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this week's top stories here on r.t. terror probe while police investigate the brutal slaying of a british soldier questions are mounting over the u.k.'s foreign policies fueling hate and potentially becoming an inspiration for attacks. in sweden hundreds of massed youths found allies stalls in schools setting cars on fire across the capital in six unprecedented nights of rioting they were reportedly sparked by the police killing of a portuguese immigrant brandishing a knife. and across the u.s. team really in a protesting against an agricultural giant sounding the alarm over which genetically modified products saying they're endangering people's health and the environment. and also this week president obama orders
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a review of press freedom guidelines in the wake of revelations in this from the associated press and folks news we're being spied on in the name of national security. welcome you're watching r.t. in our look back at the main stories of the week. now police are pressing for answers as they investigate the murder of a u.k. soldier who was run over and brutally slain in broad daylight in the middle of a london street two suspects detained after the attack remain in custody in hospital and three more were arrested in connection with the killing on saturday and while security is now being reviewed in the wake of the murder many believe it is the u.k.'s foreign policies that badly badly need to come under scrutiny as r.t. sarah ferguson reports a flag at half mast
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a grizzly attack with a machete knife and a murdered soldier leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this crease an act seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb. in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces to remain anonymous angry at the moment i'm a little bit. scared maybe scared. you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the priests attack details the men chanting islam is slogans as the body of soldier drama leave it be a second battalion the royal regiment you say they on the ground pleading they ask people to be da then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's
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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 ok many senior political figures are trying to distance this latest act of violence in the case of recent aid to seize exploits this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what our 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 to cite tony blair was with george bush and they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster it has been just announced not just for the young man killed on the
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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 one ace. i think if we went out there that perhaps would be more space scope for al qaida to produce the cells they'd be approachable with you kerry because when we're out there with strict spice and all that freedom then. that means bicycle bryson's and we both it's because we're out there will spawn more motivates in the presence of the resource most of the selves back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues
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a deep sense of guilt and outrage from the local community here in south east london at that briefing that tag and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. london the killing of the u.k. soldier allegedly carried out by islamic extremists has sparked anti muslim sentiment across the country over a thousand right wing protesters marched in the northern city of newcastle while in the south in portsmouth police arrested three men for racially motivated to sold as a crowd gathered near a local mosque a number of people how they paid before course around the country over alleged racist incidents from my five agent and shown says machete attack which has stirred the nation needs to be regarded in context of nato policies in the middle east asia and north africa. but of individualistic lone wolf style attacks which don't
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require great planning don't require some thought specialist equipment or anything will become perhaps one of the main ways that people make protests and it's a horrific attack there is no doubt about it and my heart goes out to the family of the victim but what we're looking at is also an angry voice yelling out from north africa hand in the middle east from central asia from all the people have been because lies by the interventionist policies of the us of the u.k. of nato or france i mean not just iraq and afghanistan but libya in mali in some in yemen and of course what we're looking at is a whole country that's been decimated now by the cia kill exists which are a presidential you proved in the u.s. every week and also drone strikes which are not targeted they take out a whole villages communities and wedding parties and so of course there's going to be anger. while some security experts believe last month's deadly terror bombings
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in boston and this week's murder in london a similar attacks which both represent a certain trend my colleague bill dodd talked about the issue with r.t. . he's been following both tragic incidents. well the alleged motives or this. striking parallels similarities with those described by the boston bombing suspect. well to discuss the legitimacy of drawing the parallels between what happened willage in london and in boston the incidents happened within a month of each other as it sort of the atlantic is. the similarities while the primary similarities of course the underlying message it seems that both. the message that he scribbled on a boat as well as the machete killer it seems that the main message is if you're going to assault muslims abroad. then you should be prepared to be prepared for a retribution in your own home country and that of course in the case of john
