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six months of starvation one tunnel god the save the hunger strike is on the way but to desperate prisoners a day again despite repeated force feeding and invasive body searches. tough times for the u.k. you know we look at the plight of jobless young brits to hear softer violent riots robbed london and other parts of the country. graphic footage supposedly showing a militant attack on a kurd village in syria it surfaces on the internet as reports claim four hundred fifty kurdish women and children are killed.
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it's just gone possum a day here in the russian capital you're watching our live from all international news with me to say. it's now a year since guantanamo prisoners began their hunger strike the u.s. military says that the self-imposed starvation protest is waning because inmates have been eating off to dusk as is tradition in the holy month of ramadan a painful force feeding procedures and invasive body searches are still part of the daily routine for many of the president's here's a washington correspondent can achieve them. every day in guantanamo it's groundhog day whether you're a guard or a prisoner that's how one officer described life would get mail every day's the same as the last and there is no escape for many inmates it's a painful routine routine that includes regular searches and force feeding twice a day for those who are on hunger strike the latest account from the prison comes from a british resident named shakur aamer has been held for eleven years of good will never charged with any crime shuckers been on hunger strike since january has also
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refused to leave his cell he writes i have said what i want to do just sit there for a week doing nothing just sitting it's about as nonviolent non-problematic protest as you could imagine but they won't let me do it so the forcible cell expression ting carries him out of the cell his hands and feet in shackles to a special place where they perform a search a pat down which armor and other inmates call the good moments song they flip me over for the surge mostly that's just an assault sometimes a sexual assault we call it the get my message they carry me like a second for teachers which is really painful for me. guantanamo officials actually responded to our inquiry about chuck ramos allegations by saying we don't comment on any detainee allegations made through their defense attorneys regardless of how ridiculous and absurd the allegations might be by saying this quantum officials may
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be suggesting the trucker's allegations are ridiculous and absurd could be but nonetheless ignore has a history of torture and abuse which washington has tried to cover up by hiding behind state secrets privilege if you listen to the officials you're led to believe life would get more was not so bad the inmates can watch cable t.v. their welfare and force feeding is not as bad as it sounds no matter what the un says after all they use a lubricant to shove the feeding tube down the detainees nostrils to make sure the detainees don't resist of course they struck them to a chair on the receiving end that is on the detainees and is of course a completely different story they report pain humiliation and despair that's their routine in washington i'm going to check them went on a mobile is already the world's most expensive prison but new data from the u.s. defense department shows the bill is running even higher than previously thought now the facility opened in two thousand and two and its overall price tag will top
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five billion dollars by next year keeping one hundred sixty six inmates house at the prison means u.s. taxpayers are picking up a tab of over a million dollars every single day one ton of ink is located in cuba so the u.s. has to spend plenty of cash on shipping food materials and flying in personnel here's how the total tab breaks down for this year with a big share of the spending allocated to prison staff and security guards another large chunk of taxpayers' money is funding goes to maintaining a high security wall court keeping the prison running the law seems to serve as a recruitment tool for terrorists worldwide that's what the senior counterterrorism counsel for human rights watch told us. probably how with one tunnel that as long as it remains open as long as the u.s. engages in this eleven years plus regime if you go to tension then terrorists will continue to have a very powerful tool for recruitment in order to say to young to survive to manage
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throughout the affected regions look at what the united states is doing to your brothers look at what the united states claimed it would stop doing because of course the manning one time on people around the world you know that president obama pledged to close guantanamo was in one year of taking office and that was four and a half years ago and there is now closure and there's a very simple way to close it down and that's either prosecute people for hunger sufficient evidence of crimes in legitimate courts like the u.s. federal courts and release the others that has always been the way to close guantanamo. now the prisoners began refusing food to because of they are being treated without charge and are being treated with a humane now the u.n. agrees with them and they released this statement stating that holding prisoners without charge as a violation of international law and also a cruel inhumane degrading treatment the force feeding off one ton of the inmates
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has also drawn they're saying such procedures aren't acceptable justified and should not be used against anyone who's voluntarily decided to go on a food protests on the un special rapporteur for torture also try to find out about the conditions of the inmates firsthand but he told us that the pentagon only offered him a very limited top of the facility. unfortunately i was not allowed to visit my town obey at least not in the terms that i have to apply under the rules that i subject to i did get invited by the pentagon but on conditions that i couldn't accept because conditions was that i would see only the parts of the prison that they wanted to show me and specifically that i could not have individual meetings with within maids they claim that they can only give me the same terms that they give united states legislators for example or that they give
