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russia warns western powers against jumping to conclusions over un report on last month's chemical attack in syria respond that the severing gas was indeed used but stopped short of maybe a culprit. a deadly rampage at a heavily guarded military facility in washington d.c. sent shock waves through the nation and to raises deep security concerns. and our t.v. gets exclusive inside see into the life of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden in russia months after his revelations on american global surveillance a shook the world.
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it's ten am here in the russian capital you're live with us on r.t. you are with me to bomb would say to our top story now. russia has stressed that the u.n. probe concluding nerve gas was used in syria last month the does not rule out rebel into involvement in the trial so team but the u.s. britain and france have been quick to claim the report is enough to implicate the assad government the white house and says of the rockets used in the attack could only have belonged to loyalist forces however the u.n. findings a story that the serin that tipped the warheads may have been improvised and the report did not pinpoint the slide from where they were launched at a residential areas after massacres were of ordinary has the details. therefore released by u.n. inspectors says that there is clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used in the rebel held damascus suburb of on august twenty first but the report does not answer the key question of who launched the attack nonetheless
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u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power says the forty one page document made clear that only the syrian government was capable of carrying out a chemical weapons attack british and french officials have already at her sentiment in the meantime russian ambassador to the united nations batali churkin says that allegations that the syrian opposition used chemical weapons should not be shrugged off i think some call it jumped to their conclusions when they were saying that the surge to reboard definitively proves that it was the government forces who used the chemical weapons in the. first of all we haven't even had a chance to look at the report in part of the u.n. report inspectors describe the rocket used to disperse the nerve agent gas sarin as a variant of an m. four teen artillery rocket with either an original or an improvised warhead the u.n. report also says that while the experts were canvassing one it's not site individuals
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arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence could have been moved or possibly manipulated the reports said those areas were under rebel control but did not elaborate on the individuals or ambassador churkin says when it comes to who carried out the chemical attack many questions still remain unanswered one question which i sort of wonder about in the course of consultations and there was no answer to that you know we have this scenario of the use of chemical weapons on august twenty one by the government forces they'll fight . we're the opposition armed groups and they've they've been for a number of rockets with chemical well weapons. trying to get through those armed opposition groups and there are no casualties in the in their on the opposition groups is it even so radically possible to fire five or six rockets against your
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opponent and have all of them missed the targets you want to spector's have concluded that the environmental chemical and medical samples collected provide clear and convincing evidence that surface to surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in syria u.n. secretary general ban ki moon says the incident amounts to a war crime and that the perpetrators of the top must be held accountable the u.n. chief says this is the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since saddam hussein used them in nineteen. in the coming days the u.n. security council is expected to draft a resolution for the russia u.s. brokered deal on syria but france the u.k. and the u.s. have already said that they will be seeking our strong resolution under chapter seven that would allow for military intervention if the syrian government fails to hand over all of its chemical weapons reporting from new york marina r.t.
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. a prominent group of former u.s. security officials had won the white house about intelligence reports from the walls are indicating that radical rebel factions are in positions of chemical weapons one of them pentagon veteran michael maloof gave our team the details. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with two to classified information it's one one page i mean expecting others it's classified secret no foreign it's from the n g i c or the national ground intelligence center the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has
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actually been a more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turkey going to the going to the opposition principally al-qaeda and we've had separate reports now that. elements are rather significant numbers. and have and now have permeated into the opposition so the ability to be able to. distinguish who gets what and where is going makes it much more problematic for this administration. the french foreign minister is expected in moscow for talks ahead of a syria as aleutian debate at the u.n. security council france of britain and the u.s. pushing for a strong draft to enforce the chemical disarmament deal brokered by moscow and washington and that is all envoy to syria left to brahimi helped mediate that i agree meant and spoke to r.t. about the ramifications. and. i have repeated from the very beginning that the
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roles of russia and the us in resolving the syrian conflict are highly important i faced criticism from some who said that i was wasting my time they said that there was no point in traveling to russia or the us but i believe it has now become clear just how constructive an affective the role of these two countries can be there is no military solution for the syrian crisis we must find a political solution so to come in the program of voice of dissent in the long view pro e.u. germany and euro skeptic parties seen as an outsider and the upcoming parliamentary election could make a crucial impact on that in just a few minutes. a mess shooting at a one of the most heavily guarded military facilities in the us capital has left thirteen people dead including the gunman police are saying the attacker use a valid pas to access the washington navy yard but the possibility of a terrorist attack has not been ruled out artie's assam sex is in d.c.
