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fresh clashes great violence drags on and police arrest dozens despite a government apology would be hauled down the domestic media is accused of turning a blind telling. us no makers voted to keep the ground tunnel bay prison open indefinitely undermining president obama's promise to leave the transfer restrictions for some detainees. on social media posts result in a rests the targeting of abusive twitter trolls by british police leads to concern over the freedom of speech that.
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and welcome to all see twenty following news life from moscow my name is you the volatile main story now. the government in turkey might have apologized for the van and response by its security forces to hold of the didn't stop police. cannons and tear gas for a first night's protest has made fresh attempts to reach the prime minister's office with at least fifty being arrested are false also say dozens of homes were raided and at least twenty five people detained for using social media the internet has been used to share information and went under against the government it takes one minister has condemned its role in the riots site singling out what he called this scourge of tweets that in particular he's arena going to cost people in this town home why they have turned their back on turkish television. the revolution
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will not be televised that is according to graffiti spray painted all over istanbul and indeed the protests have gone largely unnoticed by the state media here in turkey however people did have the last word by destroying the satellite trucks of local state media channels if not to prove a point then at least to vent out their anger and frustration at the media that did not cover the events at home pepper spray water cannons tear gas only hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to victim very mentalists and their supporters to give the park last weekend but when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. stream c.n.n. international the old protectors you get the police to people and then you take c.n.n. turk there's there was a painting mantri. it's a complement. participants of the protests though disapproving of the lack of coverage by the turkish media nevertheless believe news outlets have good reason
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for tuning out when things take a turn for the unexpected actually it's the pressure of the prime minister that is reflected on the media and we think it's unfair other channels international journalists sharing this information and we have to find out about. only internation channels it's unfair to the people but many believe there is a certain responsibility that comes with being a provider of news and those in turkey have failed at it i don't know what will happen in the future but we have only one channel which shows everything in this country and it's really really our company says that it cannot stand in for example my mother she lives in a little village if i don't call her she will know nothing with the growing magnitude of protests some of the privately owned channels caught on to the event and tried to make up for lost time i think there's one news channels which has the director of new zealand said that they were sorry and they made a mistake for not covering. their covering its quite well but the balls to state
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media ice is not here they're saying that it's. misguided the bowl of water. has some extreme risk groups a far fetched stance it may be but those on taksim just as thousands of people on streets and squares all over turkey don't really seem to care anymore you don't need a t.v. both cast to show them what's really happening where they are it in english go r.t. istanbul. her senses and eyewitnesses have been giving di accounts of the brutality of turkish police this is one of the latest examples of an excessive use of force in the capital this video shows officers beating bystander around the head with buttons until he falls to the ground on his roughly video age as he spoke to a turkish baker working in ankara he said even though he wasn't protesting he was targeted anyway. i went out to buy the cigarettes the police
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didn't ask me anything they just be. under attack of protesters are joined by hikers started saying the government's computer is promising to leak secret information online so i log on to our website r.t. dot com to learn more. human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state have condemned the excessive use of force by turkish police however it's the us which is one of the main exporters of tear gas and pepper spray to turkey over the past decade it has increased the amount it's brought fifty forward spending twenty million dollars the u.s. also sells sells tear gas to countries like egypt and bahrain in a part not reports out of risque cashing in on the tears. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and want an arm activists of all ages have been targeted
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indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played a major long role in aiding the police brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he according to reports turkey has bought twenty one million dollars worth of tear gas and pepper spray in the past twelve years in the united states is listed as a main provider to the u.s. is one of the world's largest manufacturers and exporters of tear gas and whether sold or given tear gas shipments from the united states to anywhere in the world must be approved by the u.s. government the three big american tear gas manufacturers nonlethal technologies defense technology and combined systems inc have reportedly exported tear gas to dozens of nations rocked by widespread protests including egypt bahrain tunisia and yemen and now as the uprisings in turkey grow more dangerous by the day dozens of
