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old free blog video for your media project free media gargi dot com. to billy six rockets launched administer a neon and detected by russia were part of an israeli missile defense test that briefly high tension in a region awaiting for a possible u.s. strike on syria. with american troops preparing to leave afghanistan but good next year washington's challenge to close what's seen as one of the violence prison facilities back and said it's so dark it makes it's not look like a summer camp. and war comes from soup of veggies all the crisis in the euro zone voters give a hard time to germany's general election hopefuls but they believe focus too little on what the main priorities should be.
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this is our city coming to live from moscow my name is you know our tommies story israel has carried out an unannounced missile tests in the mediterranean sparking an alert in light of the military buildup in the region for a potential strike on syria the confirmation came after the launch of two rockets was detected by russian radars all she's a group is going to has the details hard. the missiles were launched at around five am g.m.t. in the mediterranean apparently in the central part of the sea and then headed towards. and this was detected by russia's early warning system and then reported by the defense ministry at first no one else could officially confirm that this
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happened including israel and the u.s. but then would heard from the israeli defense ministry which announced that this was a test all for the new anti missile defense system they say was conducted with the assistance of washington although this still hasn't been confirmed by the united states israel says that a military plane fired a rocket which was then intercepted or shot down by an interceptor missile now this late raises lots of questions over the timing of such tests and how appropriate they are at the moment in that area in the mediterranean very close to syria with the whole country and the region around it currently being flooded with tension and concern over a possible military intervention into the situation there by the west although most nato members said that they are not planning to take part in any military action against president assad's regime france and the u.s. seem to be ready to do so in fact earlier president obama said that washington may
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start a military operation without the approval of the u.n. ovo he did say he wanted to consult with congress with less than twenty four hours ago we've heard from u.s. secretary of state john kerry who said that in this situation the approval of the congress isn't really essential now this brings us back to the timing of these launches many military analysts now say that what happened today may have not only been aimed at testing some new military hardware but also at checking how much time it takes for possibly syrian authorities to react to the situation and even possibly to see how much time it takes for russia early warning system to react as well or in other words how much time it takes for. these missiles to be detected but clearly this only increased the tensions and certainty in the region as the international military buildup also continues. meanwhile there's a massive a you asked and allied naval deployment in the eastern mediterranean off
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syria's coastline as well as in the persian gulf and the red sea russia's also sending warships to the troubled region but denies it's squaring up to america take a detailed look at the you asked for leave five destroyers loaded with missiles along with and assault ships are already limited to raney and poised for a potential strike in addition an aircraft carrier group moved to the red sea from the indian ocean to support an attack on syria if ordered the super carrier the u.s.s. nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world at more than three hundred meters long it's powered by nuclear reactors and has ninety planes and helicopters and board it's accompanied by a cruiser and three destroyers and the u.s. military buildup in the region is taking place ahead of a congressional debate next week on whether to support barack obama's decision to strike syria that says the chorus of those against washington's military
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involvement is growing at home and now apparently it's even been joined by some servicemen as judging by the images uploaded on social media people wearing military uniform are seen brandishing posters saying they did not join up to fight for al qaeda in syria while the pictures can be verified already the pentagon is reportedly looking into the identities of those involved meanwhile marine veteran gordon duff explained to us why many within the u.s. military are not eager to support the syrian rebels. 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
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obama has got himself painted into a corner there is no way out. meanwhile in the syrian capital the prospect of us let's try is not what's scaring people the most really all season area polls now 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 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 are about. the movie was that. 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 leading roles syrian series used to be
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financially backed by the gulf states but after the conflict erupted here those countries vocal critics of the assad regime was jus investments 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 word to shows our history or the way we live the way we love each other the way we taking care of each other's that's why they stop they stop they are fighting us actually. exactly ten months after muhammad's death we meet his brother noor. funny you. thought of one thought evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad was helpless boy a lot because he was poor then nine people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him the next day we got an anonymous tip that he had been killed in his body had been
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cut into pieces we didn't believe that he's only a civilian we thought why would anybody kill him several days later his body was fine. and i were. the end of it was killed with three bullets one to his leg one to the stomach and one to his neck. well it's. not such a welcome with a letter during the kidnapping they want to take him alive to torture them to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that al-jazeera of course the p.r. lot of money for that sort of thing but he resisted to the death. of the chickens but when they too can they also took his car it's common that such cars are later used in terror attacks and three weeks ago we got news there's been a car bombing and that was muhammad's car. no real brother died ten months ago
