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jast sickens and turkey as trade unions join the nationwide protests against all they call state terror by the regime the violence has claimed to lives with the latest killing being blamed on between the. motion says it will send patriot missiles with f. sixteen fighters to jordan for exercises are made based on that afterwards just a hope opposed to border from conflict stricken syria. prosecutors move against us on the planet bradley manning saying he knew well that hundreds of thousands of state secrets lead by him good for into the wrong hands.
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and welcome to all sea ties following news life from moscow my name is your. top story now. using turkish 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 brutally cranking rachel's second thoughts how she's been confirmed the fatal shooting of a protester which some are blaming on bill source who's as a rino then of course now from a star. 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 shocking 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 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 of sing creasing and most of them are really peaceful protesters and we have talked to one of the young lawyers association representative who explained to us why people continue to flood the streets in turkey voicing their protest of the current government have a lot of 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 their decision is somewhat different in a different part of the city just a couple of kilometers from here in protest as there are actually targeting the
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prime minister's office says 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 the 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 but he said that the protesters message. public sector 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. human rights right 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 for example this photo that has now become a symbol of the protests shows of unarmed woman being pepper sprayed in the face in the face in istanbul witnesses say the police are increasingly resorting to force without any provocation or cannons and tear gas are being used on crowds in several cities where some despite of us who also bystanders including women and children are often called from the crossfire police officers are also being accused of trying to mask their identity and this photo apparently shows pass some numbers on police helmets have been obscured or covered up. and while it's been revealed that turkey border sixty two tons of tear gas and just over a decade mostly imported from america professor corey was one of those tear gassed by police and says peaceful protest has been met with violence for no reason.
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thirty people. are going to be. a problem for peter get their divorce. why do people need. he is the no one to turn to the people people are shouting in the streets that they don't want to strike and the government says no we're going to go along. the pike. and you know i'm sixty missing woman on. what people are trying to do need support. and sure the government when you get to fifty percent come to. the. professor figure out demi or has been gauging opinion on the streets and says people are defending their freedoms and i. stumbled the first day of the protests had only twenty people in taxi and you today face police brutality and the next day
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due to people became three hundred people and the next state was treated thousand and now there are tens of thousands of people protesting so the best course of action probably would be for the government to step back and look what did demands of the protesters are and act accordingly but i'm afraid there are no signs that they are drawing government really taking a side step the border issue that protesters are bringing up and this is again it was growing for the last three years is increasing which are italian ism and top down management of his government that he single handedly makes this nation state effect alive so i mean you saw people in this country and he thinks that mean georgia rule means that the majority becomes the teacher of the country so i'm i'm really hopeful that this actually protests are good signs for to extreme ocracy to health health and signed it just a couple blocks away from the presidential palace people can go out and express their opinions i was talking to several protesters today many of them are first time protesters they have never participated in a political organization and that if we intervene in any group or organization
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still there. on the streets protesting because they feel that their life started style of wife and. culture and traditions are under attack by the outgoing government. the u.s. says it will send patriot missiles and sixteen fighter jets to jordan the official 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 intercept missiles but it could also be employed to enforce a no fly zone point to see of what's behind a move washington insists is only aimed at helping and. while it certainly is 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
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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 of it 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 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 silence and aggression 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. and the russian foreign ministry says it's against placing heavy
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weaponry in nations neighboring syria. came out during the russia e.u. summit in the euros which called for both science to start a dialogue on she's in exchange for he says that in his hands at the press conference during the russia e.u. summit. particularly stress that russia has never violated any international regulations on supplying weapons in the syrian case moreover he said that the issue of the s. three hundred missile complexes which has been actively debated over the past several weeks is not serious at all because the contract on supplying syria with these complexes was signed years ago and it has not been yet fulfilled according to and whether this means that the s three hundred have not been in fact delivered to syria is of course of course this remains to be seen but he stressed that delivering any weapons to any side at this moment of time would destabilize the
