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washington blasts the russia for its anti aircraft missile surprise to syria backs the end of the e.u. arms band that paves the way for direct lethal aid to rebel forces. tracking terror suspected cia rendition flights mapped out by british academics or shed light on america's secret overseas prisons. than zero. and a welcome in the space of three new crew members arrive at the international space station r d was among those seeing them all on the bike commute cosmodrome.
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it's ten am here in the russian capital you want to live with me to bomb would say it's good to have your company with us first washington has welcomed the lifting of the arms embargo on syria in support of the opposition but has criticized russia's plan to live free of end to aircraft missiles to damascus moscow says of the as a three hundred systems will help deter foreign intervention and seize the ending of the e.u. weapons ban as damaging to syria peace efforts the really led by the u.k. and france has now opened the floodgates for weapons to flow to the syrian rebels from the five member states of persian saying it would only add feel to the conflict they say arms could easily reach extremist groups fighting in the ranks of
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the opposition are his marina has the details. the united states is showing no concern over the expiration of the e.u. arms embargo on syria which is set to lapse in the coming days the deputy spokesperson for the state department patrick ventrell says that washington welcomes this step because it would give greater flexibility of specific e.u. member states to support the opposition as they see fit now of course that greater flexibility means that countries like britain and france will be able to ship arms and ammunition to to the opposition groups in syria which would then use possibly in an effort to overthrow the government and even went on to say easing the e.u. arms embargo sends a message to syrian president bashar al assad that support for the opposition will only increase but the u.n. meanwhile is sending its own messages of double standard let's remember that washington has been fiercely critical of russia's transfer of anti-aircraft aircraft missiles to the assad government now while moscow's maintained that it has
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been fulfilling defense weapons contracts that were signed long ago with syria washington believes that it's wrong for for moscow to fulfill any contracts because civil war is taking place there and whatever contracts russia is fulfilling could be used to inflame the conflict taking place there but yet now the u.s. is welcoming all possible flow of arms to this syrian rebels with this e.u. arms embargo on syria expiring now it's also worth noting that just a few weeks ago u.s. secretary of state john kerry was in moscow he traveled there and pledge that the u.s. will work closely with russia and the bloodshed in syria kerry and foreign minister sergey lavrov and sergey lavrov underscored their commitment to the communique signed in june. which calls for a transitional government to be established in syria that includes both sides but how can the international community get to the point if european union members with
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the. support of the u.s. are now considering to actually flood syria with even more arms experts believe that our being the syrian rebels will ignite an arms freeze in that country and so far according to the un the conflict there has claimed the lives of more than eighty thousand people and if more weapons flow into the country to arm the syrian rebels this crisis because of the could of course be exacerbated even further. fears of an upsurge in killings in syria if supplies reach the rebels are based on what's been happening in the conflict zone over the past two years now syrian activists have been monitoring surges in violence which appeared to be correlated to an influx of arms of from abroad and according to figures casualties rose sharply after the first shipments of from qatar and now reports that they arrived
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in twenty twelve in the shelters increase then came one more advance arms were allegedly live it's just a few months later london base r.t. contributor action returns believes that the syrian rebels have no interest in peace. the european union leaders over the past few days are saying the e.u. is a peaceful organization i think many diplomats around the world will give up on that what we need now maybe is ban ki moon the united nations to get the united nations is a place for peace because this is obviously england and france to be doing the supposedly american russian plan for june geneva talks the six days of talks in istanbul among the opposition groups seem to be failing disastrously i suppose if you're in a room with torches and george sabra generals. already said he's disappointed it's not all foreign of the you should be shipping all the weapons right now forget about the friday deadline no i think the opposition is the president lied i'm hearing that anyway they were going to come to the talks. are
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they interested in any kind of peace are they interested in carving out bits of syria in ways that their proxy leaders saudi arabia and qatar are more interested in meanwhile various syrian rebel groups have accused the main opposition body the syrian national coalition of failing to represented the revolution but who is winning the battle for syria now that the arms embargo is set to expire and that was one of the questions are subjected to a heated debate on a cross talk program is a quick snapshot. this is a moment of truth in which the european union in finally lifted its arms embargo on the opposition we have senator john mccain visiting syria over the weekend meeting with opposition forces. in alignment of forces in the worst in the year period with turkey that there is a plan if the pie the national pressure perhaps that will bring the final regime
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franklin will finally before the reign of the lot that's not all or for. you guys are all what happen in brussels there was no vote to council sanctions the sanctions are still in place and they're going to be until midnight on friday what they didn't have the votes to do what the british and the americans and certain other of their allies or italy wanted to do were taken a further forward of act to lift the sanctions. that didn't happen so now they're going to die it's actually a defeat for the british particularly. moscow once iran one of the key players in the syrian peace process to join the pro proposed talks in geneva this my reservations from france and the u.s. this says to iran has an international gathering on syria bringing dozens of other states together in search of a political solution to the conflict but as iranian journalists our us our culture
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bari says that not everyone is interested in peace outcomes. forty countries are going to attend and notable notably saudi arabia and turkey and also all the regional countries to look for ways to solve the problem peacefully and amicably and the other side the west basically saying one thing they want to share all assad gone. and they call that they call themselves friends of syria and then they go ahead and the armed opposition that cannot even come together and unite and by this is a very dangerous process iran is saying there should be an end to the bloodshed and then after that there should be an interim government actually iran even is not saying that bashar assad should stay or should go that is for syrian people to decide and not through weapons. through ballots through vote.
