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i. top stories at the g eight summit ends with leaders backing a peace conference on syria but they failed to their differences as president putin slams the u.s. decision to arm the rebels saying there's no one hard evidence the regime crossed the line and used chemical weapons and. the u.s. reveals forty six names of guantanamo bay detainees they say it's too dangerous to release transfer or to prosecute as washington stumbles again on its way to shutting down the camp. and police raids in istanbul and ankara result in more than eighty arrests as the turkish government posts its tactics against the protests gripping the country.
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live from moscow eleven pm it's kevin owen here this is r.t. or good to have you company this hour first on the g. eight summit as just drawn to an end in northern ireland couple of hours ago with syria as predicted one of the most pressing topics up for discussion despite major disagreements the leaders did manage to come up with a joint statement though russia's president commented on what's been achieved and what differences still remain. with following the news conference out. this joint statement from all the g. eight leaders is being presented as somewhat of a triumph they managed to come together and issued a statement on syria from everybody one thing about him and putin said in a press conference is that everybody agrees that the only way full. diplomatic and diplomatic resolution to the crisis in syria they want to see all the sides around the negotiating table they want to see the should move to. happen as soon as possible before it has been set yet and of course really divided which is not right
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about a number of getting the point remains. russia is all going to be on the syrian crisis and everybody else is one of them is chemical weapons. reiterated that russia doesn't find the evidence provided by the americans very convincing say the russian government doesn't have any proof that chemical weapons have been used in syria and he also mentioned that a number of other g eight leaders also question the claims that have been made by the u.s. government it wasn't a case of seven against one of the leaders have been questioning that information as well he said that there needs to be a full investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria and that needs to be in order to establish the truth and that needs to be presented back to the u.n. and of course the u.s. has already said that because a result of these claims that bashar al assad has used chemical weapons they are
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now have pledged to provide military support to the syrian opposition now and speaking just now in a press conference reiterated that he thinks that sending weapons to the syrian rebels will further escalate and destabilize the bloodshed taking place there already and when questioned about russia's arms sales to the syrian government this is what vladimir putin said in response. to plunge and. fishel contracts to the legitimate government of president assad you know when the possible weapons supplies to syrian rebels by european countries the british people recently witnessed an outrageous tragedy when a soldier was butchered in broad daylight in the streets of london many in the syrian opposition not all of them of course are criminals like the ones that conducted that violent killing do europeans want to supply arms to d's people what will happen to these weapons where will these arms end up because end up back in
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europe that's why we call in our partners to think twice before they take this extremely dangerous step one of my putin's answers brought to us by artist pony boy there now less than twenty four hours ago the foreign media was writing that the russian leader was isolated at the summit a different images apparently emerged to saving the arteries of a cross he as he said it has been following the event and explain to me earlier what caused this turnaround. you've got to look at the choreography yeah so yes the canadian prime minister observed that putin seemed isolated our spot ran out a line that was isolated at the at the summit and i think if you look at the choreography of the press conferences and the communique that they've issued today i don't think that hold any water in fact my read on it is that putin didn't blink on syria and the others did the point being if you have a look at david cameron's press conference that he gave as president of the g. eight as a sitting president of the g.
