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global headlines live from moscow this is. the russian capital it's now a just off the. record prime minister wants an end to u.s. drone strikes in the country and the demand was one of the first things he did on beginning an unparalleled. the u.s. claims it's. getting militants and activists say nearly a thousand innocent people have been killed and pakistan's high court has declared the drone strikes as illegal. some of the victims of drone warfare. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an

american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes in pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean a lot was on his way to work at a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling or to be death is above our heads all the time although the attack took place three years ago i mean a loss says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upset says for children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify it in the fame arrogance should be able to tell an

ordinary person from a television leader what they should know who they're killing of what did we do to deserve this. this is my ex and he did it in their own arctic it's a question echoed by now darren who lost part of his hearing short term memory and nearly his foot when. the drones shockwave was so intense that it threw us i saw it far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people i turn issues out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people of the zeerust on isolated by geography and politics simply call it a concentration camp that you have built a 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 in many ways the epicenter of the cia's

highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners no evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these were smuggled to islamize bought from the tribal areas there are believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by norbu a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drones especially on children images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal. to me whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep that night the children here have been traumatized by the drones the sound of a door banging shut is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying out drone strikes killing

innocent people who are not part of the conflict you just why did the conflict. you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the complete . of course this is made me hate the americans we are angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effective that's the target all this upon. us. and. that's. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims. r.t. pakistan. and the u.s. media is meanwhile reporting that classified documents indicate the cia did not

always know who they were killing during these attacks in pakistan about one of every four drone casualties over a fourteen month period three years ago were labeled as quote other militants and the agency picked its targets using specific behavior patterns prompting questions over whether or not these people were actual security threats in the first place and some former white house officials expressed worries that the cia's painted a picture of drone strikes success when ignoring mistakes when innocent people die chris woods from the bureau of investigative journalism he says the agency is reluctant to open up about the truth of its drone program. with so many civilians reported killed and yet the cia claiming that it's killed no more than fifty or sixty civilians i think there is need for an open not only an opening quantity but also for the cia to share the information meet on who it believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other we did seem to promise more

openness but unfortunately we're not seeing signs of just yet in pakistan we now have an incoming government that's making absolutely clear to the united states that it doesn't want these drone strikes i don't think they're going to stop most of the strikes there in pakistan these days i'm really not related to al qaida to terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been running we see the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have heard of course from iraq and rwanda recently for the u.s. to use drones that so there's a concern among some that the u.s. will start to use these drones as an easy plank in the view of foreign policy. and the constant and advances in unmanned aircraft technology are causing some concerns at the un it's rougher to a for extradition traditional killings kristoff hanes he called for

a worldwide suspension of the building and the use of the new killer craft all until that is that the international community can develop concrete rules for its use his report says the u.s. u.k. israel and japan are among the countries to possess drones which off fully automatic they're required no human whatsoever to carry out deadly strikes the computer fully in charge of deciding who and when to attack the document notes that while machines speed up decision making they showed no compassion or human offer of his can at least try to avoid unnecessary casualties here's what the author of the un report told us about the increasing danger. it's important to say there's not a particular day where we will be able to say now we have fully autonomy robots and this is merely an incremental process but they are really already very high levels of autonomy available and in full autonomy maybe they the within a few years important to emphasize the distinction between jones and legal honest

robots or laws estelle's accords and with drones you have a human in the loop there's somebody sitting behind a computer and taking decision to pull the trigger with robot stays no human being in the loop it's a computer that makes a decision that these are both forms of unmanned vehicles and there's no human being in the vehicle but do you know anybody journey still controlled by human beings i think there's wide acceptance that drones in themselves but they certainly undergo all through and they can be used in war in the same way that a plane and drop bombs from two thousand to eight and with the pilots it's you in the plane it's the ground these are the things you need with robots it's something completely different because here we don't have a unit takes a decision it's for that reason many people feel like these things in themselves should be regarded as. this is still to come for you in this hour out of one tunnel going nowhere republicans in the u.s.

