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b.-u. foreign ministers failed to agree on what to do off the blocks in syria ends on friday the u.k. and france pushing to start honoring the rebels this comes as the russian and u.s. diplomats meet to pave the way for next month's international conference on syria. hate crimes sore across the u.k. following the brutal killing of a british soldier a muslim extremist in london. a massive rally in france's capital against a recently posset gay marriage nor turns violent allegations of police brutality against protesters. and on the brink of a trade war and disputes between the e.u. and china intensifies as brussels threatens high import tariffs accusing beijing of
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selling goods below market value. needs a much more twenty four hours a day. foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of states have a top that meeting in france and the upcoming syrian peace conference speaking to the media afterwards both diplomat stressed a commitment to the process of a political transition that will help end the violence in the country. meeting in brussels the e.u. foreign ministers have decided to let the syrian weapons to expire on friday. for the story. that is safe for a lot to do so to speak split to from the russian officials will work with the
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syrian government as the united states takes it takes upon themselves to work with the syrian opposition leader to bring both sides to the table multiple to talk about the. possibility of bringing to be. absentee ballot in geneva all parties involved to be concentrated. to flee from the syrian. opposition groups. i think. it is and we believe that this circle could be. arms embargo is running out on friday and that is a matter of great concern for russia and the united states because we have france and the united kingdom already. arms to the syrian opposition is something
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that they are looking at it and that is something that neither russia nor the united states believe is a good way to solve this situation as we know. the. rebels who are closely linked. in syria and are working with. to other countries. he believes the geneva peace conference will put washington in the toilet spot over syria. now with these planned talks that are scheduled to take place next month between foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state kerry the u.s.
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and russia are going to have to come up with some type of political roadmap for settling the military conflict inside of syria and i think the u.s. is very concerned about this because they know they really don't have any really keen political players on the ground inside a serious quite obvious that the people who are doing the fighting in syria those who the united states have labeled as being terrorists and extremists so it's a contradiction that the united states is facing in this situation and the same time they still want to bring about the complete overthrow of the president bashar al assad in damascus just briefly your thoughts about john mccain he's visiting syria is that country to the attempt to have a balanced approach to this by the u.s. secular state with this peace koeppen jeep denethor and we having john mccain talking to one side of the conflict there in syria. he's playing
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a very similar role that he played in libya he went to the city of benghazi early on doing the china revolution in libya and demanded that the obama administration recognize the m.t.c. rebels mccain is one of the most cocky and warmongering senators in the united states congress his role is to try to push the obama administration even further to the right in regard to their position on syria. we want to know your views on the upcoming syria peace conference mediated by russia and the us said to r.t. dot com to take part in our live poll so if you think the meeting were bring any results because it won't even happen around the third think the summit will yield the peace plan which the divided syrian opposition says it won't stick to and not many of you believe assad will agree to step down all that western backed. arming the syrian opposition but if you haven't done so already just head to our website
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and have your say. hundreds of protesters have clashed with police during a far right nationalist demonstration in central london only two men were arrested as suspects in the mosque attack in the east of the country the wave of racial hatred in the u.k. was sparked by the brutal killing of a soldier by islamist extremists a surge of islamophobia has many concerned with an impending split in society and saudis political report. the police investigation into the death of drama lee rigby is still ongoing but last week's killing of the off duty soldier by islamic extremists has already provoked an anti muslim backlash religious charity phrase masses say they used to receive five calls a day reporting racial abuse that figure is now up to over one hundred calls a day reporting anti muslim incidents the abuse includes the pulling off of women's headscarves attacks against mosques anti muslim graffiti and general abuse social
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media has also provided a platform for some to vent their anti islamic sentiments a number of arrests of already been made the news has left many muslims here saying that they're afraid to leave their houses while community leaders say that they're concerned about the spread of the incidents with reports of anti muslim abuse coming from across the entire country at the same time a new poll says that two sides of people living in the u.k. believe that there will be a clash of the civilizations between white britons and british muslims something that could be increasingly threatening to britain's image of multiculturalism and ethnic diversity poly boy kerry see london where basically a journalist only goes believes the u.k.'s security services must take action against hatred towards the muslim population. many people in this country run happy about i mean look for example what we've done to iraq an illegal war now we've had
