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no u.n. resolution on the handover of syria's chemical weapons should allow the use of force according to russia's foreign minister meanwhile his deputies in syria discussing the deal this new reports of possible rebel involvement in chemical attacks emerge. a mass shooting in the u.s. capital leaves thirteen dead with a lone gunman targeting a heavily guarded naval facility the motives behind the attack are still unclear. and our team speaks exclusively to the lawyer of whistleblower edward snowden is repaste together the details of the fugitives every day life months after his revelations lifted the veil on the n.s.a. sweeping snooping activities.
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are welcome and watching me and tree farm. now russia's deputy foreign minister is meeting syria's foreign minister in damascus as reports say the syrian government gave its allies crucial information about the use of chemical weapons in the country. has more from damascus. there's an occasion between russia's foreign ministry and syrian minister for foreign affairs here in damascus was behind closed doors and no statements were made after that but it is expected of course that the deal russia and america agreed on over the weekend in geneva according to reach syria has to destroy or remove its chemical weapons by mid two thousand and fourteen and before hand over a full list of its stockpiles within a week talked and we expect that the diplomats of the two countries have been
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discussing exactly how technically this process could be completed and how exactly chemical weapons could be and should be and will be destroyed this deal is very important for syria and for the entire world because it became peaceful eternity of to a military response to the use of chemical weapons here in syria now confirmed by the u.n. investigators backed by america's president barack obama just ahead of this meeting we heard from regional media quoting syria's deputy foreign minister that syria has proves that chemical weapons were used here in syria by militants by the opposition side and legibly this information was handed over to syria's allies it's not clear exactly what kind of allies. meant and we don't know many details over this information but we can expect that this also could top the agenda of the
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meeting with the russians or legation here in damascus. the u.n. secretary general has meanwhile reiterated that the chemical weapons report by his inspectors doesn't say who carried out twenty first attacks that after the u.s. u.k. and france saw clear indication of the syrian government's involvement in the document the french foreign minister was in moscow earlier talking to his russian counterpart sergey lavrov about how to move series disarmament process forward artie's paul scott as more. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov had a little time with his counterpart from france in moscow now the two sides don't see eye to eye over the possible wording of a u.n. resolution the u.n. resolution that would see syria dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal that france along with the u.k. on the united states acting for the threat of sanctions and force to the plane on the table in case damascus it doesn't reply with any resolution where russia says
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that's not what was agreed in geneva and is also unnecessary. the u.n. security council resolution on syria's chemical disarmament won't be under chapter seven we clearly stated that in geneva and the document we signed there doesn't mention chapter seven but the u.n. will definitely control the entire disarmament process and will take measures if the process is not followed and it determines there haven't been any provocations well it seems that one thing is certain at the moment despite the fact that a deal has been agreed in principle it looks as if the diplomatic wrangling going to continue for some time yet. so the five permanent members of the u.n. security council will meet to decide whether or not a resolution on syria's chemical weapons hand of a shooting clearly the threat of military action london spokesman for the u.k. independence party stephen wolf told us that using force will be a step back for the process and public pressure on the u.s. and european governments is the only way to prevent that. but i think the only way
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that it can be overcome is by actually the people of europe and the united states around the world doing exactly what they've done over the past couple of weeks when the threat of force was first initiated and that is to let their leaders their politicians know that we believe that there will be no good results of using force against syria in solving the intractable problem of the civil war it's by pressure by the public and by the people that secured this in the first instance i think we have to start again if you allow that concept of force being used in this resolution then you are pushing syria and our side against the war they don't have a reason sensibly to actually approach this resolution properly and hand over the chemical weapons because they will feel that whatever they do they will still be found in the wrong because they only have to look to the historical context of what happened in afghanistan and what happened in iraq for them to think well this will happen to them too well michael maloof had worked for the u.s.
