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no to drugs pakistan's new prime minister demands and then america's unmanned aerial at times on pakistani soil demanding respect for national sovereignty. one of america's biggest phone companies is reportedly forced to hand over the data of millions of citizens thanks to a secret court ruling that. russia has sent to police clashes and leave a third person with them to pressure prime minister at a one blaming the other breast on foreign agents.
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and you saw in russia under wrong the wall this is all t. was me thanks for joining us. pakistan's new elected prime minister wants an end to u.s. drone strikes in the country the demand was while the first things he did on beginning of his own part of the world said nonconsecutive the u.s. claims it's a tux only targets militants but accidents say nearly a thousand innocent people have been killed and pakistan's high court has declared them it may go on but some of the victims of drone warfare and we have to warn you that some of the images you're about to see a 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 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 ask for it's a hopeless feeling to be death 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 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 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 dar who lost part of his hearing short term memory and
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nearly his foot on. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside 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 zeerust on 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 now evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these were smuggled to islamize
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bought from the tribal areas they're believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drones especially on children disturbing 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 shot is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying a 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 make me hate the americans we are angry and want revenge
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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 of all this upon. us. that's. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see caffein of pakistan. the u.s. media is meanwhile reporting that classified documents indicate the cia did not always know who they were killing during a tox in pakistan that had been run is against those operations with x. rays claiming hundreds of innocents have died and let's now take a look at the impasse these drone strikes have had since they started that in two thousand and four so eight hundred and eighty four civilians have reportedly been
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killed according to the bureau of investigative journalism it's estimated that nearly two hundred children were among the victims so the dros has spiked significantly since president obama took office a six fold increase compared to his predecessor george w. bush and chris words who's from the bureau of investigative journalism says there is little transparency about these operations 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 a need for an open not only an open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information we care as one who believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other week did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we don't 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 stop most of the
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strikes there in pakistan these days are really not related to al qaida to those terrorist activities but really to the war cross 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 had calls from iraq and rwanda recently for the u.s. to use drones there 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 nasty and for the come this hour and gone time out going nowhere republicans in the u.s. congress keep the infamous prison open by blocking the trials of prisoners cleared for release we'll speak to the lawyer one inmate who has been on hunger strike over his attention without charge of a four months. also later twelve russians face trial on charges of mass designer
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and violence against police at a rally before president hussein was sworn in a year it got. millions of americans are reportedly having the phone records seize without their knowledge the u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forced horizon one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all its core data and to give us more details here with me in the studio assays tom von essen hi there tom nice to see you again so what about these latest revelations because looks like it's potentially so we're being surveillance that well yes indeed you do i this was started by the british newspaper the guardian that managed to obtain documents we'll show you a little extract from those documents from the u.s. national security agency and a secret court there that they've used these documents we've taken a small extract to obtain the phone calls of millions of us customers of arisan one
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of the largest telecommunications companies in the us wanting to call detail records and what are those those records specifically their telephony metter data we're looking at the the the numbers of both parties of the phone call the one making the called one receiving it location data from the call the time of the call and the duration so although the the contents of those calls aren't mentioned. if and if the authorities wanted to they could look at who was calling who where when and for how long that's a lot of data that you can use to try and pinpoint an individual and it's hoovering up all of that data does whoever verizon's customers are you know and how much of a shock this will be for american. it could presumably be a big shock there have been a number of surveillance scandals recently among them just last month the fox news reporter who's emails and phones were monitored to try and get down towards
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a story that they thought the government thought was based on a state department leak fox very angry about that in their statement they called it downright chilling that this man was was monitored there he is now really was doing his job as they said and also a week before that the department of justice caught having monitored around twenty phone lines of the associated press news agency in the u.s. there suspected they were trying to trace the leak of a story of a foil to al qaeda bomb plot all of this building up both of those stories creating a big for a this one probably likely to as well the bush administration admitted this kind of mass gathering of telephone data this is the first instance so of the a bomb or administration perhaps continuing something similar it's not known the full extent of this that it that it might get to it is very likely that it could
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create a lot of anger right on barton live at the i.t. studio tom thank you very much indeed for that report eighty. for the six nights who are running in turkey it was more of this site clutches leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on versus a third fatality has been confronted in the rest after a month died from head injuries and ankara hospital after a swarm the police troops responsible for their violent tactics were removed and officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also on those that have been detained released saying that that could and the days of riots detective prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later and will be expected to do something about the public discontent with her sin demands for him to revise all his policies but as. of course everyone appears to be looking for scapegoats. barricades in banners flags
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and tear gas turkey's going through a rough time right now so who's to blame them we consider the sincerity of these protests social media has been full of fabricated news baseless claims and accusations against me for days therefore we should hang these people from the trees they are accustomed to that these tactless people are tweeting and messaging that we are victims of violence and dying police panzers are crushing us and the people who share and retreat these claims are just hundreds of fascists said prime minister. before getting off to an african tour while voices of dissent on istanbul's taksim square as well as many other squares and parks in turkey who louder but the turkish prime minister had by then already dismissed these voices as coming from drunkards looters and extremists the only types of people who attend protests in turkey according to iran this completely dislikes
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a position to. take this as a personal offense. he's used to have. agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gained a. waltz of to conquer this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that the protests will 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 this park and he was telling that to be are you. saying that there is actually no project here going on and then changed his mind and he said there is of course a project and i will. what i want to do and then the words are sure spies spies
