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turkish protests to show the door to the prime minister over the police tear gas pepper spray on civilians. services have resumed. after a short circuit and the blaze paralyzed traffic in the capital for hours and left at least sixty six people injured. and think before you tweet especially if you're in britain where police are throwing people behind bars across in the line with social media to post some top stories.
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on screen and international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day. fatalities been confirmed in the turkish on rest a man who received head injuries during clashes in ankara has died in hospital protesters are ramping up calls for the resignation of prime minister over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that's left thousands injured deputy has said sorry for the initial excessive use of force but people want a personal apology from the premier himself police on nash more tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators in. a number of homes were reportedly raided by offices dozens of your arrests have been made and some activists were even taken in for inciting protests on twitter iran who's out of the country and working because it was branded the demonstrators as extremists and. the local media has also riled public fury by turning a blind eye. it's just really going to report. the revolution will not be televised
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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 that environment to lists and their supporters from disney park last weekend when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. from c.n.n. international the old protect your guest the polies the people and when you check the scene in turkey there's there was a painted green documentary so it's a compliment. participants of the protests disapproving of the lack of coverage by
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the turkish media nevertheless believe news outlets have good reason 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 channels sharing this information and we have to find out about it on the international tournaments 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 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 called on to the event and tried to make up for lost time again there's one news channels which had a direct one news show and said that they were sorry.
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well but the state media is not yeah yeah saying that it's. misguided. by some extreme. groups a far fetched stance at me but those on tacks seem 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. broadcast to show them what's really happening where they are. r.t. istanbul. activists are using social media to spread fresh footage of police brutality like this video here reportedly showing a civilian kicked to the ground and then stomped on by several officers despite pleading for mercy auntie's video agency ruptly has been on top of the latest developments in the turkish capital providing exclusive footage and interviews in person they spoke with a local baker says he was randomly targeted by police despite having nothing to do
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with the protests. i went out to buy cigarettes the police didn't ask me anything they just beat. demonstrators are now demanding a ban on tear gas in the country the excessive use of force by police is also drawing sharp criticism from human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state but most of the tear gas and pepper spray being used on the streets of turkey was in fact made in america. imported six hundred twenty eight tons of crowd control chemicals over the past dozen years meaning it now has fifty times more than before and u.s. firms have also been selling gas to all other countries where brutal police crackdowns have made headlines like egypt and bahrain. reports on who is 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
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of all ages have been targeted indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played a major long wall in aiding the least brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he's reporting 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 us 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
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yemen and now as the uprisings in turkey grow more dangerous by the day dozens of activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallies across from the turkish consulate to pin down what they call the government's a brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not zeus for protesting are and are pro cycling are humans there is not no use for destroying our human to just askin for their freedoms freedom of 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. canisters were widely used against protesters participating in the occupy wall street movement and experts say that the corporations manufacturing
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those technologies are profiting home and abroad by assisting governments around the world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements from new york. are to. the written was one of those two gassed by police in the ankara but he's vowed to be back out on the streets with the demonstrators standing up for freedom and democracy i am one of the most that has been exposed as i did gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and since i had asked too much during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that may improve booker police and government but they are tired of dealing government. media we don't have any. tax scheme is part matter has become a matter of more than just maybe bunch of trees this is
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a protest against ignore it can tell they that hurts its own people they cannot scare us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however provokers such as government the police officer holds us and shows us that we heard everywhere without any reason that's we cannot accept that. middle east expert in russia thinks that the reconciliation rhetoric from some turkish officials is designed to please foreign observers rather than the opposition. international community puts now a lot of potential on the protests especially in east but. some here still much to do with the demonstrators and so we can say this because these demonstrations we with this now are not very new with the new ones and the situation since because it's been six days now when you start. going on demonstrations in turkey since
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right now especially in the south thirty percent the s. and is the true if you will of peak's syria that aggressive turkish politics against syria that we are many many demonstrations and protests for our western media coverage and we're out there in order to attend so you see i think this new already is addressed to the european union to us and to the west and for your nation but not so much to their own demonstrators. at the peak of the morning rush hour on the most go metro has left sixty six people needing medical treatment seventeen of those had to be taken to hospital details now from going to seattle. the movement of train says now been busy doing moscow's much although we did take several hours to fix that faulty power cable for now