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hartson i was there was the united states and the machete killer obviously attacked in london so basically they're saying that they're making up for the lives that were lost during the wars in iraq and afghanistan and other places in the east but it appears that they were a loon individually they were pulled over the terror network and yet their message is very similar absolutely and it looks like we're looking at something new phenomenon in the so-called open-source jihad there's a website out there it's actually periodical online magazine which provides all sorts of recipes for disaster literally for example how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom from the al qaeda chef and you can uses a pressure cooker in order to do that it says the ingredients are readily available they're not going to cause any suspicion if you're going to purchase them and you will basically get away with murder literally now this is not the only recipe that's out there so to speak they're also talking about techniques to wipe out large numbers of people there are also
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a dish there's also in addition on how to blow up buildings and so on and so forth as a matter of fact the even have in addition targeted. the women and suicide bombers and it's positioned as of lifestyle and fashion. magazine and it sounds almost borderline observateur or or on the borderline funny but it's not because literally there is a plethora of information out there on the internet and it basically teaches people how to kill other people and and yet you annoy we can access this security services doing about this because clearly they know where it's coming from go they do something absolutely yes it does seem like they're actually keeping track in some instances we know that in both cases there should be killers as well as this one i have brothers were under the radar but the main question of course is why didn't the authorities do anything to prevent the attacks from happening because we're looking at an enormous a number of young men primarily of. muslim faith who are out there reading these websites and they're the target audience of these websites and they can essentially
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be their own terrorist leaders so you'd think they would be under the cap of the authorities and yet it doesn't seem like the thirty's have done anything to prevent these attacks from happening of course to keep people from dying and that is the main problem that we're facing here right now and a similar attack a french soldier has been stabbed in the neck while he was patrolling a business area in a neighborhood of paris the twenty three year old was injured as the unknown man attacked him from behind with a knife or a box cutter police say according to c.c.t.v. footage the suspect is tall beaded aged about thirty five and wearing a white arab star tunic and he's possibly of north african origin activists and journalists who can things no matter who's behind the attack it serves the interests of those who want to undermine islam. these type of attacks plays into the strength did you have the state to promote a four sense of islam so then is done so what people of the masses around the world
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can see wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then they use these groups in asia to conduct the stabilisation so the french can go in pretending to be the neutral arbitrators bringing peace and stability this is a big game or theater smoke and mirrors that really has to be distracted from a position that is opposing western hegemony as part of the state strategy is to make sure that everyone is pointing fingers at everyone but the actual arbitrators of the economic crisis of police corruption of unjust and immoral foreign policy i.e. those in power in france six nights of riots and a country listed as the best governed in the world sweden's police say the violence in stockholm has now been delayed dozens of cars but still torched imports suburbs it was almost a week of rioting with mass protest is vandalizing the city and their anger is fueled by unemployment and poverty among immigrants who feel they are being pushed
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to the edge of society to all of the ports. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. on the outskirts of stockholm the epicenter of sweden's issues 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 peaceful city from political football. democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being produce we don't want for the past week stone throwing in burning become the norm in this part of town known for
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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 it's think what it creates as the type of gets wise ation of men everyone from your old interviews all parts of time when it comes to unemployment sweden is below average there were 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 put the write down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that it's government policy that must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t.
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sweden. recent studies have shown up to a third of people aged between sixteen and twenty nine in the poorest areas of sweden's big cities and either in work or studying and the gap between the rich and poor is growing rapidly mark abramson from sweden's national democrats party believes the way the government's tackling immigration is to blame for the unrest. this is fairly new to to sweden and this is clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that sweden adopted around the eighty's and increased it in the ninety's and now we are seeing these problems that these politics is not working and we have seen this this is not a unique one single occasion webzine this in gotham bergen mali several times and even in the city where i am elected councillor inside italian role now we have this ethnical based riots against swedish authorities i think that's rude and has
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been trying harder than any of the country in europe to try to push for integration where we invested national billions into it and of taxpayers' money were tried everything that to scientists have has presented and still it's the clerk in the problem to keep the poorest of these people don't identify themselves with this with the society or us swedes and it's clearly not working it's not working sweden is not working in france or in the united states it's very sad and i think we'll see more of this if we don't change the politics. in the future. the war on terror gets a facelift president obama reviews his national and irish strategy defending overseas drone warfare as legal and necessary we look ahead while a secret u.k. court has been locking up trying to look after their loved ones that is coming up here and answering.