congress keep the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release here about see we speak to the lawyer of at least one inmate has been on hunger strike over is detention without charge now for over four months . and twelve face trial on charges of mass disorder and violence against police i don't rally before president putin was sworn in one year ago. that's now it's minutes past the hour in the russian capital for six night running turkey's been witnessing a similar scene clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters now a third fatality has been confirmed in the unrest after a man died from head injuries in a hospital activists one of police chiefs responsible for the violent tactics removed and urged officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want all of

those that have been detained released saying that could actually end the days of riots the turkish prime minister now returning from a trip to north africa he will be expected to do something about the public discontent which i've seen demands for him to reverse all of his policies and his arteries are going to go reports out of the one of his just to be looking for scapegoats. they're keeping that. turkey is going through a rough time right now who's to blame. there is a problem called twitter right now and you can find every kind of lived there the thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society right now said prime minister. before dissing often african tour voices of dissent on istanbul's taksim square as well as many other squares and parks in turkey. but the turkish prime minister had by then already dismissed these voices as coming from drunkards

and extremists the only types of people who attend protests in turkey according to this to completely dislikes a position. he take this as a personal offense. he's used to have. agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gamed the. waltz of to calm this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that there were these the protests would be so big everyone's feelings for the protesters however are mirrored by the people on tech scene who believe only one has lost touch with reality and cares mostly about one person's opinion his own everybody was here being and everybody where people were. trying to resist and people were trying to keep the spark and he was telling to be are you. saying that there is actually no project here going on and that he changed

his mind and he said there is of course a project that i will do what i want to do and then the reserve spies spies everywhere in this commentary on the process the prime minister insisted there are hundreds of thousands of foreign agents working to upset the status quo in the country they don't insist that it's these very agents that have instigated the unrest in the first place and continue to work among the crowds encouraging dissent in turmoil today's news paper quoted a new. unnamed source in the government who claimed authorities have arrested some fifteen foreigners across the country in connection with the protests ironically many of them turned out to be nationals of iran a country which has been on air to one's blacklist for quite some time but just a couple of months ago the prime minister cut a different picture delivering a heartfelt speech on the subject of human rights and freedoms. where there is no

justice there is no humanity because there is justice and justice is excluded the place of justice shifted to the man's identity the identity of human bein's to speak it is impossible to claim that people can build a decent life but in everyone's turkey lately people have been busy putting up barricades to keep police at bay rather than getting a prosperous future for themselves it even goes quite istanbul. and one of out of the ones most contentious foreign policy is his handling of the ongoing conflict in syria a middle east expert manuel auction writer who says the reconciliation rhetoric now coming from some turkish officials is actually designed to please foreign observers not exactly the opposition. international community puts now a lot of attention on the protests especially in east but it doesn't here still much to do with the demonstrators and so we can see you this because these

demonstrations we with this now are not very unusual but they are going on demonstrations and through the since right now especially in the south cities it's received well if you can see the general problem is about this well it makes it doesn't just court danger integration in syria it also puts danger into aggression against its own citizens once inviting international mercenaries terrorists jihad into criminals through turkey gave them shelter they are. military training and sent them to syria to fight here this is a problem because these people are now in the cities and the tricks of the turkish citizens treating against this so you see i think this address to european union to u.s. troops western for nation but not so much to their own demonstrators. for the latest developments on talkies unrest online we've got the live coverage activists

the best pictures from the scene as well the sole feel right now at. the. it's good to have you with us here on our. show live from moscow and hope you can stay with us because in a moment we'll tell you why guantanamo bay prison is staying open and how one of america's largest mobile networks is routinely handing over your telephone records to the gulf.

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from the office he won't update for now though as we come to you live from moscow twelve russians will go before a judge later on thursday and the facing charges of mass disorder and violence against police they were arrested following protests which ended up in clashes last year in may this on the eve of president putin swearing in ceremony. he was following the case. expecting the court session which will be a closed one behind closed doors to start at around midday mosco time twelve people will be in the dogs old charged with inciting violence more than a year ago on may the six point eight twelve just hours before. president putin when most cool so huge and sizes and protests in it's a very hard and that event back then so probably the biggest violence the russian capital has seen in many years everything was going peaceful back then and still

some point of time when some part of the protesters tried to break the police lines and move towards the kremlin in a protest march that's when the violence erupted between the protesters and the police and that was altered in more than eighty people were being injured and several hundred were arrested of course most of them were released almost immediately after the protests but twelve of them were charged by the authorities for provoking the violence for starting the scuffles between them and the police so a year more than a year on this case has finally reached a court in the most cool central court and that's where the fate of the twelve will be decided this case has been riddled with control over silage really all this time the opposition has been describing those twelve people accused as political prisoners and have been demanding their release in fact the latest biggest opposition rally to moscow was primarily dedicated to these twelve people accused of inciting riots and may this six. it is

