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russian security forces say they've killed the right hand man of russia's ways a wanted terrorists and a special operation and the. international hackers a target the u.s. military running guantanamo bay speaks to a lawyer for one of the hunger strike who claims to have been a nearly shot daid by prison guards. justice department versus journalists i'll draw a wild scene as a government media freedom popular dog of the folks news reporter chris from an official.
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wanting r t a line from our headquarters in moscow with me. now russian security forces say they have killed a key deputy of the country's amaze wanted terrorists during a special operation in the north caucasus. has the details bandito operations of place in a residential neighborhood in russia's southern republican in the caucasus police walked a private hells where a group of suspected militants was writing be refused to surrender only a woman accompanied by a child came out she's believed to be the wife soulful one of the armed men and shortly after she did they opened fire and were eliminated now soon after the operation ended the investigators found out that one of the militants was the right hand men of russia's number one terrorist or took the responsibility for various terror attacks across all russia including the two moscow metro. and the attack on
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them i did the airport and to the operation continues a set of successful anti terror efforts in russia since just on monday before a plan to attack moscow by a group of terrorists now all this adds up to the visit of the head of russia's security council who is now in the united states and does have some useful experience he could share with american counterparts when it comes to tackling terrorism since international terror is one of the mean mutual threats that russia and the united states share his visit does come shortly after the recent terror attack in boston which was a planned and conducted by the time my brothers both of whom were origin while the caucasus for russia is one of the most volatile region since just on monday four people were killed in the southern republic. in two car bomb explosions now surely the two country's security services do have
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a lot to talk about lots of spheres where they can work together following the direct orders of the presidents of both russia and the u.s. for the security services to intensify cooperation. professor alexander says that in the wake of the boston bombing the u.s. stands on global terrorism needs to change. the preparation for that was that began long before the boston attack. but it was same time of course it should be a kind of a counterpoint during these negotiations because the main message that should convey to tom donilon is that where in the same boat. we need to do something about it to my american friends you need to stop providing the status of refugees the chechen terrorists you need to disband the so-called american committee for peace. which is now actually called american committed for peace in the caucasus as you
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can see those people who were killed in the russians they start killing americans unfortunately in the last several decades the position of the united states was so different from the position of russia regard in chechnya regarding the caucasus regarding the overall disintegration of the russian federation i believe it. was a boston attack and they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society on the american government three and a half months into the guantanamo hunger strike and the u.s. military running the facility under fresh pressure to close the camp and the tories international group of had to his known as anonymous has threatened to destruct prison activity forcing the authorities to shut down wireless internet access as a precaution most of the one hundred sixty six detainee's or guantanamo are starving themselves in protest at indefinite detention without charge r t is marina but one of the captives lawyers. a thirty five year old detainee. was
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reportedly shot several times by get mo card last month his attorney ramsey cost some joins me now to speak exclusively to r.t. about what happened mr clawson thank you for your time. and when it was your client shot and what were the circumstances of the shooting on saturday april thirteenth of this year the last time all military prison at the station decided to raid them six the prison facility at guantanamo pipeline the trollies prison. lead they conducted the raid order to move all of the prisoners into solitary confinement and that was just one additional way that the prison and the station wanted to try to break the hunger strike what happened on that day according to mr alawi is that in the process he was shot without any warning for absolutely no good reason by one of the u.s. army guards had dangerously close range using rubber coated steel pellets that are only safely use outside of
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a certain range he was shot in five places one shot was around the heart the other shot was in his elbow another was in his shoulder and there were a couple of impact on the size particularly the shot that went to his heart a dark horse of range even a rubber coated steel pellet can penetrate skin and can be fatal the authorities are guantanamo endangered mr always life for no reason they gave him no warning they fired on him repeatedly and then following that fact they delayed the medical treatment that he should have received immediately as the u.s. government acknowledged that this shooting did take place absolutely and i received confirmation in writing by an e-mail from the department of justice that mr all he was sustained what they described as minor injuries but then when i heard the description from mr all we solved it was very different from what i saw on the government's you know we also received confirmation in writing from the u.s. government via e-mail that mr ali was being force fed. that is
