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twenty two year old shot dead by police. and in the. us security.
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with. us today. has claimed a second life police already facing widespread criticism for using excessive force and now being accused of being behind the killing of a young. correspondent. filed this report. twenty two year old man did die after his sustaining a head wound during the night's protest in the south of turkey in the city of kentucky of the protesters are saying the shot came apparently from a police car however this information we have to stress this hasn't been confirmed yet so we have to wait and see for at least somewhat official results whether or not this indeed was a case of severe police brutality earlier on sunday there was a young man also died after a car slammed into a crowd of protesters so far these are two confirmed deaths but the people on the
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street that we have been speaking to they're saying that they have personally seen least four or five people who are dead more than sixteen hundred people have already been injured and more than a thousand arrested there is more and more people coming out on taksim square going to get the park just in istanbul alone the number is seen creasing and most of them are really peaceful protesters and we have talked to one of the young lawyers association representatives who explained to us why people continue to flock to the streets in turkey voicing their protest of the current government groups who not only low years here are some doctors which is the organization of the community of the nation they're asking the government to resign they become a union here do to do to do illegal acts of the government now the decision is somewhat different in a different part of the city just a couple of kilometers from here and wrote just as there are actually targeting the prime minister's office says the police are retaliating with tear gas water cannons
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rubber bullets plastic bullets prime minister erdogan is actually out of the country he's on a trip to morocco and speaking on monday he said that the situation in the country in turkey is calm he has also disregarded the words of the turkish president good who called off to end police brutality and is actually meeting with the representatives of the top opposition parties in turkey in order to try and solve the situation however prime minister erdogan has said that she doesn't understand what the president says but he said. that the protestors message has been heard members of the public sector are also going out in protest today so this ad just adds to the magnitude of protests that we are staying for so really the protest movement in turkey does look like it's only gaining momentum. r.t. correspondent. keeping a very close watch on the events there but also nationwide you can follow her on the twitter feed for updates and of course the very latest developments. now
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demonstrators across turkey have condemned the unprecedented use of force by police at this photo showing you right now it appears to show a woman being pepper sprayed in the face in istanbul just last week the images become iconic of the indiscriminate brutality the police are being accused of eyewitnesses describe cities becoming war zones with innocent bystanders including children among those being tear gassed now rights groups have joined the condemnation of the security forces and this photo right here apparently showing the id numbers on police helmets have been obscured or even covered journalist andrew finkel who's covered events in the region extensively and thinks the protests were mainly a response to the crackdown. it's clear that there is an opposition movement forming against the government willy outside the confines of the traditional political parties the outrage of feeling which we're seeing on the streets is very much the result of the way the police handled you know sit down tree hugging
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protest in the center of an istanbul square had they not gone in with tear gas in sept and some fire and batons blazing but a lot of this outrage which we're seeing would not have happened some of the outrage would have happened a lot of it is frustration at the way the government has been ruling by its the true love its government and the what is the solution to this problem the solution to this problem is not you know people standing on tanks and. you know this storming the presidential palace the solution would be for the government to go to a poll. this is r.t. live from moscow and washington is deploying patriot missiles and f. sixteen fighter jets to jordan and u.s. central command says they'll be used in military drills and then they can stay
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afterwards in a nation which borders right alongside war torn syria is fueling concerns the tensions in the region could escalate even further. paula sillier looks at what's behind a move the u.s. insists is only aimed at helping an ally. well it's certainly not really about jordan what we do know is that the deployment of a patriot missile battery and if sixteen fighter jets to jordan comes amid escalating international tension over the syrian conflict what the u.s. is saying is that the weapons are meant to be part of a military drone but it has said that they could remain in jordan afterwards to counter the threat posed by the syrian civil war now this comes several months since nato deployed patriot missile batteries in turkey along its one of our border very with syria and although the batteries are designed to intercept scud missiles they could potentially be employed to enforce a no fly zone and certainly this is the indication from recent reports that say
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that the white house has asked the pentagon to draw up plans for a no fly zone inside syria that would be enforced by the united states and other countries such as science and persian according to old contracts with the syrian government moscow is planning to send is three hundred anti aircraft missiles to syria to balance the situation there as a deterrent against foreign military intervention syria is reportedly planning to place orders for making fighter jets as a follow up to this now this has made the u.s. and its allies furious the latest move by syria is being seen as a bid to challenge the european union power was recently lifted the arms embargo on the syrian rebels prosecutors on day one whistleblower bradley manning's trial say that he knowingly aided the enemy by handing over secret cables to wiki leaks the army private is responsible for the biggest security leak in u.s. history and of course facing life in prison more on this from our. private
