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like not a new center date with greece about to get its next bailout tranche of the cost of thousands of more jobs we report on the deadly addictive nemesis that's thriving on those who've suffered years of raging unemployment. explosions jailbreaks and intransigence over justice post gadhafi libya in june was more deadly chaos while tripoli refuses to hand over the dead leader's son to the hague for trial. and britain considers revealing over one hundred companies accused of paying private investigators to illegally obtain clients personal data as pressure from furious m.p.'s mouths.
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even this is r t it's kevin owen here with me this hour our top story that greece has got its next desperately needed bailout installment approved by the skin of its teeth the money comes at the expense of thousands of public sector jobs though even though promises simyra says his top objectives are in the country's upcoming presidency is quote an economy free from the scourge of unemployment well the rescue load of four billion euros will come from the eurozone the european central bank the i.m.f. so also expected to hand out a further one point eight billion to top it up as well to get the money though athens has to fire four thousand civil servants by the end of the year while twenty five thousand more must be redeployed rescue funds have been crucial for keeping greece afloat for over three years now as financial expert patrick young point so it's not securing the country's flawed economy though. well unfortunately i've always argued that greece was never going to survive as long as it was in bailout
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mode because the difficulty is that you know throwing vodka at alcoholics just tends to make them more alcoholic and it doesn't affect them and improve their overall condition really what greece is always needed to do was to leave the euro and declare bankruptcy it's the only way that it can feasibly restructure what's going on instead what we have is this absolutely mainly arkell situation where in order to manage to stay in the euro we have a series of political forces in western europe who are desperate not to see their law you see political experiment fail and therefore greece is being left just like cyprus just like other countries that have received bailouts like ireland they are being sacrificed the altar of a ludicrous national political statement or supra national political statement more money coming the government's way is cold comfort for the many thousands of greeks left sleeping rough for being lost their jobs homes and families in the past few years increasing numbers of sold solace in what's called the cocaine of the poor.
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and finding out more about that in athens. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed but also on heroin is homeless and has aids he's already tiny chances of getting a job have vanished completely. on the show some start using because they are angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs and up using the needle themselves. every day drugs rock the lives of new people with just one many thought big hit rock bottom it's very cheap he can find that everywhere. and as far as i'm concerned is the worst thing i've done so far. the leaders hit on the greek drug market is making even the most experienced junkies shiver and with a price tag starting from just two year old produce is becoming increasingly
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widespread in the crisis hit me it's. former from battery of cars. very dangerous because they can sleep she's a can either be smoked inhaled or injected together with heroin they are now among the key engines behind the spread of ha been factions there's a great. percentage and. very very health issues. more suze every day n.g.o.s go into the field trying to stop the virus spreading so we're at a drug user spots in one of the poorest districts of athens were asked not to film outside in order not to frustrate anyone since it's morning now in the field and many users still haven't taken the first dose of the day but here the procedure is quite simple the social workers collect used syringes and distribute these alcohol
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wipes some fresh water and syringes for the users to inject but just. we thought being on the street is as low as a drug and it can get we want to investigate this the greek government's radical approach to tackle what's seen as a scourge on society by forcing addicts off the streets and holding them along with prostitutes and illegal immigrants and special detention centers like this facility where up to five thousand people are believed to be kept hidden from the eyes of the public or at one of these camps outside of athens to the amount of security here is a really impressive several lines of gates the wire and lots of security guards in fact one of them has already asked us to leave so we don't really have that much time to film not much time at all we had to stop filming since our local producer told us we were risking our documents and footage to be taken away i did manage to grab a couple of more shots from my phone looks familiar. disappoint
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fierce criticism from human rights organizations greek officials see the populations of these guantanamo lookalikes me soon double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of athens greece. well as europe struggles then to dig itself out of recession britain is now also in danger of losing some of its key assets scotland is set to decide this independence in the u.k. next year added two and a half hours time tonight the country's first minister speaks to us tells us why he thinks it will be much better off without love. i think independence is about control of your finances control fewer resources in the case of oil and nubile resources in scotland but also control of your revenue if you control your revenue and therefore control your spending and how to distribute that revenue more population then you are a genuinely independent country with independence which in the european union scotland would control one hundred percent all of its revenue base would decide how
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to spend its finances currently we have allowed control of less than ten percent of our revenue base in the scottish parliament therefore ten percent is not independence one hundred percent even independence within europe is independence. is focusing on libya for a few minutes now to the city of benghazi particularly which was earlier rocked by two explosions it's also in the grip of violent clashes two between armed rebels and the military at least one soldiers died in the fighting but security forces are now said to be in control the explosions targeted judiciary buildings injuring thirteen people and causing massive damage this is more than a thousand prisoners remain on the run after a massive jailbreak in the same city the prime minister of the transitional government said people living in the area stormed the prison because they didn't want facility in the neighborhood the country struggled to return to stability since the twenty eleven nato backed intervention which toppled colonel gadhafi.
