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right here on r.g.p. question more. most of these voices the couple of the law for violence or thefts. from the window climbed in and then tried started. we pushed it a little way here we were drunk. and soon you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless orphans no money to. make money and without me. for
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a moment but there it felt like i was back with those street hooligans are going to beat me up at any moment. as i turn my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden he's there the father you could say that sloven raises us he makes normal people out of ugly duckling. welcome back this is our t. russia became a target of worldwide criticism this week over a recent law against the promotion of homosexuality to get people some l g b t
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activist even cold for the boycott of the sorts of winter olympics while one of russia's most famous athletes spoke out in support of the law saying its bad ground is rooted in the country's history and culture olympic champion of also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors it's on the respect told to our contrary and some respect to our seats isn't because we are russians maybe we are different than european people then there are people from different lands we have our law which everyone have to respect and if some police and if some person who are not and try to make us such a problem as they does. by called the gives because of these because of our law so i think it's unfair front of the. well isn't biased comments drew a widespread media furor a with gay rights activists branding her a homophobe however a bad area squarely from britain it's
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a bow group think tank really is that the olympics should not be turned into an arena for political games billie her english was was slightly broken she clarified what she was trying to say in that nation's travel to international sporting events they should respect the culture of the laws of the host nation and i think that's a subset of the right if you're going to take part in international sporting events as any country i think you have to go there and in recognition of the fact that the country may well be different from your own it's a point of international engagement with russia because there's a there's a major international tournament that's that's going to take place next year i don't think it's appropriate to political views in that forum clearly there are many athletes that feel the same way it's far from just russia we were in beijing in two thousand and eight hopefully we're going to be in qatar in twenty fourteen as well and it's about going to those countries and focusing on the sport not focusing on the differences between the between the culture and laws in those
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countries. in terms coverage of the over gay rinds is being fueled by the upcoming winter olympics in russia and he's now in orissa shape discuss the franzi surrounding a lot with the power of experts. we are an international community bonded by the homophobia that affects all of us and what we have to do is take a stand against the fact that the government is actually preventing education rather than propaganda that is desperately needed feel people who are growing up lesbian and gay growing up with prejudice this cause this day it causes distress anti gay bullying is terrific but it also is deep in issues because of the huge fines it imposes an organization and individuals who even mention gay rights but i'm going i just you know i constantly as a journalist here in suicide put you know i constantly as a journalist here go on about gay rights in russia and i on this channel i've
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spoken various networks around the world about this i've not been penalized or find out or i'm just trying to give the people at home the reality of the situation here i posted on facebook on saturday probably about obviously the protests and as as. journalists here i know the reality of life and i just wanted to put to stop the styria you know it doesn't snow all year around there's a simmering active thriving gay community in russia and indeed in sochi where i was filming the last week and there is one that i just wanted to actually give my calm humble mature opinion regarding gay life in russia and i was nothing short of i was assassinated for a for having possibly you know you know pro you know thoughts on russia which is seen as as evil russia want to talk about a political commentator. there london as well as the recent levada poll recently saying that more than half of russian support the law and conservative traditions alexander your thoughts on that well i think first of all i've been asking some
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people here what is it exactly that british athletes are playing to do in sort of other going to. gay lifestyles are they going to compete they're actually in the games themselves but that may tell you something about the league. the lord be here and the game will be as well we've. none none the existing debate about the gay marriage same sex marriage the debate was suppressed by the liberal elite nobody was allowed to say anything the moment you questioned you know whether it's a wise thing to do you were immediately accused of being called before i think it's done for the gay community to realize you can prevent the people for having their own views and in london you know of what those who own computers and i think it's total in total it's by the gear by the liberal elites that know to lead this political correctness has turned into censorship all of the countries and i think