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bradley manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of giving military files to the web site wiki leaks in turn aiding the enemy according to military prosecutors those prosecutors said that when private manning uploaded files the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks he did so with the intent to harm. or to protect now supporters of manning gather here to a rally in support of the soldier that they deem a whistleblower but prosecutors painted a much different picture by the end when army prosecutors delivered their opening remarks they said that private manning was someone who knowingly and willingly went to wiki leaks with the purpose of bringing harm to the united states now something that was very very significant that we saw here after three years of waiting for the court martial finally get underway was that prosecutors really tried to bring a connection between private manning and joined us on the publisher of wiki leaks
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now asuncion his attorney michael ratner and have spoken at length for years now about how this trial the trial against an american soldier is going to be used to bring charges against wiki in turn aside to be executed u.s. and perhaps even sentenced to die so the way things wrap up here and perhaps twelve weeks time is going to really play an important part in deciding how the u.s. goes against wiki leaks in the last couple of weeks we've actually seen all more and more examples lately of u.s. prosecutors going against journalists and other news agencies on for so-called leaks defense attorney for private manning portrayed him as a hero david bloom's hopes that the u.s. government will realize that this is a person who had no intent on aiding the enemy and simply wanted to expose crimes that he thinks the world has better from. home supporting all the mounting trial has made it the target of a hacker attack a website was taken down for about five hours before popping back up online of the
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group which claimed responsibility it said. they did it because of coverage of bradley manning and julian assange and they both called a traitor and terrorist by the same organization carried out a similar denial of service attack in august last year and that was when the wiki leaks founder launched his own exclusive interview program right here on our c. . list series and videos here on this right here of the u.s. soldiers are shooting iraqi civilians children among them of course of the video became infamous but bradley manning is at least contain plenty of other key information as well the documents highlighted operations of the notorious background detention facility in afghanistan are just bring us more details for you here on r t for example they reveal the prisoner numbers and transfers at a facility which has seen allegations of wide spread torture and there are descriptions of unreported friendly fire incidents between coalition forces and afghan soldiers and these leaks also showed that fifteen thousand more civilians
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died in iraq than previously thought activists said they make up about a eighty percent of all deaths and it's revealed that people who were not deemed a threat were held and tortured at guantanamo bay to extract intelligence despite the u.s. claiming the prison is only for dangerous militants or david swanson is a peace activist he says it wasn't these documents at all that were doing any harm . this is an unprecedented legal case being brought by the government arguing that making secrets public through the media in dangers the united states people by aiding the enemy that is if you make something public any whistleblower any media outlet any were reporter or journalist because some enemy can get ahold of public information you have aided the enemy and they will they will bring evidence that osama bin laden had in his possession information that came out through bradley manning's leak they will not as far as anyone knows present any evidence that any
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harm resulted from this to any civilian or soldier in stark contrast to the harm being brought upon so many civilians and soldiers by the u.s. government's actions that this pushback against bradley manning helped end the occupation of iraq which was a great harm to the u.s. people as well as to the people of iraq i think that he should be awarded the nobel peace prize there's ition at many nobel dot org to do that he's one of the nominees he actually deserves that he actually qualifies under no bills will unlike some other recent recipients i don't think that whistleblowing should be punished or whatever the sentence that manning ends up getting it will be cut by one hundred twelve days as ofter a judge ruled he had suffered harsh treatment during his initial detention three years ago united nations torture repertory one mendez he looked into manny's
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treatment and said he'd never seen a satisfactory on sense at all from the u.s. government. certainly. the states government is. why he was the. first in the rock and then in the quantico marine corps base where. the explanation that was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient i issued a report that was submitted with the rights council of the united nations and which . is eight months old and then just as we mean. it was the regulations of the military. court martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges. we've seen before someone is found guilty and. to apply. only to go to
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charges this will soon. be. called. on but they did not explain what kind of harm. still to come for you here. short of children having the program being unfit and ailing the u.k. health care system takes the brunt of austerity a fake for. the government pressures hospitals and clinics to meet its savings targets. we spoke to a former hospital employee and executive and a whistleblower after the. technology innovation. developments around russia.