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and you'll find online at our just how far the u.s. could go in syria reports say the pentagon's planning a range of military options including a none fly zone as well as all being the opposition fighters. and senator john mccain those dollars advocated all of us military aid to the syrian opposition sneaks into the country to meet with top rebel commanders we look at what could be behind this friendship. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. joint operation throughout the day.
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the u.s. government is transfer of war on terror prisoners to overseas detention centers has been subject to much speculation but now british researchers able to shine a light on some of those so-called cia black sites by compiling a comprehensive database artie's alessio to show you shows you how to access that information and talk to one of the creators of the project. written dition revealed from now on you can learn exactly how the cia has been secretly transferring its war on terror detainees across the globe on civic and military aircraft something better known as the rendition program researchers from britain's kent university and kingston university have compiled an extensive flights database by going to their indiction project dot gov dot u.k. you can see a detailed graph of more than eleven thousand cia flights performed from two thousand and one to two thousand and six not all of them have been confirmed to have had detainees on board some of those which are marked in blue are described as dummy flights there are also flights which were labeled as highly suspicious
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meaning there is no substantial evidence that they were transporting suspected terrorists in certain cases there were website designers have ample proof of detainees travel the full route is described on the map like this one of the suspected al qaeda come attend a diver who has been locked up in guantanamo for a decade without any charges we can see on the map how he was transported from thailand where he spent eight months in detention after being called to the united arab emirates and then to poland almost a year later he was shifted to guantanamo in that year he spent at the cia black site in poland by the claims he was water boarded eighty three times but how exactly do the masterminds of this project gather the information and what goals they're trying to pursue we'll find out with one of the masterminds of the project mistruth blakeley from the camp university in england many thanks truth for joining us here on my first question would be how exactly you are gathering information on these flights and where did you find to manage all the data. ok most of the
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information that we have was already in the public domain but was quite fundamental so we've worked closely with a number of human rights organizations and human rights investigators to bring all of that information so it comes from freedom of information requests and some of it comes from investigative investigations into particular cases including the need we're proceeding with on behalf of some of that is how. we've relied very heavily on the work of the u.k. legal action charis and would prefer which is representing some of the men who are still held in guantanamo bay without charge or trial. what is the point of all this project what are you trying to achieve and what message are you trying to send out . main aim was to try and map the global rendition system to try and provide as comprehensive a picture as possible. however edition took place which countries were involved and how the cia managed to hide individuals in their system as it transported them around the world to hold them in prisons where they could be tortured and
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interrogated purpose therefore is to shut as much light as possible on the system with a view to assisting human rights investigators and human rights lawyers to defend the rights of those people who are victims of senseless thank you so much mr blakeley this was a likely from kent university now the database currently holds more than eleven thousand flight information about them and the masterminds of the website are asking anyone who has any valuable information on these flights to contribute. still to come on r g the one son to mercenaries legations that the genetically modified food giant hired affiliates of an infamous she was security from research but in worldwide protests against its products. expedition thirty six a few reaches the international space station just ahead for you we have all the mission details from black community.
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technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future avar. engulfing the neighborhood syria's civil war to spread across the border into lebanon has been logic finally promises victory over such enemies indeed would appear hezbollah interim intend to steadfastly stand by their ally in damascus taking sides but please the stakes for the entire middle east could be higher.
