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washington blosser russia for its anti aircraft missiles applies to syria but that's the end of the e.u. arms ban that paves the way for direct legal aid to rebel forces. tracking terror suspect to say when this in flight by british academics shed light on america's secret overseas a presence. one zero and liftoff. and a one camera in those days a new crew members arrive at the international space station r t was a long day seeing them all from the baikonur cosmodrome.
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it's just gone day here in the russian capital you're watching are to live with me tell them was it's good to have you company with us this afternoon. washington has welcomed the lifting of the arms embargo on syria in support of the opposition but has criticized russia's planned delivery of anti aircraft missiles to damascus muscle says the as three hundred systems will help deter foreign intervention and seize the ending of the e.u. weapons ban as damaging to syria peace efforts now the move led by the u.k. and france has now opened the floodgates for weapons to flow to the syrian rebels with the country's main opposition bloc ready urging the e.u. to start sending arms twenty five member states of and ring the bell are saying it would only add feel to the conflict they say arms could easily lead extremist
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groups of fighting in the ranks of the opposition parties worried apart neither 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 nobody really even went on to say that 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
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aircraft missiles to the assad government now while moscow's maintain that it has 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 contract russia is fulfilling could be used to inflame the conflict taking place there but yet now the u.s. is welcoming possible flow of arms to the 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 pledged to 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
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how can the international community get to the point if european union members with 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 the fresh supplies reach of the rebels are based on what's been happening in the conflict over the past two years now syrian activists have been monitoring surges in violence which appear to be correlated to an influx of arms from abroad according to the figures the casualties runs the shop the after the first shipments from qatar reportedly arriving in
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twenty twelve now and the shoppers the increase came when more advanced arms were allegedly delivered a few months later the london based r.t. contributor action returns it believes that the syrian rebels have no interest in peace. the european union leaders over the past few days were saying the e.u. is a peaceful organization i think many diplomats around the world have given 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 as it was if you're in a room with her which is a george sabra general salim idriss. already said he's disappointed it's noble foreign of the user to be shipping off their weapons right now forget about the friday deadline no i think the opposition is. divided i'm hearing that
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anyway they were going to come to the talks so are they interested in any kind of peace or are they interested in carving out bits of syria in ways that their proxy leaders saudi arabia and qatar are more interested in and lebanon's government has ordered tanks into tripoli in an attempt to quash violence between pro us and pro syrian rebel protestors this comes after the country's hezbollah and she pledged allegiance and victory to bashar cause violence in tripoli when syrian forces led an attack on rebel controlled border city of the crew said i'm now hizbullah as changing role in the region is causing fears of an all out tarion war as people of those discussing on today's crosstalk. the. movement of has to refashion itself as
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a defender of arab nationalism is going to go over well it has always and only. projected itself as a defender against israeli might and i feel that to transform itself into an effective governing force and so now this move to become some kind of regional powers. rational measure by god i got to do. that franklin job you're going to disagree without if i can first of all they have a problem themselves to be a very effective governing power but what they did in two thousand and six rebuilt two hundred fifty two homes they are planting flowers trees all over there another group going to break with another go over there for example is the government loaded on there's a group of american army talking about. thirty years ago the most they are particularly hard but they're not and they're rolling over and they're calling the shots in parliament of course the government and i think the point in all sorts of sectarianism or didn't start that way but it's being but it's being increased by
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all sides. must go once in iran one of the key players in the syrian peace process to join the proposed talks in geneva despite reservations from france and the u.s. this has to run host an international gathering on syria bringing dozens of other states together in search of a political solution to the conflict but as iranian journalist barry says not everyone is interested in a peaceful outcome. forty countries are going to attend and notable notably saudi arabia and turkey and there are also all the regional countries to look for ways to solve the problem peacefully and amicably and the other side the west basically is saying one thing they want pressure on assad gone. and they call that they call themselves friends of syria and then they go ahead and the armed opposition that
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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. and you'll find online at r.t. dot com just how far the u.s. could go in syria reports say the pentagon is planning a range of military options including a no fly zone as well as arming the opposition fighters. and senator john mccain a stand advocate of u.s. military aid to the syrian opposition sneaks into the country to meet was a top rebel commanders will look at what could be behind this friendship.
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the u.s. government the transfer of war and terror prisoners seized detention centers has been subject to much speculation but now british researchers able to shine a light on some of the so-called cia black sites by compiling a comprehensive database artie's alessio says he shows you how to access that information and talks 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 scan 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 competent diable who's 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 sites 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 kent university in england many thanks ruth 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 frank mentored 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 legal proceedings on behalf of some of that is how. we feel are very heavily on the work of the u.k. legal action charis and reprieve which is represented 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 . a main aim was to try and match the global rendition system to try and provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of higher and higher and titian took place which countries were involved and how the cia managed. the system has a chance brought in from around the world to hold them in prisons where they could
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be tortured and interrogated purpose therefore is to shed as much lives possible on the system with a view to assisting human rights investigators and human rights lawyers to defend the rights of those people who think ten seconds processors thank you so much mr blakeley this was what like me from kent university now the database currently holds more than eleven thousand flights 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 want to see someone fun to mess and the reason allegations that the genetically modified food giant hide affiliates of an infamous u.s. security firm resurface following worldwide protests against its products. and the explanation thirty six a free reaches of the international space station does the head for you we have all the missing details from black.