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so many people across fifty two countries have been protesting against the agricultural biotech giant monsanto according to rally organizers activists claim the corporate corporations monopolizing the food market and its genetically modified products can lead to serious health and environmental problems the company itself insists its products are safe and help conserve resources artie's and was one of the protests in new york. throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the united states weekend of action against monsanto takes place here in the heart of the protests in the big apple were hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its action the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been now very controversial its existence for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified agriculture
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and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces had also of the immense lobbying powers that it has in washington d.c. for one accused of sleeping in the same bed really with politicians blocking any kind of legislation that would make life for money how months and to more difficult and promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own advantage for monetary gain this is a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better then there may be no way to fully tackle the machine and even vote which monsanto mud santo in the government award we have a supreme court justice who is a lawyer for the month sent to a corporation how much independence do we have really in our government all of these people that have come out onto the streets according to our estimates
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throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend in the local marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g m o's and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to. stand what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators. new york. the u.s. senate this week overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to require the labeling of genetically modified products. wrote a book researching the political side of the g.m. debate he believes monsanto has used its immense government influence to push its products onto the market and suppress their criticism. this is
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a. strategic interest of the u.s. the agribusiness lobby which lobbied the bush sr as president i think ninety two monsanto went to the white house and had a closed door meeting with bush and got bush to agree to make sure there were no government tests whatsoever on the health and safety of g.m.o. products before they were released to the commercial public ratchford would you have no monsanto rice corn or other had. huge incidence of cancer tumors compared with nonviable rats they had an enormous organ damage death rates five times out of of normal rights and the this study was suppressed well it was it was downed by the european union's food safety administration and it turns out most of the scientists on the bottle had ties to monsanto so it's just a corruption that my own father tries to infiltrate it's way they try to block labor leaning california because that would damage their whole. product situation
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in america or people are beginning to wake up. and you can keep track of all the latest developments from the monsanto marches around the world on our website party dealt com we have got live updates videos reaction and analysis it is just a click away. on thursday president obama ordered every few of the justice department's investigations of a satiating press and fox news reporters the government says it sees their records over concerns that they are leaking classified security information but there are increasing phase press freedoms are in the thread with the u.s. government prefer ring secrecy over the public's right to know. reports. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian
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a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed and obtained the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice i think about the harm done to the a.p. here you know object of interest to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on national security issues government officials secretly obtained reporters' phone logs and personal e-mails trying to find out who leaked classified information to the press even if you side with this president over those of us in the media who challenge him and his administration it is important to remember the precedent these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house
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the guy currently residing in the white house has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all other administrations combined and now experts say u.s. news outlets are being persecuted just like wiki leaks has been the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been kimmitt dating the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs but leakers will pay the price i believe we must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field. to do so we must enforce consequences for those who break the law and breach their commitment to protect classified information however some think the lines are becoming increasingly blurred this is the first time. you know national security
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has been used to get reporters i mean that really is frightening trying because it's usually used to get leakers so if the bombing ministration or loses justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across them all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic
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articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects press freedom but all one has to do is look at recent events to know that doesn't always happen reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. well president obama insists journalists should not be a legal risk for doing their job but those who break the law by leaking government secrets should be punished greg p.t.s.d. from the report his committee for freedom of the press says the government's attempts to protect itself should not intrude on constitutional rights. they obviously have a very strong interest in protecting their information and we've always counted on the justice department to balance that interest against the first amendment rights of the reporters and it's that ability to balance that that's been called into question by the events of the last couple of weeks we feel that most journalists can make the careful determination of when some confidential information is
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newsworthy and something that the public has a right to see and they can balance that against the risk of any damage that might be caused by the release of it i think most journalists if they knew the information would truly be damaging would be willing to hold back or you know report less of it or accommodate those security interests. to some of the stories making news around the world this hour tens of thousands marched in the portuguese capitalism then on saturday is ongoing sterrett seen rising unemployment continues to pay citizens against the government police had to brought protesters from reaching the presidential palace as they demanded the government's resignation a country has been hard hit by the eurozone crisis and is struggling to deal with the on going financial timo despite tax hikes and welfare cuts. the leader of the lebanese shia group hezbollah has announced his organization will
