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the latest news in the week's top stories britain's security social integration and foreign policy are under scrutiny following the. alleged muslim extremists in london. the peace and quiet of stockholm is disrupted by seven president and nights sparked by the death of an immigrant. tech. you know it's two million protesters across the globe with people accusing the fall prey sion of endangering health and the food market.
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with a note back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is live in moscow. the u.k. security services are on the far for failing to prevent the brutal murder of a soldier in london on wednesday nine suspects have been arrested so far at least two of them have been tracked by m i five for years while most allegedly even offered a job by the agency the killing of muslims by british forces overseas was used as justification for the attack but despite fresh fears of homegrown terror u.k. officials are defending the country's foreign policy as sara first reports. 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 crease a 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 he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces
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to remain anonymous angry at the moment and. not scared maybe scared. you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the priests attack detailed the men chanting islam is slogans as the body of soldier drama leverage be a second battalion the royal regiment a few celebs they only pleading they asked people to d.d.a. 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 to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures trying to distance this latest act of violence from the case of recent eva sees 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 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 just like tony blair was with george bush. 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 one
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ace. he think if we went out there then perhaps a bit more space and scope for al-qaeda to produce the cells they'd be operate more within the u.k. because when we're out there we're constricted in 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 motivates in them our 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 that deep sense of self and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at that brutal attack and they sent them an educated 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 allege islamists a series of attacks on muslims and mosques have taken place across britain ultra
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nationalists rallied in clash 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 just killing well earlier this week i discussed the reasons behind the latest violence within done he's out of politics talking about u.k. and colors cotillion from the right wing british national party. what any good a should be responsible immigration custody eight do is get toss you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you to integrate. all right and they don't want a lawyer the fact that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this information on these that. you know that on so of course the major problem the real id the other scenario a major problem with what he's saying is that this acts of terrorism really
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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 political means well i've got to learn from and i have something to do with with my father i help like i'll take it all exaggeration here is done by right wing fanatics and i have to get us all to know the person. the other person who's talking. noting completely defunct i personally have an open dialogue with most in communities that recently i had the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for important.
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so you should learn about what are you know proud of on ok to listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from east. from we people from from they think it's the number is not me or any german members it also implies to me that i will 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 that they mention actually the words he is the use or are you looking ahead if you just talk just for that is that it does not just ask you 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 is going to 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 a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the
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muslim community these are the kind of sensible out news that you take to prevent violence the issue. we have a social problem combined with out these us troops foreign policy. these with god for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are leaving in isolation cut more links with the outside world than with it. and when british governments go on the rampage off course they are on grief. over sort of failure of integration. meanwhile french police are investigating an apparent copycat attack in paris where the soldier was stabbed and nearly killed the suspect reportedly a bit of man of north african origin is on the run with a manhunt underway but the french president to stop short of linking the attack to
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the london murder activists and journalists are concerned and says the violence will be used to demonize muslims and draw attention from failed government policies but these type of attacks plays into the strategy of the state to promote a false sense of islam so that is what people of the masses around the world conceive 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 stabilization of the french can go in and 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 off the economic crisis of police corruption of unjust and immoral foreign policy i.e. those in power in france. seven consecutive days of street violence have shouted
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stockholm's image 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 an immigrant neighborhood last sunday but spread beyond the capital this week peter all of investigates the core of the unrest. 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 a molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city it's become a political football. democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about
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immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being. 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 ghettoization so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below the 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 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 its
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government policy must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden. on the way this war without borders rockets fall on parts of lebanon's capital controlled by. militants after they helped the syrian rebels. rest journalists in the u.s. raise the alarm over the future of their industry after the government seizes the records of associated press and fox news reported. the story still to come for this hour but first anger a global food giant monsanto swept across six continents on saturday as two million people marched in protest at the corporations practices demonstrations took place in dozens of countries with activists accusing the biotech titan of aggressively putting small farmers out of business and planting hazardous genetically modified
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crops many are angry at the legal protection the firm receives in a number of nations where you can sometimes make up nearly one hundred percent of the food market and send itself maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources. and i was at 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 where 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 actions the corporate giant the biotech global giant has made now very controversial its existence for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified agriculture and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces had also of the
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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 marta have months santa 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 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.
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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 for. heard that legislators begin to understand 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 who say see churkin at r.t. new york. had a website all to you don't call me for an extensive report on how the day of action against the politics john reveled across the world. of the naughty a chilling feature on 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
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a total destruction of the culture of new mexico by telling them i mean this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here. now we're eating out in the in the open you know ordering and so forth. why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. that report later here on r t the news continues after this break.
