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the failure of u.k. security services to prevent the beheading of a soldier in london puts them under scrutiny as the islamist linked attack threatens to divide british society. riots rage. schools and. police have pleaded for reinforcements to contain violence in the swedish capital. a report in the evolution of the war on terror a bomber again val's to shop at guantanamo bay but defends the cia's drone strikes as heartbreaking but necessary the top stories this hour.
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on screen online international news and comment from a studio in moscow this is o.t. . british security forces will face serious questions from parliament over the machete murder of a soldier in london it's being revealed that two of the suspects have been known to m i five for some time the alleged attackers beheaded the victim in broad daylight on wednesday saying it was revenge for britain's military action abroad. reports now from the. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this priest the max seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of will in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer who told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces
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to remain anonymous anger of the moment and. not scared maybe scared you never hear someone in. here maybe you'll be scared i witness accounts of the precise attack details the men chanting is the limits slogans as the body of soldier drama leverage b.s. second battalion the royal regiment do you say is they only pleading they asked people to video then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures by trying to distance this latest act of violence from the recent a disease exploits this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not
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a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what british troops are do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy just like tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster has been just announced not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit so close to home you feel less secure i think that's what.
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you think if we went out there then perhaps that be more space scope for al qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be afraid more within the u.k. because when we're out there we're constricting the space and not allowing them that freedom of maneuver out there and that means their base of operations over here is we can both say the arguments we made because we're out there we're inspiring the more motivating them presence out there is sort of motivating the cells that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues a deep sense of shock and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at the brutal attack and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. london in german from stop the war coalition says there's already been a rise in attacks against muslims in britain following the savage murder. well
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certainly there are some people who want to drive a wedge the fascists and the far right are trying to use this to divide people at the moment the vast majority of people do not accept. that attempt to not want this attempt to succeed but of course one of the things that's happening in the media and elsewhere is that there's a demonization of muslims going on so this is resulting certainly in the rise in attacks on mosques and other muslim buildings it's result it's resulting in a rise in racism against muslims who are paying a whole number of incidents of people who've been attacked in the street and so on and of course we really don't want this to happen and we totally reject the idea that somehow muslims are part of our society there are many many muslims in london and elsewhere in britain but there are many people from all over the world in bonn
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launch london society which is very successfully managed to develop a society which which is highly diverse cultural a racially and so on and we don't want much of trying international terrorism expert and former french intelligence officer claude monic a believes there is a danger of similar attacks happening across europe. we are in something quite. a sequencer for. a street of friends we have moment men are in from us in the march two thousand and twelve we have another man in from. a german we said no incentive or doesn't work it was not notified internationally because he didn't kill anyone and weskit before doing something really important we had broad of course in boston and today we have this so this question this incident in london so it's clear that
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this is a trend it is very probably very likely every trend and it will last for a while stockholm is reeling as two schools a police station and dozens of cars were set ablaze in the fifth night of riots twelve people were arrested as writers and police clashed with stone throwing youths in poor largely immigrant districts of the swedish capital peter all of the reports from the suburb has been where the troubles first flare. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. speak on the outskirts of stockholm and the epicenter of sweden's issue with race and that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become
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a political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being pro sweden for the past week stone throwing in car burning become the norm in this part of town known for its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a barrage of emotions. through isolation of everyone from. parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below average for almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying a lack of control by government has led them to the situation the police can put the ride down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes
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defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that its government policy must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden. blogger and social commentator. says an open debate on immigration is needed in sweden one must now and that's very generous. actually no more. than is the case in progress or longer but it has been you know this is a never ending story like i mean did alarms people who grew very probably it is high time that we can start making them arms arms and we're going there and we're are going to have to learn the language and we're going to have to do something more. rights than these so called a very pretty good part of
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the united. ohio appear to rise and use these problems we learn from. frost and foremost there is a need to her very realistic immigration policy which means that when there are so many there are then there are even some rest and immigration policy and that is this. remember we always have more for you at the moment including moscow trembles shockwave spread through russia with an eight point two magnitude earthquake off the country's far east coast files and felt it which is felt thousands of mobs wait in the capital all that online at the moment and cutting edge technology saves a child's life american doctors perform a president a surgery repairing one year old and weighs with an implant created on a three d.