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thousand people have been there vacuum waited in total over sixty passengers in need of 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 at. eight am moscow time the street people of the morning rush hour when the metro is 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 to the central metro stations this is one of the saudis had to suspend the movement of trains for the first time and started evacuating people. it didn't take them with two hours to fix that cable and shortly after we received the movement of trains then is 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 all the fixes and resume operations but needless to say the metro in
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moscow is of the most heavily used rubber transportation system in the world after the ones you talk to your soul and even though i thought eastwood additional buses and trolley buses tens of thousands of muscovites if not more head massive problems getting to work or to school this wednesday. we still have you this hour here in r.t.e. pushed what you think and get blasted using social media may get you arrested in the united kingdom where the targeting of abusive twitter trolls by british police leads to concern over the freedom of speech there's so much more for you after a short break. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've
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got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official up location to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. seals are born or right on the ice fields of the white sea. throughout the
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twentieth century the poles were hunted for their snow white furs. russia imposed a ban on this trade and hunters have since been replaced by tourists but these pups stay safe forever. saving seals on r.t.e. . wealthy british style holds. on to the title. of the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. he continues here in awe to an extreme opinion sometimes leads to an offensive tweet which could. these days land you in jail that's increasingly the situation in great britain where social media users have to watch what they post online abusive
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comments have led to arrests or cross the country and activists worry the law is becoming too zealous about hunting down tweeting trolls. investigates. we trust our officers with a baton we trust some of the c.i. sprit and yet for some reason we can't trust some of the twitter account in the wake of the recent willet 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 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 lucky tweeted he deserves to be shot dead
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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. time i think i thought i was a 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 r.t. show a steadily rising number of prosecutions in person under the communications act two thousand and three including phone calls emails and social media posts within the police service and with another public sectors but really is more about leadership than technology you know the technology needs to change absolutely fundamentally one needs to change is the attitude that leaders have to lourdes social media many
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see as a huge risk what they feel to recognise is the fantastic opportunities into redisplay the great skills great problem solving skills. in the great leveller service 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 little fighting to catch up many in the legal profession a warning that social media eases now need to tread very carefully i mean it is very deeply concerning i think legal perspective and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's a case of say somebody say things to when it comes to the station media that it is that you bad thing they say well i'm afraid that simply isn't the right thing for me that was face book and your activities. but that's never been for.
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the advice to be extremely tough for. sarah. lunde. a syrian peace conference has been postponed until next month top diplomats to be meeting in geneva to push the country's government and the opposition to come to the negotiating table the ongoing bloody war is getting more drawn out costing dozens of lives daily or his term bought explains what is hindering the talks. lakhdar brahimi the u.n. special envoy to syria spoke of the terrible situation there and all around the table at this preliminary meeting agreed of the desperate need to try and find a solution however that said they failed today to manage to organize a conference for june which was earlier what had been hoped it may now be held in july possibly even later than that there is talk of another meeting later this month just to try and get that conference on the road central to the problems for
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this conference divisions divisions at various different levels between the u.s. and russia russia are accusing the u.s. of two stronger support for the rebels and the u.s. and other members of the international community accusing russia of too strong support for our side and his forces there also divisions on the ground there assad's government has outlined its intention to come to a peace conference the rebels though fighting against assad's forces many divisions within their ranks we've seen. videos purporting to show some rebels eating the internal organs of some of their competence that they've been fighting against also evidence emerging of chemical weapons use in syria sarin gas the french foreign ministry saying it has found traces of that sarin gas the u.n.
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however saying it needs more evidence to try and work out what exactly where and by whom those chemical weapons were used. the hacker who turned bradley manning in said he believes there was never any indication the all the private was pursuing the goal of aiding the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of state secrets to weaken leaks the statement came in the second day of money could result in the twenty five year old having to spend the rest of his life behind bars another whistleblower just in ruddock believes authorities are trying to use manning to get to the ultimate target. bradley manning very much is being politically used as a way to try to reach a sancia and there have been rumors of secret indictments on julian of signs here in the united states so the extent that this government has way over charged way over prosecuted and is going after manning you know as if he was
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a devil incarnate speaks volumes to not only making an example out of manning but also the vitriol and contempt that they have against julian assange and 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 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 much wants him to say that he was dialoging with julian a silent in order to try to go after julian assigns.
