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wasn't and. was. no to drone spotted son's new prime minister demands and then america's on monday aerial strikes on pakistani soil demanding source had for national sovereignty. want to america's biggest foreign companies is reportedly hondo with a cold day job millions of citizens find a secret court ruling. on projects and police closures and leave it said person dead with under pressure prime minister out of one blaming the west on foreign agents.
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international news live from moscow this is all see with me thanks for joining us pakistan's new elected prime minister once and then to u.s. drone strikes in the country the demand was one of the first things he did on beginning and end paralleled nonconsecutive term the u.s. claims is a tux only target militants but activists say nearly a thousand innocent people have been killed and pakistan's high court has declared them illegal. and let some of the victims of drone was there and we have to warn you that some of the images you're about to see are very graphic. 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 on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay
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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 or it's a hopeless feeling or to be deaf is above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean the law says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his four children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify it in the same arrogance should be able to tell an ordinary person from a taliban leader what they should know who they're killing what did we do to deserve this. this isn't my. drone arctic it's a question echoed by now dar who lost part of his hearing his short term memory and nearly his foot when. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside
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far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people attorneys 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 zero ston isolated by geography and politics simply call it a concentration camp that you have build 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 four smuggled to islam
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about 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 drone especially on children disturbing images of the living and the dead for nor its personal. enemies. whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep at 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 a drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you're just why did the conflict you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict . of course this is make me hate the americans we're angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst
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enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effective. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims. r.t. pakistan the us media is meanwhile reporting that the classified documents indicate this cia did not always know who they were killing during a time in pakistan there have been rallies against those operations were acts of his claiming hundreds of innocents have died and that's now take a look at the impact these drone strikes have had since they started back in two thousand and four so eight hundred and eighty four civilians have reportedly been killed according to the bureau of investigative journalism it's estimated that
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nearly two hundred children were among the victims the use of drones has spiked significantly since president obama took office a six foot in chris compared to his predecessor george w. bush so chris woods who is from the bureau investigative journalism says there is little transparency about these operations. 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 open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information he has on who it believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other week did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we're not seeing signs of that 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 stall most of the strikes there in pakistan these days are really not related to al qaeda and to
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those terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significant 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 had coals 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 their view of foreign policy. this is r.c. and so to come this hour gone tyler going nowhere republicans in the chorus keep this in prison opened by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release with speak to the lawyer one inmate has been going to strike over his detention without charge for over four months. while the russians face trial and charges of miles dissolving and violence against police at a rally before president putin was sworn in
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a year ago. millions of americans are reportedly having their phone records fees without their knowledge the u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forced the rise in one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all its core data and to give us more details here's our seas tom barton great to see it all hello this looks like the what's these latest revelations looks like potentially sweeping surveillance that indeed it does it comes from britain's guardian newspaper they've managed to obtain this document from this court and what we are going to show you know on screen is just a short extract from the document from the foreign intelligence surveillance court of april the twelve twenty fifth ordering the verizon company one of the u.s. is biggest telecommunications companies to provide this data on a daily basis over about a three month period this tangible information and as they call it call detail
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records of millions of phone calls throughout the united states both within the united states and to other countries so what exactly is this data that they want it's not actually the contents of any conversations but it includes the left would be better data as it's called things like the numbers of who's calling who the location dates are of the calls and the time and durations of the calls so whilst they can't actually hear what people are saying in this. you could imagine how it would be easy enough for the authorities to know who was calling who when where and for how long all of that makes it very easy to pin point in on someone if you want to yeah i would be outraged so all people's reaction then yeah i mean i think the attention for shock is very big especially after some more recent scandals that have erupted around surveillance within this administration last month the fox news
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reporter had his phone conversations and e-mails monitored that was an attempt by the government to try and track a story that was based on a state department leak fox news defending their reporter saying he was just doing his job and it was downright chilling that he was monitored in that way and a week before that the department of justice was caught some having seized the phone records of up to twenty four reminds of the associated press news agency a suspected attempt to try and trace a leak story of a foil to al qaeda bomb plot there all of these help to build up this huge idea of surveillance that this is the third story in a couple of months that's a ruptured over this the bush administration didn't mitt large scale data collection of this sort this is the first indication though of the obama administration carrying on those kind of practices and if people really realize that this mass gathering of data without this without the the checking to see if
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people are actually even suspected of committing a crime that could really cause some public anger riot tom thank you very much for that report tom barton here with me at the theatre thank you. for a sick night of running into those more of the same clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters and a surface ality has been confirmed in the rest after a man died from head injuries and corrupt hospital activists one of the police chiefs responsible for the vinyl tops has removed and ocean officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want all those that have been detained released say that that could end three days of riots the turkish prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later and will be expected to do something about the police discontent which has seen demands for him to revise his policies but as. everyone
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appears to be looking for scapegoats. there are kids in banners flags and tear gas turkey's going through a rough time right now so 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 judging often african tour while 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 iran this completely dislikes a position to. take this as a personal offense. he's used to have.