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this gets forgotten have signed in a lympics charter which states that there is no kind of demonstration or political religious or racial propaganda allowed to any olympic sites venues or other areas is the l z b t community going to allow this olympics to become about gay rights and not about the olympics and also what about other minorities that feel like they need to have their say at the olympics how many protests are we going to see we're going to have a gay pride protest and then a protest about western countries that want russia to intervene in syria and then another protest from the environmentalists they don't think the olympics should be held there at all everyone is going to want to have their say. over landless western media to turn this into a political scandal have now infuriated even russia's leading gay activist he says he won't be talking to western journalists anymore because he's words are being twisted and used to pave the country and a bad light his anger was sparked by an article in britain's guardian newspaper that suggested the russian government plans to take children away from homosexual
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couples. a young chechen man who was killed while being questioned by the f.b.i. my now been shot in the back of the head of while lying face down on the ground the information came from private investigators hired by lawyers for the victim's father because u.s. intelligence is keeping everything under the wraps and he told us the teacher can why he's lashing out at the f.b.i. for trying to cover up the details of his son's killing. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son a brother games tragic death this is the entrance into the condo where twenty seven
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year old lived minutes away from disney world it was here that on may twenty second after reportedly being questioned by officials for hours he was shot and killed by the f.b.i. under circumstances most of which remain murky. from reminiscing about ibrahim as a child who was very much into sports. to looking through graphic images that a parent should never get to see images that will haunt him for the rest of his life which four or five shots right into the heart i've never seen things like this even in the movies not in the u.s. not in russia nowhere. such violence from law enforcement nowhere have i seen anything like this. the morning father's on a mission to uncover the truth behind the f.b.i.'s killing of his son and he's even willing to say. this but i want justice honestly because an unprecedented intentional murder of my son took place.
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ibrahim came to the u.s. in two thousand and eight to study english and ended up staying to pursue a career in martial arts this spring he was questioned in connection with a triple homicide in massachusetts as well as the boston marathon bombings as officials believe the chechen young man had been friends with the deceased suspect a milan sir. the father says the only connection his son had to the tsar knives was a chechen background that had once prompt a. them to exchange phone numbers were given received multiple fatal gunshots to the heart and head during the night of the questioning the f.b.i. claimed a violent confrontation took place but has been blocking autopsy results from going public some reports suggested breggin was armed with a knife others a broomstick but there are also claims that he was not armed at all demands from the american civil liberties union and the council on american islamic relations for florida authorities to hold an investigation were declined while the f.b.i. claims to be conducting an inquiry of its own as with now they would never be able
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to prove his guilt in anything but because they killed him if they kept him alive tried him that would be a whole different story. showing us the postcards from american sending condolences to his family by key hopes those behind his son's killing would show some heart as well. maybe the f.b.i. will have some kind of guilt resurface and it meant that they committed this fatal mistake for several years prior to his death ibrahim was not able to leave the u.s. while waiting to be granted a green card he eventually received permanent residence status and had plans to visit home on may twenty fourth but he died two days earlier. i'll never get tired i'll do what i can i'm just not able to leave this. r.t. orlando florida and i'll be back with weeks headline news in just a few minutes don't go away.
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the amount of enemy. ai a. run of a better job. is actually what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. years later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was
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no evidence of what they did or what they said. most of these voices the couple of the law for violence or theft. of the window climbed in and tried studded. we pushed it a little way here we were drunk. and soon who you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless orphans with no money. to go to without me. for a moment but there it felt like it was bad but those straight to it into could have beaten me up at any moment. as i turned my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden he's there the father you could say that slava raises us he makes normal people out of ugly duckling.
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egypt's violence spiraled with more than eight hundred people killed in clashes between pro and security forces it's been the country's deadliest week since the revolution. and while the us government leaves global condemnation of the violence it stopped short of suspending military aid to egypt worth over a billion dollars a year. also in this week's headlines a saudi prince who has defected from their world family slams a monarchy for widespread human rights abuses and violently cracking down on the opposition and his exclusive interview with r.t. . plus london spying trash cans these wife i waste units are causing a heap of trouble by scaring the smartphones of passers by without their permission .

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