a ten twenty am here in the russian capital the us republicans have again scuppered president obama's pledge to close guantanamo bay in congress they prevented the use of public money to moved a teenager many of whom have been refusing food for over four months in protest of their indefinite detention and lieutenant colonel barry when god he represents one of the inmates says obama does have the power to release the prisoners he's just not trying to use it under the national security would agree he can't do that with the secretary of defense he does have that power and it's time for this straight into either put up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president doesn't have the authority to release from guantanamo bay to include men like shakur aamer back to london. ally of the united states a hunger strike there's no sign that there's any time to go she's going on to sort of hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are

still confiscated toothbrushes so good letters from home his attorney client. privilege to keep us with music between each other that's all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey what kind of people voted 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 i have to tell you and only answer for. three to me what kind of person says we don't care if you've done your so you can one hundred ok just on the ground here in one town i'm ok there's. no change whatsoever and everybody is sort of waiting for washington to jump some leadership. and you can keep up with. website. for this hour you can check out other stories. british police investigating a suspected racially motivated. and the videos on our web site right now.

hundreds of illegal immigrants living in their own community. and the video well. these are. this is a. culture of secrecy it's coming under increased pressure. pushing on with an

investigation into. the government's plan. but with. the. investigation. the swiss parliament has decided to put on hold a bill that would let swiss banks give the client information to u.s. authorities as part of this tax evasion of the swiss said the americans have been in attacks this week for about two years now and the swiss government has warned its parliament that if it doesn't act quickly enough criminal charges may be leveled against some of its largest banks now this is in addition to the e.u.'s latest move to also pursue a heavy handed approach on its clampdown on tax evasion the e.u. has decided to start talks with offshore banking havens that are not e.u. members like switzerland to establish an automatic exchange of relevant banking data now with crisis stricken the e.u. and the us having to deal with its own a fiscal problems this is

a way for governments to rein in that cash back into government coffers it was far switzerland is concerned this is a very lucrative market making it the world's largest financial center for offshore accounts with about two trillion u.s. dollars in assets and the question there is with this kind of government pressure being put on the likes of switzerland will it actually achieve the desired results for people who want to hide their money from the tax man have the will and the financial means and they may simply look elsewhere to park their money reporting from brussels. or out into the altie well now with millions of americans that are reportedly having their phone records to see without knowledge u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forced a rise in one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all of its cold data it was apparently signed off by a secret court which also ban the firm from even admitting that it's handed over the information. south korea has accepted an invitation from north korea to hold

talks about setting up commercial projects and would include the reopening of the jointly run kai song industrial zone which was shut in april when tension between the two reached its high. now the closure left tens of thousands of people without a job as pyongyang pulled from an area seen as a symbol of the last remnants of cooperation between the north and south and the timing and agenda of new talks will be announced at a later date. in the worst floods in a decade continue to deluge parts of central europe thousands of people have been forced from their homes cities declaring states of emergency fifteen people killed at least nine more missing the latest city to brace itself for the worst is dresden germany. up to ten rockets were launched from syria into lebanon hitting the eastern city of baalbeck that's according to reports another three missiles were

launched into a hezbollah controlled area of the same city of coding to local sources of syrian rebels are outraged that hezbollah is fighting on the side of president assad's forces and helping to helping him i should say ultimately taking back their strategic town of qusayr they have threatened to fight the militant group inside lebanon the arab league also condemning hezbollah as intervention. and up next here on r.t. abby martin getting a first hand of reaction from a turkish journalist about what's really happening in the protests tore through life from moscow it's a scene. the school board in batavia illinois has decided to punish one teacher for his bad

behavior by putting him on a strict probation play or what did he do to be deserve be part of this probation planted he do select punch a student in the face or to go in some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for the class no he just reminded the students that as americans they have the right to not incriminate themselves to put it more simply he told the students that they didn't have to answer a questionable survey about drug and alcohol use and their emotional state since the data from this questionnaire would be sent back to the private company that created it this raises even more privacy issues than just the school knowing about the students personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they need to know you know if you're going to live in a society based on individual rights it would help to actually teach children what those rights are but that's just my opinion.

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