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defense department for nearly thirty years and he showed us what he claims is a classified u.s. intelligence report indicating that al qaeda linked rebels from the al nusra front were in possession of sarin gas the document also states that the poison could have been used in an attack on syria's largest city aleppo in march. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. 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
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before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has actually been a more significant amount 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 to makes it much more problematic for this administration meanwhile seven people have been killed in a car bomb blast in syria near the country's border with turkey at least twenty more have been injured in the explosion which happened i have rebel control checkpoint this area was also targeted area here a similar incident in february killed thirteen people there. last week the united
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nations and the united nations human rights council issued a report detailing widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity in syria blaming both sides for the atrocities committed. on a boy spoke to a member of the u.n. independent commission led inquiry. this is the tenth reported that your commission issued on syria and reading the army is becoming increasingly more difficult to footage and their testimonies of their chastity's are getting more and more brutal by the month the coverage that we are for encompasses all groups both government and non-government and humanitarian message that is relate is one that's relate to all sides so that the nondiscriminatory aspect of our work in terms of covering all actors inside syria as well as a message for those backing them i think it's very important that we relay that message that the actors the perpetrators may have some backers what we call
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constituencies behind them and so our message also is to invite to and influence the constituencies behind the various groups and troops and start talk by by human rights in metairie and law as well as to ensure that the people they give money to comply with human rights and humanitarian law. and you can watch that full program next hour here on r.t. and there's more on what's going on in syria on our web site so you right now we're reporting about it ministration waiving federal provisions in order to supply the syrian rebels if you go to r.t. dot com for the details.
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a mass shooting at a heavily guarded u.s. naval command center has left thirteen people dead including the gunman himself the shooter is believed to be a former navy reservist but it's still unclear what. drove him to carry at the attack the washington navy yard is the navy's largest on sure establishment president obama has described the latest shooting as a cowardly act meanwhile the u.s. has witnessed numerous gun attacks in recent years in november two thousand and nine thirteen people were killed and thirty two injured in a rampage carried out by an army psychiatry just fort hood in texas two years later twelve people were shot dead when a gunman entered a movie theater in colorado and less than six months after that adam lanza attacked the sandy hook elementary school killing twenty six mostly children in march this
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year another shooting spree at a military base left three dead including the attacker who opened fire on fellow service personnel and a few months later an unemployed twenty three year old killed five people including his own father in santa monica for the latest shooting left the country's capital in turmoil government facilities and schools were placed on lockdown and flights suspended from a nearby airport the targeted navy command center is just blocks away from capitol hill and the white eyes if you can see here on this map political analysts cordoned off 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 only. america is it is a country with maybe two hundred million or more privately owned weapons. the idea
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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. 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. going to take a quick break now but when we come back human rights watch points to child abuse in bahrain a report says children are being detained and tortured in the same manner as adults have a broader crackdown on anti-government protests we'll have the details in a couple of minutes. wealthy british.
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back human rights watch claims there's evidence that bahraini security forces routinely detain and abuse children suspected of participating in antigovernment protests that is according to this press release that was issued today in his a quote from it it says bahraini authorities often hold children for long periods in detention and subject them to similar forms of mistreatment as adults detainees including beatings and threats of torture nicholas mcgee can one of the authors of this press release shared some of the alarming. it's part of a broader crackdown on bahraini society an arbitrary detentions already colman mistreatment and detention is common and it often rises to the level of torture
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what we found is that there was a failure to distinguish between trail detainees and adults so the children are mistreated in the same manner as as i don't i think the most alarming serenading issue is referring to in this brief research that we conducted was the children being threatened with rape children being threatened with electrocution and children being beaten one point. beating outside of a police station was only stopped or lessened when a senior officer was brought onto the boss and he reportedly said beat them but do it quietly with the evidence that we produced would appear to be perhaps only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately our month has already passed since russia granted asylum to fugitive american whistleblower edward snowden he hasn't been seen in public since then or any details if he's current life revealed my colleague to bang not say spoke lindsay france for more on the mistreatment. so
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where is the 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 his their lawyer assisting him ever since he got here in russia we asked him that very question and this is what he has to say that 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 by. well what you have to understand is that he's being persecuted by a major power the u.s. government and we fear that they could be some very serious consequences. even within the russian territory you 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 it's also with regards to our own citizens they get
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detained to broaden transfer to u.s. territory this he goes. of course you don't 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 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 is 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 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
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assistance because they understand that this. needs to settle here you also get schools from business executives from different companies who want to give him a job have there been any offers which surprised you. yes there was a woman about fifty years old who suggested. i found out pretty amusing yet 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 that 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 so that gives you a taste of exclusive interview with the lawyer assisting edward snowden and you can watch it in full next week here on r.t. in suffolk county.