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agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gained a. waltz of to calm this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that the protests would be so big everyone's feelings for the protesters however are mirrored by the people on taxi 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 then you change his mind and he said there is of course a project and i will do what i want to do and then the words are shared by 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
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country i 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 paper quoted in. 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 early ones 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
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barricades to keep police at bay rather than building a prosperous future for themselves it even goes carty istanbul. one of the ones most contentious foreign policy is his handling of the syrian conflict middle east expert and writer says the reconciliation rhetoric now coming from some turkish officials actually designed to praise foreign observers rather than the opposition. international community puts now a lot of attention on the protests especially in east but you've got some here still much to do with the demonstrators and so we can say this because these demonstrations we were at this now are not very unusual but they are going on demonstrations and throughout the since right now especially in the south thirty percent the s. and it's received your politics against syria the general problem is a focus for the extent it doesn't just court danger integration on syria it also
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puts danger into aggression against its own citizens was inviting international mercenaries terrorists jihadi simply criminals through turkey gave them shelter there and. military training and sent them to syria to fight there this is a problem because these people are now in the cities and the turkish citizens went on the street being against this so you see i think this is addressed to the european union to us and to the western procure nation but not so much to their own demonstrators. you can follow the old days and developments and take it down read it online live coverage on surveys and the best pictures from the scene at. the base take the time to get the latest on the court proceedings against a dozen of russians arrested for plunging with police last year.
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free. download free blog video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. you will see live from moscow welcome bok u.s. republicans have again scuppered president obama's pledge to close guantanamo bay in congress they prevented the use of public money to move detainees many of whom have been refusing food for of a full months in protest of that indefinite detention but the town of cow barry singled who represents one inmate says obama has the power to release prison is but is not he's singing it. under the national security waiver he can't do that with the secretary of defense he does have that power it's time for this it ministration to either put up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president
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doesn't have the authority to release men 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 only wanted a sort of hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are still confiscated toothbrushes so letters from home his attorney client. privilege to keep us with communicating between each other has all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey. people vote to fund a 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 you know we can't afford the mystery to me what kind of person says we don't care if you've done anything you're sitting in guantanamo bay or 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 jim some leadership.
