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to gas thickens in turkey is trade unions join the nationwide protest against what they call state terror by the regime the violence has claimed two lives with the latest killing being blamed on the police. patriot missiles with f. sixteen fighters to jordan for exercises made based on their offer to it's just a hop across the border from conflict stricken syria. and prosecutors move against u.s. army private bradley manning saying he knew full well that hundreds of thousands of state secrets leaked by him could fall in to the wrong hands.
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on screen one line international news and comment live from moscow this is twenty four hours a day. the turkish trade unions representing two hundred forty thousand workers have begun a two day strike against the government it's the latest force to join the nationwide protests that have gripped the country with police brutally cracking down on demonstrations a second fatalities been confirmed the fatal shooting of a protest which some of blaming on the authorities as i mean a goodish the reports now from istanbul. twenty two year old man did die after his sustaining a head wound during the night's protests 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
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a case of the 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 street that we have been speaking to they are 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 numbers sink bracing 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 flood 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 are asking the government for 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
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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 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. the protestors message has been heard from members of the public sector also going out in protest today this ad just adds to the magnitude of protests that we are seeing 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 for protesters and images from the scene paint a different picture this photo that 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 resorting to force without any provocation water cannons and tear gas are being used on crowds in several cities which some describe as war zones are standards including women and children are often caught in the crossfire police officers are also being accused of trying to mask their identity this photo here apparently shows personal numbers on police helmets have been obscured or covered up. meanwhile it's been reported that turkey bought six hundred twenty eight tons of tear gas and pepper spray in just over a decade mostly imported from america ten you get to go taken he was one of those
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tear gassed by police joins me live now from ankara so why did those officers used tear gas against you. the main reason is scaring people and releasing deportation to the protests. they want to create fear and anxiety over the nation and personally i consider turkish media will remain silent for the use of excessive force by the police forces showing these put it on t.v. and causing test their system back as a protester i am one of the most that has been exposed as i did cheer gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and i says i had asked a month during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that maine provoker is police and government minister and yet and yet let me just ask you the prime minister has called the protests as looters and
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extremists how do you answer that accusation well we're just ignorant or is wonderful and people from different backgrounds and come are coming together and this is something really important the new nation you call a literate and extremist he has to prove by evidence but since the turkish media remained silent about these events we cannot reach out to all of our people i think we are only bunch of people who only want to vandalise public life or to doubt any reason. or the deputy prime minister as you mentioned has said sorry for the excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators and we accept that apology when it wouldn't change anything well i guess it would want change anything because while it tries to try she ate the events missed that mr erdogan is. doing the opposite of that for a change prime minister itself say that he is sorry because people are yelling that high powered guns should resign. not deputy thank you we want our image and what is
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it is making you really angry at the moment it seems quite a confusing situation starting off with an environmental campaign then people suspected perhaps an islamic element within the again government all foreign policy what is it that's angering you well we are tried tired or we are tired of her doing government what is corrupt media we don't have any. this matter this attack seem to matter has become a matter of more than just maybe bunch of trees this is a protest against ignoring can tell if it hurts its own people and even to be continuing to demonstrate until you hear some sort of positive response or get a reaction from the government knowing that not only could you get to a gas but were also reporting two deaths now you are you prepared to risk your life i do actually in fact i was waiting for his interview i will be honest and
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providing help to my people i don't they cannot scare us we are the people we are nation we are turkish we are turkey they cannot change that they know that and disses i can say that i mean i love to explain that this is a peaceful event we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however provokers such as government and police officer calls us and shows us that we heard everywhere without any reason that's we cannot accept that or what will you accept at this stage now what do you want the government to do we want our we want our government to accept their tolls and apologize from us for expression especially prime minister erdogan and we want us we want them to be more open minded others opinions we want our regional speech and what about the fact that trade unions now are organizing a two day strike will that make any difference to the course just briefly. i just
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say that. not all the unions in change and think the others should get out of their place and join us join our cause and help us to realize this dream of us all right thank you very much indeed live from and you get to go take in one of the demonstrators also experience being tear gassed by the police recently thank you very much indeed for telling us about some of what you make of asians are there in turkey thank you. professor fit at devon has been gauging opinion on the streets as people are defending their freedoms from the north rotarian regime stumbled the first day of the protests had only thirty people in taxi and. the next day the people became three hundred people and the next day it was tweeted 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
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accordingly but i am afraid there are no signs that they are growing government will take insights to the broader issue that protesters are bringing up and this is again it was brewing for the last three years is the increasing or two italian ism and top down management of his government that he single handedly makes this issue of speed effect alive so i mean you saw people in this country and he thinks that the majority rule means that the majority becomes the new teacher of the country so i'm 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 have talked to several protesters today many of them are first time protesters they have never participated in a political organization they are not if we are to be any group or organization but still they are on the streets and protesting because they feel the life of. their culture and traditions are under attack by the outgoing derbent.