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download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. news continues here on r.t. a new face to the war on terror was unveiled by president obama in a major speech on america's national defense policies for the second time in five years he again promised to try and shut guantanamo bay but when it came to drone warfare the president appeared less enthusiastic about change promising only vague guidelines a washington correspondent got a check on has this report. president obama says he's appointing new people new on
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voice at the state department and the pentagon who will specifically work on the transfers of tunnel detainees it is not really specify when the transfers will begin or how this will be done but he did say the administration is lifting the ban on transfers to yemen the yemenis are the largest single group of prisoners at guantanamo fifty six out of eighty six detainees who've been cleared for release are from yemen president obama also says he asked congress to lift restrictions on bringing the detainees to the u.s. to be tried by military commissions here in the state looks like after all these years of inaction indifference and injustice one ton of detainees finally got president obama's attention it's just really sad that it took a massive hunger strike and so much physical suffering for them to be heard remember we've heard president obama talk about closing the prison five years ago nothing happened moreover he signed a law that made indefinite detention legal he shut down the office of the state department that was working on the transfers and just two months ago a pentagon official was in congress asking for nearly two hundred million dollars
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to renovate the prison so just a little while ago the prospect of closing the prison seemed so very distant now it seems we could be seeing some action on the part of the administration but president obama has never been a guantanamo fan his preferred strategy is targeted assassinations the administration has been very secretive about how they determine the targets innocent people have died in those strikes and it has contributed to the growth of extremism in places like pakistan but we've heard the president mitigate the adverse effect that the drone strikes are happening here of course underscored that the drones keep u.s. troops out of the battlefield he spoke extensively about how much he likes drones as opposed to other military strategies at one point he said putting u.s. troops on the ground would trigger an international crisis would lead to more anger among the locals which begs the question where the bombing from air does not trigger an international crisis or whether the local somehow like being bombed more than being shot it the u.n. has questioned the legality of the use of drones and here's how the president
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addressed the issue america cannot take strikes wherever we choose or actions are bound by consultations with partners and respect for state sovereignty. america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people when the president talks about consultations with other countries one should mention that you have the whole population of pakistan its parliament unanimously opposing the drone strike so the administration may be in consultation with the governments of those countries but obviously not the people there the president said this wednesday he signed a presidential policy guidance on the use of drones which is supposed to lead to the establishment of some guidelines oversight and accountability now also on the issue of legality did mr ation still operate under the congress authorization for the use of military force adopted in two thousand and one which says the u.s. is a war where al qaeda and its affiliates based on the threats that the president talked
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about in the speech and he talked about the threat coming from al qaeda a few different parts of the world the war on terror is still on and the drones are here to stay. back to our top story now here in r.t. in the recent murder of a british soldier in london has seen a rise of attacks against muslims reports suggest there were several dozen islamophobia crimes committed across britain or on wednesday night extra police have been deployed to muslim sites well for more on this i'm joined live by don't tease editor of politics dot com and carlos clearly he's from the right wing british national party mr could figure like start with you the alleged attackers said at the scene of the murder that the british government is to blame for their actions who do you blame. or first of all we have to separate the tree from the forest the. source of the growing might be mostly from nigeria
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there are real issues being created by successive british governments. tony blair initiated a policy of intervention legal intervention in the arab world in the muslim world and the policy was followed by the conservatives. what we use a combination of problems of integration with these us troops but it is foreign policy. or it's all about foreign policy the london mayor boris johnson he said the british foreign policy shouldn't be to blame and the islamic faith should not be to blame but clearly some are saying that the islam faith is pushing people to do this. yes i mean those people would be deeply ignorant of the is around faith or of course any other faith if they think that there's something unique about it which leads to terrorist violence though of course there isn't time
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london is an extraordinary experiment in multiculturalism in immigration. it's probably the most diverse area in the history of man and occasionally things do go drastically wrong that is not due to multiculturalism is alarm or foreign policy it is due to the fact that if you put a certain amount of humans in a city together some of them will turn out to be quite insane and others will be violent and some of the movie two of those things at the same time and unfortunately that's what we saw earlier this week do you agree with that carlos can take just people who are acting what they see because they don't want this look at the numbers look at the numbers of muslims in the u.k. and look at the number of people involved. there is a very extremist minority extremist minority completely out of control that are content constantly being traced by truck by the security services but
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there is no power in the world no enough manpower to truck every single person who has a grudge and eventually my comment and knocked. up the issue here there are two different things one is the east of the existence of minorities who are violent the other the shootings the justification. and i absolutely agree the british would embody these are the zoster because in some cases the british government cost support to al qaida. i do remember the other because god and the stylish men more support than the church and gerbils that were linked to al qaida now there be this government is talking about supporting the readers who are trying to defeat the president assad who are those going to give us al-qaeda so they contradictions or break the sporting bodies combined with
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social issues are the core of the program so socially are you saying that multiculturalism is failing there in britain it's interesting you're europe won and you're representing british interests clearly hasn't failed for you well that bring peace to the other two words here multiculturalism and integration now when you look at britain what immigration the responsible immigration custody eight do is get those you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties. great. all right and here they are no one lawyer the fact that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible. there's efficiencies that make that you know that on side of course the major but i feel i do feel that one major major problem with what he's saying
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is that this acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p. as a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're a fascist party and the acts of violence that they betray it against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are rules so acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors for political means but i've got to learn from and i have something to do with my you have a right to help like honestly think iran exaggeration here is done by right wing fanatics and i have to call to the person. the other person who's talking no he said noting completely the funked the personally have an open dialogue with muslim communities that recently i had the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for importing.