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you can keep up with all the latest updates from the ongoing hunger strike and on our website dot com and while you're own line this is well. the phrase on fire or police investigator suspected of racially motivated also not top in north london check out this video on all to go on. russia's secret service counter is under arrest this is factored in lost a mind of a four hour time brand for victory day his group was apparently operating from afghanistan had to get off home for inside information on the moscow grade. twelve russians are in court on trial over charges of mass disorder under violence against police they were arrested following projects which ended in clashes last year on the evil president putin's swearing in ceremony. for making the case for us . twelve people in the door all accused of inciting riots
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a year ago in may the sixth went to twelve and they could face up to eight years in prison if they're found guilty back then certainly just twenty four hours before the you know gratian of president bush in moscow saw probably the biggest violence it has seen in years everything was going rather smoothly in the anti putin protest in the heart of most go until one part of the protesters attempted to break the police lines and move in a march towards the gravel and that's when the scuffles between the police and the protesters erupted which left more than eighty people are injured and more than three hundred were arrested of course most of them were released straight away but twelve of them the police believe that they have enough evidence that these people were inciting riots and that's why this case has been going on for the last year obviously entering its final stage the court hearings in central moscow court now this case has been riddled with controversy of course with the opposition describing these people as political prisoners and demanding them to be released we
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are seeing something like this today as well there are soldiers pickets from both the opposition and the pro-government movements for the first are demanding the release of the prisoners the second the lights are demanding justice will be served of course we keeping our thumbs here on the ground that will be keeping our viewers up to date with all the latest details as this court session is progressing. so islams culture of buying secrecy is coming under increased pressure as the u.s. pushes on with an investigation into tax evasion now swiss lawmakers have blown the government's plan to hand over kalina data client data to with the e.u. also knocking on the door the find his phone from over. 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 americans have been in a tax dispute 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
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against some of its largest banks this is in addition to the latest move to also pursue a heavy handed approach on its clampdown on tax evasion has decided to start talks with offshore banking havens that are not new members like switzerland to establish an automatic exchange of relevant banking data now with crisis trick the u.s. having to do with its own up to school problems this is a way for governments to rein in that cash to back into government first i was concerned this is a very lucrative market making it the world's largest. offshore account with about two trillion 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. meanwhile the u.k.
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prime minister david cameron has taken a tough stance on british tanks haven's has invited the leaders of ten u.k. overseas territories and crown dependency isn't to london in order to press them for more transparency. and will be the main focus of the upcoming trade summit hosted by the u.k. global wealth in a broad. group by around six percent last year alone reaching eight point five trillion dollars ahead of the jades meeting which is expected to bog down on tonks avoidance the u.k.'s prime minister says it's critical for britain to get its house in order however some experts say cameron is missing the point. supposing that there are tax havens in a hundred years toi and i assume that some country somewhere will always have a motivation to play fast and loose with a regulation show you say and be a destination of choice for somebody whether it's ill gotten gains or not then
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clearly it is going to be market share taken away from the u.k. economy you seem to some extent of the european union as legislative against finance over the last few years and that the failure of the frankfurt and paris to become financial centers despite the euro thirty years ago speaks about this initiative to go anywhere it has to have the backing of the you know the larger countries in the global financial community there's no real point in the u.k. going it alone making this offer to the g eight and it being rebuffed you know they'll just say well thank you very much but actually we're not going to change our own taxation policy is an interesting enough you know it's the us which seems to be fighting against you know this kind of move. straight to the aussie world south korea has accepted an invitation from north korea to hold talks about setting up commercial projects negotiations would include the reopening of the jointly ron mckay song industrial zone which was shot in april and tension between the two
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reached its height the closure left tens of thousands of people without a job and pyongyang pulled all stuff from the area seen as a symbol of the last few remnants of cooperation between north and south the timing and agenda of new talks or van elst at a later date. the worst floods in a decade continue to deluge parts of central europe thousands of people have been forced from their homes a cities have declared states of emergency and fifteen people have been killed with nine others missing the latest city to brace itself for the worst is dressed in germany. up to ten rockets were launched from syria into lebanon hastening the eastern city of bam back according to reports another three missiles were launched into a hezbollah controlled area of the same city according to a local source see when rebels are outraged that has been fighting on the side of president assad's forces helping him take behind his strategic town of. they have
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threatened to find the militant group inside lebanon with the arab league also condemning has been laws intervention. and in a few minutes they examine the cycle of hunger which is around watching parts of the continent. 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 plan did he do so like punch a student in the face or to go on 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
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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 do all 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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