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and. calls in the u.k. to quit the e.u. grows longer with the referendum in the political pipeline while other members also question whether it's time to go it alone themselves. russian authorities are say they've killed suspected terrorists of plotting an attack on moscow. and iraq's sectarian violence ratchets up as nine car bombs are ripped through sheer neighborhoods killing up to forty people and wounding scholes more. the situation is spiraling out of control with sectarian violence fueling fears of the country is on the brink of a civil war. international
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news analysis and reports of this is are you watching and with me to say let's take a look at the news. right growing britain's distrust of the e.u. has guard members of the leading conservatives are to stop the push for a referendum on whether to quit a bills in the pipeline for twenty seven thousand deadline for the public to decide if they want to stay in the dead ridden are not recent years have seen opinion move in one direction not here is wanted the year old barometer of polling center found six years ago it is cover that almost half of the u.k. population did not trust the e.u. or as a poll taken last year shows that two thirds of those who took part we euro skeptic that's as a number of british business leaders of voice concerns are that a so-called brics it will result in tens of billions of pounds in losses but what
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do other e.u. member states think about u.k. as a possible departure r g the berlin correspondent peter all of us has been finding out. should it stay or should it go britain's future in the e.u. is getting serious air time at home that we're better off out now whether britain should remain in the e.u. for britain to leave the european union to those that britain would leave behind think about an e.u. with no u.k. britain is important but the truth is of course europe could survive without britain it still would be in union it would be still a very large market it is possible it is thinkable we can have a european union without britain among germany's euro skeptics there's a grudging respect for their british counterparts challenging brussels bureaucracy however they fear they could be in for more of that bureaucracy should the u.k. leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these
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odd balls out and we can go even further with your way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel about britain looking into. course. if they want to go then they should if they don't use the euro it's not really. i couldn't care less but if that's what they want then we'll just continue without them. they can't leave europe never became part of it because of their own mentality and colonial past. when you know they are not in the euro zone if they want to leave i say go for it i'm not sure what they'll get out of. those germans that say that they are concerned whether the k. remains in the european union or not they find their infer something of a shock should the united kingdom opt for independence because if the u.k. were to leave the single market would shrink by fifteen percent and
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a three hundred billion euro worth of annual trade would face extra costs and this would affect of course everyone those in german chancellor angela merkel's own party have wondered if the u.k. is a truly became a member of the e.u. great britain the intricate part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been an easy with being a member of the european union so now it comes to before we have to deal with some other promised britain a referendum on the e.u. membership it's going to be almost impossible for this government of the next to take the issue off the agenda if that split does come about it's sure to bring about changes but perhaps not too many tears in the heart of europe. peter all of her party. britain has the right all some cages by pleasuring and now director and i'm with once again david cameron of splintering the e.u.
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but one of cameras of fellow m.p.'s a says a brit in a divorcing the european you didn't want to damage economic relations with the other member states. well the u.k. to leave europe there would have to be a negotiation about what sort of trading relationship would continue to exist and there is little doubt that it is in the interests of the states that would remain in europe and the euro zone and germany and france to have good trading relations with the u.k. just as it is in the interest of the u.k. to have good trading relations with the rest of europe the idea that were we to leave the we would then not have trading agreements don't have free trade access not negotiate things that would be in a band of benefit to europe and to the u.k. but that's just not the case and the germans want to sell us mercedes and b.m.w.'s just as we want to sell things to the germans and the rest of the so whether we were to stay ought to leave there's no doubt that a close trading relationship will exist for many years still to come. with a lot of hard feelings were laying around the e.u. one thing many seem agreed on is anger at brussels and nine
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a european countries are now in recession and with no end to a stereo inside membership appears to be more trouble than it's worth while some s.s.l. cilia reports. oh if we're talking about the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers or the so-called euro skeptics who are voicing their pessimism ordinary citizens across europe have now been starting to change their minds really on this entire european project if you look at a couple of recent surveys one is the pew study it shows that right now less than half of the european citizens support this entire a european project that they're even optimistic about it it's at forty five percent right now down from sixty percent a last year and this of course has largely to do with the entire economic situation we've seen dismal numbers come out this week putting nine out of seventeen euro zone countries in a recession and if you look at one of those countries which is france it is also