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think forget we've got plenty more stories on our website for you to you including following in french footsteps smells curbing religious symbols in universities a british m.p. calls for muslim fails to be banned in the u.k. schools meanwhile in america one of one company's drones have been grounded for an authorized mapping flights over colorado's flood zones you can read about these stories and more at r.t. dot com. and i think.
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it's just gone twenty past eleven here in the russian capital time now to look at some other news happening around the world in brazil's president and a planned visit to the u.s. over allegations that the national security agency spied on her government and intercepted her personal mail this comes amid a plan to divorce brazil from the u.s. centric internet the latin american country has ordered a series of measures aimed at gaining greater online dependence the move however is not going to unplug its citizens from the world wide web it claims it just wants data to be stored locally and be properly protected although experts fear it might be a dangerous step towards politically fracturing the global network. a series of car bombings across baghdad has killed. at least twenty people bombs went off in five different parts of the iraqi capital mostly in shiite areas dozens of people have
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been wounded iraq has experienced a spike in violence in recent months with tension escalating between sunni and shia communities. a special forces unit has surrounded a farm in austria where a man suspected of shooting dead three police officers and a medic has barricaded himself in the fifty five year old is alleged to have turned his weapon on to offices and then shot the emergency worker who was treating the wounded at the scene took a police man hostage and drove to his farmhouse in a stone and police car around one hundred kilometers west of vienna the officer was later found dead. and thousands took to the streets across bangladesh after the country's supremes call sentence abdul qaida and islamised opposition leader to death he was found guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the nation's independence war against pakistan about forty years ago claims the verdict is
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politically motivated his supporters have had a forty five forty eight hour general strike on wednesday to denounce the ruling. the bolshoi theatre has ushered in a new season after a summer break and its artistic director has returned to work eight months after an acid attack that nearly blinded him so if elian has enjoyed dozens of operations to save his sight the incident exposed bitter rivalries inside the world of russian ballet and caused ripples worldwide with. the bolshoi theatre first. brady seems that the tough times for the bolshoi theater are finally over and it is completely ready to face it the new season especially after the artistic director is back at the how a man he was indeed a long awaited comeback with a mystery fell in looks margin allegan ten feet was also wearing he has a huge role already usually starts three sunglasses now at this it does show troops
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reunion there was no mansion of this horrific passage of time that really shattered the cultural world of the russian capital in january of this year now one of the top dancers of the bolshoi theater probably making chang who actually used to play billions on stage is now on trial on charges of murdering this a toddler and after months and months of really long treatment and to dozens of operations to the film and says that he might still need further medical treatments but still for now the artistic director is back at the theater. civil rights groups have been raising the alarm in the u.s. where over the weekend police officers opened fire on unarmed civilians in two different states artie's abby martin takes on the issue in breaking the set in a couple of hours from that. well over the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in the charlotte
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north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan ferrell who was seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash the 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 and when that failed to stop them 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 toward a man pretending to point a gun at officers that hit in the crazed man who was later found to be unarmed police struck two female bystanders effect and served more like shoot first ask questions later. that's coming up a little later on right now though it's max and stacey and the kaiser report.
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we've talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the u.s. see 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 immediately 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 to change rapidly and often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that well stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of doctors which. private summer houses where people garden and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to
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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 this 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. an issue free could you take three days for charges free range and
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