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calls on the u.k. to quit the e.u. growing law though with a referendum in the political life while other members also question whether it's time to go it alone themselves. russian or florida keys or say they've killed suspected terrorists or plotting an attack on moscow. foxhunter the u.s. justice department or subpoenas a t.v. news reporters e-mails as part of a probe into a possible leak. and do you rock sectarian violence a russian sub as the nine car bombs ripped through a sheer neighborhood killing more more than sixty people and wounding scores more. the situation is spiraling out of control with sectarian violence fueling fears of
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the country is on the brink of a civil war. has just gone past eleven pm here in moscow you're watching r t lie bill with me to bomb would say. growing british distrust of the e.u. has got members of the leading conservative psystar the push for 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 debt ridden the you or not recent years have seen opinion move in one direction here's what the euro barometer polling center found six years ago it discovered that almost half of the u.k. population didn't trust the e.u. a poll taken last year shows that two thirds of those who took part we euro skeptic
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now that's as a number of britons a business leaders of voice concerns that a so called the bracks it will result in tens of billions of pounds in losses but what do other e.u. member states to think about e.u. cave's possible departure artie's berlin correspondent peter oliver 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 gate for britain to leave the european union to those that britain would leave behind think about an e.u. with no u.k. britain it's important but the truth is of course you are could thrive without britain it still would be european 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.
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leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these oddballs and we can go even further with the way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel about britain looking into divorce. if they want to go than 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 they never became part of it because of their island 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 aren't concerned whether the k. remains in the european union or not they find their infer something of
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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 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 and into a part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been uneasy with being a member of the european union so now it comes to before we have to deal with the some having promised britain a referendum on 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 from the heart of europe. peter all other party berlin. britain has wrestled some cages by pledging at
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m.l.g. referendum with france accusing david cameron of splintering the e.u. and a lot of cameras fellow m.p.'s says a britain divorcing the european union what in damage economic relations with the other member states. were 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 in 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 you we would then not have trading agreements don't have free trade access not negotiate things that would be in the band of benefit both 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 you so whether we were to stay autumn leaves there's no doubt that a close trading relationship will exist for many years still to come. with
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a lot of hard feelings swirling around the e.u. one thing i'm amy seem agreed on is anger at brussels and nine european countries and now in recession and with no end to austerity inside membership appears to be more trouble than it's worth while some tells us all year reports. oh if you'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 a 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 the 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
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in a recession and if you look at one of those countries which is france it is also 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 that 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 are 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
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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 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 holds for them and they really are not very optimistic at all. now you want to know which way you think the e.u. will go let's take a look exactly what you've been saying at this hour half of you say it will end up in financial collapse and disillusion almost a quarter predicted evolution into virtual german empire twenty percent of you now tell us that you think you will go on but just lose its weaker members and only a small minority are part of the saying that the e.u. will measure the debt crisis and grow stronger head to our dot com to cast your for . these toys from. this question about britain.
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russia is an empty terrorist committee says a planned a terrorist attack in moscow has been averted in separate incidents only on monday there were two deadly blasts in the capital of russia's a decade public parties and the farmer is across the developments. well the f.s.b. says it has 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 where 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. that was a double car bomb blast which killed three people and injured we believe up to
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twenty seven people seven of which is seriously hurt it was 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 the 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 islamic over the last few years is the russian government has repeatedly says it does underline the fact that terrorism is global. washington seems to be continuing to keep a close eye on the press the u.s. justice department obtained a full year about a fox news correspondent conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak it's less than
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a week since that was revealed that their department secretly obtained it two months of phone records from journalists at the associated press and as part of a separate legal probe our ideas garrett change again joiners and now for more break it down for us. the justice department not only subpoena it of fox news reporters private e-mails but also said james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and slash or coconspirator coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department's application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between a state department employee identified as the alleged the her and james rosen so
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these orders have established that the communication between the two has led to rows and writing an article in june two thousand and nine which said north korea planned to respond to. you when sanctions with another nuclear test and the alleged leaker in the state department was in the view of verification and compliance and the implementation they deal with arms control nonproliferation and does armament agreements and then monitor are the countries compliance with them so that is the story wow how much of what's going on is sort of a sign that washington is i don't know once journalists on a tight leash i mean this seems to be an ongoing thing. that's right well it's becoming obvious to journalists that the administration now is now targeting not just the leaders but also reporters just recently we learned that the justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers a.p.
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believes more than one hundred of its journalists were caught up in this surveillance sweep this unprecedented eight hundred full leaks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism the obama administration has brought it has brought more cases against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined the journalists have seen their sources drying out government officials or march less inclined to share these days but now we see a different probably more alarming development the government making journalists the subject of their investigations. well granted this is all very interesting and i'm sure our viewers want to know more as do i but it will keep them updated as more as we get more information on these stories advantages you can the team. right ahead on our team now it seems a protection the vulnerable can put you on the wrong side of the law in britain. jailed for trying to take cab elderly father we bring you the story of one woman
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who was secretly thrown into prison for trying to take on the state that's coming up in just a few minutes. plus so of all the things which might be bothering brits ride mel it's the debate on legalizing gay marriage that's taking center stage at westminster and it's by no means a done deal as we explained soon. pakistanis have gone to the polls and elected a new parliament what will the new government do domestically and in the area of foreign policy particularly washington's drone war with growing economic dislocations in a very threatening taliban ok and should pakistan move forward and move the military continue to watch on the sidelines.