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understand it and the. other part of it. i'm. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here. from the city interviews intriguing story. in troy. visit. in about fifteen minutes time it'll be the kaiser report but. health care boss is
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a worried about the pressure being put on hospitals by austerity they've warned patients will have to wait longer for treatment if indeed they can get any at all the government is trying to push through twenty billion pounds so-called efficiency savings. to form a hospital executive. who says target driven decisions are simply putting lives at risk. it's a system unlike any other one of the world's largest publicly funded health services but britain's n.h.s. is facing growing problems austerity means cuts to vital services at a time when demand for their services is that an all time high perhaps more concerning for many is a raft of scandals regarding substandard care at n.h.s. hospitals around the country february saw the publication of the francis report which looked into failings of care at the mid staffordshire hospital near birmingham where over one thousand people may have died needlessly as
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a result of patient neglect the outgoing head of the n.h.s. who presided over the scandal has even been dubbed the man with no shame and there's been accusations of failings of care at all the hospitals around the country gary walker is the former chief executive of the united lincolnshire hospitals trust he lost his job after trying to alert his bosses to the fact that patients were risk gary you tried to tell your bosses what was happening what went wrong at the hospital where you were working well back in two thousand and nine like today we had hospitals that were. stretched we had something like ninety nine percent occupancy and we said well in that situation with so many patients we couldn't deliver the targets anymore the response back was well you need to deliver the targets whatever the demand and if you can't do it we'll get rid of you and anybody else who says. the very beginning it's about politicians.
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it's about civil servants doing whatever it takes to do that now you say you were silenced why. because i raised concerns with david nicholson the head of the n.h.s. raised concerns with senior people in the department of health and all of. that information never to become public we've got more cuts on the way what's the future of the n.h.s. can the national health service get over this i think unless you go on a study you can't convince people why there needs to be so you. i mean we know that there needs to be twenty billion pounds a year in the n.h.s. now that's twenty percent of the budget so that means you know one in five hospitals potentially need to close so i think what's happening is this is a slight revolution with where the staff are getting up in large numbers and saying we can't reach as xander vigils anymore and satyrs you now have got too many people raising concerns you need to do something many thanks for your comment new report out from the british medical journal says that patients are more likely to die if
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they have operations near the end of the week. od see london and the masters of global finance are finding it hard to prop up the idea that austerity is the only answer to the world's economic doldrums max kaiser and stacy hope will be looking at a new fiscal trend in about eleven minutes time. forget keynesianism or austrian school the only economic theory today is potemkin ism according to wikipedia the phrase potemkin village was originally used to describe a fig village built only to impress the phrase of values typically in politics and economics to describe any construction a literal or figurative built soley to deceive others into thinking that some situation is better than it really is potemkin is policies include quantitative easing interest rate cutting market appeasing boondoggle building help to buy schemes george. well of course everybody's talking about this potemkin village in northern ireland built for the g eight northern ireland is building
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a fake town with government money to make it look like austerity work the butchers business has been replaced by a picture of a butcher's business across the road is a similar tale a spall business premises has been made to look like an office supply store so as you see as well from this image here this is the fake butcher shop it's not actually a thriving business it's a dilapidated rundown. because reporting fool in about ten minutes time he went on to. of course. for example.
