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j. gas sickens and trade unions joined a nationwide protest against what they called state terrify the regime the violence has claimed two lines up with the latest killing big blamed on depletes. washington says it will send patriot missiles with f. sixteen fighters to jordan for exercises and made bays them that afterwards just to hold across the border from conflicts trick in syria. prosecutors move against us on a crowded bradley manning say he knew full well that hundreds of thousands of state secrets lead by him could fall into the wrong hands.
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international news and comment live from moscow this is all to see with me. and welcome to the program leading talk as trade unions representing two hundred forty thousand workers have begun a two day strike against the government is the latest force to join the nationwide protests that have gripped the country with police bush really cracking down on demonstrations a second time to has been going to fund the fatal shooting of a purse test which some are blaming on the authorities as a raid i'm going to report sound from istanbul. twenty two year old man did die after his sustaining a head wound during the night protests in the south of turkey in the city if i'm talking 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
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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 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 numbers seem 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 but does 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 their 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
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prime minister's office as the police are retaliating with tear gas water cannons 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 representatives of the top opposition parties in turkey in order to try and solve the situation however prime minister erdogan has said that he doesn't understand what the president says when he said. 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're seeing there so really the protest movement in turkey does look like it's only gaining momentum. human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state have condemned the excessive use of force by turkish police the
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country's deputy prime minister claims tear gas and other means of crowd control are only being used in self-defense but protesters and images from the scene paint a different picture and have a look at this photo has now become a symbol of the protest shows an unarmed woman being pepper sprayed in the face in istanbul witnesses say the police are increasingly resorted to force without any provocation water cannons and tear gas a big storm clouds and several cities which some described as walls are bystanders including women and children often caught in the crossfire police officers are also being accused of trying to mask their identity and this photo apparently shows personal numbers on police helmets have been obscured or covered up journalist andrew finkel has written extensively about the region's things the protests were mainly a response to the crackdown. it's clear that there is an opposition movement
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forming against the government willy outside the confines of the traditional political parties 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 protest in the center of an istanbul square had they not gone in with tear gas and stepped on some fire and batons blazing then could a lot of this outrage which we're seeing would not have happened some of the operators would have happened a lot of it is frustration at the way the government has been ruling by the true love its government and what is the solution to this problem the solution to this problem is not you know people standing on tanks and. you know the storming the presidential palace the solution would be for the government to go to a poll. radley
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money exposed hundreds of thousands of government secrets the most contentious being the footage now known as collateral murder at which depicts the u.s. soldiers shooting iraqi civilians and journalists but there were many more eye opening revelations and long day documents obtained by the army private some highlighted the operations at the notorious background detention facility in afghanistan. they revealed a prisoner numbers and transfers at this site which has seen allegations of widespread torture there are descriptions of reported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces and these leaks also showed fifteen thousand more civilians died in the wrong than previously thought activists say they make up to eighty percent of all deaths and they revealed that people not deemed a threat were held and tortured to guard tunnel day to extract intelligence despite the u.s. claiming the prison is only for dangerous militants so
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. and i'll see andrew blake has a story on the bradley manning and his trial right now. private bradley manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of giving military files to the website 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 that or to protect now supporters of manning gather here to a rally in support of the soldier move that they deem a robot 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
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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 now asuncion his attorney michael ratner and i have spoken at length for years now about how this trial the trial against the american soldier is going to be used to bring charges against wiki interned assad could be extradited 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 and 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 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. our extensive coverage of the trial of
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fort meade has resulted in our website being down for hours after they had time to buy a hacker group that is responsible say they did it to protest against by. mining and assumption that they refer to a friend of a terrorist and traitors in august last shared the same openness and carried out a similar attack around the time on the edge so we can make snow which is our interview show here on aussie. peace activist david swanson maintains that none of these revelations have put civilians or troops at risk 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 a hold of public information you have aided the enemy and they will they will bring
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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 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 in the united nations to a rough attorney who are meant to spend months inspecting munnings attention
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conditions and said the treatment that hand the wind was unjustified. that we can call it an investigation but i certainly engaged the united states government. to help me understand why he would be held in solitary confinement first in iraq and then in the quantico marine corps base here near washington the explanation that i was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient i issued a report that i submitted to the rights council of the united nations in which i said that his eight month old son until you can find that it was unjustified we were sworn in through we that it was pursuant to the regulations that the military applies in court martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges against him we've seems to me that before someone is found guilty it's a rigorous rule of law and so the next three intervene. only because the charges or
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soon the other men that begin the. war they call them once in the arm but they did not explain what kind of harm would be grand. the u.k. government has targeted dr puts public health on the line hospitals patients of possible surprises as they struggle to beat saving strong it's also told so far one health care employee turned to whistleblower after the break.
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speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip into the intriguing story to tell you. see arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. this is aussie coming to you live from moscow welcome back the u.s. says it will send patriot missiles and f. sixteen fighter jets to jordan that's
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a show reason is to use the weapons and military drills and counter possible threats posed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria the patriot batteries are designed to be deceptive missiles but could also be employed to enforce a no fly zone also his policy it looks now at what's behind a move washington assist is only helping an ally. well it said it 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 drill 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 the 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 france and britain 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. the russian foreign ministry says it's against placing heavy weaponry in nations neighboring syria they sure came out during the russia e.u. summit in the euros and also he's an exact here with us following the meeting and is joining us now live alex say hello nice to see you. there have been many accusations aimed at russia recently over its weapons dealings with syria so what does the russian president have to say about. well i deem important particularly stressed that russia has never violated any international regulations on supplying arms in. syria he stressed that he focused on the three hundred missile.