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another bomb attack today we've made a mess in a wreck of these places the arab league's prediction that we were going to open the gates of hell in iraq has come true and actually britain and tony blair. george bush two are responsible for this so it's not just the muslim population the other thing is we've got other extremists here in britain that is to say you know sort of anti islamic extremists two weeks ago a man a pensioner coming home from his mosque in birmingham in the middle and of britain was murdered and this got almost no coverage whatsoever and we need to make sure that the security services are taking exactly the same sort of measures against the anti muslim like the defense league these kinds of organizations as they are against the islamic organizations what they're trying to do is actually demonize muslims in a similar way to actually to the nazis demonize jews back in the one nine hundred thirty s. and it's ridiculous we've got to stop that we don't want that for my five thank you
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very much. and online our team is keeping an eye on the latest developments in the u.k. and i log on to our website r.t. dot com and there we have a full timeline of events since the attack on service believe me it was not a system reaction from experts and officials. and french police have clashed with antigay demonstrators in the country's capital there protesting against a recently passed law allowing same sex marriage around one hundred fifty thousand people took part in a rally according to authorities activists claim it was closer to a million three marches in paris started off peacefully but ended with a writer of history in bottles and media around three hundred fifty people have been detained nice. can coordinate of an anti gay marriage an adoption bill and james many were arrested voicing their beliefs. you wouldn't be able to provide any picture norreys film of any broken glass any car any
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violence during the protests. at the same time many people have been arrested several hundred people have been arrested by the police just because they were wearing suits with this logo there systematically the government tends to divide by three the numbers of protesters in parties that are against its policies you know when a kid has lost its parents probably the. dearest wish to be adopted by a man and a woman in the slow there is a lie that is imbedded in the law to make people believe in the future that they can be born from two men or two women and this is extremely dangerous and by the way we look through all the right to medical procreation and get nodders which people in france are extremely worried about and extremely against.
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many in paris took advantage of the protests to express their why discontent with president francois hollande and his policies from laughlin from the institute of democracy in cooperation with the french leaders attempts at reform amount to an exercise in public relations. none of the policies of us for a long can be described as left wing he campaigned you'll recall on against austerity saying that he was going to accept an austerity package and of course as soon as he was in power he implemented what and this is having very serious effects on french society so to substitute if you like for this failure to pursue any kind of left wing social or economic policy is instead putting forward or putting through this law on gay marriage which in the words of its own authors will bring about a change of civilization it's a kind of substitute if you like for the economic policy that he refuses to to
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implement and that's for the police they are acting under government orders the ministry of the interior was in the police headquarters yesterday more or less directing operations so they are acting politically and in russia the issue of gay rights is also drawing an angry backlash from the public at large but is it obvious enough takes a look at that it is the same sex relationships among russians. just on saturday police had to detain around forty people when a group of gay rights activists tried holding a protest rally against a draft law banning the sexual propaganda and were attacked by a group of a radical orthodox christians was a t.v. rights activist and pretty much is the same picture will be seen every time gay rights activists try holding or staging any sort of public events they're always attacked by a two year rights activist and so the recent nationwide poll conducted by you by the center really explains why according to its statistics nearly forty percent of
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its response believes that homosexuals have to be forcibly treated by doctors around thirteen percent believe that they have to be prosecuted while only around eight percent of the respondents believe that gays in russia have to be helped to be able to live normal lives in a society so if you compare the situation to france for instance then it's still a whole different picture especially when it comes to the amount of people taking to the streets either in support of or i guess gay rights but judging by the general conservative or also conservative mood in a russian society it's very unlikely that we will see any rights parades taking place any place in russia in the near future since even the if the authorities did allow them to happen then the simply wouldn't be able to provide the proper security to the activists themselves. well coming up later in the program a step away from a trade war tension between the e.u.
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and china escalates brussels threatens beijing with tariffs on the sending products funny stuff to break. well with. technology innovation all the leaders developments from around russia we've got the future. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought. welcome to the big picture.