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. i'm here on m. street in southeast washington d.c. just a few blocks from the navy yard where police responded to an active shooting that we now learned led to multiple fatalities as of right now the fatality count stands at thirteen people including the suspected gunman who police have identified as thirty four year old aaron alexis who formerly served in the navy and was working as a military contractor police are also looking for a second man who was seen wearing a military style uniform around the scene of the crime he's considered a person of interest in the shooting witnesses described the scene shot start inside the building and building one hundred seven i was not there i heard this and shots there inside the building i know it was on the fourth floor when i had backed away to the building myself and other gentlemen were in the alley behind that building and that's where we were shot at the washington navy yard is the navy's largest on shore establishment today it serves as an administrative pub for the navy housing the chief of naval operations and the naval sea systems command many
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who worked at the navy yard were forced to shelter in place for as long as eight hours until police determined the scene to be safe we were shuffled around and just . i would say good home an area here is it where we could be took care of us for is like contacting spouses family members with. the they were very very professional about that they made sure that we were comforted to be during this traumatic situation that those who worked at the building considered it secure this is a military you know environment and we all scream to get a in and you know we thought to be in the seven vironment but again not on come on you know outside in this area because we had a military zone but for that to happen is quite unfortunate to believe the suspect may have acquired a security card from someone who has access to the building there are no metal detectors in place as part of security as of right now there is no known motive and survivors are still trying to piece together what they lived through. that's going
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to be tough in washington sam sacks are to. president obama has a lamented yet another mess shooting calling it a cowardly act the country seen in numerous recent gun attacks but the latest rampage is of the deadliest at a military facility in four yes in november two thousand and nine an army psychiatry's killed thirteen people and injured thirty two more in a rampage at fort hood in texas two years later twelve people lost their lives in a mess shooting at a movie theater in aurora colorado and less than six months after that adam lanza shot his mother did before entering sandy hook elementary school and killing twenty six most of them children in march of this another shooting spree at a military base left three dead including the attacker who opened fire on for the seventh personnel a few months later and i don't play twenty three year old kill five people
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including his own father in santa monica political analyst to gordon duff says that such incidents highlight major flaws in america's security system the issue we have i think is that we have a massive amount of security in places where it's highly visible where the threats are really very very low they're done for appearance sake the only. american way is it is a country with maybe two hundred million or more privately owned weapons. the idea of increasing security in the united states the people are very much against it they're tired of twelve years of being followed catalog wiretapped apparently all our mail being read. people are tired of that and there is no amount of violence that's going to bring the american people to a point where they're going to want more government more watching more security more big brother. and in just
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a couple of minutes from now here on r t we bring you exclusive information on how the whistleblower edward snowden is adapting to his new life in washoe. temporary refuge from american prosecution that after the break. mother. mother. mother write the simplest search tree limbs were being featured. on our reporters were very. instrumental.
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probably the most complex difficult if. not. the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. if your bunch of people don't want their families their us people. ready to kill me. this summer shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it did because it was night time for the warning even the best even the best soldiers. are going to make
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mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood in order. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context that has absolutely no place. welcome back you're watching r t it's been over a month since edward snowden received temporary asylum in russia but so far little is known about his new life and he hasn't yet been spotted by the media r.t. spoke exclusively to the lawyer assisting the n.s.a. whistleblower lindsey france's in the studio with me to discuss details of that interview lizzie where is a snowden well that's the question everyone wants answered as quickly as possible there was word when he left the airport initially that he was actually staying with american friends so we sat down with anatoly kuchera now which is to be
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a lawyer assisting him ever since he got here in russia we asked him that very question and this is what he had to say. it is impossible at the moment to reveal where he's living or talk openly about it we believe the danger remains quite high what sort of danger do you mean. well what you have to understand is that he's being persecuted by major powers the us government and we fear that there could be some very serious consequences. even within the russian territory i mean they can chase and catch him here in russia. i don't think that is going to happen but we saw american special forces intervening in other countries also with regards to our own citizens they get detained to broaden transfer to u.s. territory this he go out. of course he does he walks he can travel he enjoys traveling and he's interested in our history has he been recognized in the streets were while he was traveling you know he hasn't been recognized not so far
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ok so he hasn't been recognized on the street so far but he is paying for his own private security team to watch out for him and his father is reportedly coming to visit him very serious gotta get all the paperwork taken care of so there we go speaking of security there was talk of him getting a job here so i'm guessing that he must be getting some kind of funding somewhere how's that going on for him i mean does he have any office on the table do we know that well there's plenty of offers the question is will it be a book deal that he takes up will it be a work as a program or will it be a talk show who knows we asked about this specifically and here's what he told us he's still receiving a huge number of offices and people are writing to him and calling there for assistance because they understand that this man needs to settle here he also gets calls from business executives from different companies who want to give up have there been any offers which surprised you. yes there was
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a woman about fifty years old who called and suggested that she had snowden i found that pretty amusing. yeah as you can imagine an adoption office pretty amusing and also when he was in the airport he was also getting marriage proposals from women here and as you can imagine any business executive it would increase the public attention on their company if edward started work to take a job there but it does mention that he is very interested in that snowden is interested in doing human rights activism here in russia especially in light of what brought him here to begin with so we'll be watching that closely of course sophie cohen has more on her absolutely so if he has more and if anybody is interested in the life of edward snowden here in our moscow well you can watch the full exclusive interview with. the lawyer assisting whistleblower edward snowden next week here on our team. germany