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well t live here in moscow coming up later in the program a man taking on the military bradley manning is on trial for the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history prosecutors saying he knowingly put the entire nation at risk that story now this after the break.
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it continues here on r t the us says it was impaired missiles and f. sixteen fighter jets to jordan the official reason is to use the weapons and military drills and counter possible threats posed by the region conflict in neighboring syria the picture batteries are designed to intercept missiles but could also be employed to enforce a no fly zone. looks at what's behind a move washington insists it's only and hoping. when it said it not really about jordan what we do know is that the deployment of
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a patriot missile battery and its 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 draw 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 there 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 france and britain. and the russian foreign ministry says it is against placing heavy weaponry in nations neighboring syria the arms issue came up during the russia a use summit in the urals which again called for both sides to start
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a dialogue on his election brings us the details. 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 he said that the issue of the s three hundred 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 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
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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 answer 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 dead 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 over there's no set date 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. and the united nations latest report.
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syria says there is evidence to suggest both sides in the conflict may have used chemical weapons the organizations human rights council also accused both government forces and rebels of committing war crimes however it says it still needs to test samples taken directly from victims or the site of the alleged attacks now this comes as the french foreign minister claims the sarin nerve agent was used many times on the ground in syria he didn't specify where or by whom they were used but urged foreign powers not to send more arms to the country. for more on this let's cross now to diplomat maria couldn't she's a press secretary of the russian mission to the u.n. in geneva the u.n. report accuses both the government and the rebels of war crimes but it blames the majority of them all on the government is that fair. oh well no it's not
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but it's a short answer and the long answer would be that you have both sides of brands both sides violate human rights but it's very important when you talk about something you have to be in on it to have all the information is your disposal as you know very well and the. commission of inquiry doesn't have any access to see and so it basically collects the evidence. from the states around here in the us so what really was what really. this one of the binding least records is that the commission didn't qualify. last terrible blast that took place in syria and because a lot of big things they didn't call these last is terror attacks and for us it has to be clear these terrorist attacks the second thing is that their commission doesn't create it says negative economic unilateral and i'm excited so that's that
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has had been boost. the syrian people and the nobel that the syrian people suffer from these economic restrictions so these are the main two points there are other parts of course but we will. help you by the fact that and the commission supported the political process in syria and said that this political process has to to envisage actually there are real negotiations between the government and opposition what about the chemical weapons issue the report says that rebels could have used such weapons just like the government now if this is confirmed will that change how the international community deals with the conflict there yeah i work first of all it was calling on disclose a member that he wore a measured first the possibility of using chemical weapons might seem in a position. in fact this information was not in there or it.