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exactly ten months ago why do you think he was killed he talked openly about what he thought. paul did the live here in searing damascus change in the last ten months and not must i shot him after mohamed stance many people who supported the opposition changed their minds they knew that he was very kind and help people all people regardless of their beliefs so when he died they asked themselves what are those people who belong to the opposition doing if they kill innocent civilians some of them are nothing more than criminals. what do you think about a possible airstrike that america is now planning. i smile when they tell me about the american attack we syrians are only afraid of god we're not afraid of the u.s. nor showed us another this time empty grave in the cemetery the boy's father who is also well known actor living in damascus has already reserved for himself. written
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ocean r.t. from damascus syria. let's find out the discuss the situation in and around syria with kate hoey british labor m.p. and she joins us now live from london this hurry very nice to see the u.k. government made it clear that there will be no second vote on syrian intervention after the u.k. parliament said it last week can anything change it for instance if there is proof that assad used chemical weapons when i think what we do know is that it was a chemical weapons attack we're still not absolutely certain who did it but i think the vote we had last week would be very difficult to turn around and even if that is proved that it was assad you know the people died it doesn't really matter who did it it was
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a terrible thing that's happened and as we've heard from your film and as we know from all the reports that are coming back there's some dreadful things being done by all sides and i think the. last week was would our interventions would bombing would sending in cruise missiles to even selected sites help the syrian peace talks under the overwhelming feeling amongst all political parties this hasn't been a party political issue was that it wouldn't help that we needed to be much more intent on getting a diplomatic solution an international solution. i think that's where things are at the moment of course there is a terrible situation there and it can't go on indeed the better to do you're saying the u.s. would still go it alone if congress approves obama's resolution on syria. i think if congress approved it to prove it by
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a pretty good majority then that dollars give president obama the legitimacy for his government to do something whether that gives him a legitimacy in the eyes of the international community. i have my doubts i still think that there is a lot of opposition in america to another engagement in the middle east which we have no real idea of what it can lead to we saw. the west got sucked into iraq into afghanistan and you in russia of course know all about afghanistan and what happens when you go in for a short period it can end up being many many years with many many deaths so i think there is concern in the united states and i think obama has been helped in a way by the fact that our parliament voted that we do have. a system that allows the elected representatives to make the decision and the prime minister for all the
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criticism that he's had and he's not my political party he did give parliament vote he did allow us to say what we thought and he did say that he would listen to what we said you mentioned diplomacy but which is the real china to the military intervention now that the rebels have made it clear that peace talks are over the table now. well i think we should see an alliance i think i would love to see our prime minister when he meets your president putin later this week i think that they actually come up with a really strong international coalition first of all humanitarian assistance about some of those thousands and thousands of refugees who are now living in camps outside syria and actually between them forging a way to try and get the political parties in syria to actually sit down and sit
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round the table now are i know president assad will not want to do that but russia could influence them and i think we could influence in our way and i think it's really up to the all the countries in the world to say you know this this cannot go on and we don't want to be coming in. for what's happening in syria but you know the world can't stand by and large people to be continue to be killed from whatever source the killing is coming right. a british labor m.p. kate hoey live from london it's how we thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us now we appreciate it thank you. and of course we'd like to hear more two think about the threat of a military strike on syria and on our website where asking it will be and again will look like if the u.k. the u.s. i should say goes ahead with the intervention of plants and right now more than
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half of those who participated in our online poll saying a devastating region wide conflict will break out a fifth of those who vote at c.b.s. as a blueprint for what could happen next fifteen percent believe washington wouldn't hate out at sea where on its own and just a small part of you agree any strike would be short and precise to share your views with those go to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. mohsen employment tax evasion by the richest of the rachel and the eurozone heading
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down a dead end pundits in germany believe those are just a small part of the vital issues being scattered around during the countries during an election campaign and hopes the one and only t.v. debate would reignite critical dialogue have left us disappointed peter all of us are gto. the post is there the flesh is being pressed but this german election campaign is hardly setting pulses racing maybe that's the whole idea make as boring as possible so i know everybody kind of goes to sleep and doesn't worry about the real issues what we have being treated to is chancellor angela merkel talking about potato soup the main challenge in reading fairy tales and the green party suggesting compulsory vegetarian days where does it stop i mean are they going to start couple to refrigerators at home and check to see what you got there as well i mean or going to shut down the burger kings and mcdonald's on tuesdays
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and so you have to serve and aside from the greens apparent food fascism have been some peculiar manifesto promises the social democrats want legislation to prevent stress in the workplace and the free democrats hoping to win over commuters by making it illegal for trains to be late all distraction tactics according to those hoping to win their first seats in the bundestag they don't want to touch the real problems with the euro crisis. diminishing pension funds survey come up with things like the green party wanting a veggie day one reason being cited is the lack of a major issue for the parties to really attack each other on when you talk about their support for the government's decision to implement the sam to initiate further payments for greece they all said yes yes yes there is no real opposition in parliament so providing the comic relief in an otherwise dreary campaign.
