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proof or persuasion germany reportedly says it to house phone intercepts suggesting the syrian government ordered the use of chemical weapons last month out of desperation. and while critics accuse germany of just trying to back america's push for war against syria we report from damascus on just how worried people are at the prospect of u.s. strikes. there's still no plan on what to do with america's most infamous jail in afghanistan a facility so dark that former detainees say kuantan amount was a holiday camp compared to. and shouting to be heard a london street performer with a booming voice and an eye for controversy could have been megaphone ripped from his hands by the authorities.
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brushing our teeth live from moscow island to france. berlin has joined the clamor to convince the world that it was syria's president who ordered a chemical weapons attack outside damascus last month german media reports suggest the country's spies have intercepted calls and communications which point directly to the syrian leadership artie's peter all over has examined the evidence. what we've seen in reported in the ago is that the head of the german security services get hired schindler held a meeting with top brass within the bundestag the main political movers and shakers to talk about what intelligence germany had regarding chemical attacks on syria now a lot of what's come out from this is stuff that we have. revelations from other
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countries particularly the united states now disregard facts like the only according to this information only assad could have carried out these attacks due to the fact that only assad has the the equipment and the training in order to have his soldiers carry out such attacks also that they say that it was a siren news nerve gas they base this on interceptions made on doctors who have treated patients and they say this the symptoms that those patients had were similar to those that you would find of somebody who had been the victim of a sarin gas attack also they place the number of dead from the chemical attack in syria around the one thousand four hundred mark all of those things things that we've heard before what is interesting from this one is one bit of information that's come out of the guarding intercepted telephone call reportedly between one senior hezbollah and somebody at the iranian embassy now according to the
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intercepts it says that the hezbollah are official it said it sounded lost his nerve and made a huge mistake by ordering this attack now the politicians they want to keep their american allies happy they want to keep showing support for the united states however they also want to keep the people here in germany happy there has been huge unrest and unhappiness about any possibility of germany getting involved in any kind of military intervention in syria last week we saw the foreign minister. no he issued a statement through the foreign ministry in english in which he said germany will be among those calling for action to be taken well that statement lasted one hour before attraction was given they cited the fact that it was it was muddled in translation and a far more watered down version of germany and angela merkel indeed is playing a very very interesting balancing game between keeping her allies happy and keeping
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the german electorate happy of course ahead of that general election in just a few weeks time we spoke to a german journalist menu oxon writer who finds it hard to believe that by land allegations have nothing to do with america's push to justify military action in syria. very concise are starving for credibility for this german and i especially germany and the german secret service turned out to specially during the last weeks by this huge and it's a scandal to be type of branch of the u. s. intelligence so it looks like the us intelligence and the german intelligence delivered and this is now just in time barack obama and much more old school chung carry on are starving for credibility in the syria case so they have the problem that not even their own population not even their own political class is believing this what is called every them spy that you would somebody can see the same in
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europe the general opinion is strongly critical against those allegations of chemical warfare by president assad in syria. and following an american and german footsteps france has released its own report which accuses the syrian government of using chemical weapons on three other separate occasions as r.t. dot com for more details. america's top diplomat says congress is not the last word when it comes to america's ambitions to attack syria u.s. secretary of state john kerry believes there is evidence enough to allow the president to launch an assault even if lawmakers say no but after years of constant war and killing it's not the strikes that scare syrians the most as artie's maria fanaa reports from damascus. we were last time in damascus a year ago now we returned and we decided to meet some of the people we've previously interviewed for our report but sadly many of them have either fled the
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chaos or were killed one of those who died was hamad rafia yon very successful very famous actor who was also another and activist he chose wards to defend his country and he was killed for that part of our. earth. the movie was her we met muhammad in july two thousand and twelve during the filming of one of the most popular syrian t.v. dramas where he played one of the lead in roles. in series used to be financially backed by the gulf states but after the conflict erupted here those countries vocal critics of the assad regime was drew investment from an industry that's made syria famous across the arab world they want to fight everything good in syria they don't want us to be. shows our drama to the work the shows our history or the way we live the way we love each other their way with
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taking care of each other's that's why they stopped they stopped they are fighting us actually. exactly ten months after mohammed's death we meet his brother knew. daniel. that evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad would help this boy a lot because he was poor then nine people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him the next day with an anonymous tip that he'd been killed in his body had been cut into pieces but we didn't believe that it was only a civilian we thought why would anybody killing several days later his body was found shot i want to. us. he was killed with three bullets one to his leg one to the stomach and one to his neck on wood. now this is.
