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the latest news on the week's top stories in britain security is social integration and foreign policy are under scrutiny following the daylight decapitation of a soldier about alleged was going to trim it in london. the peace and quiet of stockholm was just wanted by seven and president of the knights of youth riots funk by the death of an immigrant. i'm going to advise how behemoths monsanto unites two million protesters across the globe with people accusing because regional with daintree and monopolizing did not get.
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this is that we're here on r.c. i mean you know the latest news on the week's top stories the u.k. security services are under five full frailing to the brutal daylight murder of a soldier in london two suspects arrested at the scene as a british citizens have been tracked by m i five for years and one of them was allegedly even offered a job by the agency the killing of muslims by british forces overseas was used as justification for their talk but despite fresh fears of homegrown terror you care fishbowls are defending the country's foreign policy report. 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 grissom act seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of
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will 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 anger of the moment and. not 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 leverage be a second battalion the royal regiment to use the layers they only pleading they asked people to video than 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 to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson many senior political figures are trying to distance this latest act of violence from the recent data seize exploits
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this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question or 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 to cite tony blair was george bush 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 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 were out there then perhaps a bit more space scope for al qaeda to produce the cells they'd be approachable within ukraine because when we're out there with strict space and allowing them that freedom i think for them that means their base of operations i view is we can both say the arguments because we're out there we're inspiring the more motivates in the presence of the resource motivating the cells that are 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 that brutal attack and the sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. r.t. london in the wake of the killing carried out by alleged islam is
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a series of attacks on muslims and most have taken place across britain ultranationalist rallied and clashed with police in several cities and a number of people have been arrested for racially motivated assault more than one hundred fifty such incidents have been reported in the u.k. since wednesday scaling and discuss the reasons behind the latest violence with ian dunned editor of politics dot co dot u.k. and congress call to hear from the right wing british national party. what any good a should be responsible immigration custody eight do is get those you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you car to integrate. all right and they don't want a lawyer to find that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in these efficiencies that. you know that on so of course the major. major major problem with what he's saying is that these acts of
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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 perpetrate against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors for political means well i've got to learn from and i have something to do with with my how to help like i said because of that accusation here is done by right wing fanatics and i have to get us all to the personal to. the other person who's talking he said noting completely the fog i personally have an open dialogue with most in communities that recently i had of the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for importances staff
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will be voters will tell you about the. issue of these racist you should learn about what are you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from. people from from they. let me really judge them members it also implies a meeting i went. and some other lunatics who also 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 use or are you not yet if you just look just for gators that it w. not just aussie short of 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 political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to
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a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services for intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible out moves that you take to prevent violence the issue. we are social programs combined with out these us troops foreign policy. pretty disregard for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are living in isolation cut more links with the outside world than with it. and when british governments go on their rampage of course they are on green. over so they your boeing three thousand and four and i five agent on ema showmance has those growing frustration among muslims of a deadly western interventions around. individualistic lone wolf style
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attacks which don't 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 from the middle east from central asia from all the people that 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 killing 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 even so of course there's going to be anger. meanwhile french police are investigating an apparent cold pick up attack
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in paris where a soldier was stabbed and nearly killed the suspect reportedly abated manner of north african origin is on the run or the manhunt underway but the french president has stopped short of linking the top to the london murder of his then journalist a second chandos so the bias will be used to demonize muslims and draw attention from failed government policy. these type of attacks plays into the structured your state to promote a false sense of islam so that is then so what people of the masses around the world 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 of the french who go in pretending to be the neutral arbitrators bringing peace and stability this is a big game or three it's a smoke and mirrors that really has to be distinctive form from a position that is opposing western hegemony as part of the state strategy is to
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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 front. seven consecutive days of street violence have smushed style homes in the as an idyllic scandinavian city despite additional units being sent from sweden's other regions police have not been able to curb the youth riots they first ignited in immigrant neighborhood last sunday but spread beyond the capital this week all these people want to investigate the call the rest. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. horse be 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
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libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones or molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become 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 is being processed region 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 it's the state that creates this type of gets wise ation they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below the average however almost one quarter of under twenty five out of
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work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying a lack of control by government has led them to this situation the police can put the ride 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 over r.t. sweden and for you this hour a lot of promises. claims that he is going to freeze there are limits. murder by drone program. us president obama talks national security leaving experts to wonder whether his new promises will be kept. the woman is put behind bars in the u.k. simply for wanting to look after her dying father details on that just ahead.