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download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back. shock waves from the syrian conflict continuing to spread across the region it's walking fresh concern the war could cross into neighboring countries and latest incident a mortar was apparently the ones from lebanon towards the israeli border and that came just hours after a rocket attack on a has been controlled area of the country's capital beirut earlier the militant group's leader pledged his support for the syrian president bashar assad.
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he has been in the the house on a strike that has killed he stated that he and his below are involved in the war in syria he was addressing thousands of his supporters in the southern beirut suburb of death and in that speech he pledged all out support for the syrian president bashar assad saying that his shiite muslim group would stay in the syrian war to quote him to the end of the road and achieve victory together. there are two major threats facing the lebanese people and the entire region today the first imitates from israel and its avid intentions and blots the second thread stems from the changes taking place in syria which neighbors our cities villages and homes syria is seeing major activity by radical islamist movements this one is said that his war was with extremists he called an attack fearless he said that tens of thousands of them from all over the world are currently fighting in syria
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and he warned that if syria forces they've been on to move forward this in turn he said would lead to israel we occupying lebanon now eleven years the media is reporting that a rocket has been fired towards israel from the lebanese town of measure you and this is off to two other rockets landed in the has been a strong holding down here on sunday the lebanese army saying that those rockets were fired from inside lebanon towards the hizbollah stronghold the united nations has been concerned over his that as involvement for quite some time she the arab chief the arab league chief has urged them to stop fighting in syria but misrata address this saying why is the u.n. not calling on the extremists to stop fighting inside syria and again reiterating that they are fighting not only for syria but for lebanon as well earlier there were also dozens of his vilified as reportedly killed during fighting in a key syrian town of qusayr your so what we do see is the tension on the ground
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heating up. u.s. president barack obama has attempted to rebrand the country's war on terror in his recent national security speech if you just heard criticism as the country's military presence in the world city continues to grow she is going to take on has more president obama in his major national security speech this may quoted james madison saying no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare at the very same time the administration claims power to wage endless war across the globe there was a senate hearing this may revisiting the authorization for use of military force which congress enacted days after nine eleven attacks in two thousand and one at the hearing pentagon officials claimed that authorization gives the president power to wage endless war anywhere in the world including syria yemen and the congo and when asked how long they predict this war on terror is going to last they said quote from ten to twenty years the agree with me that when it comes to international terrorism we're talking about
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a worldwide struggle. absolutely sure that would you agree with me the battlefield is were the enemy chooses to make it. yes sir from boston the to the fun so by the administration's definition the wall that is the battlefield with me today is brian becker with the answer coalition brian thanks for joining ryan you have president obama saying in his national security speech that the u.s. is not engaged in a boundless war and yet you have this vast military presence across the globe does it look like the u.s. this really seeking to limit itself in the use of military force no in fact the policy in the institutional policy is for the united states that it would be prepared for endless war but that being engaged in all of the activities that would lead one to believe that they are an endless war there's one point three million u.s. military personnel three hundred to four hundred thousand of them are overseas there's nine hundred military bases the united states spends not five hundred twenty five billion which is the defense department budget but really about
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a trillion dollars on warfare that's greater than the next sixteen nations combined we see an integrated network of bases now drone bases growing increasingly this is to have a full spectrum domination using the military as the club the administration argues that all their military actions in the countries that the u.s. is not at war with are perfectly legal under the u.s. congress it's authorization for use of military force that's their legal justification for continuing all these attacks what about international law well international law has been shredded by the so-called global war on terrorism or the authorization bill that allows the u.s. to invade any country bomb any country and kill whoever it wants the u.n. charter is quite clear the united states like all other member nations of the united nations can only go to war as an act of imminent self-defense but in fact the united states by arrogating to itself the right to war anywhere against anyone all the time is clearly in violation of international law but president obama. says
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the administration does not violate anybody's sovereignty because it operates in consultation with the governments concerned the whole population of pakistan their parliament unanimously remotely oppose drone strikes and yet they continue so maybe the administration is in consultation with the government there but certainly not the people i'm going to check on me today was brian becker with the answer coalition from our studio in washington thanks for watching. or two of breaking news developments on our top story now here in r.t. this hour the british foreign minister has revealed the e.u. is ready to lift an arms embargo on syria william hague said there were no immediate plans to send arms to the country sent a strong message that assad regime when e.u. members are against the move fearing weapons fall into the hands of extremist al qaeda linked groups both london and paris have been pushing hard to arm the rebels fighting against us which comes as america's top diplomats met in france to work on