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invincible genetically modified crops. that was supposed to be destroyed back in two thousand and four as. the details. today. these are. in the country. well we spoke to. the u.s.
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and he told us about some of the problems with the attacks. president obama that only kills a bullet and doesn't kill civilians of but he feels to give me an identity is off the walls who have been killed in the use of strikes in pakistan now according to independent sources more than three thousand people have been killed and was a risk on in pakistan but not a single name has been given by a president obama or the cia which is occurring albeit strikes what we hear from news reports is just a few names of militant leaders who have been killed president obama sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian then he has to give the names and details of all those militants who he has killed because of 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 kill all these people who work here let you
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go probably for your lucian or floor but at least i will be happy that you are making mishear the question here is that who are you killing. and you can watch that entire conversation in about twenty minutes here on t.v. . now time for some other international news in brief u.s. soldier robert bales who's accused of the deaths of sixteen afghan civilians in march twenty twelve has pleaded guilty to murder and means the staff sergeant will now avoid the death penalty for the massacre of what were mostly women and children relatives of the dead have expressed outrage that he would escape capital punishment. so. a building collapse in the center of the american city of philadelphia has left at least thirteen people injured up to ten more of still thought to be trapped under the rubble all of those rescued were taken to nearby hospitals it's as yet unknown
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what caused the building to fall. with europe struggling to dig itself out of its pile of debt its leaders are trying to find ways to prevent vital cash slipping out through cracks in the system or he could be building looks into the problem. so david cameron is summoning ten overseas territories in his mission to stamp out attacks of asian and it's not just a british problem but a global one at least according to the latest estimation global wealth held abroad in offshore accounts grew over six percent just last year to a total of eight point five trillion dollars and britain which is accused of creating a tax haven in the first place so here we are we've got senior ministers from jersey go and see the isle of man all heading to westminster as cameron tries to convince them all to sign agreements to share tax information i asked mike ingram
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from b.b.c. partners if he thinks targeting the states is the right way to cameron to solve the problem of tax evasion and he could be opening pandora's box because at the end of the day the legislation which has allowed these these institutions these people to exploit these loopholes were created by the politicians themselves so yes the numbers boy add up but actually resolving this without being politically embarrassing might be extremely tricky what do you think is the motivation behind this at the moment my read is actually it's more more domestic pressure i mean this is scarcely a day that goes by the u.k. with newspaper headlines t.v. programs about you know who corporate profitability executive pay but you know an enormous amount of tax avoidance going on by both and you know in the years that the economy was booming this is less of
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a hot issue now the man on the street is seeing real wages squeeze and there's a lot of resentment about the election in two years in the u.k. it's an easy vote winner for him and going forward that it's crucial that cameron gets the cooperation of these offshore zones before the g eight summit kicks up in northern ireland later on this month in order to strengthen his case to the global community that tax evasion will not be tolerated. coming up this hour here nazi indefinite detention shutdown denied the u.s. congress throws another hurdle of fresh efforts to close guantanamo bay where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months all that in a moment plus a live expert opinion on that development will be right back stay with us the break is next.