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anger at the global food giant monsanto swept across six continents and such today as two million people marched in protest of the corporations practices demos took place in dozens of countries with an exodus accusing the biotech titan of aggressively putting small farmers out of business and planting genetically modified crops many are angry at the legal protection the farm receives in number of nations where it can sometimes make nearly one hundred percent of the food market south maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources as this is also 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
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marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its actions the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial it's existed for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces and also of 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 morning have months santillan 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 there's a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better than that there may be no way to fully
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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 throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend in global marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g.m. most 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 and so if you're going to artsy new york. head to our web site www dot com for an extensive report on how the
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day of the biotech giant unraveled across the globe and later this hour here on our c achieving feature on how even the most traditional foods are being genetically modified. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a total destruction of the culture of new mexico i told them i mean this this is not going to impact us well in mexico whatever happens here will go to the whole world i'll worry not about it in the in the open you know all the ordinance or. engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. and
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we'll bring you more news after this short break. thank. you.
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thank you. this is all she will come back on this week president obama unveiled a new face to the war on terror while speaking about america's national defense policy is a call for more transparency in drawing strikes stressing that only a way to combat in such as and for the first time a bomb like knowledge that for american citizens had been killed in counterterrorism drone strikes so as to thousand and nine also and acts of as david swanson believes they only serve to recruit even more terrorists. he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these
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arbitrary 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 act 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 is criminal and abusive as it appears. for the second time in five years were up a bomb a promise to shotgun ton of
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a bay and promise to make his own moratorium on transferring detainees to yemen about one hundred of the one hundred sixty six prisoners in the notorious count have been stopping themselves for almost four months in protests against indefinite detention without challenge one form of god and the president says has gone ton of my experience has not been psychologically scarred. some of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar kotter and a number of other detainees they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program or even essentially move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big move the idea of a sudden every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation the only reason the detainees are being
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force fed is that the the us military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the us look bad in the global perspective as it stands right now they we have so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in one hundred but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close up one where the. and some news in brief for you right now and two rockets have hit a hezbollah district of the lebanese capital beirut leaving at least five people injured that tongue stud concerned and see where this conflict may spill into lebanon which has similar sectarian divides this comes a barely a day after the lebanese hezbollah leader promised a victory to his ally president assad while condemning the u.s. cities were supporting the rebels as of allies now helping the syrian army to push opposition fighters out of their strongholds. sixty one people
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have been arrested over violent clashes between police and techno paraders in the swiss capital of bern earlier on sunday police used water cannons and tear gas on anti capitalist hardliners the bloody blog during this standoff which the twenty one officers injured clashes broke out when the protesters attempted to tear down temporary barricades blocking the parliament because of the ensued and damage is estimated at several hundred thousand euros. a secret court in the u.k. has put some people behind bars just for trying to take care of their own relatives one woman whose father was pronounced mentally ill was locked away but since the hearings are behind closed doors it's hard to know why. investigates when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and wanda intended to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers and their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it ruled that
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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 briefly told he didn't want to be in a home. he wants to want to go with one to the final whom he went i'm swear to god to look after him arts. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it has power to take control of assets and separate family members all in secret wonder and i even want a loud to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him so we can ask you want to go. but i didn't want to tell him that he didn't notice any more they got it because of the court detention and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what are going to
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be locked up in these rooms we can't write. 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 fierce 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 a solicitor in birmingham. which makes it sound quite draconian 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
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on is and also you know in case they got in more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain or absence in the end when he moved into that final loom that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still loved him anything i said you've got to know this she divorce. she's put herself in prison port observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows if the lawyer is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and on to loud to publicize their case when their sons it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people complaining about what's been 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
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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 it's worried me what what they're doing that taken away from a supply and the wording of what's going on to us when we get older you know we've got to be really careful. not say like. r.t. stoke on trent and up next as promised an in-depth look at genetically modified foods here on r.t. . paranoia and zero tolerance policies strike yet again the latest in
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a string of children being punished for making gun noises or playing with toy guns involved the son of a u.s. marine who had the audacity as a child to use his imagination and p. pretended his pencil was a gun banger children imitate what they see in every t.v. channel and in many video games kids are going to see a lot of guns in fact the boy at that moment was admirably pretending to be just like his father a us marine you know guns kind of come with that job description rather than complain you all again about the obvious idiocy of zero tolerance policies against children playing let me give one suggestion to actually help fix the problem there are so many teachers and school administrators across america that i bet many of you know one of them try talking them about the madness of zero tolerance a lot of people do things just because they were told to or they never thought about it before so please dear friends try to get teachers you know to actually think about it i can complain on t.v. all day long but one conversation from a friend or relative really could change many people's minds maybe but that's just
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my opinion. controlling the seeds is not some abstraction whoever provides the world seeds controls the world's food supply are loaded.

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