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meanwhile the son of the deposed leader saif al islam is set to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed during the twenty eleven uprising he set for a hearing in libya in august despite the international criminal court's demand that he should be handed over to the hague let's take a look sure we are closer look at the man and his story educated alone than saif al islam was seen as a crucial figure in building relations between libya and the west but that changed in early twentieth when protests broke out against the forty two year old rule one that gadhafi saif al islam his father were accused of crimes against humanity in the ensuing crackdown and the i.c.c. then issued arrest warrant you may recall well just a few months later the libyan leader moammar gadhafi was brutally killed by the rebels against the recall that as well the chief i.c.c. prosecutor confirmed informal talks about the surrender of the younger gadhafi it was eventually captured by the rebel group and apparently had part of his finger amputated libyan authorities wanted a trial in tripoli but the i.c.c. demanded t.
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be handed over to the hague a request which was rejected four delegates from the court were detained in libya for a month after trying to get documents to him get off his son's made two appearances in a libyan court of the i.c.c. is again ruled against libya's efforts to hold the trial by themselves for the latest more on the situation as culture with artie's paula sleep now. although the international criminal court has ruled that libya must extradite safe islam to the hague so that he can face charges of crimes against humanity the libyans won't allow it they want to try him at home nick kaufman who is a former israeli lawyer hired by gadhafi is altec a set says he needs to be handed to the i.c.c. on the basis of a new security council decision and security council gave the international criminal court the mandate to investigate crimes are committed in libya after the revolution the international criminal court carrying out the will and the wish of the international community investigated the matter and issued two warrants for
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arrests one for safely to the suzi if the libyans wish to try these two people that is their right but they have to request. permission to do so from the international criminal court the libyan government has challenged the right of the international criminal court to try safe it argues that the hague based court has no jurisdiction because it only intervenes if the local justice system is not functioning and those ruling libya say that they justice system is operating well but professor who did a warnin who is an expert on the disagreements he says the country is in a state of collapse. i am not sure that it will be right to assume that there is a government in libya today there is no army no police aren't militants are in control even if they give safe a trial the libyans always surprise us so i can't really see how the trial will go i'm not even sure if it will be good and how just an objective it will be the
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question needs to be asked why has safe trial not here begun he's been held captive since november two thousand and eleven and it's not even clear exactly where he's being held when the libyan rebels who are fighting against gadhafi they proclaimed me that he and his family should be court marshaled. now they quiet it does seem as if one fake got into power they believe that the only ones they need to listen to them selves point to see on t.v. television. or judge jones is a lawyer appointed to saif al islam by the i.c.c. he described the conditions as clients being held in civil colleague laurie sushi but earlier. he's being held in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because so much confinement thing any period of time and for a few weeks apart has been shown by scientific studies to be extremely damaging and he's been in that position for twenty months impossible for families to see him and even if they do see him. damon any circumstances where you can speak freely the
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last time you visited by night you see delegation meeting this covertly recorded and so he knows that he knows that he come complains and will get visits about these conditions you can see in the need for his defense because it's being used against him he's going to be prosecuted in addition to the war crimes trials are being prosecuted for basically saying that he wanted to be tried in the hay and exercise his rights without a tro but if indeed saif al islam is actually tried back at home may not be what exactly what do you think he's facing. what he's facing in a show trial. entirely unfair trial a trial in which he's not going to be able to get any defense witnesses to testify on his behalf because they'll be too terrified to test and expandability going to be executed because the penalties carry the death penalty and it's quite clear pronounced by officials in libya that they want to carry out the death penalty if it's imposed despite constant demands from the war crimes tribunal saif al islam is unlikely to ever leave his native country as we've been hearing from
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a four british ambassador to libya. it is that the libyans will not hand him over a lot of good reasons for that. so if. could face two different soldiers of charges he could face charges relating to what happened in the revolution in two thousand and eleven and that's what he would face if he would extradited and handed over to the international criminal court but in addition to that he may well be charged with for example stealing vast amounts of money very large assets have been frozen by both by the security council and by the libyan authorities i think but it's quite possible it will be some some arrangements but he should be tried in libya and those charges which are of interest to the international criminal court the international criminal court would have some kind of role they would have to play some part in the proceedings in libya oh what i think is politically most unlikely in fact i would say impossible is that he would actually be handed over to be tried in the hague. coming up tonight for your reporting of the dangers of the morning
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rush in iraq dozens of kidney just never reach the final destinations after a spate of car bombs went off across the country look at why the nation just can't seem to escape the. broken dreams and sobering reality says the u.s. gone from a country with a belief of ever greater prosperity and upward mobility to one where more and more get by on low wages in jobs that will always be temporary so differently in employment now and in the future be defined as the composition of the u.s. economy. right the same. first rate. and i would think that your. army corps click. on instagram.