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a vial. ation of international law fact that it is done in an unnecessarily painful and brutal way that does that prisoners are strapped down to these restraint chairs that they have to force down their nose into their stomachs there are many other ways to to feed prisoners even if those prisoners wish to be true. and the u.s. government is again doing it deliberately violently in order to break the hunger strikes the only official who is responsible for the existence of one possible today as far as i'm concerned as far as my clients are concerned is president obama himself he needs to take concrete steps towards closing the prison and i don't believe the man i want on a mobile interrupt their hunger strike unless president obama takes such hockey starts and one very obvious can't be stopped you can take this to begin by releasing some prisoners who are cool for transfer who can be repatriated or resettled in another country like another one of my current sharecropper who's been approved for transfer for years the u.k. has been asking for his release that's the united states oldest and most trustworthy ally he is
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a very natural source that the president is serious about closing guantanamo we need actions we need deeds not words mr carson thank you very much for your time and really thank you. as a hunger strike continues a well past a hundred days or since it began with full comprehensive coverage of events as they unfolded on our website head to r.t. dot com for the raw between the u.s. officials and detainees lawyers as well as testimonies from former guantanamo inmates. journalists and free speech speech activists in the us ranting on the justice department's probe into a fox news reporter the government's pulled a james rosen's of phone logs personal e-mails and security badge records over an alleged conspiracy rosen is charged with any crime and there's deep suspicion that national security is now a pretext to keep america's reporters on a type of each he's a washington correspondent and she sure can. the u.s. justice department not only subpoena fox news reporters private e-mails but also
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said that james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and or coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between the state department employee identified as the alleged the courier and james rosen so the authorities have established that the communication between the two has led to rosen writing an article in two thousand and nine which said north korea planned to respond to looming u.n. sanctions with another nuclear test it's becoming obvious to journalists that the administration is now targeting not just the leakers but also reporters just recently we learned that the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p.
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reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers eight people leaves more than one hundred of its journalists were caught up in this surveillance sweep the some president eight hundred full leaks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism the obama administration has brought more cases against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined journalists have seen their sources drying out as government officials are much 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 and it's not clear what the government expects from journalists just to copy paste whatever they say in press releases if that is the case that would be the end of our profession. there isn't scandals expose of the fine line between the demands of media freedom and those of statehood on immigrant the from wide awake and news that told r.t. his son thomas that journalists are paying the price will go way beyond official sources if you're talking about groups only use information that is critical
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for this three hundred populace yet says he thinks it can be reported this shouldn't be leaked but you're going to go after the jury was to do a news job and not the intersect is a dysfunctional government that we did so in the first place now the government is investigating reporters in the hopes of finding leaks within its own ranks and you kind of touched on this just a second ago why do you think it has chosen this approach rather than looking for the source of the actually to scare the hell out of the body who dares to stand up to the party well into the agenda laurie and this isn't just the obama administration it's the previous administration it will be the next administration it is control totalitarian tyrannical government it's hubris at its worst and it's going to continue to rule the freedom of the people this country. all right in just a few minutes we'll look at a what upset to the noble peace and why absolve the nobel prize ceremony of host
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city of stockholm which i for one liked and turned into a riot in battle ground with the details on that story coming up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. becomes a big picture. good
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leverage surely to mccurry was to build a new age most sophisticated. group at least doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care what you only. welcome back you're watching our team sunni protest leaders in iraq a demanding not tommy from baghdad according to reports of the country's state media meanwhile a fresh surge of nationwide sectarian violence has left at least twelve people did as well as the deadly wave of bombings on monday that has seen eighty people killed and almost two hundred injured. the country has been in the grip of the worst sunni and shia take the tet attacks since the two thousand and three with led military
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intervention political analyst professor abraham aleutians says a recent surge in factor in bloodshed could lead to grave consequences well whole region. this is definitely a conflict that has read by mentions that what's in store is a sectarian conflict as stake in place and iraq since the us and ways of that country ten years ago the identity of the leadership and iraq before the invasion was not a sectarian one the same thing goes for syria today you have sectarian forces trying to stir up sectarian conflict so it can get very about the same thing is happening in other places we are seeing an escalation within jordan we have read too many clues and analyses showing that it will be a huge as far as iraq lebanon jordan and other countries other arab countries.