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eight cameron went through some points on foreign policy that they had decided one of those was on libya that the g. eight was going to strengthen the new libyan prime minister's resolve and strengthen his stance in trying to bring the militias in libya under control he then went on to syria and issued a seven point declaration which. is signed by all members of the g. eight including some balance on the issue of chemical weapons there's not much finger pointing going on there and there is no train that assad has no role in any future government of syria there is a call for a roadmap towards a transition government in syria and this may or may not include assad and putinism people and on that issue anyway he's not insisting that assad has to be there one way or interact but a couple of a couple of statements that cameron made suggest that it was they who blinked and quite considerably cameron used the expression we need to learn the lessons of iraq before we get involved heavily in syria and then went on to explain how syria needed and this is backed up in the in the communique that syria needed
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a functioning police government institutions health care institutions an army the rule of law a political system all of which by. libya lacks and i think putin probably went into the g. eight and said look at look at what's going on in libya and we're not going to repeat that i think there was an acknowledgement there around the table that none of them wanted to repeat the mistakes of the past let's go to jonathan steele he's a columnist for the u.k.'s guardian newspaper he told me the biggest challenge for the proposed geneva two talks we bring you the syrian opposition to the table which the west seems to have no clue how to achieve. president putin at one point did sorry casually that we have agreed that all sides will put pressure on the people to attend the conference and i think that's really important because up till now we've heard very little from the western side about pushing the rebels to attend the conference all the talk in the west has been about getting the syrian government to come as though that is the main problem the syrian government has long said it would attend a conference that the rebels have been divided they had
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a disastrous meeting with few weeks ago in istanbul where they couldn't agree on coming new conditions for for attending they can't agree on a negotiating strategy on the leader of their delegation so it's a real shambles and the only way the conference can get going it's that the rebels . get themselves together and come to the table. well on the summit sidelines euro crisis u.s. officials lay the foundations for a mega size free trade zone we talk about that a bit later report on how the plan is pitted european nations against each other and why watchdog agencies are bringing the alarm bell over it. also reporting to the u.s. government what we're able to block for the surveillance revelation said with snowden speaks out in an online q. and a slamming a bomber's war on whistleblowers that's coming up in a few minutes as well. but next the u.s. government has released a list of forty six tandem obey detainees who they say will remain in prison
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indefinitely washington claims these men are too dangerous to be moved but also can't be prosecuted either party's going to church you can look at the stumbling blocks on the way to closing the cap. so that's a list of forty six men that the u.s. government has no idea what to do with they've been stuck in this legal limbo for years and even with the president's renewed promises to shut down the prison the government indicates that they will still continue to hold people without charge according to the u.s. government these men are too dangerous to be released but they cannot be tried either in military or civilian court because of inadequate or tainted evidence many of these men were tortured which would make evidence against them inadmissible in court the list includes twenty six yemenis twelve afghans three saudis two kuwaitis and libyans a kenyan moroccan and a somali there were two indefinite detainees both afghans who have died in the camp one by suicide one of a heart attack so these ministration releases the names of these forty six labeled
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as indefinite detainees the same day as the state department announces the appointment of its special envoy to guantanamo has expressed mission is to say to see if they can close down with the administration is now trying to do is to lift the bag on transfers to the united states so that maybe they can close the prison but still hold a measure and bars now some argue that even if the congress lift the ban on transfers to the u.s. that could mean just a change of address not a solution to the problem right now more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves begging for a solution eighty six of them have been cleared for release by the u.s. government itself a long time ago and yet they're still there before this hunger strike both the administration and congress showing that they would rather have one try to modify sight out of mind they were basically waiting for these men to die in just a few months ago the administration was asking for nearly two hundred million dollars to renovate the prison and it really did like they were taking any steps to fulfill the president's promise we should make twice running for office. could you
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comment on a series of explosions or munitions dump in central russia led to widespread panic of mass evacuations of the last couple of those five powerful blast of also spot a forest fire. is across this we've brought you stories of abuse but three hours ago more details have come in it's a bit of a confused picture of the very latest picture girly shoulder is powerful i mean look at that massive fire blast right there what we know so far as my colleague reported four people confirmed to have been injured there in the hospital now this area this area has quite a few residents actually seventy four thousand people living in the chapel area just fifteen kilometers away from this incident initial reports said that there was about thirteen million shells in the arsenal that blew up but we're now hearing from government officials about six thousand shells and we're also hearing that these blasts could continue for possibly up to two to three days of course that's not quite confirmed we do know that officials are trying to gain control of the
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area so residents on the ground did report though pieces of the munitions actually flying around although not really clear from that video but of course it's not the first time that this has happened in the video that you're seeing now is from a different class that took place back in twenty eleven this is actually become unfortunately rather a common story here in russia and of course of store authorities are going to be on quite a lot of pressure to try to figure out exactly what's going on with these munitions depot it's why they're blowing up and what we can do to keep the weapons in safer conditions though. the chain reaction thing is really strange to see those guys hope playing football in the middle of this this would have been going on but there was no beef not too many injuries that's good news ok we'll keep. now about with more news shortly including for you the latest police raids in turkey's main cities of the most active protests as that continues we'll bring you up to speed on it.