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there's a leader so we leave the baby. by the sea bush to secure. your party there's a goal. that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic. hello again britain's considering exposing a list of one hundred two major companies and individuals co paying private investigators to illegally obtained clients personal data although the u.k. serious crime agency knew it was happening it didn't do anything to stop it and m.p.'s a furious is a taste test for silla. banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other
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private firms are on a secret list of clients that have hired private investigators or p i's breaking the law and that these companies have not face any consequences for prosecution now the information of this a list of them passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crime agency or so they said that they submitted their findings to the home office of these illegal practices by two thousand and eight and they had called for government regulation of such practices having said that though there are three successive home secretaries with access to this information and it's been reported that they had failed to act on this now this is caused outrage among m.p.'s in particular who question first of all why this list is being kept secret and second of all why nothing has been donald to stop the practice some of the information that the p.r.i. is had managed to get their hands on include mobile phone records bank statements and details of witnesses under police protection let's get more insight on this
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from professor charlie beckett thank you very much for joining us today so the biggest problem that you see in this issue what would that be well i think there are two main problems one is around transparency why you know these companies have been part of a criminal investigation if the reason is simply because it might impact on you know their share price that seems to me to set a rather dangerous precedent and then from the second concern would be that we've seen in the newspapers in germany. this investigation have been named so there seems to be an inconsistency where wilson's a city conservative party member urged the sec that in the serious crimes agency over the scandal he says laws must be applied equally to everyone. there's been a real reluctance by the police to pursue this now we've got to the stage where the home affairs select committee in parliament has been given the names under very
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stringent terms they're not allowed to put these names out to the public and they have to remain under lock and key so there's a very serious situation whereby the police know about wrongdoing and they're protecting the companies rather than letting them defend themselves to the public in the open we had all the phone hacking incident take place in the last two years and none of those companies news international for example one newspaper closed the news of the world closed completely and the effect of that company in terms of its stock price and had many ramifications so we can't have one rule for one set of companies and another rule for another set. and i've got more indications of how good old fashioned data privacy is becoming a thing of the past across the atlantic jealous too broke the story because prism surveillance system once again sounds the alarm about how easily washington can
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snoop on its citizens and read up more about that. also so the bahrain ban on campaigning in the capital we brought with us today online we investigate whether that will be had enough to stop the angry and dissatisfied making a stand. relentless terrorist violence continues to plague towns and cities across iraq a wave of dozen bombings has left at least sixty people dead and schools more injured baghdad took the brunt of the violence with over twenty people killed and maybe share areas most of the assault simple car bombs has been a recent spike in activity from terrorist groups including al qaida and the ongoing insurgency against iraq shia led government july has become the deadliest month so far this year with over eight hundred ten fatalities dr curtis doebbler is international if you do the right slower pace that he has told us iraq's us government capable of storing stability. taking iraqi have
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a much different phenomena than just al qaeda terrorists i think there i would not deny there are some mixed in who remember there were none in iraq before two thousand and three when the united states itself buys invaded iraq so we brought them there even as the united states government but nevertheless when people turn to that tape of a situation when you have a situation of a proxy occupier people do not reflect the will of the people the government they were not put there by the people there whose government was changed by an outside foreign force then very often you hear of this type of violence and they look for friends wherever they can get assistance and i think when there we have such a situation it is unfortunately very difficult for the government to get to trust or control over its population. in brief tonight egypt two leading figures in the muslim brotherhood been arrested it follows the interim president's decision to grant soldiers the right to arrest civilians after more than eighty people died during weekend protests in support of president mohamed morsi meanwhile the e.u.'s
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foreign policy chief catherine ashton is on a visit to egypt has urged the acting government to end its standoff with the islamist more than two hundred sixty people been killed in street riots since the july third military coup that forced morsy from power. the syrian army's troll over a key rebel held district in the city of homs after a month long offensive lebanese t.v. channels now released footage showing the area lying in ruins after fierce clashes between insurgents and government forces backed by hezbollah militants have been dubbed the capital of the revolution at one point against president bashar al assad the recapture of the district represents a landmark victory them for assad's forces in a civil war that's been raging on for over two years now and has claimed over one hundred thousand lives the vote count on the way mali after its presidential election of the weekend the first since a coup last year saw separatists and jihadist groups take control of the north millions turned out to cast their ballots with the election deemed the promise of