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by the party i'm very easy to remember. with policies such as banning tourists from berlin and building a wall around the whole of germany these jokers are quietly confident we want to get into power and then we will decide what we are going. to do with it what do you think the chances of. our chances are pretty good we expect to take one hundred percent of the vote and even more in all seriousness though with greece looking likely to need a third bailout package will be no laughing matter for those that come to power after september the twenty second they're going to have to deal with some real issues as they take their seats in the bull in the stock peter all of a girl and this is all see armed of course slovak. very short break with more news for you.
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choose the stories that impact the. choose. to. head out again to says he welcome back. bahrain is to host a permanent headquarters for the human rights court the move is being praised by the ruling lot of as being inspired by quote the king's believe in basic human liberties but the loot is quite different among the opposition ranks activists claim it's nothing but a public stunt and won't improve the rights of those in bahrain and we're now joined live by secretary-general assistant of the country's largest opposition party. to discuss the issue more mr almost thank you very much indeed for joining us here to welcome so well do you think is behind the mood to move.
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this is just part of the bigger p.r. campaign and the authorities were doing so this fourteen february when the uprising came out. this is also an extension to happening in britain and in two thousand and eleven two thousand and one two thousand and two when we had the unilateral constitution the authority is there. on justice and if they believe in justice they should the provided to their citizens rather than going out there and trying to convince the people the home is the court of justice for their only this is just to cover up what's happening in everybody is condemning the judicial oath or theism behind and saying that this is part of their position to the opposition and misty international human rights human rights everyone is looking about the injustice
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and but then when the u.p.a. are in geneva happened last two years or before two you are two years that some recommendations was aware about for two of the traditional thirty best uni when he. went the five commissioners looking at this and he put lots of recommendation part of. africa being the judicial authorities and judges and putting forward that there has to be some critically for any chance at all this court will be independent and don't you think that buries his rights were abused by the bahraini authorities will have a chance to have a say in that court depends on the statute of this court because this is not about any issue has to be and it could be convention and it's all by
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laws. constitution asserted center but the record issue is not with the court so the court issue would be cause because the country that is not providing justice worldwide was going live for the abuses of the rights of the bottle for just accepting the was doing of her into this court just contributing to abuses of the human rights of the battery in the years by the out of the. think this is part of the the bigger whitewash to some of the states within the wards will still not yet brought to the wider arab nations human rights and respect and just as somebody years giving you a go at it you would users in the human rights in your country and the other operators will give you coverage on what you are doing to your citizens this is
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what's happening in the arab world. right. secretary-general assistant of the. opposition party thank you very much indeed for your time. and thankfully the u.s. military's twelve year find in afghanistan is drawing to a close but there's some unfinished business on the ground washington still doesn't know what to do with its jail in bug run but in the early stages of the war on terror bill back it was the if maybe dabs the second gun tara but its reputation for torture abuse and lethal interrogation methods may pale even get back on his arena going to reports now on what the future holds for background. some call the ground 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
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height of the u.s. war in afghanistan but these are just details the two really could be called sister jails just like guantanamo bob 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 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 are a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old business of terrorism the minute they're set 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
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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 to full control of the ground in march it either transferred or released prisoners but what to do with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain and what to do with the u.s. because some allege the americans are still very president fearing that i'm going to fish a little releasing mates that the u.s. sees as a threat to its security and i'm 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. and online for you right now russian type koreans
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and the cross has a bell of russian justice in the c.e.o. one of the walls the largest call to ash produces detained in minsk over corruption charges which has done that to the company's principal shareholder. in june and a song is no clinchers in washington as a legal investigation over hey claims is an unlawful quieted down by the us on the weekend leaks website that says he mocks a thousand days income of fine meant i had to off the dot com formal. up next stuff to a very short break when me and the russian law gave a home to social friends stay with us he owns. all.
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