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wealthy british soil the sun some time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. welcome back you're watching our team fresh eruption of sectarian violence in iraq with deadly blasts targeting public areas including markets and bus stops has claimed more than sixty lives the attacks struck back dead in the southern town of basra which have left or also left almost two hundred wounded the details now from
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our middle east 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 they were to diggy car bombs that targeted a bus station and the 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 for sponsibility for these blasts but they do have all the signs and the hallmarks of al qaida attacks in the mainly shia muslim a 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
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country's minority sunni population says that its list treatment at the hands of the shiite led government has been increasing including random detentions and also neglect not protests which began back in december and were launched the peaceful but in april the number of attacks rose because of the deadly security crackdown on the sunni protest camp in the country's role 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. hizbullah militants have joined forces with pro us troops and their fierce fight for control of a rebel stronghold on syria's border with lebanon on the dawn of coos there is
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considered a key entry point for smuggling arms and to syria the battle for the city the contested homs. province is viewed by both sides as a turning point which could prove crucial in deciding a conflict so t.j. can political analyst paul or a foreigner he says it's no surprise the his bill is getting involved in the fighting. and the syrian regime is historically well connected so. it's belies tried also to help the syrian regime to reorganize the army. moved to the coastal area because it's self interest for its bailout but on the other hand is part of the deal with the assad evidently the situation may spill over into lebanon on one side because of the it's blood connection. but on the other hand evidently the sunni area may spill over into jordan and other neighboring countries in the situation is
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that the syrian conflict is already an international conflict but nobody wants to declare it as such. iran and u.n. officials will resume their nuclear talks in vienna on tuesday the country's under pressure with major world powers pushing to run to reassure international community it's not seeking nuclear weapons which iran always denied and next hour the i.a.e.a. director general talks to our t. about his hope for the meeting recently say yes or no question do you believe that iran is still involved in nuclear weapons program what i say is that iran has a case too. we don't have yet the answer mr lott 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
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of information coming from some ten countries we have asked iran to clarify the issue if iran clarifies the issue of the international community can have confidence in runyon activities and we are ready to help them to clear. these these are concerns so what i'm doing is to resolve the issue through diplomatic means is a technical organization i mean we do not involved in the politics that we are fully aware. of in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is why we should be neutral and technical.
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british friendly is that 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 those deemed unable to make their decisions for you boy who 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 and their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it will put 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 wanted to either want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him out. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it
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has power to take control of assets and separate family members all in secret wonder and i even wanted allowed to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him but he kept on asking me want to go. but i didn't want to tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because of the court protection and the sickos will do whatever they want with the finances in its house what works are going to be locked up in these rooms week long . 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 or crime
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the fear is two days i was in the prison 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 in prison firstly for taking her father to see a solicitor in birmingham. which makes it sound quite peculiar well in a sense it's worse than dr drew because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because the lesson into your phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because i'm the commission's report on is and also you know in case i got in more trouble meanwhile her brother ivan watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that far alone that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still loved him anything i said you've got to know this she divorce. she put herself in prison port
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observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows if the lawyer is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case since 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 government's 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 while 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. what they're doing that taken their daughter away from him and they're wondering what's going on to us when we get older they got really. not safe. our
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stoke on trent. the ferguson radiation no no go zone no still means locals are banned from staying overnight in their own neighborhood but as we explain on line japanese bombers are ploughing on anyway isn't the land for growing rice consumption. while you also on our website check out how do you keep football fans safe at a twenty first century world cup perhaps an army of you with. israeli drones to learn about brazil's twenty fourteen plans that are key to. the british prime minister could get a slap in the face from his own m.p.'s this week they plan to derail moves to legalize gay marriage i think could cause a rift within the already strained governing coalition along correspondents are further has the details. this is a real headache for the prime minister he could be about to have the worst possible
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start to his week with the potential for a house of commons the feet over one of his flagship policies that of equal marriage that's fact being debated over the next two days in the house of commons this is an issue that we seeing debated across europe france has just become the ninth country to legalize gay marriage certainly a controversial piece of legislation here in the u.k. for the prime minister but one that he said he's standing firm by despite the dissent from his name party now they say the same to say that this is simply an attempt to detract from some of the much more important issues right now they are facing the vote is that when the votes is put forward what they see as a priority it's not about equal marriage it's about issues like the economy about europe about immigration these are issues that many cost weeks activists still not being addressed within their own party it's not just the conservative party that we've seen i carry out this infighting over this issue the labor and the liberal
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democrats if they join the conservatives by and large who oppose equal marriage all together then they could be participating in as we said delaying this bill so there's a huge amount of efforts and maybe they to surround inglis. ben harris screamy chairman of the british right wing policy center the bomb group says the gay marriage debate distress a public from the real troubles the u.k. faces i have no idea why david cameron bore gay marriage forward in this way because it's tearing the conservative party apart both in parliament who probably more significantly in the membership of the conservative party there really wasn't a great demand for it in the country and with the sitting room crisis was gross bridge position in the world and the economy now to distract from that agenda to spend an inordinate amount of time on a bill like this that is going to cause severe ructions in the conservative party
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and in the country as a whole is frankly a sleeper's on. well when we come back what's next. troubled and bloodstained general election is after the break. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that 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 bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six paul geary and have used self-immolation as
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a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who is extensively talked to bulgaria protesters 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 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 book areas chances believe me but that's just my opinion. it. is a.
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