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but what i would like to reiterate here is that actually it's not for the commission to know who was behind this alleged chemical attacks or not but the fact is it no matter who's behind it the fact is though if chemical weapons have been used a bomb has said that that would be a red line being crossed so we would not then see some escalation in international reaction no matter who is using the chemical weapons yeah and that's first of all of this young government actually invited to. an investigation team from by the secretary general more than two visits here to visit hundred us and see what happened there nineteen of may the second thing about the reaction of international community and i cannot speak for mr obama or any other people what i would like to remind everyone is what happened in iraq so all the international community some members of the international community shouldn't. you
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mean the fact that chemical weapons were in this report it. was searching for the weapons in iraq and then there was an intervention and i'm right and. there's a thing now everybody as you said earlier on board to seek a political solution that's going to be the ideal solution to all of this but what would that involve if all parties take negotiations seriously. yeah exactly both parties. the syrian government as you know. has agreed to participate as for the syrian opposition. huge problem that they don't have unified allegation was going to come here in geneva and talk so these is going to be settled so how. are those are working conditions. what the political solution will involve well first of all the true negotiations start and then what you see is the implementation of geneva
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communique that will be part of a legal solution. to a membrane conditional. cease fire. from nation of transitional learning by the and other things mentioned. so right just to just want to show we'll ask you finally and it's cause a lot of consternation and dismay by much of the international community now is that moscow recently brought to un security council that collation on the siege of of the town of qusayr saying that the regime is currently conducting a counter-terrorist operation there now that the fact that it blocked that un security council that to ration it's understandable that people react in that way what is the right decision why did it come to that decision. well of course there are. a treasure explaining why first i would like to remind you that here in humorous council there's just a few days ago where the resolution article said here we're going block it but. let's let's not get at it this way if we're human rights council we are
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international community we have to condemn violations from all sides even there for me to say it is their commission of inquiry stated we have to condemn them otherwise it has nothing to do with human rights it's pure politics and i will see all six so in this resolution and humorous cancel all the blame on what's happening i was here and general was called on the government of syria first of all we don't know what was happening actually and said so before this is something we need to look to to confront was well out there but the reports are pretty strong in saying that innocent people have been caught up in all of this and it's made space weekly humanitarian disaster and that's why something has to be done just briefly exactly but it will be again against condemning both states are or are you know saying that we're concerned they want to go or to going on and see it by the thing is that who is blamed for everything that is headed their government with you know very well
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all their position is that. it's summary executions of people eat people hearts i mean really what they're doing is something terrible so the international community has to step up and talk about what's done by not but only one state otherwise there is nothing about human rights maria thank you very much indeed maria couldn't score prosecutor of the russian mission to the u.n. in geneva great to have you here not to thank you very much. american army private bradley manning is now on trial for feeding government secrets to wiki leaks and could end up spending a lifetime in prison because of it the prosecution suggested the twenty five year old had close ties with the editor of the whistleblower web site something that could backfire on both manning and the songes the case progress is bodies under blake has the story. private bradley manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of giving military files to the website wiki leaks in turn
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aiding the enemy according to military prosecutors tell 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 who 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 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 internal assad to be executed u.s.
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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 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 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 and four meters resulted in a website being done for al is off to being attacked by hacker group those responsible say they did it to protest against both manning and a solution to the you refer. a cyber terrorist and traitors in august last year the same organization carried out a similar attack around the time when putin the sergeant launched his own interview
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show here on r t. o manning exposed scores of government secrets the most contentious of which was the so-called collateral murder footage depicting u.s. soldiers attacking iraq civilians and journalists but there are many more shocking revelations which manning brought into daylight the documents expose operations at the notorious baghdad detention facility in afghanistan they revealed prisoner numbers and transfers at the site which is seen allegations of widespread torture there are descriptions of unreported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces and these leaks also showed that fifteen files or more civilians died in iraq than previously thought and activists said that they make up to eighty percent of all deaths and they revealed that people not deemed a threat were held and tortured at guantanamo bay to extract intelligence despite the u.s. claiming the prison was only for dangerous militants peace activist david swanson
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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 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 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