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i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find life go larry king now right here on araa. question more. which continues here on aunty barack obama's latest promise to close guantanamo bay as being that met with tough resistance in congress lawmakers in the lower house
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a vote in favor of keeping the facility open indefinitely and that means more suffering for all the detainees held that without charge most of whom have been starving in protest for the past four months when our team met the bereaved family of one yemeni inmate. yeah some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town of mouth and the emotional toll meant that relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terror suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists you know my 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
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promise to lift restrictions off get detainees specifically from the country was greeted with nothing but sneers. 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 itself as the thirty yemeni prisoners wait for the u.s. president's promises to come true the four month long hunger strike against their indefinite detention continues person is have been demanding for nonmilitary doctors to be allowed to treat them nearly forty out of more than one hundred 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 but i can tell you that
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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 this sons brothers and husbands finally return home that's a love that i know 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 dies last. page him the son of yemen. well let's get reaction now from u.s. military lawyer lieutenant colonel barry wing god who represents some of the detainees he's currently at guantanamo and joins us on the phone this phone by the house of representatives must be a massive blow not just the hunger strikers but to you and to all those who represent them you might as well give up now. well we're not going to give up so
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long as men aren't written in one amount we're not going to stop fighting to behead us all until yesterday we spent. my client slighted elkan daria to waiting we've spent thirty seventh birthday here in guantanamo bay out of a eleven and a half years a third of his life were not given up didn't part of our discussion focused around the house for the day when we didn't he asked me he said hey what kind of teeth all vote to fund prison that's ninety five percent full of men who haven't been charged with a crime after eleven and a half years to tell you and only answer for a mystery to me what kind of person is real care if you've done anything here so you can guantanamo. so although no plans declared to close the prison what's happened recently doesn't give you any optimism optimism whatsoever for those who
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are cleared for release to be released without you know what kind of a stance for the proposition it doesn't matter if they did anything or do anything to get back the opposite if you actually are accused you might get a trial but in guantanamo bay it is a new world in reverse whereby you can plan nothing and you get nothing other than indefinite detention and a well funded prison from washington now is retard it is recent speech obama made it very clear he was determined to close down the prison so izzie in a position to do just that without congress. well let me tell you know under the national security where you go he can do that with the secretary of defense he does have that power the fact that he continues to bless you tom berthing congress continues to billow him the words of the twenty third akin to feed it's time for
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the fifth ministration to either put up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president does have the authority to release men from guantanamo bay to include men like chuck robb or back to london now i have the united states. senate call you a vat in guantanamo right now after four months on hunger strike how your clients and other detainees holding up well let me tell you i mean the hunger strike there's no sign that there's any time to keep going on that sort of hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are still confiscated is toothbrushes so good letters from home his attorney client. privilege particular bits of communication between each other it's all been taken and not returned i mean. just on the ground here in one town i'm ok here is to be no change whatsoever and everybody is sort of waiting for washington to kill some leadership what about
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the force feeding issue accusations that that in fact entails torture clearly if people are on hunger strike they need to be kept alive and the prison authorities are doing just that are they still force feeding them and if so it is justified isn't it. we disagree we believe that a person who is alive can make a decision as to what to do with their bodies to be able to make that it's just an easement in a hunger strike over their hopeless situation into detention instead of actually responding to their people to straighten out we've seen there's a lot of violence and retaliation and solitary confinement unsufficient we've seen you know aggressive circus and plenty of reports to give it to do what he was planning to do in that regard they went out of their way to aggressively search him in the cleary hunt the wrong way and i mean that's not accidental that that's it but when it comes to the conditions of those hunger strikers what is the military
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supposed to do congress is now blocked the closure of the facility the detainees are putting their own lives at risk by refusing food surely the officers are simply doing their jobs what are your thoughts on the way they're handling this there in the prison well heidi i believe that you know i think that these are grown men who have the right to make a statement about themselves i mean it's just think of it in the opposite how obscene is it to say we need to keep you healthy to keep you here for the rest of your life without ever being current running through. a filter therapy library is one thing we noticed on the ground here it's been a lot of coverage in the public relations battle every week there's news media outlets tom you can do it in certain stores were to look at the prisoners and didn't see it all but any how how can you know how how can anything be results a lot of the prisoners are kept from the world without charge or an opportunity
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offender well that's the question is more appealing than allowing them to make a decision sure how is it going to be resolved what are the next steps you are going to take along with your fellow. people who are representing these detainees in the prison but what's the next step for you now after what seems to be a fairly pessimistic result there from washington. well i think you're going to go back to the fact that the president the only relief. i represented men from kuwait would be a forty million dollars rehabilitation center that whole argument there's nowhere for them to you know we're going to continue to fight we're going to continue to. keep libraries are going to continue to fight in the media to continue to fight you can make. the military commission. seven cases and we're going to let it near and we're going to try to get real in a real court. live on the phone from guantanamo bay new tenant colonel barry wain
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god thank you very much indeed for joining us up next to an r.t. we talk to a lawyer representing drone victims against the u.s. about just what these so-called precision strikes result in that will be after a short break. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. download give up location to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v.