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activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallies across from the turkish consulate to condemn what they call the government's brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not zeus for protesting are and are pro cycling are humans they are not no use for destroying our human who's just askin for their freedoms freedom lost speech the problem is that they're using food that expired since two thousand for their pictures of it there's evidence of that is a problem every day they're using gerson worse worse and worse chemicals american activists also know what it feels like to be targeted with so-called crowd control technology tear gas. ministers were widely used against protesters participating in the occupy wall street movement and experts say that the corporations manufacturing those technologies are profiting at home and abroad by assisting governments around the
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world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements of reading from new york or in a fortnight are to. go to cain was one of those gassed by police and the talk of capital ankara explains exactly how it feels to be targeted by the having heard. 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 says i have asked a month during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that maine provoker is police and government they are tired of dealing government with corrupt media we don't have any freedom of speech tax seem this matter has become a matter of more than just save a bunch of trees this is a protest against ignore it can tell it it hurts its own people they cannot scare
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us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however the provokers such as government and police officer holds us and shows us that we heard everywhere without any reason that's we cannot accept that. and these are live pictures for you from taksim square in istanbul where major texas trade unions are gathering in a show of support for the demonstrators unions called a two days try from tuesday in protest at the actions of police live pictures from turkey for you. and it's not just in turkey but online experience it could get you into trouble in britain as well and later on you can be arrested was a post in the u.k.
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as british police time that tension the abuse posted on social networks. the law house of the u.s. congress has voted against closing guantanamo bay blocking the use of tuxpan money to house any detainees transferred from the prison hunger strike of the facilities into its first month and some long suffering relatives of the inmates from yemen are skeptical they will ever see their loved ones again despite obama's promises to send them home. a dream that one such family. yeah some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town of mode and the emotional toll meant their relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terrorist suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to
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terrorists almost and now we have them america's support for human rights is merely a show it only cares about its own people well it destroys the rights of all others who have been suffering for thirteen years now. and yemen president obama's recent promise to lift restrictions off get detainees specifically from the country was greeted with nothing but sneers. weird start of these nonstop lies a bomb remembers about guantanamo only during election campaigns and on holidays he promised to shut it down several times and to forward their cases to their home countries these are all lies. meanwhile back in one town away itself as the thirty yemeni prisoners wait for the u.s. president's promises to come true the full month long hunger strike against their indefinite detention continues prison is have been demanding phenomenon military doctors to be allowed to treat them nearly forty out of more than one hundred
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protesters are reportedly being force fed something they claim is torture in itself they are close enough to death that the military sees a need to force feed them none of them enjoy being forced out i can tell you that and they have described being force fed in such terms of having a knife run down their throat. back in yemen the relatives all say they aren't going to believe another word from president obama until they see their sons brothers and husbands finally return home that's a lot that a wildly no more than this family's case is merely one of several dozen where people can only suffer and cry helplessly inside their homes but hope to ice last. until is ease al hey jim a son yeah man. and so to come here when all see for you they saw a truce on the stunned they tried the whistleblower broadening money and the
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pressure has said day although many believe the high profile proceedings are many part of a plan to get to wiki leaks founder julian assange mission would investigate after the break.