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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 alfred nobel's will unlike some other recent recipients i don't think that whistleblowing should be punished. united nations torture up into one men days spent months inspecting manning's detention conditions inside the treatment that had to went wasn't unjust was was unjustified. that we can. serve the. government. why he would be in solitary confinement first in iraq and then in the quantico marine corps base you know. the explanation that was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient i issued
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a report that was submitted with great scholars of all the united nations and. that is eight months of fighting then just before we call them in. it was sort of the regulations the military lies in court martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges. we've seen before someone is found guilty. to apply so. only because the charges are seen to. be. armed but they did not explain what kind of harm. he. puts public health all the hospitals one patients of possible consequences as they struggle to meet savings targets. health care and. the break stay with
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charity diplomacy and business on up to the. news continues here in r.t. an egyptian court has sentenced forty three people to up to five years in prison for working at unregistered and. in the country and aiding unrest there the year long trial has put a strain on relations between washington and carra very who's the egypt program manager of the car institute for human rights studies says this highlights the failure of egypt's democracy destroy from the very beginning was politically motivated it's has nothing to do with any violations to is there is no crime act that being done they are expressing their right of to see those in joules internationalised have been working in egypt since two cells in the fight
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and we have tried several times to be just there because of it all kristie and because of lack of transparency he never received or he never received acceptance or license to walk in egypt the current administration don't even suggest to retry him for is also activists who he feels that it's going from bad towards the trial today is a massive team to prove that it's a theater of transition in egypt there is no political will to have a transition to democracy we should now is ruled by and by who and by under. very unusual that would be war suzanne why are. and you can always. catch up with the many stories that we're covering. right. wing of a passenger jet nine years ago. reportedly
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patients will have to wait increasingly more for treatment that's if they can get it all it comes as the government tries to push through twenty billion pounds in so-called efficiency savings. has this report. 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 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
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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. well you need to be able to talk. 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. 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
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n.h.s. . 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 savings in. 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 where that's where the staff are getting up in large numbers and saying we can't treat 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 on 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. are to see. the masters of global finance finding it hard to prop up the idea that
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a sturdy is the answer to the world's economic doldrums and as you heard it look at a new school trend. 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 a 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 but tempting to policies include quantitative easing interest rate cutting market appeasing boondoggle building 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 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
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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. until you can catch mark's causes full show in the next hour here on. a court martial delivers its verdict in germany as two british troops confessed to abusing afghan civilians we bring you the details of that and also live commentary live call in just a couple of minutes from something like. this
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a battle for the op speech and down the street into costs. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most. flood or droughts to blame. was a bad year without a train. we couldn't anything but that. there was great hunger. is a good help comes too late and with good intentions. charity diplomacy and business .
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news continues here on a verdict has been delivered at a court martial for two british soldiers who admitted abusing afghan civilians one of the soldiers was fined while the other had his rank reduced both men have been
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granted an image to keep their family safe let's get some reaction from. he's naughty contributed joining me live now from london actually what do you make of this case well we should add that one soldier is raped or sexually assaulted a week in the british military that's just each other for this particular verdict one off thousand dollar fine a demotion we can see what a court martial that means three serving soldiers at the moment and a judge that's what they think of using children maybe five years of age sexual abuse of course this kind of verdict will respond around the world for in any country and amongst any groups of people that think that britain shouldn't be involved in afghanistan at all and i think obviously the fact there was a court martial should be applauded the fact it was a private about the one off thousand dollar fine and the fact that we don't really
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see any offices ever in court martials for this going to behave you know that's telling and also. goes on these these sort of events must be more prevalent than we're getting from news of court martials some may say there's a minute stress that soldiers run when they're serving in places like afghanistan is there any element of sympathy do you think on that basis. absolutely not and indeed quoting to somebody of the case and reports of the case some of this abuse because among lots of soldiers so they're abusing children in front of groups of soldiers there's been a long held view it's now being reported in quite certain he said before clinton island war in ninety two we between britain and argentina of the use of sexual violence in the british military but certainly what we're getting now so slowly and