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situation in the region and any attempts to find a peaceful solution to the syrian bloodshed both sides have read separated the things we have heard before over the last month that this conference which would see the members of the syrian government and the opposition at the same negotiation table is very much anticipated by the international community. cited the lack of unity within the syrian opposition as the main reason for the lack of any positive coming from the syrian rebels in fact there are so many groups within the syrian opposition some of which are considered to be terrorist organizations across the atlantic that came up with a particular strong remark he said that he saw in the media of some members of the syrian rebels eating. their death enemies that he would not want to see people like that at the negotiation table in geneva it is really hard to say whether this summit has brought us anywhere closer to the. actual conference there's no set date
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so far but we do know that russia and the e.u. are sharing a common ground on syria that this conference is the last resort to find any kind of peaceful solution to the syrian conflict. because martial is under way in germany as two british troops confessed to abusing civilians we're bringing you the details in just a couple of minutes. and also ahead you gay hospitals will patients of possible consequences as they struggle to meet saving standards he talks to for my health care employee turned whistleblower after the break. world. science technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something
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manning is now on trial for feeding government secrets to weaken leaks and could end up spending a lifetime in prison because of it the prosecution has suggested the twenty five year old has close ties with the eggs so with the whistle blowing web site something that could file mining and asuncion as the case progresses and he's under blake has a story. private 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 robot whistleblower but prosecutors painted a much different picture by the minute when army prosecutors delivered their opening remarks they said that private manning was the one who knowingly and
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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 it was that prosecutors really tried to bring a connection between private manning and julian assange on the publisher of wiki leaks 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 assad 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 and in the last couple of weeks we've actually seen of more and more examples lately of u.s. prosecutors killing against journalists and other news agencies for so-called leaks defense attorney for private manning portrayed him as
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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. extensive coverage of the trial and afford to meet has resulted in our website being down four hours after being turned by african group those responsible saying they did it to protest the. both manning and asuncion with a referred to cyber terrorists and traitors in august last chair the same organization carried out a similar attack around the time when the editor wiki leaks launched his own interview show here or not. so manning exposed schools of government secrets the most contentious of which was the so-called collateral murder footage depicting u.s. soldiers attacking iraqi civilians and journalists but there are many more shocking revelations which mining brought into the daylight the documents exposed operations at the notorious a background detention facility in afghanistan and they revealed prisoner numbers
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and transfers at the site which has seen a widespread torture and there are descriptions of and reported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces these leaks also showed fifty thousand or more civilians died in iraq 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 have gone time of day to extract intelligence despite the u.s. claiming the prisons only for dangerous militants peace activist david swanson maintains 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 ahold of public information
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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 harm resulted from this to any civilian or soldier he 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 it many nobel dot org to do that he's one of the nominees he actually deserves that he actually qualifies under for it no bills will unlike some other recent recipients i don't think that whistleblowing should be punished and you can always go over to auntie dot com to count how what the many stories
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that we're covering online career and here is what weighs all that for you right now. leaks footage from a drug charges they are mind and come on the scene just meter of the way a one hundred consul to advice nine years ago. turned all sunlight would you like a copy of your pet one south korean cloning company is offering a seventy percent discount on our as a contract to have a very frank fungus and much more on his he doubted. it. two british soldiers have admitted abusing our then civilians to a court martial in germany have been granted a toll on an image see to keep their family safe his son has the details. a court martial taking place in regards to incidents that took place in helmand province in afghanistan between the sixteenth of october two thousand and eleven and the sixth
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of january two thousand and twelve now three men appearing at that court martial two soldiers admitting abusing afghan civilians and one soldier a former army private referred to in court as soldier x. admitted indecent conduct towards a child the second soldier still a serving lance corporal referred to in court as soldier why this is racially abusing a man was seen as serving in afghanistan and now a third man also appeared at that court martial the patrol officer who was cleared of failing in his duty to deal with the offenses all the men have been granted anonymity for their own protection there are fears that they named the nature of these incidents their families lives would be put at risk certainly again he's amounts of anger over this of course you've got the british forces with touring from afghanistan next year when we spoken to the ministry of defense here in the u.k.