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good. sign of a little. she was looking for love and she found mare. she wanted children i'm ill she has eleven . she's ok but others but i am seven adult children are h.i.v. positive. my mom lets me in the maternity home i had a disease so she gave me hope. i may show be positive future so nobody wanted to
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make friends with me it chased me spiral me and threw stones. my name is still my dream was to have parents. mom and dad. there aren't many people read today to take kids like this. they found a new kind of medicine they call it oh. please don't follow my example you know it can be dangerous for your health. for the united states armed drones have become the weapon of choice for the war on terror but drone strikes offer a compelling option or do the controversy they generate outweigh the benefit since nine eleven the u.s. has been carrying out drone strikes or killed suspected al qaeda members as well as
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civilians in a number of countries all without congressional authorization here in pakistan the remote tribal areas have been subject to the largest drone campaign to date but one pakistani attorney has been fighting back she's out of bar is a human rights lawyer who is representing drone victims in a criminal case against u.s. officials he's a director and founder of foundation of fundamental rights and a pakistan fellow for the british human rights organization reprieve he joins me now to discuss the u.s. drone war its implications in pakistan the united states and across the world sir thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us how would you describe the fundamental issue with the u.s. drone program as you see it first of all the from the monthly problem of the drone strikes in pakistan is that it's completely negating the right to life of citizens of pakistan. and that's the basis of a whole campaign against drones the other issues like. any t.
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or not having proper. legal mechanism behind the drone strikes in pakistan that's almost for me it's all so it's a dream or subsidiary issue the main issue is that it's negating the right to live to be able to focus on getting due process if you're getting everything to civil life the site people for a democratic society society or citizens it's against the law and this is and this is speaking. lives and it's not just taking. militant good terrorists lives is taking civilians young children women literally and for those who would use lives as well but the drone program has been touted as a more. humane form of warfare in fact some of its supporters have said that it's more preferable to have for instance a few precision strikes as opposed to soldiers boots on the ground fighting a traditional war i think when president obama tells people that drones of war
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humane. i think he's just trying to be a good salesman for of up and of the day in which kills so if you kill people in a humane way or inhumane way the basic fundamental thing which you're doing here is killing and if that killing is illegal without the due process that's what's wrong with it it's not about development it's not about the machinery it's about the the very thing what you do and that is killing so if you killing people without due process without any law behind you then you committing a crime u.s. president barack obama has said that these drone strikes do not result in a large number of civilian casualties he's in fact said that these are per site attacks that target al qaeda and their affiliates and he's also said that the program targets active terrorists what do you make of the u.s. president's assessment of the drone program president obama often says that it only kills militant and doesn't kill civilians but he feels to give names and identities
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of those who have been killed in these are 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 vestas all gorse president of almost all sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian and he used to give the names and details of all those militants who he has killed because for his money i would be happy in a sense that if you have killed all those people who are creating all this in my cities if you kill all these people who. i let you go probably for you while lucian of floor but at least i will be happy that you are making me see what the question here is that who are you kidding you have no idea yourself and this is what the recent reports published in american media tells us that the us has no idea he has
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no syria has no idea who they are actually killing in these drone strikes but how do we know was actually being targeted and who's actually being killed but isn't this the cia you who should be knowing who they're killing because see a year when they say it's very precise and it's very accurate so what is the procedure and if you do not know who you're killing most of the drone strikes take place in remote tribal areas that are effectively blocked off by the pakistan government to the outside world can you describe what the conditions are like in these areas most of the drone strikes in pakistan which in the number two number is more than three hundred seventy drone strikes or four and they have been taking place in the tribal areas of pakistan and specifically into intensities one is south waziristan and second is not as response and these areas one is an operational military area and the other area has a huge contingent of pakistani military and out here which has been blocked from rest of the country the whole border between pakistan from north waziristan to
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understand is also pretty much manned according to the recent numbers which they have given to a u.n. representative in pakistan that number is more than one hundred thousand soldiers in busiest on so this is the kind of president obama says that this is a place where pakistani army and no one can reach so there is a reach but there treaties of the military in no one else so for example independent journalist like you or a campaigner like me you're a lawyer like me cannot go to that area and similarly if anyone wants to come out of their the area to report or anyway lucian it's extremely difficult for that person to come here because. just to give you an example to get out of the rancho which is the capital of the. north waziristan. to get out of the out into a separate area there's a road which is not more than thirty to forty kilometers and you have to cross seven military checkpoints here pretty much at every point you are stripped strip