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meanwhile in syria government troops have exchanged fire with israel syria says it opened fire and destroyed an israeli call which allegedly crossed the ceasefire line in the disputed golan heights and headed towards a rebel held village israel has claimed it returned fire and however there have been no reports of casualties the two countries have exchanged fire on numerous occasions in recent weeks. sweden could be paying a tough price for its policies on immigrants and multiculturalism starcom suburbs erupted into violence for a few hours as crowds over angry masked youths from migrant families grandpas smashed windows and hurled stones at police officers was believed to have feel the ride was the death of a sixty nine year old man allegedly shot by police in the area last week the chairman of sweden's national democrats party told r t this a new trouble highlights old policy falls. this is fairly new to to sweden.
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and this is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that sweden adopted around the eighties and increased it in the ninety's and now we are seeing these problems but these politics is not working and we have seen this this is not a unique one single occasion we have seen this in gotham bergen mama several times and even in the city where i am elected councillor inside italian roma have this ethnical based riots against swedish authorities i think that sweden has been trying harder than i know of the country in europe to try to push for integration where we invested billions into it of taxpayers' money were tried everything that that the scientists have passed presented and still it's not working the problem that they did the core here is that these people they don't identify themselves with the swedish society or the swedes and it's clearly not working is not working in sweden is not working in france or in the united states there is and i think
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we'll see more of this if we don't change the politics. in the future. one man keeping a distance of from sweden is a world famous whistleblower why julian at sun is just plain silly the u.k. intelligence message that call the times she actually got him to sweden on charges of sex abuse it up at stories that are t. dot com. last u.s. military could lose a key logistical how one hundred to afghanistan if a newly drafted bill gets the backing of the government we report online. these gay government's gay marriage bill gets its third and final commons reading later today supporting same sex marriages was a flagship pledge for prime minister david cameron although a swathe of his pontiff disagree and they're intent on giving their leader
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a tough time getting it through r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the primary is using it to distract attention from his government's failures. we although david cameron is finished no one in this country voted george the majority of the people in this country did not vote for him to be prime minister and just as with previous conservative prime ministers he's facing immense trouble on his backbenchers the vote in the next few hours he'll win because of the labor party and liberal democrat votes not his own votes go to remember the inequality has been rising was rising under tony blair is greater is set to rise even more under a david cameron's policies he's trying desperately to avert attention from the disastrous economic policies currently undergoing there going on here in britain. now. while the search for survivors can tinnies in.
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continues in the suburbs of. the search for survivors rather continues in the suburbs of america's oklahoma city we've been following the story devastated by one of the deadliest tornadoes in a years a massive cycloid tore through a residential area leaving chaos in its wake. the local medical examiner's office has revised the number of the initial did down from fifty one to appease the twenty four some of the victims all school children but the figures are still expected to rise as rescuers continue to sift through the rubble president obama has declared the area a disaster zone. he was involved in tackling the aftermath of a focus human tragedy says political needs that have to be taken out of aid work and prevention measures. i used to live very near kansas and so i know
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you know the seriousness of of tornadoes i've been one very close to one but i cannot imagine what hardship they are going through in pain we have to be very careful and consider you know any kind of warning system should be completely not political you know the words it has to be on the best scientific knowledge and that is the way to protect the people as much as possible but a lot of times these decisions are political about what kind of warnings to issue or what kind of preparation to make and that's absolutely not excusable i don't know what the case is in oklahoma but i know that that's for sure in japan what happened and trying to reestablish a life back where where you were located before i mean rebuilding complete cities towns villages is just incredibly difficult and it's just so much hardship and to increase that hardship because of poor political decisions is just inexcusable. but
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keeping you updated on the tornado tragedy in the american midwest on ebay and online with the latest footage of photos an eyewitness accounts from the scene at our dot com. bridges up. my minister david cameron is expected in brussels this week for talks on struggling policies although everyone around the table knows of the ukase are got one eye on the exit with cameron's party circulating a draft a referendum bill here's what the british public seems to think close to a half of those surveyed for alas no newspaper would say yes or two leaving the e.u. as opposed to thirty percent who would vote to stay now as for when they want to decide forty four percent say now and while only twenty one percent are ready to