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these are.
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liberal. in the wake of the investigation into the lives he was of bitcoin is now in the fire the knowledge of six change of the digital currency is now requiring all accounts to be verified as the u.s. pulse pressure on the coin so to get more insight into all that they found now joined by christopher hall from the institute of them as you mark his highlights
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tina crisp ok tell me do you think that this demonstrates that the u.s. so threatens. the u.s. economy economy will no longer have the current say do you feel that's a threat going on here as well i think that the bedroom isn't threatened so much by the loss of the dollar the reason their currency because it's basically going not going to bring down the dollar i think they're more worried about alternatives to the u.s. dollar being out there and that kind of undercutting u.s. monetary policy actually taking away the anonymity quite removed one of the arguments that government has again right but you think that the whole point the people going towards the bitcoin is because the trust of of global central banks is getting it's dwindling i would agree with that it's our really i don't think there is a global central banks are actually coming out and saying we have a policy that is going to make your money worth less so we are looking for these other channels that work well or not i may just take you further off the grid but i
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don't think it's the only reason that people are attracted to the wind in these other you know the currency we really kind of started only just begun to tinker and experiment with the limit of this kind of free banking of alternative currency they're going to be more sophisticated they're going to be different than going and they're going to be better and tougher to get things. straight to afghanistan now for the r.t. world update its report of the afghan government made a rare arrest of one of its senior colonels a military official is accused of illegally handing over afghan prisoners to a man known as a riot kandahar the chief interpreter for u.s. special forces in the region but that arrest being linked to multiple cases of torture and killing. almost ten thousand people had to flee giant floods in central europe a tarantula rains that that leaves nine dead many many more missing on the river as you can see right dangerously high levels are there in germany in austria in
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switzerland and the czech republic in fact in prague the old town troops are setting up protective barriers and sandbags to keep national treasures above water . and it's thought that an ammonia gas leak may have caused the slaughterhouse a blaze in northern china which killed at least one hundred twenty relatives of some of the victims accuse the owners of ignoring safety rules amid reports fire exits were blocked police say they have a number of people in custody including a senior workshop employee more than three hundred people were inside when the blaze erupted on monday early a third of the most. well thanks very much for watching today we are all coming to you live from moscow as promised in just a moment max kaiser is looking at government attempts to try and make austerity remotely palatable thanks for watching today.
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new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's location via their so. phone the judge supports his decision by saying that there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but taking the simple expedient of powering it off the statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of fun luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their phones when they want privacy this ignores the fact that there are many people who have to be on call twenty four seven like surgeons and server technicians these people can't just turn off their phones so does that mean that certain professions can't have privacy also this presumption that people have no expectation of privacy what about people who send images of text messages of
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a sexual nature to each other joy think that all these people just assume it's all public goods i don't think so the fourth amendment says that people have the right to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects and i'm pretty sure that's cover cell phones too but that's just my opinion.
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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser forget keynesianism or austrian school the only economic theory today is potemkin ism according to wikipedia the phrase potemkin village was originally used to describe a fake village built only to impress the phrase a values typically in politics and economics to describe any construction a literal or figurative built soley to deceive others into thinking that some
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situation is better than it really is potemkin is policies include quantitative easing interest rate cutting market appeasing boondoggle building to buy schemes georgia. hello stacey thanks actually in honor of this theme for our episode i introduce a potemkin sun because of course you know in london there is no such thing as sunshine it's always gloom and doom very nice there are people watching the show this is what sun looks like it happens every fortnight you know every five or six months there in london. well of course everybody's talking about this potemkin village in northern ireland built for the g eight northern ireland is building a fake town with government money to make it look like austerity work the butcher's business has been replaced by a picture of a butcher's business across the road is a similar tale a spall business premises has been made to look like an office supply.

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