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foreigners were us news and modelling about the. issue of he's a racist you should learn about what coverage you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't don't know we don't know we don't. have websites and people from east. from people from from they think it's lovely he's let me let me join the members it also implies to me that i want to have sound some other lunatics who are so agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is their mission actually was he is the us all right you know yet if you just talk just for matters that you don't you know i just ask you shorted the british people died there a poll by what's happened they want to stroll response from government they don't want a reaction that could be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely the. political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by
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intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible adult news that you take to prevent violence and what about the maintenance as well because i was five when had mr tended it is something to do with an intrinsic nature of his own ok mr did mention the fact that you can't have the manpower to track all these people down but surely the has been a lack of surveillance of many people who say we need to step up that now so called snooping on people because clearly they were on the five radar but they got through i mean is that do you think that people b.s. you just make something very clear. where we don't really know what is how does it let me say this i mean there's a lot of people talking without any access to the information required to make a coherent judgment we know yes that they're one of my party let me think it was a free country and they're even say that at all they might make law on an intelligence list and not be tracked at all times i'm afraid that these things do sometimes happen terrible as they get mr they gave over my five they gave over my
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five talking in the council call months say that. thousand and five the security services in the you know the blue note of a mom or neither. every single song they suspect of being born you know not that the reason. they gave obama a five talking no ether you feel carry on. bathing out of countries came in mostly in the duck funny stuff on cd and they would he would. you don't you wouldn't have. enough security services to come to the unger of these people. or i have just talking about packing up talking back in president assad's softball team in c.t. and these are the same people that come to us and talk about.
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multiculturalism or likely michael. to talk about the integration when they are talking about the invasion or out well that the attackers were partly born and raised in britain but what does that tell us about integration in british society at the moment yeah absolutely we all know that you know you have a usual of a d.n.a. sion in some communities and we certainly know that there are parts of our society in which there is extremist ideology taking place none of this is to counter that it is quite evident that that is the case and the extremist ideology that. and it's about how you prevent it and who should be prevented if that's a failure of the british muslim council the leaders who's failing to stop this extremism british muslims are not responsible for the action of every single one of their number any more than i am responsible for some white serial killer somewhere who commits a series of murders they're not responsible for by virtue of their religion or
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their race in fact the british muslim community contributes an extraordinary amount to this country not least of all with hundreds of people who served in the armed forces or the tens of thousands or so of historically in the armed forces and for for us in world war one and world war two it was about failure of the community ok greater of all of us to create a society in which these acts of violence do not take place and one that we can deal with thank you carlos a final word from me on that please just a final one well the issue. we are social programs. combining without these us first foreign policy. disregard for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are living in isolation cover more links with the outside world than with britain and when british governments go on their rampage off course they are angry
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and that's all sort of failure of integration all right thank you very much indeed both of you in dunned editor of politics don't care to u.k. and columns cotillion from the british national party really appreciate you debating this matter here in our life thank you very much both of you then london. well this is all. coming to you live twenty four hours a day i'll be back with the news team with more news for interest in the whole thing off now let me tell obama's defense speech goes under the scalpel and breaking the set that's with abby martin coming up off the break. mission free cretaceous three. four charges three. arrangements three. three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media.
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i know i've seen really messed up. in the story so closely. in fact. the worst year for the. white house has given day. the radio guy for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what is up i'm having martin and this is a break in the set so a heinous attack took place in south london yesterday in which two men ran over and subsequently beheaded a young british soldier with a cleaver in the midst of the crime one of the attackers approached a camera recorded the incident and told onlookers he was doing this is a vengeance for the muslims who are dying daily around the world.

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