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will be electing a new parliament of this weekend and it's promising to be a close race with no party heading for an hour drive majority coalition talks unlikely and the outside affections may have a decisive influence on what the destruction looks like us come next week r.t. the people of attended a rally of one of the parties that is now an expected to make a crucial difference. that germany's political new kids on the block but it does seem that alternative for germany will have a key role to play and shaping what the country does politically over the next few years no the most recent polls ahead of the elections next sunday suggest that alternative germany will be taking a good four percent it's expected they'll take far more from not when germans actually get in to the voting at the polling stations now five percent is what you need to take a seat in the bundestag and it seems alternatively germany will do just that a euro skeptic party they are anti euro and their party leader has been outlining
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exactly what he wants to do when just when alternative for germany gets into the bundestag well you know that but you're a skeptical skeptical of the efforts to find currency and that we have a number of other issues like for instance our energy policy or like the ability of our social security system to night editions of grace and you to ration your need i can you show off if you change everything so he's not going to be just going to you will the next four years as much as this is being a good campaign for alternative for germany it's been horrific for anglo merkel's current coalition partners the free democrats in fact many of the voters that would have voted for a democrat seem to be turning towards other parties like alternative for germany now what that could mean is some pretty dicey discussions when it comes to getting together a coalition here after the election and alternatively germany's members are saying that if angle a merkel wants them to be part of a coalition it's her that's going to have to move towards them not the other way
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around but we will never work with angela merkel if she is not willing to soften her stand on the euro as it is right now it would be a real upset if i'm to let her call wasn't returned as german chancellor after sunday's ballot but it does seem that after the votes of being cast the real political wrangling will start when it comes to forming a new coalition here in germany. where do hardline governments draw the line when it comes to keeping descendants under control well it turns out for the rainy authorities children a fair game on our website we tell you how young people like getting on the wrong side of the regime. also online over the past month we've been receiving sweet alarming updates from japan's crippled fukushima nuclear power plant and now mother nature could be about to make matters even worse the details at our t.v. dot com. right to see.
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her street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. right another international news biz hour in greece and teachers school guards have launched a five day strike action today to spending cuts some of the demonstrators who were targeted with tear gas as they try to approach a government building and going public sector layoffs are aimed at meeting bail conditions imposed by foreign creditors the rallies came ahead of an inspection later this month by officials from the european commission and the international monetary fund. military forces in the southern philippines have freed more
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than seventy hostages after launching a helicopter attack on muslim rebels insurgents have on the pied large parts of a number angers city for more than a week forcing thousands of people to feed their homes around the hundred rebels were killed or rested during the day we clashed with schools who was still believed to be holed up of the main rebel faction the more islamic liberation front has vowed to create a breakaway state in the region. a group of lawyers and former army officers in egypt has launched a petition urging the military chief to run for president the goal is to collect thirty million signatures to convince general abdel fatah secede to give in to what the organizers describe as overwhelming popular support that's two months after he are said to egypt's first elected president mohamed morsi massive protests against the cruise then slipped through egypt was a thousand people died in the bloody crackdown on dissent. every
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martin bashes the mainstream media's take on the latest headlines in breaking the set. we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the usa just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property and mediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture change rapidly and often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation
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revolution isn't fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of which are private summer houses where people garden and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter there's half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion.
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of the. what's up guys welcome to breaking the set i'm having mind over the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in charlotte north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan ferrell who was seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash a homeowner called nine one one and told the dispatcher is that a man was repeatedly knocking on door leave when they arrived at the scene fairly charged at them but something tells me that by charge they meant stumbling injured so naturally want to cops fired a stun gun when that failed to stop another police officer opened fire and killed him but not to be outdone in the police brutality department on the same day in new york city the n.y.p.d. opened fire in times square for a man pretending to point
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a gun at officers sort of hitting the crazed man who was later found to be unarmed police struck two female bystanders that conserves were like shoot first ask questions later and all. of them. it was a. very hard to take. a long long. he ever had sex with her right there at the end. of the deal. with.
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the. with all the concert reminders about nine eleven there is one crucial element consistently left out of the conversation the sick and dying first responders who risked their lives on that fateful day emergency responders right now of a fifteen percent higher rate of contracting cancer than the general population and already more than a thousand people who rushed to ground zero to help have tragically died according to the c.d.c. sadly the nine eleven heroes you would expect the government to be helping the most have been left in the dust talk more about the struggle for medical care i'm joined now by john feal first responder founder and president of the feel good foundation john of the pleasure to have you on thank you for having me abby talk about the most pressing medical issues facing nine eleven first responders right now. cancer in the beginning in the first few years it was respiratory but now it's cancer and this is just the first wave of kids is the blood.
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