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this is our t.v. report said for the welfare cuts back on the table have sent shivers across britain the country is already bearing the burden of biting austerity measures as the government struggles to tackle its budget deficit the work and pensions secretary has allegedly volunteered to slash is dupont men's spending now ian duncan smith is reported to have personally contacted the home secretary and defense secretary to also the departments of the three billion pounds he plans to say he's proposing to restrict aus and benefit for under twenty five's and limit estate payment to families with more than two children now this is according to the u.k.'s daily telegraph treasury chief george osborne is facing tough choices with those charging
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program as alex stephenson now from politics dot com did u.k. explains. painful for the many millions of british people who claim benefits of course they'll be cheered up because well frankly the liberal democrats who the conservatives here are in coalition with simply won't buy it he suspicion that there are a benefit scroungers out there who are messing around with the state and taking the you know the earnings the hard working taxpayers it's very very politically sensitive here it's difficult to see where george or spawn's going to make the spending cuts from because so many government departments are ringfence there's not going to be you know the politicians committed to say we're ok we're not going to cut any more from this there's not actually that many government departments left where there will have to be cuts and the home office which contains the policing and security budgets that's where the money comes from is one of the vulnerable
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departments silly bad was going to happen and you have to ask yourself could they could they really have done more. meanwhile skyrocketing news unemployment is becoming the greatest concern for the u.k. as well as other european nations the e.u. leaders are sounding be alert over the entire generation which they fear will never find jobs over seven point five million young people in europe lot of work a studying all in trade me are just what i want to read some of those on a desperate hunt for jobs. or i've been trying for a while now pretty much every day just coming seabees around. going on the computer for a couple of hours a day trying to get anything because i want a job because i want to be able to you know i'm earning this money you want me not to know but. it does kind of knock me down every time i kind of go and think i really would actually like to do this and i've got this interview and. i got
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a male or a phone call saying i have a job cuts me down to go and see like some places my c.v. probably hasn't actually been seen if i'm going to get someone for a job but they know. they're going to give it to to me but see jennifer next college paper six months ago she's one of almost a million meet in the u.k. not in employment education or training i kind of always you know be difficult but i didn't really think i would be out of work to slow the opposition labor party says the number of jobless young people has almost tripled since the coalition came to power in a bid to combat use on employment the government launched its huge contract a one billion pounds scheme to provide new opportunities to eighteen to twenty four year olds but it hasn't helped i know that janice and i absolutely shed loads of see the. applications and you know i know from person experiences lot was from with this well of young people trying and failing to make it onto the job ladder has led
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to talk of a generation lost to austerity. not just in britain but in the whole of recession hit europe the president of the year b. and central bank has even called on governments to tackle the issues before it leads to social unrest youth unemployment is one of the biggest problems facing britain right now we have nine hundred fifty eight thousand young people unemployed that's one in five out of work for more than a year when you are young you will earn less for the rest of your life can you imagine applying for jobs every day and getting rejected what that does to your self-esteem feel confidence feel self young people who forked out thousands of pounds for a degree of finding the reality of recession hit britain a bitter pill to swallow i feel the fact that going to university i've gained an internship that i shouldn't really be in this position i might die i've done everything society has told me to. i'm still finding it very fun to do it and it's
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very scary because at this time of year and a new bunch of graduates is going to hit the job market so that particularly worries me as i'm going to be competing with even more people in the mumps i do feel like i'm kind of stuck at the moment is not really much i can do for them i'm already tense trying to our agenda and others and britain's lost generation the outlook has never been so uncertain. that. something will turn up on the quite believe. but you know. hopefully there. now to some other news making headlines around the world up to eighty five and nationals are being held without charge at the british army's campus jam in afghanistan that's according to lawyers for eight of the men
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who say that the detention is unlawful with some of the clients having been there for as long as fourteen months they are comparing the situation to that in america's one tunnel of a facility and one the u.k.'s high court to free the men british forces are normally only allowed to hold suspects one to six hours but they can be much longer if they think there are exceptional circumstances. like the a cargo train hit a drug before draining and exploding setting the surrounding buildings ablaze in the u.s. state of maryland only the truck driver sustained injuries in the accident this isn't third major derailment in the u.s. this month alone with the true previous ones injuring nearly one hundred people jammed through july and one son to has apparently been preparing to answer its critics with the help of big time security organizations a recent wave of global rallies against corporations genetically modify products