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wait until the conservatives conservatives the bills deadline of twenty seventeen now a number of bridges business leaders have warned that the swelling n.t.e.u. sentiment and uncertainty could scare of foreign investors u.k. independence party leader nigel farage says some of the reason the referendum is needed now. well what would have been really damaging to the u.k. economy is if we'd been stupid enough to join the euro zone but thank goodness we said no otherwise we'd be in a very similar state to many of the mediterranean countries today so that was the first big good decision that we made now i do understand the argument about uncertainty even though i very much take the view the trade would go on between britain and the rest of europe completely unaffected by us leaving political union for all european countries sell far more goods to us that we do to them but i do understand that anything where you're told it could be had for
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a half perhaps even five year debate on a subject could lead to uncertainty which really reinforces my view what cameron has done here is to attempt to kick this issue off into the long grass and really we've got to have a referendum to sort this issue out before the next general election. you have to do when rome here's how one italian the entrepreneur of choice to tell the country that it needs to quit the euro zone he climbed the day most in peter's basilica hoping for a little divine intervention and while on the top of the world the logic of the lego cathedral he appealed to the pope to help assuage the government to have more say and going it alone. but of all the things the e.u. might have on its plate right now it seems the most pressing is you for them right now is all of us are t.c.p. to our. from the start of next year the european dining experience is set for
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a small change that could have potentially huge implications after the deadline restaurants won't be able to serve all of oil from small bottles like this that can be topped up they going to have to service from sealed bottles that can't be refilled now this is being put into law from brussels by the european union and it's going to come into effect as i say from the first of january next year now to talk more about this and what it actually means i'm joined by steve meissner from the german political organization a party of reason steve the e.u. surely has bigger things to worry about than this right now i would think though this seems to be almost like a caricature of the e.u. with their with their constant meddling and small problems and making small problems a big problem than you would think they would have enough to do with the euro currency problems and the debt crisis in southern europe but now here we go having to start dealing with restaurants and what they can serve an open car off but it's
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sort of the joke really it also it just smacks of a lack of self-awareness the e.u. is under attack from many different sides you've got people in britain wanting to pull out of the union and they go and live up to the stereotype of bonkers brussels bureaucracy and make legislation about all of oil as it does seem to be a real lack of self-awareness that is why do they think seems to have too much time on their hands perhaps many of the problems you aren't even big enough that they still have energy and tax money and very crap to spare to expend on silly experiments like this or believe programs like this maybe we have to cut down the whole size of the broccoli but they just don't have a that much money and b. that many bureaucrats so they can't even come up with the all these harebrained schemes in the first place this is definitely not something that needs to be done on the international uy basis how we're going to serve our all of oil in the restaurant i mean i don't see the need for it at all so there we go steve mice the
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thanks very much for talking to us all of oil topping the list of topics that the e.u. deem needs their attention right now. when we come back a less than the end of the cyber currency because i'm in a new prime interest. 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
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a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that 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 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 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 bulgaria's chances believe me but that's just my opinion.
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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry i'm boring here in washington d.c. and here's the story that i've been tracking today. we are now versed and everything in corn although you can't talk to the digital crept over her and the producer bob inglis and i flew out to san jose over the weekend and reached out to the eleven one hundred ten beads and sponsors for the first major bitcoin conference we have several interviews from millionaires and best there is and developers that will be sharing over the next few weeks today we're going to feature the c.e.o. of instant charlie will explain just how do you read it is to buy it quickly moving
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on those who are facing foreclosure by wells fargo and citi group might be able to breathe a little sigh of relief the two bain giants have halted most of their foreclosure sales and several states this is after the federal reserve and the office of the comptroller of the currency issue new guidelines will this joint jam the housing inventory pipeline once again we're going to discuss this and more with michael richards and he's a contributor to the motley fool and tomorrow's the big day at j.p. morgan that will decide whether or not jamie diamond will be stripped of his chairmanship but some shareholders are crying foul and have called on the securities and exchange commission to enter this is after a company called rod ridge which is supposed to provide updates on shareholder votes suddenly stopped reporting this information on friday. and finally apple c.e.o. tim cook goes to washington tomorrow to testify over taxes did they pay too little are they gaming the system code will for.

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