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we're watching a weekly head on. thursday president obama ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of associated press and fox news the government says it seized journalist records over concerns that leaking classified security information it comes amid what is seen as washington's intensified persecution of whistleblowers. has this report. 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 a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed and obtained the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice 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
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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 in his administration it is important to remember the president these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house 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 in the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been kim a dating the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists
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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 has been used to get reporters i mean that really is frightening to try to name because it's usually used to get leakers so if the bomb and ministration releases 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 and 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.
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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 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 port ny r.t. for. a brief look at some of the stories from around the world sixty one people have been arrested following violent clashes at
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a techno music protest parade in the swiss capital burn police used water cannons and tear gas on anticapitalist hardline is known as the black bloc clashes broke out when the protesters attempted to temporary every cade's looking polity. hundred fifty thousand people turned out for an anti gay marriage rally in the french capital demonstrators in paris the country's new same sex marriage and adoption act came into force a week ago as. prioritising issue. country in europe to legalize gay marriage previous and to gay marches have ended in clashes between the far right and the. fears of the syrian conflict spilling over borders have been ignited by an attack on the capital of neighboring lebanon several people were injured when two rockets landed in hezbollah controlled district of beirut the lebanese militant groups been strongly supporting the
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embattled syrian government let's get reaction now from middle east affairs expert who is in beirut and if there's no word on who carried out this attack in the rebel free syrian army has denied any involvement. could be behind it what would their motives. well there are two comments i'd like to say the first is that the some members of the free syrian army denied it however there was one official who said that hezbollah you know its activity will lead to repercussions that would target by the route the northern city of tripoli and beirut international airport and that perhaps is an indicator that some of these armed opposition groups some of the syrian armed opposition groups are indeed involved in what happened today you have to remember that the free syrian army isn't the one bloc so if one spokesman denies that it might very well be that another opposition of opposition group which also uses a title feel free syrian army could have been involved now
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a second comment is regarding the term the hospital or control district let me just clarify that the area in which the rockets impacted it is in fact in southern beirut yes and southern beirut does include the main headquarters or institutions of hezbollah but it isn't all of southern by wood which is hezbollah's buildings there are many areas where hezbollah has no presence in southern beirut and one of those areas is the area which was attacked today one of the rockets even landed in the er a church and it lies on the border between southern beirut and the christian district so obviously this is not an attack on a husband law base or of hezbollah institution it's a clearly an act of terrorism against innocent civilians on an inhabited area and so i think it just goes to show you the nature of these groups who we are dealing with but i never said a little early can i ask you what we could be that we see a reaction or response from has been are after these rocket attacks though. well
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a number of hezbollah our m.p.'s actually have already reacted by also saying that this is an attack on terrorism attack sorry on lebanon by terrorists and one has ball or m.p. even called on the state to take measures against those who finance these terrorists now when you speak about those countries who finances terrorists there are only three countries which come to mind qatar saudi arabia and turkey and that has been the hezbollah reaction up till now but i think most important of all it is that we have to go back to what hezbollah's leader cited haasan arcelor said yesterday basically he declared that her husband has entered a war with al qaida affiliates that is the very first time now we are husband law is entering into such a war however a side one also said this is a war of sorts defense because if they achieve victory or progress in syria then hezbollah would be next on line for them so he said that this basically implied
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that this is a war of necessity against these people and maybe what happened today was a response or a statement of the speech especially in light just briefly you are there in beirut are there fears now of a chain reaction now occurring as a result of what's happening happening in syria in lebanon itself fears there of perhaps another civil war is it getting that serious just briefly. well there are fears i i have to tell you i cannot hide the fact that there are fears in southern beirut some people even left their homes to other areas so there are fears of the sectarian spillover of the you know the sunni shia asked dr pierce these fears do exist but i think that the husband is trying as much as it can to prevent this and say it hasn't been stressed yesterday that these al qaida affiliates kill some mees more than she hires and they don't believe anyone who doesn't share those their same ideology even if they are sunni and so i think is going out of its way to
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portray that this confrontation is not sectarian it's shia are so many christian against al qaida and its affiliates at least affairs expert ali risk live in beirut itself thank you very much indeed for your comments and your perspective on the latest developments thanks this is all t. the weekly and all the way an in-depth look at genetically modified food you can find out more in just a couple of minutes now but with a nice team with more news in half an hour from now. paranoia and zero tolerance policies strikes yet again the latest in a string of children being punished for making gun noises or playing with toy guns involves the son of a us marine who had the audacity as a child to use his imagination and pee pretended his pencil was our gun bang
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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 u.s. 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 my opinion.
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