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the issue which has been debated over the past several weeks very actively with the contract on supplying syria with the s. three hundred. was signed years ago and this contract hasn't yet been fulfilled whether this means that the how to conduct this have indeed been delivered to syria is of course remains to be seen but. supplying syria a new side of the conflict now with additional weaponry would destabilize the situation in the region this is something more has been strongly against at the same time the head of the of the chairman of the european union have. said that despite that europe has lifted its embargo on weapon exports most of the countries of the european union have decided against supplying the syrian rebels with additional weapons as all of the countries are seeing this conference the peace
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conference which is due to be held anytime soon with both members of the syrian government and the syrian opposition at the same negotiation table as the last resort to find a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict yes and we know that moscow and washington are laboring hard to push both sides towards dialogue was hindering the peace efforts. well we've basically heard the things here. in the things we've heard before basically the u.n. russia have the same ground on. the european union pretty much welcomed the idea of holding this conference something agreed upon by john kerry and ministers in several weeks ago but we've heard from that while there is there are certain indications. has been confirmed by the syrian government that it will be willing to take part in the negotiations there has been nothing like that coming from the syrian opposition and the lack of unity within the syrian opposition is the main
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reason according to the russian president why there has been no yes no positive. would actually take part in this negotiation particularly strong statement coming from the russian president was that he saw in some of the media how some members of the syrian opposition have been eating. said that he would not want to see such people at the negotiation table in geneva probably because this would jeopardize the security of the whole conference it's really debatable whether we have moved anywhere closer to this conference no date has been set just yet but we do know that europe and russia have the same stance on this conference should be held and. to this conference in terms of finding a peaceful solution to the syrian bloodshed. thank you very much.
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all the latest in the case so bradley manning is available online at l.t. dot com and the while you're there you might like to check some other footage with god like her legs footage from a draw those that unmanned aircraft passing just meters under the wing of the one hundred passenger bus and nine years ago. and also online would you like a copy of your. one south korean cloning company is offering a seventy percent discount for those who can plug furry friends find their son much more on r t dot com. now people in britain phrase queuing in ever longer lines for medical treatment that's after health care bosses warned patients will have to wait increasingly more full treatment they can get it at all it comes as the government tries to push through twenty billion pounds in so-called efficiency savings. reports. it's
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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 at 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 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
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wrong at the hospital where you go back in two thousand and nine like today we had hospitals that were. stretched we had something like ninety nine percent occupancies 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 same the very beginning it's about politicians. and it's about civil servants doing whatever it takes to do that now you say you were silenced. because i raised concerns with david nicholson the head of the n.h.s. i 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 city you can't convince people why there needs to be so you. in cuts i mean we
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know that there needs to be twenty billion pounds saved 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 where that's where the staff are getting up in large numbers and saying we can't reach as individuals anymore and satyrs you now have got too many people raising concerns you need to do something very welcome many thanks for your comment a new report out from the british medical journal says that patients are more likely to die if they have operations near the end of the week. artsy london the monsters of global finance are finding it hard to prop up their idea that austerity excuse me is the answer to the world's economic doldrums and skies and stays ahead but look at the new fiscal trend that. 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
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a fig village built only to impress the phrases values typically in politics and economics to describe any construction 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. schemes george. 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 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 business. and
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of course you can catch monks kinds is in about ten minutes time when i see. and let's not check some other stories from around the world this hour two british soldiers have admitted abusing our good civilians court martial in germany one has been accused of indecent conduct towards children while the other admitted to racial abuse their patrol commander was previously cleared of failing to deal with the offenses will bring you more details as we get them. and gyptian court has sentenced forty three people to up to five years in prison for working at unregistered n.g.o.s in the country and illegally obtaining foreign funds the longest term as one hundred twenty seven foreigners tried in absentia the year long trial caused a rift between cairo and washington which has threatening to cut off its multimillion dollar economic aid to egypt. central europe are suffering the worst flooding in almost
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a decade which has killed nine people and left a number missing around ten thousand people have fled the disaster zones after days of heavy rains troops have been where have been deployed to set up a protective barrier as the czech republic declared a nationwide state of emergency as its rivers threaten to burst their banks citizen the south and east of germany were made on high alert. preparing for water levels five meters higher than normal. u.s. federal prosecutors have shut down dish told payment network liberal reserve sparking fears the growing inside the car as you know as bitcoin could be next and she's kate appeal but looks at the implications. in the wake of the investigation into this he was of bitcoin is now in the fire the knowledge a 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 of this i'm now joined
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by christopher hall from the institute of them as you mark is highlighting a crisp ok tell me do you think this demonstrates that the u.s. so threatens as bad as 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 federal reserve isn't threatened so much by the loss of the dollar the reason they're there and because of. 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 remove one of the argument that government has again right but to think that the whole point the people going to will is the bitcoin is because the trust of of global central banks is getting is 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
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other channels that work well or not it may just take you further off the grid but i 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 the free banking of alternative currency they're going to be more creative they're going to be different than going and they're going to be better and tougher to get things. next moxon stacie out by case the kaiser report. emission free accreditation st johns court judges free. range month three. three stooges free. download free books clothing videos for your media projects
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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 phrases values typically in politics and economics to describe any construction literal or figurative built soley to deceive others into thinking that some situation is better than it really is potemkin his 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 the potemkin son because of course now in london there is no such thing as sunshine it's always gloom and doom very nice air for people watching the show this is what sun looks like it happens every fortnight you know every five or six months paris.

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