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wealthy british style. life. market. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two kinds a report. language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. four years and no i will leave that to the state clerk to comment on your latter point to say. to carry out a cause are you talking no god. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question the prepared for
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a chase when you run should be ready for a. criminal speech and a little bit on the freedom to crush. the live from moscow and it's a whistleblower edward snowden has reportedly sent in formal requests for political asylum in iceland that comes just a day off the man but on the bombshell leaks revealed the sweeping nature of the u.s. surveillance program promising more disclosures to come to an internet q. and a session he also predicted more whistleblowers would follow his example to. follow that online chat. snowden referred to washington's war on whistleblowers as a drop clooney and campaign he believes will ultimately escalate the scale school and skill involved in future government leaks in short snowden believes that u.s.
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president barack obama is actually building better whistleblowers by targeting and punishing all those that aim to expose government wrongdoing as for the website that served as a strong platform for whistleblowers snowden referred to wiki leaks as a legitimate journalistic outlets on the topic of obama snowden accuse the president of entering the white house and slamming the door on many campaign promises such as in vesta gating systemic violations of law instead snowden says the u.s. commander in chief is deepening and expanding several abusive programs that began under the bush administration the former booz allen hamilton employees says the u.s. government destroyed his possibility for a fair trial at home by openly declaring him guilty of treason and his acts as criminal unconstitutional and unforgivable snowden now reportedly hiding out in hong kong claims he did not reveal any u.s. operations against legitimate military targets he says his leaks pointed out where
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the n.s.a. has hacked civilian infrastructure such as hospitals universities and private businesses covert operations that snowden claims is aggressively criminal and dangerous now even if the u.s. government ultimately catches and in prisons him snowden believes that it will not prevent more people like him from coming forward reporting from new york. r.t. . what i would showed revelations of the ready lead to some tension between the u.s. and china beijing's demand of the washington explain its surveillance program and cyber spying to the international community james colbert senator of independent news website the colbert report he says further damage to relations between the two countries is inevitably things. there will definitely be further followed in terms of the relations i don't think this comes as a surprise to anybody in the audience let alone the chinese government or intelligence services especially given the fact that it was admitted earlier this year that the general in charge of the n.s.a. who also happens to be a u.s.
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army general in charge of cyber command is head is ready to deploy forty cyber battalions in u.s. cyber by two thousand and fifteen thirteen of which are going to be specifically for preemptive cyber attacks so is it any surprise that the n.s.a. is actively targeting and conducting cyber operations against u.s. enemies in cyberspace of course this is no surprise to anyone but now that this is been put on the table and made quite explicit i think there is going to have to be some sort of reaction from beijing and this is going to complicate already complicated relations between the two when especially as this was just it the topic of the first meeting between president obama and president xi jinping since being took office there in california just earlier this month. of course we're closely watching developments in the story invite you to log on to our website dot com for the full timeline of events expert analysis and the latest updates as well. now more than sixty people have been detained in turkey's largest city yesterday after
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police swooped on protesters another twenty three would arrest in the capital ankara as well as a teaser to go screw explains next this is not the only change the government's anti demonstration methods the protests in taksim square last night or in fact started off as a lone protester simply standing there for hours on end it was a performance artist. who found it as a great great way to show his protests towards the violent dispersal of those who are in gezi park in taksim square just days earlier by the police he was soon joined by about a dozen of other protesters that he left and the rest of those who have joined him were arrested by police they were however released last night. arrested allegedly for their connection to the protests for as the turkish authorities put it for instigating violence and basically calling on people to go to the streets and instigating also civil unrest those people should be released within four days