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we 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 interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. this is also a welcome by the number of those who needed medical treatment following a fire in the moscow metro has risen to sixty one seventeen have to go to hospital a tunnel blaze during the morning rush hour disrupted trains in the moscow subway and was followed by a second short circuit a few hours later and that's not at mosul. where he's following the situation in moscow. are you going to thank you very much for joining us so how has the train service been resumed. while the movement of train says now
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been resuming moscow's much although we did take several hours to fix that faulty power cable for now thousand people have been evacuated in toward all over sixty bass and usually needed medical assistance including one six year old boy most of the injuries are connected with smoke inhalation and three people are being treated in intensive care units now it all started as you eat here moscow time the steady peak of the morning rush hour when the measure was used by hundreds of thousands of people and this is exactly the time when the first main power people short circuited inside a tunnel linking two essential metro stations this is one of these had to suspend the movement of trains for the first time and just started evacuating people. it did take them a few hours to fix that cable and shortly after be received the movement of trains
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then a short circuit again at the same exact spot but thankfully that time there were no passengers in the train so they were quickly able to drop of the fix it and receive operations but needless to say the metro in moscow is the most heavily used rubber transportation system in the world after the ones in tokyo and saw and even though authorities did would additional buses and trolley buses tens of thousands of muscovites if not more ahead massive problems getting to work or to school this wednesday. night out he's able to screen off that life are mostly grow thank you very much indeed for bring us up to speed. ridge's twitter users now have to watch what they post with social media being scrutinized by police a number of investigations offensive or abusive posts and comments have led to arrests across the country acts of war the law is becoming to zell is about hunting
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down twenty controls saturday and best gates. we trust our officers with a baton we trust some of the c.i. sprit and yet for some reason we can't twitter account in the wake of the recent will it murder a number of arrests were made across the country after police responded to tweets it was the latest clear sign that police are in placing seychelle media in a way they never have before twitter might be new police territory but their actions tread a fine line already some unfamiliar with the legal ramifications of their tweets felt the full force of the law was one notable example came after a tweet to footballer james mcclean joining in online anger at the footballers decision not to wear a remembrance day poppy katie aiden look he tweeted he deserves to be shot dead alongside a picture of bullets two weeks later and he was arrested by manchester police do you feel like you crossed the line looking back on their.
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time. think you ought. to consequences they katie's cases since being dropped it's easy to see the cyber threats can cause real fear and often is deserving of punishment but other cases have ranged from the confusing to the downright ludicrous and figures obtained by artesia steadily rising number of prosecutions in person under the communications act two thousand and three including phone calls emails and social media posts i think the fundamental problem is that there is over policing in that the police or have been recent times far too willing to take seriously or complaints and investigate them instead of using commonsense new guidelines set to be made final by the criminal prosecution service in the coming weeks but with the explosion of social media leaving british law
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fighting to catch. up many in the legal profession a warning that social media uses now need to tread very carefully i mean it is very deeply concerning i think from the legal perspective and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's a cake to say somebody say things when it comes let's say comedians but it is such a bad thing they say well i'm afraid that twitter simply isn't my thing for. me the restraints book and your activities. but that's never been before so. the advice to be extremely tough for. sarah. london bradley manning did not hundreds of a classified u.s. documents to wiki leaks with the goal of and using the enemy on day two of his trial that was the testimony of the convicted hunka who actually hundred jimin also
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spoke to address and ruddock and other whistleblower things the government's own some of the goal is to get to weaken leaks found a genocide. bradley manning very much is being politically used as a way to try to reach asuncion there had been rumors of secret indictments on julian of songe here in the united states so the extent that this government has way over charged way over prosecuted and is going after him in a you know as if he was a devil incarnate speaks volumes to not only making an example out of manning but also vitriol in contempt that they have against julian assange engine wiki leaks even though bradley manning has testified that he didn't know with whom he was dialoguing on the other and it could have been a song during the anybody he had no reason to think that it was a sign he was and he didn't understand it to be a saw and she thought it was someone from wiki leaks i think the government very
