loyal the last remaining british national held at guantanamo without charge speaks to our team in
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a few minutes. we are facing a lot of problem. because no one to drink no good school. mates when you feel. other local what's not enough wealth is a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g. motion will be used. you've just done for a match up artist i was fired i must fight so. i'll fight. fight for rights.
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international airport in the very heart of moscow. 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 sucker all the has been at guantanamo bay for more than eleven years now without trial or charge let's now speak to his lawyer clyde stuff that's miss 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 second on the i spoke to shaq the last week on the telephone
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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 would you take in the loft and say well i'm in the heart and we went on for an hour and it was basically mainly about the hunger strike but i think he was more down he had 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 that hunger strikes you know how's his health his health was terrible before he started the hunger strike and you know do you think when you stop eating for two months he's being horribly abused i mean the u.s. unfortunately is taking a very vindictive attitude the camel in charge 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
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i thought was quite humorous was if he's treating his children like he treats us we need to send the social services around that to straighten out when prisoners talk about obesity yourselves seeing evidence of that shack is going through what they now call f c a which is forcible cell extraction it's a euphemism that's gone through many transitions the last several years they used to call it. emergency reaction force which shakhter called the repression for us. and what that is is when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six being 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 to describe how this one guy who's three hundred pounds to sits on and sometimes knees him in the stomach and i've seen the bruises on him from this process this is happening to move time right now because they have
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a process where anything he asks for they won't just give it to him they send scene team and so if he wants a bottle of water they send the games and if he wants his medicine they send the goons and what he told me last i talked to him this is just not asking for his medication at all because he doesn't want to get beat not to get it but this is one of the being to guantanamo bay has seen very little information about what goes on inside what is it actually like inside the detention camp you see in the breeze is well see this in the 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 . guantanamo for all the norms that the military puts out about it is worse than any other. country different the first you go to the physic. treatment of the prisoners there's no prisoner prison in the united states where you could be to
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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 followed with and that psychologically. the military go to upset or just way back when when we called it the guantanamo do that because they didn't like the echoes of 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 a given that in soviet russia where fifty two percent of the prisoners had been told that they were cleared for release but they couldn't go i mean is that sort of torture that's with than anything you hear in other places eighty six out of one hundred sixty six prisoners have been told that but they can't go shackle was told he was cleared in two thousand and seven by bush two thousand and nine by obama he's still there and there is no legitimate reason why he can't come back to london tomorrow or talk about him being clearly and there's new information that's come to
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light recently that the foreign secretary william hague well tell us what he said what the new information that just came to light you dissent from ation which is william hague the british foreign secretary wrote to me saying that he had been told by the americans that shaq arizonan the kid to go to saudi arabia not to britain well that's total drivel there's no other person i know of out of one hundred sixty six people in guantanamo who's been cleared to go to one place shaq has never been told he's only kid to go to one place he's been given two notices neither of which say that now there's a reason for it and the reason is they want to gag him and the people who want to gag him is not just the united states the u.s. wants him to go to saudi arabia on the premise that the saudis will keep him banged up forever he won't be able to talk to the media and he won't talk to anyone so certainly the u.s. would like to.
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