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we're being told but at the same time just talking to protesters people who were out in the park you have to understand that they may be gone off the streets not all of them of course but a lot of them are actually regrouping right now of course you have your labor unions coming out also showing their indignation at the situation in the country and that the way that the government has handled the arrests in the country which have been going on for more than two weeks at this point they're extremely unhappy with the way they're showing their solidarity with the protesters and by the looks of it it's just we're right in the middle of the eye of the hurricane and now what does the government do aside from arresting people they believe are somehow connected to the protests there are now beginning to closely monitor the social media websites such as twitter and facebook and they're actually they actually have drafted a law which is soon going to go into. examination by the turkish parliament on restricting some of the functioning of this social media which may be the newest in
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possibly the most interesting developments in lieu of recent events considering the fact that a lot of protesters actually are being organized through twitter or facebook there was the statement that if there will not be enough policemen to quell the protests they will bring in the dharma and if those will not be enough then of course we will be seeing the army also working on calling the protest in the country. in brief. in northwest pakistan leaving at least twenty seven dead and wounded dozens more police say the blast of mud to talk to the politician who attended the procession that was affiliated with the opposition leader him come on it's the worst attack in the region since the may learn from the actions and highlights the security challenges facing the new government with the prime minister now a shiver. if. violence once again struck iraq's capital baghdad two suicide bombers were blowing themselves up in a shia mosque killing at least thirty three more than sixty others rigid in the blast the bombing follows a spate of attacks on shia neighborhoods which of claimed the lives of more than
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one hundred people. place a clash of protesters of brazil's biggest cities after a mass demonstration the speed have been venting their anger at the government's spending on staging the twenty fourteen world cup a crippled social health system as well as transport for the rallies and into the second week more expected become. the world's largest free trade zone may soon span the atlantic encompassing the populations of the u.s. and the european union lobbyists bureaucrats and executives are hard at work preparing the ground but critics point out insurmountable problems with the whole idea is a presenter katie pilgrim has got the deed. france is expected to oppose the deal because they are demanding that their industries get certain protections and continued subsidize asian a point that's not sitting well with other e.u. nations plus our whole bunch of consumer watchdogs and food safety organizations are concerned that washington is caving in to pressure from u.s.
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farm and food industries who want street food standards rules removes a why example of this is greenpeace which is already concerned that standards will slip as a result of the deal if this trade agreement does go through it's not your all have to relax its attitude towards genetically modified crops too the first thing that comes to mind is the monsanto a highly controversial company and i just recently we saw global protests erupt against a company with thousands expressing anger towards it and its practices of the european consumers organization also expressed serious concerns fearing that this would this deal was watered down the consumer protection rules they have already been fighting to protect the years now the trade with a merging economy is the brics the countries brazil russia india china and south africa is predicted to declined sharply by thirty percent america has already raised europe's hackles over breaching standards especially when it comes to data
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of course there's the world publicized u.s. surveillance scandal which could come into conflict with the reputation of the strict data protection standards and they fall and out before over america demanding europeans private financial and banking transaction data in twenty ten although washington adventure they got its way on this one. now online we got more stories analysis from the world's news makers of course as we usually do twenty four seventh's for you including tonight the latest on wiki leaks julian assange who says he's prepared to spend the next five years in the confines of the ecuadorian embassy in london after high level talks break the silence in the fall to get the latest updates there to russia's foreign minister says iran's newly elected president is ready to partly hold your radio enrichment but it's only under certain conditions head to our website to learn what those conditions are where the west should make compromises as far as around concern.