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not such a welcome with a letter during the kidnapping they want to take him alive to torture in order to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that al-jazeera of course the p.l.o. out of money for that sort of thing like that he resisted to the death but you're. right that she comes back and they too can they also took his car it's common that such cars a leader used in terror attacks i think three weeks ago we got news there's been a car bombing and that was muhammad's car though you. know your brother died ten months ago exactly ten months ago i want to say that we very sorry for your loss why you think he was killed what he died for he talked openly about what he thought. paul did the live here in searing damascus change in the last ten months and that may not must i shot him with after mohamed stance many people who supported the opposition changed their minds they knew that he was very kind and
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help people all people regardless of their beliefs so when he died they ask themselves what are the people who belong to the opposition doing if they kill innocent civilians and some of them are nothing more than criminals. and speaking about the latest developments what do you think about a possible airstrike that america is now planning considering is now thinking over what i smile when they tell me about the american attack and that we syrians are only afraid of god we're not afraid of us. thank you very much for your time we wish you and your family actually your country peace and prosperity and as soon as possible new showed us another this time empty grave the cemetery the boy's father who is also well known activists in damascus has one who deserved. from damascus syria. the u.s.
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navy is building its presence around syria ahead of a u.s. congressional debate later this month on whether or not to strike five u.s. destroyer is loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship or in the mediterranean they have been joined by an aircraft carrier group that's now in the red sea to support the attack on syria if ordered these super carrier u.s.s. nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world more than three hundred meters long it's powered by nuclear reactors and has ninety planes and helicopters on board its accompanied by five smaller warships armed with tomahawk cruise missiles meanwhile some u.s. servicemen have joined the chorus of those against america's possible military for a that's judging by images loaded uploaded on social media people wearing military uniforms are seen posing in front of cameras with posters saying they did not join up to fight for al qaeda in syria those pictures cannot be verified but the
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pentagon is reportedly looking into the identities of those involved marine veteran gordon duff told r.t. that u.s. troops are against supporting syrian rebels because of the extremists in their ranks. fifty to seventy percent of americans are clearly opposed to up. against syria and members of the military particularly the last five thousand killed fighting the same groups in iraq that we are advocating that we support in syria so members of the military from either side and there are clear divisions in the military both the left and the right none of them have any reason to want to support syrian rebels president obama has got himself painted into a corner there is no way out. and we'd like to hear from you about what's happening in syria on our web site we're asking what the end game may look like if the u.s. does launch strikes right now more than half of you think
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a devastating region wide conflict will break out quite a few of you think libya is a blueprint for what could happen next fifteen percent believe washington would hit out at syria on its own and just a small number agree any strike would be short and precise stay with us after the break for more international news including a human rights no go zone at present and the man who shouts from his own soap box in the center of london.