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jordan a list or other visitors but i am to speak the united nations special rapporteur on torture and the terms of visits to detention centers but i apply have been approved by the human rights council so i'm not asking the united states to give me any preferential treatment but i also cannot give the united states preferential treatment by. president obama still hasn't raised guantanamo bay despite promising to do so several times this is his first election campaign back in two thousand and eight r.g.p. little commentators some sags are told breaking the sets why he thinks the president still open. i think the most pressing question when it comes to guantanamo right now is you know twelve years on all the rhetoric that we've heard from the obama administration all this talk for years now that it needs to be closed you know what's keeping this facility open certainly there's a lot of blame to put on the obama administration but we also have to go back and
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look at the bush administration because this was created under the bush administration in two thousand and two and it was created and dick cheney openly says this they wanted to put a facility off u.s. soil so that they can get around certain rights that these detainees would have if they were on u.s. soil and also the bush administration committed torture to get a lot of this information a lot of the detainees here so here we are twelve years later president obama is afraid that if you release of these people they might commit some terrorist act in the future really that's not a way to govern out of fear the rest of these detainees are people who the government feels that they have a strong case against that they've done something wrong but none of the evidence they've gathered is permissible in court so they can't exactly hold them to this normal trial so instead they're just leaving them there indefinitely it's poor planning was shortsighted planning to create this facility and there was just fear that's keeping it open.
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plan to mow issues covered in breaking the set to which is here at eleven thirty g.m.t. now we've also been monitoring the guantanamo hunger strike since they started at the beginning of february and we've chronicled it all for you on our web site an r c dot com has a timeline that one ton of mine we've got all the latest updates plus firsthand prismatic columns and reaction and expert analysis of what's going on at the notorious within the team. right from the scene. first for you and i think that you're. when our reporters were there in. the. now two years since the violent riots erupted in london and other cities and towns
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across the u.k. and britain's youth still feels left behind now with the government pressing on with cuts thousands of young people are falling into long term joblessness what's more the seeds were sown long before the unrest in twenty levon youth unemployment has been rising steadily since two thousand and two the figure has almost doubled in the last nine yes' and currently stands at almost a million meaning that one in every five brit aged sixteen to twenty four dawned have jobs and the number of those not studying is also on the rise according to the universities and college admissions services at the occasions from age students are at their lowest in the past four years this as a to wish and fees have tripled in two thousand and twelve hour for as met my own brit who took part in the riots of two years ago to find out if anything's changed . everyone. wants the police
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that's what it was i mean charlie at his council house it's been almost two years since his arrest and imprisonment as a result of his participation in the london riots he received a six month sentence for theft but to charlie the impact of his actions have lost it far longer you would think that. you know where. this thing. doesn't make your. world view about its big government. i would never. kill these one of these he would have been dumped in the aftermath of the rioting with the barrel you've also probably courtney met with many young people who got
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caught up in the violence and her new book seeks to bunk what she says is an isolating and stigmatising title i have to talk to deliberately because i knew it would be the phrase that gets used by politicians by the media to describe well often to describe young people in general which is just complete myth very unfair and inaccurate almost one hundred percent of the time the motivations behind the riots were complex but the basic economics play a key part in the rich poor divide in every free moment and the poor kind of thing and the thing that you know that being left behind that was a phrase i heard in my research a lot you know we're being left behind and so i think it might be the start of something more i don't think the problems of going away haven't gone away then we're going to see more more trouble until the things start to get results but the spark that started the riots largely. tributed to the sheeting and killing by police of a man named mark duggan here in the london borough of tottenham and two years on
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and friends and family is still awaiting an inquest expected in mid september but as they wait for on thursday many questions still remain over the ensuing violence some putting it down to mindless criminality others to deep rooted social problems that many feel guilt have not been dealt with indeed youth unemployment in the cave remains that crisis levels latest figures show that nearly a million people between the ages of eighteen and twenty four rounds to work. i'm never going to join in because i was so drunk i think for me i didn't think going off and. still in a country close to home trumps i'm still looking for work so i'm going off. as i was performing in jail. and with a criminal record. at the time of the riots the prime minister described the behavior of people like charlie as mindless criminality pure and simple you often
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need to. listen to us more because we live in the last basically in the slums we haven't got nothing so they need to sort of listen to us and. of course and maybe what we need or what we want not necessarily what we want what we need and what might help us if they become who is in front of you right now what would you say to him that you think people need right now to help you save more you've crops and morphing subdued maybe more funding to do things he says he's going to do this and that to help people well when we're going to be given. winds of hope there's all this talk about this and there's no. semen on the. surface i see london. well stories ahead for your hay on archie including the turkey child too good tale of a few. thousands of demonstrators as
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a court hands prison terms to lawyers. on the general on that in a few minutes just to this quick break. if you. economic down in the final. day for the new york and the rest because i was doing the case you will be if we told me.