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and they told us they're not going to comment on this until sentencing takes place but as we said the nature of these incidents and these revelations the admissions of guilt only going to add really to the general public's mood of pessimism surrounding the afghanistan this is. not some other international news in brief this hour and egyptian court has sentenced forty three people to up to five years in prison for working at unprejudiced of andrew rose of the country and illegally obtaining foreign funds the long term turns one hundred to twenty seven foreigners tried sent here the year long trial caused a rift between cairo and washington which has threatened to cut off its multimillion dollar economic aid to egypt. and central europe is suffering the worst flooding in almost a decade which has killed nine people and left and number. missing around ten thousand people have fled the disaster zones after days of heavy rains troops have been deployed to set up protective barriers the czech republic declared
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a nationwide state of emergency over three was threaten to buzz that by next cities in the south and east of germany remain on high alert dresden is preparing for water levels are meters higher than normal. u.s. federal prosecutors have shut down digital payment network liberal reserve sparking fears the growing cyber currency known as bitcoin could be next oh she's k. to people be a looks now at the implications. in the wake of the investigation into the lives he was of bitcoin is now in the fire the largest exchange of the digital currency is now requiring all accounts to be verified as the u.s. pulse pressure on the coin sits get more insights into all of this i'm now joined by christopher hall from the institute of emerging markets highlights seen a quick look at the tell me do you think this demonstrates that the u.s. so threatens. the u.s. economy economy will no longer have the current say do you feel there's
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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 their currency 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 of a quite removed one of the argument that government has again right but you think that the whole point the people going to was a bit coin 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 global central baghdad 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 it may just take you further off the grid but i don't think it's the only reason that people are attracted if they want to meet other than a currency we really kind of started only just begun to tinker and experiment with
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the limit of this kind of free banking of alternative currency they're going to be more creative they're going to be different than mine and they're going to be better and tougher to get. people in prison face queuing and longer lines for medical treatment that's the health care bill says won't patients will have to wait increasingly more for treatment that's have they can get a toll on this comes as they got. and tries to push through twenty billion pounds in so-called efficiency savings point to point because. 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 those services is that an all time high perhaps more concerning for many is a raft of scandals regarding substandard care at n.h.s.
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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 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 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
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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. targets to be delivered and 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. feature of the n.h.s. can be a national service get over this i think unless you go on a city you can't convince people why there needs to be savings in cuts i mean we know that needs to be twenty billion pounds say 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 stuff of getting up in large numbers and saying we can't treat as individuals anymore and psycho's you now have got too many people
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raising concerns you need to do something kerry 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. see london. coming up next here on out see if breaking the sat with him to stay with us. new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's location via their cell phone but 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 ticking the simple expedient of powering it off the statement seems to hint that
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cell phones are some sort of luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their followings 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 a sexual nature to each other. i 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 fault still but that's just my opinion. place.
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look. 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 supposed to seem really messed up. in the old story so personally apologized and said. worst cheaper to live through the white house to give it to the radio guy in four minutes from a cause that i want to quote for about a good cause you never seen anything like this i'm told. look up guys i'm not in mine and this is a brick and sets army private bradley manning went to trial today after more than three years since his arrest all provide for providing information to the end in
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secrecy website wiki leaks and february many pleaded guilty to the lesser of two charges explaining to the judge that the leak was meant to expose the u.s. military's disregard of human life in iraq and afghanistan he said that he would have hoped it would prompt a much new debate on u.s. foreign policy unfortunately this guilty plea doesn't seem to be enough for the obama administration which is now seeking to convict manning on the more severe charge that of aiding the enemy and violating the espionage act. if convicted manning could go to prison for life it's a bleak reality that former whistleblower daniel ellsberg knowledge of the bradley manning rally this past weekend there he spoke to r.t. about the administration's handling of the case. really tricky and done with children and if so glisten it was and is a constitutional the supreme court hearing those clauses with the supreme court has never ruled on that the need. for another.
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