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one of the two poor countries at the very foundation of the creation of this union seventy seven percent of the french feel of that economic integration has been bad for their economy but more business within the e.u. has undermined their own economy and if you look at the biggest concern of a citizens here it is the lack of jobs at seventy eight percent and that is not surprising considering that the e.u. has reached record unemployment rates and still continuing to rise also we look at the youth unemployment here we've seen that going up above fifty percent in countries like greece and spain and the optimism really has gone down into the most pessimistic countries really france and italy not seeing any future for the young people we've seen a rise in suicide rates again in countries like greece spain and italy we've seen on employment skyrocketing poverty among young people children here in belgium has just gone up as well as a result of a lot of parents losing their jobs so these numbers are just confirming the kind of
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pessimism that is across europe it's not again just an opinion of the euro skeptics or naysayers these are figures of citizens themselves creating this european union looking at what the future. rules for that we really are not very optimistic at all . we want to know which way you think the e.u. will go let's take a look at what you've said so far this hour exactly how awful of you say it will end up in a financial collapse and dissolution a quarter to evolution into a virtual germany empire nineteen percent of you that tell us you think of the e.u. will go on just lose its weaker members and only a small minority of six percent of you say that the e.u. will manage the debt crisis and grow stronger and i head to r g dot com to cost you over. it is time for. this question about britain.
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russia's antiterrorist committee says a planned terrorist attack in moscow has been averted in separate incidents early on monday there were two deadly blasts in the capital of russia's degassed on the republic our geezer andrew saw my is across developments. well the f.s.b. says it has followed a terrorist attack on moscow it hasn't given details about the nature of it but says it has killed two militants and arrested another who were involved in the plot that took place during a shootout in the town just outside moscow ninety kilometers east of moscow it's believed that the men were all three men were russian citizens but it is believed that they were receiving training for terrorism in the pakistan afghanistan region list comes after a terrorist attack in dagestan in the capital of. that was a double car bomb blast which killed three people and injured we believe up to twenty seven people seven seven of which seriously hurt it was
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a blast that took place in downtown near the bailiff's office and it happened around three thirty pm local time it's believed that the first blast occurred and then just minutes later after emergency services arrived at the scene there was a second more powerful blast and this comes just two weeks after a bomb went off in the center of the city which killed two teenagers and then almost exactly a year ago there was a very similar double car bomb blast in the city which killed twelve people which is a bit of background dagestan is a muslim republican has been the target for extremist islam ists over the last few years or so and the russian government has repeatedly says it does underline the fact that terrorism is global. fresh eruption of sectarian violence in iraq with deadly blasts targeting public areas including markets and bus stop has played about forty lives the attacks baghdad and the southern town of basra which have also left more than one hundred wounded the details now from our middle east
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correspondent policia. according to iraqi officials some car bombs have exploded in shiite neighborhoods in the capital city of baghdad now we're hearing that they took place at outdoor market places at bus stops and on the streets of shiite areas on monday morning also on monday morning before these attacks there were two degree car bombs that targeted a bus station and a restaurant in the southern city of basra which is close to the arabian border in that attack at least ten people were killed and some twenty seven people wounded not no one has immediately came responsibility for these blasts but they do have all the signs and the hallmarks of al qaida attacks in the mainly shia muslim bus which was previously relatively peaceful have increased recently back in march a car bomb in that city killed ten and wounded many others these situations that he does seem to be spiraling out of control tensions have been intensifying since the country's minority sunni population says that it's mistreatment at the hands of the
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shiite led government has been increasing including random detentions and also neglect not protests which began back in december who launched the peaceful but in april the number of attacks rose because of the we didn't security crackdown on the sunni protest camp in the country's war and what we've seen is a spike of bombings recently targeting either sunni or shiite civilian targets especially in the last week according to the united nation of april was the most violent month in iraq since two thousand and eight and this is fueling fears of a return to the civil war for two thousand and six two thousand and seven when widespread sectarian violence left tens of thousands of people did. i had on our d. it seems protecting the vulnerable can put you on the wrong side of law in britain . jailed for trying to take care of her elderly father