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searched and if you do not have an i.d. saying that you are from the tribal area you are not allowed in or out some people might not like it but i'd simply call it a concentration camp that you have built of wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the country is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which u.s. is using to use and test its drone program but how do you establish the innocence of your clients a skeptical person might wonder whether you could in fact be representing militants interestingly i don't have to prove their innocence in a court of law because in a court of law you have this principle that presumption of innocence everyone is innocent till proven guilty it's just a court of public perception when i go out there with my clients force question people ask me how would you prove them to be innocent and my answer to them is that how do you prove them to be guilty so that you kill them do you have anything
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against my clients to say that no they are militants the family members of militants with a person who has been killed was a militant so therefore that person was killed there is not even the league ation of fact present here and how do we define a militant in this case i mean i've read statements that say that the united states claims any able bodied male from a certain age group is potentially a militant i think there are two things here one is that first of all there is no definition of who is a militant and who is not a militant just like there is no definition so far of a terrorist the you don't have so far a proper definition of terrorist similarly the problem here is invisible stand that . what we're talking about here is the signature strikes now this is kind of methodology which has been developed by the that they're going to study the behavior pattern and do if someone is dressed or is looking like and then on basis
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of that they draw the sort of i'm sure this person might be a militant be looking for out just this whole process simply explains to you the absurdity of this process in selecting a dog for example according to again once again the documents leaked. and printed and published in american journals of newspapers indicated that the signature strike is where a cia operative looking at the screen studies the pattern and behaviors of for example if there's a guy who has long beard wears a certain kind of turban carries a gun drives in a suit he is your militant and this is the basis of see labeling anyone has militant and then taking a target and killing them and this is what we used to have in united states and sixty's racial profiling if you're a black guy and you are walking in a white neighborhood and all the police were supposed to stop and sort you because
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you're black you're supposed to be a thief so the question for americans is that is this what you would like to be known for or are your principles important which your forefathers fought for centuries and they build those principles within your own country the u.s. assistant secretary of defense recently told the senate armed services committee that there is no geographical or time boundary to the drone war in fact he said that the drone strikes are likely to continue far beyond president obama's term in the white house possibly as far as until twenty twenty four or even twenty thirty four what is your reaction to that i think you are. it is not really listening to reason here because all governments around the world un people on the ground are telling them that this is a disastrous program and you have to listen to reason you have to listen to all those hundreds of cases of civilian innocent who have been killed in pakistan and
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was are stunned by drones and hundreds of civilians who have been killed if you win in afghanistan where your forces even have the ground control and still you are committing so many mistakes here and killing civilians just to give you one example in two thousand. us military killed its own soldiers on the ground with a drone who are just so there were american soldiers who were dressed as local locals on some kind of operation and there were killed by drones themselves and one thing which american administration needs to understand that drone technology is not a very sophisticated or complicated technology and what if in future other countries . have drawn what would be the impact of the precedence which u.s. is setting. on the world well you sort of make it seem like there is unanimous international opposition to the drone program but if drones per se were still bad
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why would pakistani officials ask for the technology i would ask the question that what role pakistani army or pakistani government is playing in drone wars because on one side they are saying that drones are illegal in contra productive but on the other side we also hear that they have been cooperating on drone wars in parks on and this is the key question which we've been asking through our litigation and this is the thing which has been settled in the shower high court litigation which we recently succeeded in and the court held categorically that their house drone strikes are illegal and pakistani government finally submitted their reply in the court saying that they are not cooperating and they will not cooperate in future and there is no consent on drone strikes to do for the court to give very categorical order to the government of pakistan to tell americans that they will be nor more drone strikes in pakistan and if there are there will be consequences for our rulers as well and what are the prospects for the us i think there are good prospects i think this judgment of push our high court threw wide starts to to
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prime minister much of the washer if to take up the case of drones with the americans and settle it now it's for the americans to listen to reason and if they don't then i'm not sure that what options prime minister is left with because we've had a prime minister in recent past who's been sent home by a court of law for not abiding by the decision of the court so then prime minister should leave would be running the risk of being sent home this is exactly what we're doing of drone strikes continue mr doesn't do much on drones he doesn't tell the americans to stop it he doesn't order the box on the military to shoot it down . and we have nor their option but to go to court for contempt of court against him she's out of bar human rights attorney here in islamabad thank you so much for speaking with r.t. .
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