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so after the fact although swifter than say from kenya where mass rape. charges are still going through the courts we're hearing now how endemic this kind of abuse is both within by soldiers against soldiers and of course against civilian communities in iraq and in afghanistan and they'll be no any of the powers that british troops helped an occupying and what about the sentiment amongst people in afghanistan how will this affect their attitude towards foreign troops. i think these cases they've obviously have withheld the name soldier ex soldier why not just for reprisals against the families of the soldiers people will no doubt be trying to figure out who the soldiers were based on regiments probably try and discover these things and whether in afghanistan or in iraq or in this particular incident little own camp bastion britain's own guantanamo bay sure if you're a young afghan and certainly if you're the young afghans concerned in this
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particular case your sentiments towards the british military will be locked in stone and generations of afghans will despise not only the british military but everything britain is something that was never the intention presumably of this war in afghanistan well off to the what is murder prime minister david cameron he dismissed the idea it was caused by the u.k.'s military campaigns in wisdom countries but this case then it could trigger similar attacks after all in court they said the reason they didn't name them was because of protecting. because in the willage case we know that my five recruited and attempted repeatedly to recruit so we have again. the people involved in the beheading and murder of that british soldier outside which barracks so that's the that's friendly fire perhaps they're going to have to figure out but of course there will be communities in nato countries who look at cases like these we all remember the reaction to have
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a great presumably those photographs hastening a little the u.s. withdrawal in inverted commas from iraq they of course have that big embassy how it will impact on communities race relations but most importantly on the afghan population they desperately and i think in the past few hours again reiterated that all those being held in britain's torture chamber at gad's bastion they must be released or released into afghan custody at ninety people without charge and of course we're not even hearing about guantanamo bay in the mainstream media little than those ninety has to this case the mainstream media reporting on the case i read one rupert murdoch board journalist saying at the very best this is old case this child sex assault case disrespect to the customs of afghanistan you mentioned the withdrawal from iraq what about the fact that nato is planning to withdraw from
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afghanistan could this behavior be seen as a way of recruiting insurgents for example and what impact could that have on the security situation after that would. briefly. not that it's on purpose presumably it is it is strange as it was going to say that a case like this emerges presumably there have been countless cases of this kind of abuse certainly racial abuse against afghans so much recorded this apparently did a video footage of it but yes. the withdrawal itself is a little suspect but certainly everything that british troops did was to recruit more to be so laugh as to cause which of course britain is supporting in any case in syria and i. thank you very much indeed afshin rattansi live there in london. right time now to quickly update you on some international news in brief now a large blast at a college in new york has left seven people injured and blown out windows in
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a number of academic buildings it's believed the incident at the college was a natural gas explosion or though no official confirmation has yet been given and investigation is now under way. central europe is suffering the worst flooding in almost 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 deployed to set up protective barriers the czech republic declared a nationwide state of emergency as its rivers threaten to burst their banks cities in the south and east germany remain on high alert dresden preparing for water levels five meters higher than normal. and thousands of people are gathered in london to mark the sixtieth anniversary of queen elizabeth sixtieth coronation twenty members of the royal family were among those in attendance he eighty seven year old monarch was crowned in westminster abbey in one thousand nine hundred fifty three in a ceremony which dates back over
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a thousand years. u.s. federal prosecutors have shut down digital payment system a liberal reserve sparking fears the growing saw the currency known as bitcoin could be next what is kitty pilgrim looks at the implications in the wake of the investigation into the liberty reserve of bitcoin is now under fire the largest exchange of the digital currency is now requiring all accounts to be verified as the u.s. paul's pressure on the coins to get more insight into all of this i'm now joined by christopher hall from the institute of a magic market hell eighteen a crystal can you tell me do you think that this demonstrates that the u.s. feels threatened. by the u.s. economy economy will no longer have the reserve currency do you feel that's a threat going on here well i think. it isn't threatened so much by the loss of the dollar as a reserve currency because. it's not going to break down the dollar i think they're
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more worried about alternatives to the u.s. dollar being out there and they're undercutting us monetary policy actually taking away the anonymity of going removes one of the arguments that governments have against that right but you think that the whole point that people go to was a bit coy is because the trust of of global central banks is going it's dwindling i would agree with that really i don't think the local central banks are actually coming out and saying we have a policy that is going to make your money worth less so people are looking for these other channels to work toward not a mess and just take you further off the grid but i don't think it's the only reason that people are attracted to the point of these other these other currencies we've really kind of started it all we've just begun and experimenting with the limits of this free banking of alternative currencies there are going to be more sophisticated there's going to be going and they're going to be better in comfort.
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