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and. turkish police clashed with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over taken support for the armed rebels. sectarian groups the deep in iraq with one hundred thirty people killed since wednesday some of the worst bloodshed walking feel as a return to separate civil war. lots of the u.s. immigration system faces tough questions of murders of that an inspector national arrested on terrorism charges brought into the country illegally three years ago.
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welcome to our chief first call has crashed into a crowd of hikers in the u.s. state of virginia injuring at least fifty people now several of the hikers who were taking part in this parade said to be in a critical condition police are investigating the cause of the accident witnesses say the car had a handicap sticker just in the driver may have a medical condition. and in other news turkish police have five to guess protesters in a town in near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago saturday is undress while a similar clashes in is tim bolen ancora demonstrators are angry of a tricky support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks in the firing line journalism money well. covered the syrian crisis extensively says uncle is aggravating the conflict. the turkish demonstrators the turkish people is
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upset because of what was happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a fire starter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder that the fire starter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing the border from turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorists training camps. turkey is giving supply in a lot of means and turkey is right now acting like a hostile power towards the moscow's if it's a the so-called. more moderate rebels claim a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the front the troops that culminates in the fight against hamas because so if the west helps us
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now or turkey says we support the moderate rebel it's it's not true because nobody can assure that a gun comes from the hand of the so-called moderate rebel in the hand office will call to extremist rebel i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. in syria state media have just reported a powerful explosion in the capital damascus at least three people are reported did and several injured in the blast is believed to have been caused by a car bomb will of course bring you more updates on the story as we get them. meanwhile the u.s. state department has dismissed a media report said russia recently delivered advents cruise missiles to syria officials say the armaments were in fact shipped more than a year ago with no violations of international law russia has long stresses applies to damascus in accordance with contracts signed before the syrian crisis broke out
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more than two years ago moscow says it's not supplying any weapons that could be used against civilians and it's not striking any new arms shipment deals with damascus the u.s. and its allies or some of whom are directly arming the rebels have criticized russia's ties with syria but moscow maintains it's not supporting any side of the conflict and has been trying to mediate peace through diplomacy. iraq's again finding itself torn apart by bombs and sectarian strife with saturday bringing sixteen new deaths across the country gunmen have killed and to terrorism police officer and his family in his own home in baghdad or eight of his colleagues were abducted on a desert road west of the capital now on friday at these seventy six people died in a series of blasts iraq's deadliest day in over eight months the worst attack came when two bomb exploded outside a sunni mosque in baquba killing more than four dozen people the government is deadlocked with iraq's or soon is to insist they've been marginalized ever since
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u.s. troops topple saddam hussein keith ellison is a u.s. congressman who believes america must clean up the mess they created. i think we have an obligation to string gauge with the work. diplomatically and developmentally. militarily. i don't i i am not convinced that we can as meaningful improvement to the situation with some point our role in iraq militarily needs to come to him and even if there is horrible military violence going on there i mean the question has to be raised is our reengagement going to help i doubt that seriously but what i think we do need to do is to remember that we helped create these conditions and we haven't are going obligation and you know we've got to make sure that i mean if we can play a diplomatic role to help cease the violence we can certainly help rebuild this
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country i think we have a moral obligation to do so because we opted to par. one expert on pace war in iraq a told us how he believes some nations are trying to use iraq's sectarian groups to break up the entire region you know. at the orphanage through the fire i mean. created all this you know it's. you know they see this. as one big. issue to break up the whole region into. all the really. and. the i mean defense against foreign intervention in the region this whole situation. and it's to break up the government including iraq. coming up in the program cutting corners not just by promising to tackle avoidance one point after
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having a british distinctions and the billions of dollars being siphoned into profits are starting to develop in countries the most. and is based on national has been arrested on federal terrorism charges in the u.s. he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihad dismiss meant the man had entered american legal just like the boston bombers and the incident has changed freshly is that the washington's a fading to screen potential terrorists as marina but i explained. the year old was back said national has been arrested on a federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily admitted to the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged proselyte jean-paul but often with conspiring to provide material support to the islamic movement of uzbekistan an american designated terrorist organization put off he was arrested in boise idaho where he
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has lived since immigrating to the u.s. house of nine but what's not clear is how a man allegedly tied to a terrorist network was able to bypass the u.s. is a seven hundred billion dollar national security apparatus and enter the country some would argue that homeland security officials should have thoroughly vetted it was back and rejected his application for refugee status but when it comes to the u.s. homeland security system expensive doesn't necessarily equate to a fact according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s. justice department temporarily lost track of former terrorists who participated in america's witness protection program now the independent investigator found that officials at the witness protection program failed to share the fictitious identities that had been created for terrorism linked witnesses with the f.b.i.