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remain in the syrian conflict until the very end has. promised to help bring victory to bashar al assad while warning that syria's armed opposition represents a serious threat to both christians and muslims in the region the u.s. and israel were also admonished during the speech for that position in the current conflict. hundreds gathered on saturday in a circular protest near underground station and cora it comes after turkish officials displayed messages in the metro demanding citizens act according to what they call moral rules after a couple were caught kissing on security cameras police were forced to set up barricades as islam is staged a counter-rally nearby. a little known u.k. court has been putting some british citizens under lockdown for trying to take care of their own with secret proceedings and private hearings it's hard to know how and even if the door is being followed as artie's. investigates
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when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and wonder 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 ruled that the eight 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 want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him right. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed too unwell 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 even wanted loud 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 home but i
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didn't want to tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because one of the court protection the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what are going to be locked up in these rooms we can't grow. 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 first 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 in prison firstly for taking her father to see
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a solicitor in birmingham. which makes it sound quite true kelly well in a sense it's worse than dr drew conan because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because the less minty a phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because i'm the commission's report on this and also you know in case i got more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate terms of the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final loom that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still new loved 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 like legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case but nelson's it is giving the state too much power to
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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 interests of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year he swore to me what what they've done it taken away from and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not safe like. stoke on trent. still ahead few fine words but little action president obama has to close guantanamo the thing a ban on detainees transfer while the prison is cold in massive hunger strike with many not holding much hope for yet another promise and as
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a key battle in the syrian border time intensifies we'll bring you the story of one community to stand by the president and the surprising country they come from for not off the shore bright. wealthy british style some time to live on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on. the news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images are world
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has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.
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i. had i welcome back to that weekly hey we're not on thursday president obama unveiled a new face to the war on terror while speaking about america's national defense policies he defended drone strikes as legal and necessary this after the a bomb administration for the first time acknowledged that four american citizens had been killed in counterterrorism drone strikes since two thousand and nine author and that davis david swanson believes the use of drones only serves as a recruiting tool for even more terrorists. he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary
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criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other than afghanistan and yet he's not provided publicly any documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if if he would rather have captured ardmore locky why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here too for is it not as criminal and abusive as it appears while warning the war on terror will stretch on indefinitely obama has for the second time in five years promised to try and shut down guantanamo bay the us president said he's lifting his
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own moratorium on transferring detainees to yemen this is the notorious camp has been caught and a massive hunger strike for nearly four months more than one hundred of the hundred sixty six prisoners that are currently protesting against indefinite detention and inhumane treatment the majority of them remain held without charge more than bag a former prisoner at the u.s. facility in cuba says obama's words promises. i don't think anybody's going to be singing the praises of obama any time soon because he's already made a promise for four years ago that it close the place the works of malcolm x. you don't take a knife stiff gets to get a man's back nine inches deep and pull about five inches and say we're making progress if they are cleared for release and why don't you release them now why are you going to start a process that could well take a year or more we want the criminals they were the criminals the crude and he was done against us torture is criminality kidnap is criminality rendition is
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criminality tortures criminality all of these things were done to us we didn't do this and but we were interrogated by the world's most powerful law enforcement and intelligence agencies and after years of all of this we still had no charges against us and after years of all of this prisoners still there overwhelming majority of them are still no charges against them so it's simply not even worth discussing anymore. dot com for you right now civilian justice in post-war iraq u.k. high court has ruled britain must investigate every one of the hundred sixty one civilian deaths in iraq at the hands of british soldiers three year legal battle by iraqi families you can find out more on. and on our you tube channel tornado has a date with a nuclear power station you can find all this to go kill. more