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we bring you the story of one woman who was secretly thrown into prison for trying to take on the state that's coming up in just a few minutes. also grown control to major to a former british military man has been selected to be his country's for his space station crew member all the details are coming up. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have these healthy guinea pigs in the regular society and how they will be used prisoners i mean will they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. to call deadly pills you can pass away he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him go. is pharmacy really about helping people.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images called world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. thanks for staying with us here watching our team british families are torn apart and some relatives even put behind bars for trying to care for their loved ones the court of protection has been exercising its sweeping powers to decide the fate of
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those deemed unable to make their own decisions looks into one of the most notorious cases when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and wanda intended to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers in their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it was that the eighty year old lack the mental capacity to make his own decisions and needed to live in a special care home he didn't want to be in a home basically told he didn't want to be in a home. he want to really want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after my heart. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it has power to take control of assets and separate family members all in secret wonder and i've been one to loud to take their father out of the state run facility
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or even discuss his living arrangements with him but he kept on asking me want to go home but i did not tell him that he didn't have a nose anymore they got it because of the court tension and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what are going to be locked up in the ramsey congress. i don't feel free. in order to mount a legal challenge to the secret court ruling wonder took her father to see a solicitor one day tried to draw attention to the case but was sentenced to prison for contempt of the secret court so instead of caring for her father like she wanted to she had to spend two months in here in the company of criminals i cried the fears two days i was in the prison i cried because nobody you treated like an ardent criminals in michigan and there you really cannot challenge the question as to whether somebody has mental capacity or not without talking to them and she was
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in prison firstly for taking her father to see a solicitor in birmingham which makes it sound quite educated well in a sense it's worse than dr drew because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the jail i was frightened because the listening to your phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because of the conditions they put on is and also you know in case they got in more trouble meanwhile her brother ivan watched their father's health deteriorate i was at the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final room that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still moved him anything i said you've got to know this she divorce. she's put herself in prison port. observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows if the law is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and i won't allow to publicize their case with
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medicines it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people complaining about what's being done to them is never right the governments faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency well continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year because for me what they're doing that taken away from him and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know we got we really could. not say like. stoke on trent. right on our web site the fukushima radiation no no go zones still means locals are banned from staying overnight in their own neighborhoods. but as we explain online japanese farmers are ploughing on anyway
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using the land for growing why it's up and mass consumption. also how do you keep football fans save at a twenty first century world cup of perhaps an army of you with military robots the army is really very into learn about twenty fourteen plans on r t dot com. runs the first official astronaut says he's delighted and privileged to be assigned along mission to peak was chosen from more than eight thousand candidates for the trip as wanted tom barton profiled a major tim. just to think of the competition eight thousand people competing for this and he want to repeat here tell us more about the man he did indeed yes forty one year old major tim peak here is is the man himself he's due to go up now in two thousand and fifteen for his five month stint on the international space station
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he's gone through his european space agency training up there he'll do experiments with the european space agency's module up there maybe even he'll get a spacewalk on the outside of the space station as well it is unique in a way but we've got a brit going up he's officially i suppose the first brit there has the vast majority in the past of space crews have been from the u.s. and from russia are at the top of the chart yet absolutely you know with a scattering from from europe as well that have been brits as well but they've either adopted u.s. citizenship to go through nasa or have privately arranged things and flown with russia's space agency so he is sort of officially the first brit there calling him major tim i think a play on the david bowie song when when he was asked he said he feels confident about this mission he's looking forward to it and he may even one day want to be the first briton on the moon. let's get some more perspective now from makes ball