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everywhere and this commentary on the protest the prime minister insisted there are hundreds if not thousands of foreign agents working to upset the status quo in the country i don't insist that it's these very agents that have instigated the address in the first place and continue to work among the crowds encouraging dissent in turmoil today's news paper quoted a non named 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 its place has shifted to man's identity the identity of human beings to speak it is
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impossible to claim that these 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 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 they reconciliation rhetoric now coming from some tech shop for shawls is actually designed to please foreign observers rather than the opposition. the international community puts now a lot of potential on the protests especially. but it doesn't here so much to do with the demonstrators and so we can say you this because these demonstrations we with this now are not very new what they are going on demonstrations and through you since right now especially in the south thirty percent the s. is about to receive turkish politics against syria the general problem is about
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this well if you extend it doesn't just quote danger integration with syria it also puts danger into aggression against its own citizens was inviting international mercenaries terrorists jihadi beasts into criminals through turkey gave them shelter there and. 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 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 procreation but not so much to their own demonstrators. and you can follow all the latest developments and take is at rest on the line we'll go live coverage and the best pictures from the scene for you. to stay with us so we'll tell you why gun tunnel days stay open and get the latest on the court proceedings against
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this is also a welcome bok u.s. republicans have again scoff at president obama's pledge to close guantanamo bay in congress they prevented the use of public money to move detainees many of whom had been refusing food for over a full months now and probably just about indefinite detention but left handed kennel by when god who represents one inmate says obama has the pilots who release prisoners but isn't all teasing it. under the national security whatever he can do
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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 doesn't have the authority to release men from one town i'm open to include men like shakur aamer back to london now i have the united states hunger strike there's no sign that there's any coming into cohesion going on to the 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 the two of us with communicating between each other has all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey what kind of people 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 i had no answer for the mystery to me what kind of person says we don't care if you've done anything you're staying in guantanamo bay it's
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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 kill some leadership. and you can keep up with all the latest updates from going hunger strike on our website on c dot com and while you're online check out this as well the phrase on the british police investigate a suspected of racially motivated also not target in north london this media on. russia's secret service counters and around as this is corrected a mosque in mind olive oil tar time wonderful victory day his group was apparently operating from afghanistan had to offer dot com for inside information on the moscow raid. twelve russians are in moscow cooled on trial over charges of mass does order and violence against police they were arrested for doing projects which ended in clashes last year on the eve of
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president putin's swearing in ceremony also he's a big say in a show of skis following the case for. twelve people in the door all accused of inciting riots 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 inauguration of president bush in moscow so 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 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
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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 are seeing something like this today as well there are solitary pickets from both the opposition and the pro-government movements for the first are demanding the release of the prisoners the second are demanding justice to be served with force we keeping our thumbs here on the ground that will be keeping all of us up to date with all the latest details as this court session is progressing. so is the culture of bank secrecy is coming under increased pressure as the u.s. pushes on with an investigation into tax evasion for now swiss know making the government's plan to handle the climate client state but with the e.u. also knocking on the dual defined is far from over. the swiss parliament has decided to put on hold a bill that would let swiss banks give applying to information to u.s. authorities as part of this tax evasion of the swiss americans have been in attacks
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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 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 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 first it was far switzerland is 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
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the will and the financial means and they may simply look elsewhere to park their money reporting from brussels. and meanwhile the u.k. 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 dependences to london in order to presidency more transparency and talks of asia will be the main focus of the upcoming g. eight summit hosted by the u.k. and global wealth hidden abroad in. a group around six percent last year alone reaching eight point five trillion dollars ahead of the jays meeting which is expected to bank a crackdown on tax 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 the regulation shall we say and be
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a destination of choice for money whether it's ill gotten gains or not then trade it is going to be you know market share taken away from the u.k. economy we seem to some extent of the european union as legislated against finance over the last few years and that the failure of the frankfurt and paris to become financial centers despite the interest of the euro thirteen years ago speaks to that this initiative to go anywhere it has to have the backing of 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 it's an interesting enough you know it's the us which seems to be fighting against you know this kind of move. straight to the. date south korea has accepted an invitation from north korea to hold talks about setting up
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commercial projects would include the reopening of the jointly run in case song industrial zone which was shot in april when tension between the two reached its height the closure left tens of thousands of people without a job as young young pulled all stopped from an area is seen as a symbol of the last few remnants of cooperation between north and south the timing and agenda of new talks will be announced 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 citizen hundred close 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. after ten rockets were launched from syria into lebanon hitting the eastern city of barbaric according to reports another three missiles were launched into a hezbollah controlled area of the same city according to
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a local source syrian rebels are outraged that has belies fighting on the side of president assad's forces helping him take the strategic town of qusayr they have threatened to fire the militant group inside lebanon with the arab league also condemning has been as intervention. up next to the mountain gets hungry action from a tank is john list about what's really going on in the protest own country. 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 to do so like punch a student in the face or to go on some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for
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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 student's personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they did to dull 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. we speak your language i mean from of the law and out of the and. use programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. use it will turn it into angles to
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