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he knew. full. well staying with us here on our t.v. militants in syria have apparently killed four hundred fifty kurdish civilians it's been reported along with unverified horrific footage by name ronnie news channel which has claims that one hundred twenty. children were among those slaughtered now the other three hundred thirty victims are said to be women it's believed gunmen
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affiliated with the radical militant group are tagged villages in a kurdish dominated region on in northern syria so if i know of a governmental the rebels have confirmed the reports and we cannot verify the stabbing footage it's showing people being torched alive now meanwhile two hundred civilians are from two kurdish villages are being held hostage by an al qaeda linked group now militants launched an assault on our own as well as a tal has soul who are not abducted away killed while others were forced to leave the violence has been spiraling in the region with kurds gathering volunteer fighters to stand against terrorists adam simo from the kurdish democratic union party says the ultimate goal of his legs behind the attacks is to expel all the kurds from syria the most serious thing is the. group in the. state of iraq and syria there are more dangerous
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and more serious threat after the kurds have declared to. expel all the characters from syria they started to. terrorizing the civilian people pulling the people mostly you have to use your house and the way that we're going to expel you all of you we allow to take what ever we carry and what ever we want to do. kurds in turkey gathered near the syrian border in solidarity with kurds in syria fourteen victims to jihadists attacks that were protests ended in violence with police firing teargas at stone throwing crowds at least one person is injured and twelve arrested. but as one of the foreign minister claims the league spy u.s. whistleblower edward snowden confirmed want his country suspected long ago he is
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what. was so exclusive to artie's a spanish channel had to say. when a woman. we had always strongly suspected the u.s. was carrying out surveillance across the world it will be america excuses its nuclear activities by saying it's based on legislation and congress gave its approval along with the supreme court or the government to simply put it into effect but there are a lot of ethical questions as to how this program is being implemented in regard to society in this case the rights of u.s. citizens are being abused and besides we also see that the program involves other nations who are not obliged to abide by american laws this is what makes it all very serious that us. now a nearly three hundred people have been convicted of plotting to overthrow the turkish government the verdict in the five year long landmark trial soul of the head of the army lawyers i could i makes and journalists get long prison terms some of them jailed for life thousands joined in the protests and against the verdict
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and clash with police the slamming the trial as a witch hunt international relations professor mark ailment from bill can to university says that the turkish government fears a military pala grab similar to what happened in egypt. on the one hand you have the charge that there's a deep state military intelligence christmassy against the prime minister but the prime minister's supporters certainly seem to feel that there's a deep plot against them organized by security forces not just in turkey the last few months we see this dramatic shift in the middle east which is why i think they feel particularly vulnerable they see the muslim brothers in egypt who they see very much as just a party. pushed out of power they feel that the americans and europeans are tolerated i think in the encroaching government circles in our party circle say fear that although this particular case got going some years ago now the threat for what very perceived as the secularist military alliance against them could have indorsement from our side i former u.s.