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speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks of the r.p. interview intriguing story. arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. watching our two live from moscow islands in france u.s. troops may soon be heading home but there's still no plan on what to do with the ground jail dubbed guantanamo bay's sister prison the facility cites heyday in the
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early stages of the war on terror gaining a reputation of torture and abuse and currently hold sixty seven foreigners men the u.s. says are too dangerous to let go but not guilty enough to punish artie's arena go go report on what the future holds for bob graham. some call the program prison a second guantanamo although in reality it was established just before the detention center in cuba and at one point housed twice as many inmates at the height of the u.s. war in afghanistan but these are just details the two really could be called sister jails just like guantanamo bay graham is used to detain people apprehended in the u.s. war in terror and has been around for more than a decade the detention centers have both had their fair share of scandals surrounding the conditions in which the prisoners are held and the way they are treated humiliation of inmates by u.s. personnel physical and emotional abuse allegations of torture you can really sign off the checklist as you go for both prisons and of course the biggest common trait
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inmates in so-called administrative detention that's people who were arrested but never received a court trial they've been behind bars for years and will stay there for no one knows how long sure american officials insist some of detainees at bagram a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old business of terrorism the minute there is such free and just look at guantanamo there are prisoners of program who have already been cleared for release and yet remain in jail sixty seven of them for more than a dozen different countries and no one knows what to do with them again sounds very familiar doesn't it however things that bug rome are slightly more complicated than i told him oh by the fact the facility has actually been handed over to the afghan government which was deeply unhappy about having a foreign operated jail on its soil to begin with as soon as couple took full control of the ground in march it either transferred or released prisoners what to do with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain in what to do with the
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u.s. because some allege the americans are still very present program fearing that are going to fish will release inmates that the u.s. sees as a threat to its security and not going to fishel strongly dislike having these foreign detainees in their custody so far no solution has been provided by any side involved in this day and in fact one top american military general has confessed that there is absolutely no plan on how to deal with the detainees at bagram so the stalemate looks set to drag on. between bob graham and guantanamo bay begg spent three years being churned through america's terror program he told us what he saw including allegations of people literally being beaten to death amongst the things that i witnessed was prisoners being beaten in two cases actually physically to death one of the techniques they used to use was to hold us into common or soles our hands were tied above our heads to the top of the cage for punishment or for
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discipline a hood would be closer placed over our heads and we would be left there sometimes for hours on end and in this way i saw at least one person getting beaten so badly that it was that he was beaten to death and weren't even allowed to get up to walk we weren't even allowed to pray in congregation if we didn't comply with the orders would simply be taken to the front of the so what are the isolation cells and they would be physically tortured and i was during one interrogation i remember very clearly being interrogated by the cia with my hands tied behind my back to my legs and in the next room there was a sound of a woman screaming that they led me to believe was my wife being tortured and at the same time they were waving pictures of my children in front of me asking me what do you think has happened to them where do you think they are right now suggesting that they were also in custody and this is the sort of place but graham was it was a terrible place and it was a place where i believe quite categorically that murder took place at the hands of u.s. soldiers for my part it was worse than quanto in fact by the time i'd finished being
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a prisoner in bagram for almost eleven months i was actually looking forward to going to guantanamo. author and journalist yvonne ridley visited guantanamo but wasn't even allowed through the front door of barbara in jail she says given its dark history it's up to the afghans to wipe the slate clean. i have been into guantanamo with a film crew and was given access but i never got past the front door and background background there is still a mystery we still don't know exactly what has happened we know that there have been atrocities carried out human rights abuses carried out by the americans the afghan leadership should do a lot of things but it strings are being pulled by washington which is why only now and again you will hear. aggressive soundbites about american
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interference but really president cause i should now be you seen his muscle demanding to take over the whole running of. and left the afghan authorities deal with what is actually happening in background. the world's top whistle blower julian a song strikes back he believes the crackdown on his wiki leaks website was unlawful and filed a legal complaint as he marks a thousand days under house arrest or held up holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy more on that story or website. and russia's far east remain underwater as one of the region's main cities wages a major war against letting see the footage of devastation that are to dot com.