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terrorist screening center that's the agency that maintains america's terrorist watch and no fly lists so as a result some. programs that were put on a no fly list could have flown commercial flights without approval in the meantime the u.s. is that of these scenes to track suspected terrorists has one of the least eight hundred seventy five thousand that's more people than the entire population of cyprus clearly washington does not know that our resources to monitor each and every name on that list and as recent developments have shown the u.s. government has also failed to suspected terrorists from entering or leaving the country according to new york bring up or not are to. the u.s. keeps a database of married to all suspected terrorists with around seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was the dead boston bomber who was considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon atrocity now one
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libertarian news editor told us the massive list of suspects may be too big for the u.s. to handle the great ironies is that the more information together and we do press or security organizations together more and more and more and more but somebody has to process that information is the more information gathered chances are the less you'll be doing any good if he datum it's in that database so you can have it as many names and as you will on china's hundreds of thousands of just a million names in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with any one of those names in a few useful diminishes to the database comes the more information we scoop up the west with that so that we can talk about security measures all day long but if we're having open society people are going to come and go and someone will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects. the cyber currency because one has suffered another setback after u.s. authorities seize the accounts of its major operator it now hampers the process of exchanging big coins which now stand at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit
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so why is the us are so worried about the car you see and is the big coin able to be traditional currencies not to take part uses most for is download a virtual wallet onto a computer or mobile device they'll then have to get an address for these wallets and can transfer their big coins or wallet of another user for small charge and without banking mediators now from a distance it may resemble web pay pal systems but a key difference is anonymity in all transactions are encrypted in untraceable and it's this feature that's ringing alarm bells are creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent this isn't putting off some big name investors this week alone break wind related that up one five million dollars in backing recording software developer eimear dykey says the lack of middleman is what makes the use of digital currency so appealing
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to the public. the because system i think is really simple system because it's based of this concept of open source so i can download the source code for bitcoin a new can read for it and not like. someone who speaks french or spanish or english i can read source code and i can read the source code and see that it does exactly what it says it does in some it really powerful way i have because it's not on my computer and i send it over the internet direct to someone without any middleman whatsoever using software that i wrote myself completely when i have a bank account i don't know what happens in that bank account i don't know who is dealing with are all the middlemen and institutions there with bitcoin is none of it's total control over your money it's proper free trade not that not the fake kind where you need to register corporations or special companies and then your shut out the market because of regulations it's kind of money where anybody in what
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can participate paper loan is blocking access from over sixty different countries worldwide because it doesn't have any of these restrictions or limitations and the payment system is used as a political thought to shut down speech on the internet and that's why the big point of sign point. and we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to climb down on the digital currency let's take a look right now as to what you've been saying so far not a little over the hump of you say the federal reserve is trying to keep control over the financial system more than the other third nine thirty six percent to believe the u.s. is trying to live it people's freedoms only six percent of conned see it as washington's of ted to make big users pay taxes well that and just a small minority of the american government is actually trying to stamp out big point is to take to crime you can head to our tea dot com and have your say. speak your language. programs in belgium entries in arabic it's when
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you're watching our. dozens of neo nazi activists have anybody in with extra police dropped it into cope the growing popularity of far right movements is raising concerns across the european union it's all of investigates what's fuelling it from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups and making their voices heard in europe. this financial crisis affected everyone and it has allowed the right wing organizations to give people someone to blame for their problems it's those people's fault that is how they were cruet. greece has seen a marked increase in support for far right neo nazi groups golden dawn and organization to write it by the critics as hooligans and thugs heralded by their
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supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they systematic and not going to preach hate and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants at the present golden dawn have made it further than most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias confuse the artists it's not only in politics that extreme right views a permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is because cut the d.s. so the midfielder found for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what this meant and here in germany a country which experienced firsthand the horrors of naziism right wing extremist groups springing up right now attention in germany is focused on the murder trial
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of better sharper know as the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell claimed to have murdered nine immigrants in one policewoman in the early to thousands after nine hundred forty five are told about what happened in the war on the holocaust of course but some held on to those ideas when the wall came down we saw last rise in right wing groups that grew into today's neo nazis as well as until fascist organizations members of germany's mainstream right wing party the n.p. d. sis that their policies are the only way to tackle the current problems facing the country then you're as if we is german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go broke we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can't yet. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking answers with the right
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peter all over our job. as more news from germany at our dot com including a new player near miss in hamburg is a real that one of the day's biggest. lisa was on the brink of a radiation disaster earlier this month we have the details online. the so-called the syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace targeting a string of western media outlets find out who the latest hacking victims is on a website. in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct the personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the joint chains as hogs the pharmaceutical majors them insurance firms you've seen dubbed just stifle the competition as honest as years reports.