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a clear image of iraq after a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. roads. clear evidence from north to. the root of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi. well don't talk about language of war but i will only react to such a. threat to reproach but like. to know i will be back to comment on your latter point. to carry out a college on the job. well done i. think you know more weasel. when you need a direct question be prepared for
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a change when you find the ready for. freedom of speech let him have the freedom to watch. and. welcome back you're watching our team reports that further welfare cuts back on the table have sent shivers across britain the country's 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 displeasures department spendings now in duncan smith is reported to have personally contacted the home secretary and the defense secretary to offer their departments the three billion pounds he plans to say these proposing to restrict housing benefit for under twenty five's and limit state and payment to families with more than two children according to the his daily telegraph treasury achieve george osborne is facing
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tough choices with the assertion program as alex stephenson from politics dot com dot u.k. experience. all spawn has has put his foot down and said no actually we're probably not going to press ahead with more welfare cuts because well frankly the liberal democrats who the conservatives here are in coalition with simply won't buy it with the suspicion that they're of 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 osborne'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 say we're ok we're not going to cut any more from this there's not actually that many government departments left 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
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vulnerable departments this could actually have the potential to a contribution to the early collapse of the british coalition government 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 the alert over the entire generation which they fear will never find jobs over seven point five million young people in europe and now out of work. for jobs. i've been trying for a while now pretty much every day just humming seabees the rounds 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 look you know i'm earning this money which you know no one 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 that's madonna and say like some places my c.v. probably hasn't actually been seeing if i'm going to get someone for a job but they know ten times but they're going to give it to me but see jennifer nish 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 the snow 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 use 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 john and sons shed loads of see the. applications and you know i know from person experiences lot was from with me the
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swell of young people trying and failing to make it on to the job ladder has led 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. in 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 thousand young people unemployed that's one in five out of work for more than a year when you were young you will earn less for the rest. well life can you imagine applying for jobs every day and getting rejected what that does to your self-esteem your confidence be yourself 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 that the fact that i have gone to university i've gained an internship that i shouldn't really be in this position i might die i've
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done everything society has told me to. i'm still finding you very soon to find employment it's 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 am going to be competing movie for more people in a couple of months i do feel like i'm kind of stuck at the moment is not really much i can do other than what i'm already tense trying to our agenda and others in britain's lost generation the outlook has never been so uncertain. something will turn up i'm a great believer in. that you know. r.t. . now to some other news making headlines are wrong of the world after eighty five afghan nationals are being held without charge at the british army's camp
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a stand in afghanistan that according to lawyers for eight of the men who say that the detention is unlawful was some of the clients having been there for as long as fourteen months they comparing the situation to that in america's guantanamo bay facility and when the u.k.'s high court to free the men british forces are normally allowed to call suspects for ninety six hours but i can be much longer if they think there are exceptional circumstances. because we're trying to hit a truck before derailing and exploding setting the surrounding buildings ablaze in the us state of maryland only the truck driver sustained injuries in the accident or this is the third major derailment in the u.s. this month alone with the two previous ones injuring nearly one hundred people. g.m. food giant has apparently been preparing to answer its critics with the help of big time security organizations a recent wave of global rallies against the corporation's genetically modified products have followed allegations that one santo has hired blackwater affiliates
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to counter the protests are g.'s can if she can has more. people who work with monsanto what this building certainly know about the worldwide protests over the weekend against their company and 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 before to collect intelligence on anti monsanto activist 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 through rocky civilians in two thousand and seven you know order to recover to rebrand from bad rap blackwater has changed its name several times and created
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a web of more than thirty shelf companies or subsidiaries and continue to getting lucrative contracts this by 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 a pivot is for groups that could pose a risk to the company its personnel and its global operations end of quote monsanto denies having the proof of blackwater's possible infiltration into the anti-male center groups but according to documents secured by the nation magazine jeremy scahill of monsanto was willing to pay a sizable sum up to five hundred thousand dollars for black border agents to infiltrate and time on central organisations this report once again raised the question to what lengths is the g.m.o. giant ready to go to secure its operations especially now with marches all across
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the globe demanding that the companies stop flooding their markets with genetically modified all off. they say the least a company can do is to label the products containing g.m.o. so that people would be to 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 central activist with the help of the company related to the new tories private mercenary army that is yet to be uncovered in washington. resumes may's crowd carrying the next crew of the international space station has successfully docked at the overtaking the burra tree on the mission details now from our rotisserie shea who was at the launch. we can now feel there's a vibration underneath our feet and here comes little inch right now.
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like you know but it's getting. better they go the three man crew up to the i.s.a.'s another flawless soyuz launch here from the baikonur cosmodrome on the cassocks step the three man crew with american karen nyberg this a second time heading up to the i assess at the new comer a look up at a mcdonald's 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 to go to chief and now they're going to be heading up there in fact they approach 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 then a six hour flight straight to docking with the other three crew members of the international space station for the next six months they'll be conducting an
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approximate one hundred and fifty experiments a ranging from issues to do with bio fuel and clean energy they called maintenance to do as well numerous suspects will space walks are included in it this team for the international space station it has been an absolute privilege and 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 stuff 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. definitely a moment for him to remember the legs every once and delves into the investigation of the brutal murder of the british soldier in london that's breaking the set in a few moments.
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to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean. i know that i'm still feeling really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally i believe it's. the worst year for the little thing the white house or the. radio guy or the minister of a cricket. club or about a good cause you never seen anything like this i'm told.
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it's up guys i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set what seems at the story about the murder of a british soldier on a busy london street just keeps getting weirder and weirder see over the weekend auburn a sava childhood friend of the murder suspect gave an exclusive interview to b.b.c.'s newsnight and in it he gave some startling revelations and salva claims that the british intelligence agency m i five tried to recruit michael. the guy in the video with the blood in his hand six months ago adding that he had been subject to harassment by the agency but that's not all and sob also claims that his friend was tortured and sexually assaulted while the taint in kenya perhaps under the supervision of the u.k. government which he attributes to a bit of. radicalization and in a final bizarre twist you saw who was arrested at the b.b.c. on.

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