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stability in assurance of peace for the future. took a tour of the war torn country for us. here and then over the country the walls and billboards tell the story of the conflict when emily took over they spot of the country on every road sign they wrote welcome to free as i was somewhere you can still read it then the mugello painted their symbols there is no god except in arabic like letters in a white circle in mali and flag appeared after the governmental forces together with french army liberated this area the fragile peace is now being carefully protected checkpoints cover the region's main routes to filter all those passing through. two ways are also patrolled. we have to verify whether their achievement is among them who want to cross the river. how you decide who is who. jihadists don't have papers and we send to police all those but no documents. the
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stakes are high memories are still fresh in people's minds from the days when religious radicals took over the country's north spreading the extremist laws so in america if you come to the river like this do you had this bit your basic at least sixty times if you are married they take you to your husband and make him buy and they throw you extremists would impose strict rules of modesty on these women without cross the niger river to go to college or the first to be let in mali is north to openly supports the islamists when they first came and provided them with fighters tried to find a family whose children joint there. and al qaeda affiliated group appeared in mali's north last year and began coordinating with the rebellion of the indigenous african tribal to our regs who sought independence but they soon began infighting after rediculus started imposing sharia law why did they come here in the first
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place people in this area are very poor this is why we bring in some so for women and some sweets for kids we visited the chief of the village first the one hundred fifteen year old man says one part of the village strongly supports al qaeda and al qaida divisions are very close hold interpret qur'an to reach them we cross a dried river the soil in mali is north is far from fertile the land is not generous to people farming here we get to a female part of the village and the first house we come across what looks like a women's club the ladies here differ from those women make it on the other side of the river front we cover ourselves because this is our tradition our religious tradition we protect our whole bodies to talk with men we go to a male part of the village we see to the most influential of them to hear their story if they brought weapons and we didn't have a choice but to be one man confesses his teenage son was inspired by outsiders
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before he was. brought to mali in jail they behaved in a dignified manner and were never involved in looting but they showed respect to the corner but also they had money that looks very attractive to poor people like us then came up flat out if the government provides local people who jobs. and more immune to the islamists we'd speeches or would you please explain who are these people and from where they come they're not from here but we don't know their nationalities we repeat the question to the mayor of gown one of the biggest cities in mali is north and the percent of deadly clashes during the crisis moved out who are now. in a city from afghanistan algeria we do have mauritania but they spent eleven months here and they recruited a local from a course of three million this is the conflict now over the conflict madame has started. but it's far from over when i wave back
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a sense told begins clouds of dust cover villages and cities peace in this region seems to be as trendy and as blue skies on a sunny day you may think it will remain that way tease for some time but you can never be sure. from mali whether to know the results of that vote as well now ukraine's well itself to align whether to go with russia's regional trade bloc or to push for closer ties with the new the former soviet republic wants cheaper russian gas but it also craves greater cooperation with its western partners to it's a dilemma for their marty's business presenter ways of the options. as you can see just here it really is stuck in the middle ukraine faces a choice either go for the option of a customs union with russia or go for the european free trade zone now if you crane chooses to go westward it will become part of the world's biggest trading block but
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the question is whether it will be what the country would be expected to spend money in order to meet european standards for infrastructure the environment and the quality of their good past ukraine enjoys oil and gas discounts due to their close relationship with russia if the country enters the e.u. then they would be expected to pay the same price as the rest of the e.u. countries now trade with russia is expected to decrease by up to two billion dollars annually as a result on the other hand is the option of joining the customs union this will leave trade with the e.u. at the same level that it is now at the same time boosting exports to russia up to an estimated ten billion dollars annually so economically the situation seems pretty clear however on the political side of things if ukraine is ready to pay the price they get the e.u. stamp of approval for better or for worse. ok to be with us now
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exactly twenty minutes per se tonight moscow time with more americans trying to get by on the minimum wage we ask will the u.s. ever face recovery is that across talk right after this break. i got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to four progressives dot com the texas department of public safety demanded that any women entering the state senate hand over any tampons or pads before entering wow so why would they do this are they really that scared that some terrorists are playing a sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news at yahoo dot com the official
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reason is that they're afraid of people using projectiles as a form of protest against a law that would really restrict abortions oh well no i kind of see where you abortion is an issue that people really get furious over now it kind of all makes sense but wait wait wait wait what's that they're afraid of projectiles but people with guns were allowed to take them into the senate are you kidding me i think the second amendment does a lot more good than harm by i think it goes without saying that for women to concealed carry their hygiene items they should need a permit or permission from anyone but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome across the aisle for all things considered i'm here.
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