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next month's syria peace summit in geneva where later we'll bring you more on this as we get it including expert analysis here nazi. germany has told the european commission it will get behind the plan to impose tariffs on some chinese imports as part of attempts to stave off a trade war with asia's biggest economic engine the e.u. accused beijing of dumping goods on the market below cost price on the mining its european rivals but china's premier warned that further scrutiny will only backfire on consumers because all of has been following talks between the two. last year alone germany exported around sixty seven billion euros worth of goods to china and they want to see that increase in the future. has in the past made no secret about her want to call the chinese markets last year she visited beijing twice within the space of seven months and she's wanting to make sure that they trade can be done
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between the two countries especially considering germany's traditional markets in europe do appear to be drying up the financial crisis meaning that those countries in europe that were previously buying german exports really can't afford to do that at the moment she also perhaps has an eye on the future in a potential british exit from the european union that could see over seventy billion euros worth of exports put into doubt if great britain wasn't part of the trade union or that is the e.u. for the chinese they want to do more business with germany germany is one of the few countries that is kept its head above water when it's come to this financial crisis they have also that means that they're one of the few countries economically that can afford to buy more and more chinese exports so that's why we're seeing the world's second largest economy in china courting europe's largest economy in germany to try and literally to increase mutually beneficial trade between the two
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countries well thomas coning from the european council on foreign relations believes a trade war would be a bad outcome for everyone. none of the countries and especially no germany can risk to enter into full trade war about anything and so of course it is basically you know the toothless attempt to kind of china emerging emergence within europe as well i think it's quite a delicate balance that germany has to strike right now because at the same time it has to ensure that of course china which has just recently proclaimed and you could just book claims how happy is to be working for germany and is very much looking forward to it and this is of course great news for germans but at the same time germany cannot forget about its roots about its important role as a leader within the euro ultimately the business interests of germany will allow the way the european and. some other world news imbrie.
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at least six people have been killed and many more wounded in a string of car bomb attacks in baghdad explosions struck a mostly shia areas of the iraqi capital and so busy commercial district deadly bombings almost a daily occurrence in iraq itself an upsurge of the terror and violence since the u.s. withdrew its troops into the. at least sixteen people have died over a dozen injured in a bus traveling in central mexico and to turn the country off to. the children among the victims according to witnesses the driver lost control off the real wheel fuel for the vehicle road the rails. was reportedly with information. and amazon employees in germany have staged another short term week wages benefits by the country's largest union workers which really came out on strike on the two
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weeks ago and then the company would jump to any pay rise you used to drop its demands for its. well coming up after the break our team tells the story of russian teenage musicians turned into national forest it's just bad. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will allow the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels this seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel faction al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organiser.
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with links to al qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the us government itself has it started sounding like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra well the free syrian army isn't much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian alawite minorities with great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the taliban and those mujahedeen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion.
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from here. but once the plane was in flight crew reported to ground control of the aircraft had been hijacked. terrorists would version to london. the events that followed the plane's emergency landing close to the finish became a nightmare for its passengers. people were lying here under the. most who are unconscious and many had severe injuries. had been hijacked by
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a family of. the children played together in a jazz band and together they. killed their own mother. brother. how did they smuggle explosives and weapons aboard. musicians into terrorists many details of the case have come to light twenty five years after the tragedy. the first ever children to appear in eastern siberia was an instant success. the documentary was about the family it was throughout the country.
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in the u.s. being criticized. the state even tried to ban it but for this extraordinary. success was guaranteed it was made up of seven kids with the family name. they lived in a house. most of which household chores it's not clear. when the first documentary about the family was filmed. was most impressed by the youngest brother. and the trombone. he. could never have imagined that he would make a different film about the same.

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