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have followed allegations that one son joe has hired blackwater affiliates to come to the protests narges get a judge again has. people who work with monsanto what this building certainly know about the worldwide protests over the weekend against their company its global mortgage against the giant producer of genetically modified seeds brought together thousands of people in fifty two countries in four hundred thirty six cities including right here in washington d.c. but there are allegations that monsanto is doing more than just following the nation magazine reports that the company hired a lawyer to collect intelligence on anti monsanto activists as well as to infiltrate their ranks the firm that they hired belongs to the same person who owns the infamous security contractor previously known as blackwater blackwater has been in hot water after a number of scandals including the unprovoked killing go to iraq to civilians in two thousand and seven you know order to recover to rebrand from bad rap blackwater
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has changed its name several times and created a web of more than thirty show companies or subsidiaries in continued getting lucrative contracts despite being under intense criticism for reckless conduct so monsanto hired one of those companies called total intelligence solutions which belongs to blackwater's owner and founder erik prince monsanto says they did nothing wrong by having higher total intelligence solutions which quote provided monsanto security group with reports about it to british or groups that could pose a risk to the company its personnel and its global operations end of quote monsanto denies having the program blocked waters possible infiltration into anti-male central works but according to documents occurred by the nation magazine jeremy scahill monsanto was willing to pay a sizable up to five hundred thousand dollars for black border agents to infiltrate and time and central organizations this report once again raised the question to what lens is the g.m.o.
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giant ready to go to secure its operations especially now with marches all across the globe demanding that the companies stop flooding their markets genetically modified products. they say the least a company can do is to label the products containing g.m.o. so that people with peace know what they're eating last week the u.s. senate overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to require labeling of genetic genetically modified foods so it appears when it comes to laws and regulations monsanto with its army of lobbyists has won the battle on capitol hill now what tactics if any it has used against anti-male sent to activists with the help of the company related to the new tory private mercenary army that is yet to be uncovered in washington. i saw you spacecraft carrying the next the crew of the international space station has successfully docked at the old team the bar achieved all the mission details now from. the launch. we can now feel there's
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a vibration underneath our feet and here comes the little engine right now. like you know it's going to take this. time but they go the three man crew up to the i.s.a.'s another flawless soyuz launch here from the baikonur cosmodrome on the cassock step the three man crew with american karen nyberg this a second time heading up to the i assess at the new comer look up at me dano the italian from the european space agency his first adventure up to the opening space lab and the whole crew being commanded by the russian soyuz come on the field so to go to chief now they're going to be heading up there in fact they approach albeit they reach all that unless the nine minutes talk about going far beyond any speed of supersonic that is going to be what they call the fost track that is a full obit ring around that then a six hour flight straight to docking with the other three crew members of the
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international space station for the next six months they'll be conducting on approximately one hundred and fifty experiments a ranging from issues to do with the bio fuel and clean energy they called maintenance to do as well numerous speaks wall space walks are included in it this team for the international space station it has been an absolute privilege and honor covering this life ferrazzi you know i am i'm a middle aged man and yet right now i'm a seven year old boy what showing a child a dream come to fruition is right in front of my eyes has been moving softly in thrilling exciting and i think i can speak for everybody at odyssey and all of those people here at the baikonur cosmodrome when you wish the crew of the i assess mission thirty six thirty seven we wish them bon voyage godspeed and good luck. right up next the prime interest breaks down the non-mainstream financial news.
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with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds or report . to police be told language. full of programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the we'll talk sports the v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing story for you. in troy arabic to find out more visit our big dog all teeth dog called. good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm harry i'm boring here in washington be beat. let's get to today's headline. the bernanke the wealth of factors in the bowl sway have been one of the key shiller housing and that beat expectations and is on par with the starkest run since the boom days of two
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thousand and five the yearly gain of ten point nine percent is the first double digit gain and a year that's according to barron's but this is according to our read chairman himself and two dollars. i guess i don't buy your premise it's a pretty unlikely possibility if we've never had a decline in house prices and a nation where you've got a nationwide basis so what i think is more likely is that house prices will slow maybe stabilize might slow construction spending a bit i don't think it's going to drive the economy too far from its full employment though so. call us the wee bit skeptical but we'll get into the not and both of the housing market including fannie and freddie would john pryor a politico in just a bit and exhibit two of the burning the fact our investments and balanced bonds which can allocate between both stocks and bonds they had record levels last month previous such records including one thousand nine.
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