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today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. he's got a megaphone lots of opinions and he's become a feature on oxford street in london where he yells his political commentary of shoppers walking by but now the local council is bringing rabble rouser daniel shying to task they say he's simply too loud parties polly boy meets the man who's not afraid to shout about what he believes in. johnny shines got an unusual addiction the father of three likes to take his mega fame to central london and talk to pass' by about things like why wait here i'm the perils of consumerism actually i'm. forty five. i'm
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ready i'm. ok. right now my i want to call it stream of consciousness. definitely call it bubble but i really. yeah i do think the spoken word form of earlier this year westminster council confiscated danny's megaphone and summoned him to court. well what are you looking for in life are not your right also to carry off talking or think if you really didn't think about. the you know this is go up they go up they hated it so it is illegal. to push every one of them lives danny's being prosecuted for breaking a by law banning anyone from making any noise which is so loud or so continuous over peterhead as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to other persons not as it was not somehow i think the way his message was. presenting
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this is more than just about public speaking it's about his human rights but freedom of expression to me he should really shut up now doesn't that threaten freedom of speech in a country that is the current that is the problem getting it's good for the passive consumers as you and i to a free our minds from the perpetual consumption of consumerism but i saw you complaining about the decibels a little earlier the most concern is my subconscious self coming out of my mind it's like you're in a dream i mean i'm here to make a pretty penny mug and is like raining on my parade many i'm afraid for some fans their families a ray of sunshine. i mean you're great at the like you know but we do but you know you know you well you know you are going through that you have a crush on him nor like i have a crush on him but just like he's beautiful a lot he's going was like a bad boy he cares about danny's jewing cool way he said to argue that the
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westminster council of prosecuting him and infringes his human rights. groups of her. are actually took effect for years of service research. i didn't. write the mention of a private conversation but i think i think it's completely wrong because if they do manage to porn in that way it's not going to stall i mean we're all just going to be suppressed into not talking not speaking you know i just think that's going to be a bad thing so they don't need to donate to keep the flag for a revolution and while westminster city councils have told us that their conflict with dani is merely a question of decibels danny shine is planning to get even louder so i had the resources one day i'd be quite require knowledge to go with it like a really good u.i. system and there any really nice boy you know would be to review maybe. ten people in transition are still around yes i know it's. some other international headlines
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in brief now bahrain has announced it will host the prominent headquarters of the pan arab court of human rights allowing arab league following arab league approval the move is presented by the government as a need for work towards protecting human rights in the region but was labeled a p.r. stunt by activists the country's rulers had been repeatedly accused of a crackdown on the opposition and now critics fear the court could become a political tool in the hands of the king. some three hundred supporters of the alternative for germany party have staged an anti-government election rally in dusseldorf they called on chancellor angela merkel to resign and for the euro to be abolished the party believes germ. these continual bailing out of other e.u. nations has put its own economy at risk. japan will spend five hundred million dollars to get the fukushima nuclear crisis under control the main problem the government faces right now is ongoing leaks of radioactive water which have caused
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a sharp spike in radiation levels around the plant some of the tanks leaking contaminated water have been found but experts say there are more. it's not just edward snowden who is unveiling the spy tactics used to keep an eye on americans apparently he even even catching a cab allows it to know your every move find out more in the kaiser reports at seven thirty am g.m.t. . you know it's all about drones and helicopters in this day and age my own little personal drone found a lost on the tenth avenue. there this is what happens to america. all right stacie this is the n.y.p.d. secret spy cab and enemies within the new book from pulitzer prize winning associated press report is matt puzo and adam goldman on the n.y.p.d. indiscriminate and probably illegal spying program references briefly made to
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a real yellow cab complete with an authentic taxi medallion registered under a fake name used by the department's intelligence division to conduct surveillance operations it's not a war on terrorists not about security it's about getting people in a position to sell stuff i'm sure that before long when you get into an excellent taxi based on the spine of the customers the guy driving the cab will turn back and say hey buddy i notice from your facebook page that you like schlitz malt liquor would you like the twenty four hours i go until you're sick for nine bucks you know on the go on the avon lady on crack avon lady gone while there was an avon lady everard selling everything i mean so be sold that's america the business of america is a business and big data is helping us get there you want to be spied on. just after the break we meet the russian man who gave a home to thirty orphans stay with us on our take.
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many gay bars are starting to refuse to sell russian vodka as a means of protesting the homosexual propaganda laws in russia as i've said before boycotts are great we. to put pressure on people but are they putting pressure on the right people not only is it racist to assume that hurting the vodka flow will deal a massive blow to the russian economy but it is also racist to think that any vodka with a russian sounding name is itself russian and many videos angry gay bartenders were pouring stolichnaya vodka which should be pronounced by the way onto the ground in a fury but if those bartenders would take a closer look at the labels they would see that exported stoli is produced and bowed in latvia by the s.p.i. group not in russia also according to the n.p.t.
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group beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smeared off which is british owned and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself we do support the american worker people love to panic over the hip and trendy scandal of the month but everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that homosexuality itself is legal in russia and is punishable in many other countries including a death sentence in some of them and yet russia gets all the attention if people really wanted to effectively boycott any country with any laws even hinting against homosexuality they would have to hit them where it hurts and stop getting natural resources imported from countries like russia saudi arabia venezuela and iran and so on and so on that is a vastly more difficult proposition than pouring american made vodka onto the sidewalk but that's just my opinion.
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