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and runs a new leader and his promises of nuclear transparency don't seem to have convinced israel that the alleged threat will be lifted anytime soon promise to let you know who said that the president elect rouhani will have no say in the country's nuclear policies israel's elite is well prepared indeed in case of a possible attack with an expensive an impenetrable hideout at their disposal fall asleep looks at what the rest of the country that thinks about that. when the missiles come israel's leaders will be here deep underground somewhere on the road between jerusalem and tel aviv about a decade ago news broke that the government was building a bunker here in the hills of jerusalem to the tune of some two hundred million dollars criticism at the time was that the country had survived for fifty years without one and could for another fifty but back then the threat of a nuclear iran was nowhere near where israel's prime minister netanyahu claims it is today the ship was i am not exaggerating when i say the threats are greater than
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ever it is quite possible they have the greatest since the declaration of independence and even since the harsh times during the first decades of this country. no one seen the bunker and it's been very little media coverage of it all that's known is that it can withstand an earthquake biological war or atomic attack it's rumored to have living quarters and command facilities able to accommodate several hundred people it's important that we have such an installation so as to make sure the government is really in shape and can actually operate under any circumstances but gideon spiro doesn't buy the hype he's one of only a handful of israeli anti nuke activists who've been calling on the government to disarm nuclear. both of the corruption. and therefore but the whole country. the clipper per for a charisma. which means that while netanyahu rants and raves he can do so knowing
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full well he has a hideout to sit out the nuclear winter should it come but it's not so simple for the person in the street in case of an extreme situation of a nuclear attack or a severe attack on israel and they're all protected afterwards who are going to be ruling was going to be left around for them to govern on is the question is if every citizen. then there is a bunker can not it's a bunker and that's exactly how diamond times when we he doesn't have a shell to use home and has to rely on this public bunker which is almost always knocked it's always the simple people on the street that pay the price of wars and you know the generals that lead us into them the very little you can do i mean the instructions given by the army to israelis are staying home in a room that does not look towards the east that's the best they can do but it's well known that many of israel's bomb shelters are run down and addicted about
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twenty percent of the population doesn't even have access to one we still have a problem with those that were constructed in the eighty's and seventy's etc etc some of them being strengthened right snow by a special project that to enable us to be more protected but that hasn't stopped one yahoo turning up his rhetoric in recent weeks the irony is that should war begin the man who called for it will be safe in a bunker while his fellow citizens will be left to face it head on. in the hills of jerusalem. the next cars report here funny how it's not more about those who are shaking their fists at the global leaders holding near a summit in northern. the program want to break.
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you know what's worse than a crop bureaucrat who sucks at being corrupt scumbag bureaucrat in veronese russia just couldn't help himself and puts a very hefty charges for services car tracks for road repair and construction in just three years he was able to take enough of a percentage off of these contracts though investigators raided his house he had the equivalent of over three million dollars in russian money on. all over his home news dot mail dot ru claims he had entire laundry hampers and twenty five kilogram sugar sex filled to the brim with blocks first off when someone is this flagrant that means that he thought rather comfortable and not getting caught so there are plenty more of these guys out there but second this is a absolutes left in the face to russia taxpayers who are hungry for new roads i think for instance it's a flagrant in your face obvious crush corruption russia might need to reconsider that moratorium on the death penalty but that's just i mean.
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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report so the central planners are here the activists are here. of course belfast northern ireland a little their aid. stacey herbert max yes people are protesting against the central planners around the world here is the photographic proof of it this is not however anywhere in northern ireland in fact it's in china and these are ten thousand people in china lined up to buy gold and front of a gold shop the buyers are lined up during the three day dragon boat festival so i
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thought to juxtapose this to the protests happening here against the same exact financial and monetary crimes how much more effective it is max to buy gold to be lining up like that instead of holding a plaque card out in the middle of the rain in belfast well this is june is when you brought this to my attention. wow stacy herbert has done her homework on this one because we have two simultaneous events happening around the world we have two groups of people who are really protesting in their own way against the same central planners and central bankers they're both part of the global insurrection against banker occupation here in belfast you've got a group of people with placards are on the street waving them their guitars are playing and they are trying to get the g eight to behave in some other way than they have been behaving for decades.

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