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pharmaceuticals in the us a major moneymaker. huge drug store chains are popping up on every street corner with multiple locations and list services when reid is writing whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option we're from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.v.s. competition for mom and pop shops is steeper than ever in places like the big apple where rent alone is sky high neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stings for the city overflowing to join chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture in american life that in now as the big chains move then not only do the prices tend to go up but they squeeze the little guys out pharmacists however small pharmacies have more issues than just the
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increase of big box shops health insurance companies have been merging with drug stores taking away americans choice of where they can get their medicine if they fell at my location they would have to pass a fifty percent of the cost of the medication if they fill that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of the cost of the medication sarah for auto has had her shop in a small community in upstate new york for about six months offering personal attention and a more intimate approach she's built a good reputation with the locals fast i'll do it right now but the pharmacist says an increasing number of her patients have been learning they have no choice but to do business elsewhere at a joint pharmacy across the street but they do is we just had one this week a woman came in she wanted to fill her prescriptions are pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s. the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took a prescriptions for her insurance card bill ditto for insurance found out she cannot fill. anywhere besides c.b.s.
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measured hosey and runs a pharmacy new jersey and is faced with the same obstacle he says he has lost a fifth of his patients because of these deals the big stores are able to make negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so. they get paid more than what we do and then. when they purchase their medications or purchase a matter lower rate than what we purchased them. even though there have been pushes from small pharmacy lobbying groups to get in the way of the tricks used by big chains huge corporations simply have more money to lobby their interests even if sued they paid a fine and move on meanwhile the small businesses fight on to stay afloat allow us to compete freely with each other as businesses we go out of our way to give the best customer service and be as friendly as we can despite the pleas and obvious economic benefits of money staying in a community instead of corporate giants bank accounts this sort of general and of the middle class story which sadly has been the great thanks actually enjoy our
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friendly neighborhood shops that used to be what made the american dream possible could soon be a thing of the past as they see churkin our party new york. now to some other news making headlines around the world this boy seventy seven caught fire after its landing gear left when it astounded at one of moscow's international airports luckily all one hundred thirty five onboard the ute at a deadly way back weighted safely on to the runway with no reported injuries seven planes on virtually no call for international had to be diverted by the airports now back in operation and investigations now underway. couples have broken out in kiev appearing of thousands strong rally demanding the release of the ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko says ten people have been injured or sent us to seventy as a prison and twenty level for the sort of officer on signing desk deal with russia two years. france's president all along has signed into law the
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legislation of gay marriage it was the flagship social reform of his election campaign a year ago this by majority public support its third month of nationwide protest involving hundreds of thousands of people right now francois hollande is suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any recent french president. now will be expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us not everyone is coughing up the big firms we spent a fortune on are getting away with paying a pittance in duties and it's countries like britain which are being called on to sort it out as political reports there are one hundred of the u.k.'s biggest companies but new research shows that they're still cutting corners by saving money on tax loyalty eight of the c. one hundred companies in the u.k. run the holding or subsidiary companies off shore these include high street giants
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such as barclays bank and tesco it's unlikely to make easy reading for the british government which is the past four years promising to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance now actually is a charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm here to talk to tax policy expert mike lewis who also at the report where these findings come from. mike thank you very much for joining us the british government's been promising to clamp down on tax avoidance for a while now we've seen a number of stories and scrutiny towards companies such as starbucks and amazon and google so it looked like progress had been made but what did you find when you looked at the bigger picture a new research found that tax haven operations and companies are almost universally amongst the world's largest companies the u.k. has a particular responsibility here one in five of the world's tax havens are under the u.k. jurisdiction what's the link between overseas tax havens and the developing world.
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the link quite simply is that the developing world in developing countries are suffering from tax avoidance further and faster than the u.k. and other countries developing countries lose up to three times more money to tax havens every year than they receive in international aid thank you very much for joining us david cameron has promised to tackle the issue of global tax avoidance at next month's g eight summit which britain will be chairing but so far it's unclear how firmly britain is prepared to act in order to stamp out the culture of corporate tax avoidance. london well that's it for me for now i leave you in the company of every mountain with breaking the set.
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a week so where was the media's round the clock coverage from the scene of the crime where was the police state where was homeland security in the f.b.i. where were the tanks and swat teams keeping people in their homes until they caught the guy oh wait i forgot we're talking about the inner city they don't have terrorism they have gang violence so yes this is where the disconnect lives when people are shot in the middle class suburbia it's national headlines but when it comes to violence in new orleans or the south side of. go well that's just the way it is in the inner city we know what that's got to change and that's why we're breaking the set. the to where you are going to be like. this week's barrage of political scandals is a stark reminder of how in line the us political establishment really is the political bickering that we think.

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