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much wants him to say that he was dialoging with julian assange in order to try to go after julian assigns. all hugh grant money that's what compassion and support of the hounded whistleblower exhausting with a list celebrities offering their support so had to alter the home right not to find out. and while you're online check this out as well in the u.s. everything sells even top secrets from the israeli military american failed every tiny screw one of its allies top secret facilities on a federal business opportunities website put it. minutes after being elected for a third nonconsecutive term as pakistan's prime minister now was shall reveal has called on the us to and trikes the country i guess as high court earlier declared these operations
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a blatant violation of sovereignty and human rights as he spoke to. who is a lawyer representing drone victims against the glass and he told us about the effort that. obama often says that it only kills a bullet and doesn't kill civilians but he feels to give me and identities of those who have been killed in the use of strikes in pakistan now according to independent sources more than three thousand people have been killed in reservist on in pakistan but not a single name has been given by president obama or the cia which is occurring or the strikes what we hear from news reports is just a few names of militant leaders who have been killed president obama for sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian then he used to give the names and details of all those militants who he has killed because for his money i would be happy you know assumes that if you have killed all those people who are creating all those in my cities if you have killed all these people were killed let
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you go probably for your way lucian of law but at least i will be happy that you are making me see what the question here is that who are you killing. and you can watch the entire conversation by tuning into all sea at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. . that's not the international news in brave this hour the syrian government has regained control of the city of qusay near the lebanese border a crucial supply route for both sides in the civil conflict the area has suffered fierce battle between rebels and the president's bonked by hezbollah fighters for over two weeks in a while the military chief of the syrian opposition has vowed to fight hezbollah militants inside lebanon if not stopped from supporting the government in damascus . the deadly floods which have been lusher in central europe on l.
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centered on germany as rain continues to cause rivers to break their bunnings chancellor angela merkel has vowed one hundred million euros in aid to the victims of the worst flooding in a decade since the weekend the waters have caused at least twelve deaths and forced thousands to flee also levels in the czech republic have now started to fall while hungary is still on eilat. a gas leak was the likely cause of a large blast in a your college which left seven people injured and blew out the glass from nearby buildings the most severe injury was to a woman who jumped out of a window and that's home to escape the compass was relatively empty as most students graduated last month the european commission has given last year the green light to become the eighteenth mumbo be eurozone country will join the single currency in january next year a decade after it joined the e.u.
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but with europe still struggling to dig itself out of debt many believe lost is jumping aboard a sinking ship as i choose to peel that explains. there will be officially swapping their laps for your eyes now to adopt the single currency latvia reduces public deficit to below the e.u. ceiling of three percent of g.d.p. last year which is an achievement considering latvia underwent one of europe's toughest austerity programs after the two thousand and eight crisis wiped a fifth of its g.d.p. under spice recovery the country still remains one of the purposed in the e.u. so now that the latvian economy is back on track will entrance to the euro zone derail its recovery well let's take a look at the current members are our risk right now of exiting the eurozone we can see that slovenia which adopted figure in two thousand and four is the latest country in financial trouble now public debt as almost doubled to reach forty seven
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percent us to cyprus the recent banking crisis did little to enrich their economy as you can see there sixty six percent as for greece and that figure is nearly twice as much as the g.d.p. just if we take a look at a few countries that don't actually have the euro we can see that the top two nigger is not crucial to having a reasonably healthy economy particular in the case of bulgaria though with with twenty percent this is got some experts wondering what the urgency is for latvia to join the common currency. it is tied to here their monetary policy which is suitable for germany and that means that once the direction of the interest rates changes from the current very low to the historical averages and they will be your own they're. likely going to suffer a significant contraction mastic investment for example these are slovenia greece
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cyprus or to go and all the rest of the peripheral europe signatory to lay in terms of the future instability in the euro valuations and in terms of the interest rates means. countries like lochley who have to have certainty in london in terms of the longer term investments especially infrastructural investments and believe future they will present significant problems and significant costs and there's also another issue latvia will need to consider since offshore favorite cyprus hit the infamous banking crisis phones have been flowing towards latvia strengthening these small boat estates position as an offshore banking center but once the country adopts a year right european ministers will have more control over the country's banking rules and as a consequence dreams of becoming a tax haven might be along with them not now five days of historic protests in turkey and the pm ducks out of town for a few days what is going on in that country about his cost of gas because.
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it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we don't you gerri. he is easy to. see he.
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