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servicemen are switching sides to join and the bad guys are live reports on how more and more working for mexico's drug cartels as hit men and trainers and the f.b.i. says that their recruitment is set to increase. and it's revealed that boston bombing suspect to madeleine and i have had been reading white supremacist literature before the attacks get the full story at our dot com. now there's a more news making world headlines this hour three people have been shot dead at a town council meeting in pennsylvania in the united states and armed men blasters through the wall of a municipal building an open fire witnesses say a local official then titled the man before shooting him with his own gun police have confirmed the suspects arrests but have declined any further comments. massive flooding has struck a north western province in china downpours left residents stranded and traffic at
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a standstill excavators and really the way called in to help with the extensive damage a series of floods and landslides has forced messing regulations for over a month now. police have you. the water cannon to disperse a protest against a new security bill in the chilean capital a legislation aimed to introduce harsher penalties for demonstrators who attacked police peaceful demonstrations were being targeted if they cause disorder in public places she has been assumed to frequent and student protest most of them a peaceful small groups of people have been known to try and attack these with rocks and petrol bombs past. a kidnapping in southwest pakistan has left a fourteen day five year calls were held up in a fake a road block in insurgent plea. by rebels disguised as police they took twenty three people hostage but a firefight broke out with local security forces leaving half the victims did
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a separate attack early on tuesday destroyed power transmissions lines in the same area. epic are ridiculous and downright bizarre some of the words used to describe footage from the dish board mounted cameras in russians cause the death camps catch everything from driving offenses to me tears and they're breaking up the years on you tube our teens lindsay france takes a look. if it wasn't for this we would never have seen this the eleven thousand ton media that impacted chelyabinsk in february the video was breathtaking the world asked when did russia become the authority on the so called dash cams george fetch nick off says we have russian roads to thank there so bad that proving he isn't negligent in a crash can be tough without one two weeks ago i. was in the
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accident it wasn't my fault it was just their problem with their old. record from. me to say that it's not my fault it's not just the roads it's also scams like this one people throwing themselves at cars to collect injury money it's a known fact that while driving down the road in russia you never know what might sail past you it could be about a tank. a fighter jet. or even a passenger plane crashing into a highway it's never dull. and it's very often hilarious mostly because it's happening to someone else like this video. i don't like it quite well in the video with. yeah when the guy said oh. yeah people love russian nonchalance when faced with calamity all seriousness aside
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just think of all of the comedy missing from the internet of russian dash cams are made illegal because what makes it so uniquely russian isn't just what's happening on this side of the dashboard but the reaction inside the car when we are playing here and with the sound up i want to learn the russian word for hold. that. in fact the russian reaction seemed so laid back it spawn parities on russian television according to automotive journalist alexander pic langkow these little cameras are now a part of the culture judging by the survey that we conducted of the forty million drivers in this country every ninth one thousand video recorder cording to legal experts who slammed kanata if any lawmaker wants to pass legislation preventing provocative video from being posted online whether for privacy or decency he is
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going to have a tough hill to climb legally but you still can almost get with does congress issue after the city is irrelevant because the document events and public areas so if you find a dash cam video of yourself being laughed at on the news after an epic evening out you may just have to turn the other cheek because this points your collateral damage in moscow lindsey france our team. and up next a look behind the financial headlines to find out what the prime interest they are not see stay with us. wow revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of molotov cocktails flying and crazed crowds
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of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when
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a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us desires but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry. and boring good let's get to today's headlines. h.s.b.c. has a fired at the pope one of the world's largest british banks was actually founded in hong kong and shanghai that's where the h.s. and h.s.b.c. come from but now what they've decided to cancel the accounts that belong to forty consulates and embassies including that of the vatican now this is throwing the diplomatic arena into disarray as they were no forced to appoint another too big to fail bank in britain the questions as always are why why no remember that four to four point two billion dollars fine for the legit be facilitating money laundering
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to let drug drug cartels perhaps h.s.b.c. is just getting ahead of the next proverbial dropping shoe so we will be connecting the dots of the story in the days to come and obama wykes apple the i phone and i pad manufacturer had been barred from importing some of these berry devices after a dispute with samsung before the first time since one nine hundred eighty seven the president overrode it the u.s. international trade commission and vetoed the import and when one considers the lovely money involved the surprise decision to do so surprising up there all from one thousand very did two thousand and twelve combined political contributions of all being a total of nineteen point two million dollars with contributions to democrats surging in two thousand and twelve in stark contrast from one thousand nine hundred two to two thousand and twelve samson was of new york three point eight million dollars and the trend is down in contributions so lesson learned sam.

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