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an astronomy writer and member of the british interplanetary society which promotes space x. a blurry this does fall britons have been to space before but through the last old taking jewel citizenship why has it taken so long to get to have the country back to home grown astronaut. i think it's the problem of awareness of the benefits of human spaceflight i think in the past there was always this fear that it was a job the expensive thing to pay for a country to be doing civil service was always very suspicious of such apparently for frivolous activity and that wasn't the understanding there is now of the benefits that the research benefits and the inspirational bonus that benefits and the international benefits of working with other countries in them aboard the space station so it's taken what fifty years since you're ignoring flew and probably thirty forty years since man land on the moon but at last the government of the
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mines up and committed to to a national astronaut well i guess all belgium canada and japan they've all been baby that they send astronauts in space we'll have a lot of catching up to deep. well that's right i mean the britain's pretty good at manufacturing satellites we've got a nine billion pound satellite manufacturing industry employing thirty thousand people and the growth rate some about eight percent for the space infrastructure side so it's a great job creating activity and the government realise that there are benefits for the long term having an astronaut because few trust rules as well because they inspire young people to take up science and technology courses and i think this is the way in this that we really have as a country really missed out mr or move the international activity that's been going on and this is case of catching up but i think we're there now and major tim as
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we've heard is a great candidate and i. think up to spar that very fit guy very mature guy and he's going to be spending these five minutes doing a lot of hard work not only of the research and the space walks and so forth but the inspiration side for particularly for young people which is really important it does sound very inspirational i mean you're talking about job creating you're talking about engineers not everyone in the population. you know background so if the cost to put a man into space is almost thirty million dollars how do you explain that to brit's was saying back here on earth at home we're struggling with every day to day finances now you want to spend thirty million of the budget just send somebody into space that we don't even know what they're going to come back with. ok so there's this big benefits i mean it's various things it's one of these things you can't put a price to but there is one very interesting figure the government columnists have
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worked for every pound you put into space investment you get four pounds back the same applies to the human the human side was part of a wider picture and at last the u.k. is thinking ahead of germany france italy spain of all done a lot of other countries we mentioned canada russia as well and in america and it's a way of harnessing the positive side of particularly young people getting them you father you've heard of the apollo effect and there was this great increase in american your ph d. students after the a point program is science and technology so it's a long term strategy the chinese are doing it the indians are going to be doing it soon putting man in space for their own national projects it's all about thinking ahead this river station jobs are the end result yes thinking ahead according to an explorer from the british interplanetary society thank you for your time here on r.t. . iran and the un officials will resume their
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nuclear talks in vienna on tuesday the country is under pressure with major world powers pushing to iran to reassure international community it's not seeking nuclear weapons which iran has always denied the i.e. a director general has a talk to two already about his hopes for the meeting. basically it's a yes or no question do you believe that iran is still involved in nuclear weapons program what are they say that iran has a case to. and we don't have yet the answer to surat i have one quote from you here we have credible information that iran continued its activities beyond two thousand and three where is this information coming from from various sources we have this information from open source we have. information. we have of information coming from some ten countries we have asked iran to clarify the
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issue if iran clarifies the issue. international community can have confidence in runyon activities then we are ready to help them to clear. these these concerns so what i'm doing is to resolve the issue through diplomatic means is a technical organization i mean we do not involve in the politics that we are fully aware that. in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is why we should be neutral and technical. what's the full interview with the chief here on our tea at eight hundred forty
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five g.m.t. right on the way next that tested on humans a look added that people used in america's drug trial. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about the buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average ball garion and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that
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collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to both here and protestors claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace is perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better bog areas chances believe me but that's just my opinion. in this newsletter which is titled i hold it up it's called the i'm guessing as i write the guinea pig zero direct going to explain the title i write about the
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history of human experiments and news stories about sometimes abuses and things that go wrong in experiments and so not only did you do the experiment but you're the investigative journalist as well within the industry you could say that i keeping them honest keeping them honest because they have to because the guinea pigs themselves can do it anonymously they all doped up with. no bill. or all. the nerve to sort of. aviation. so the person gets more work done when they take him further means. the scientific definition.
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