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news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corporations rule the day. this week saw an exchange of fire between syrian and israeli army's in the disputed golan heights long annexed by the jewish state the front line attacks have become more frequent with israel launching airstrikes near damascus but as artie's poorest leader explains there's at least one community in israel ready to defend president assad. we're ready to die defending our people strong words from a chef preparing young men to go and fight in syria except his recruits are not rebel fighters or soldiers in damascus they're israeli droogs a minority islamic offshoot we need to go help defend the community in syria and
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president assad. we have relatives there are people are there and they were attacking in the name of islam. the tipping point came afterwards targeting the jews village of near the israeli syrian border and killed seven people by the hundreds israeli jews volunteers started signing up the shot of i would be honored to be the first man who crosses the border to defend the druze community simon why did works in an israeli factory but feels it's only a matter of time before he'll be asked to cross the border into syria. i hope that they won't notice but you can't know what will happen now the situation in the druze villages is stable but if this changes we will go for it we are waiting for the orders from our shakes and we are totally ready. israeli jews who live in communities in the gulf and the golan heights after the forty eight and sixty seven wars they found themselves cut off from their families in syria after israel
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occupied the heights those who live here on the israeli syrian border are wizard in severe israel that see themselves as syrian then loyal to the alawite regime who they see as a minority like in solves they live in fear for their families in syria after the rebel assault on the druze village i learned where. we're under attack we're under foreign attack they're using foreign soldiers to fight inside syria and some syrians are helping them. some have other ways to fight back this man goes door to door selling his book about a respected to share all the proceeds go across the border. the druze community in israel collected one million dollars and sent it to the syrian druze from my ability but can we collected one million shekels people paid what they could in order to help their relatives in syria the court to fight has not yet been made but as the conflict in syria starts to spread beyond its borders more and more
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communities are being torn in so many allegiances here randi and when a relativist killed the tete a tete vendetta is likely to last for years but we are just waiting for an opportunity to help and we are ready to give our lives policy r.t. on the israel syria border. coming up next we talk to the south african president jacob zuma bad the road to pace and development on the continent. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and that's
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down from generation. this is a told destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact a swelling in mexico whatever happens here about the whole world now we're eating at about six in the in the row in a in all boarding and so are fed genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. they played in a family jazz band together. i jacked a plane together. most of them from music to tara. twenty five years old questions still remain.
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just bad hi jack. you.
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jacobs in that president south africa it's great to have you with us today. i've heard you recently warning western corporations of pursuing a colonial approach to africa what exactly does that mean while the colonial approach that we're talking about as you know africa is the only continent in the world to go to was colonized by europe totally. we had to fight what to call the un to colonial wars to free ourselves and they were being taught there not just small wars but a bitter when africa became free there was no other engine and how to make up for that so they were left as they were up to this day in some of the african countries
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are still have the armies of the former colonial countries what do they want there you still have a mentality there do they look at you as a former subject when they do business with you and defect that you have not shifted in terms of how the quantum of the lessons. that's a bigger problem the companies that dominate this country come from the former colonial countries in no way you have the indigenous companies growing to be in charge so to speak so that's a kind of relationship with as well as cute. balance and there's been no effort to them who have the means to help balance in the relationship that's not what we're talking about we were saying also because it terms is a bit of an interference in what africans do you know if since you say you have
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listened to some of us speaking you must have listened to us talking about a country called libya which from a country operating has been put into a very serious crisis the africans were there with a roadmap to solve the problem they refused they thought the best thing is to punk libya out of this world and they pumped it continuously loyal very well that we don't agree that is using their colonial position. against those that did colonized and we now have. the region totally undermined and they're no longer a bid to solve the problems and solutions but since your very acting in trying to resolve this conflict in libya i know that you were trying to persuade qaddafi to step down how that happened do you think that could have spared his life including absolutely we did the road map where in god does he have. to bow out of
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power with this pursuit of the instrument. monitored by the arabs by others as well so that the change that people are talking about would have come without many people being killed without. the so the e.u. with it. was undermined by the western countries plus that we had it but we see a similar situation playing out in syria right now. people say that intervention is not an option either say that situation has gotten so out of hand that peacekeeping forces can really not do anything much at this point what do you think is the best way out are we seeing a total fail of diplomacy in a dead end situation in syria well i'm not sure there's a sort of ever for the promise generally people agreed we've all been calling for
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a kind of coming together of the syrian people to solve their problems that they should be helped to do so but some countries have been saying no. because much they went to the security council they could not agree that has been the problem and that's part of what makes smaller countries all kind of that are not members of the same to the council to have a problem if that institution does not change or transform because it means we can see it one day as we are looking at in. a country print destroyed before our eyes in this modern age as if it is decades back where in there could be wars that could finish their countries nobody can explain in this modern age in democratic change that why have we allowed syria to be destroyed as it has been destroyed so it's a big problem. that people are beginning to say.

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