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but putting a little over here. we are really we are prepared to be in geneve at geneve to be a genius to wherever it may be convened. at any moment that is acceptable for everyone and this is exactly the problem we do not see. sufficient. results. of the work of our partners at this process the us in particular in terms of bringing together the position that may appear at this conference and thus we have delays of convening this conference but more importantly their representation of opposition should be brought should not be limited to some forces that only represent so-called position with ink
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people like those with whom we met in the course of our meetings today. are someone who are well placed well connected who are representing. very substantial parts of syrian society and they completely and fully deserve their right place at league oshie people and this is the trick which should be you know addressed this is the fix which is needed before we do so it would be too early to mention particular dates when this meeting this conference can start thank you very much so i see why it should which are correct. that a press conference being held by russia's deputy foreign minister sergei cough he said that while he was very critical in fact of the u.n. inspectors' report and since the alleged use of chemical weapons by the syrian government. into. taishan from the u.s.
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in the suburbs of damascus in august the twenty first he said that it was actually very limited in scope and not sufficient he said that russia has now been handed information from the syrian government which suggests that rebels had actually used chemical weapons themselves on august the twenty first the twenty third and twenty fourth and he said that this information had actually been handed to the chief u.n. inspector but it appears that it was not acted upon so very strong words there let's bring in alexey yeah. he didn't mince his words it already you have very strong wording i mean the bottom line of what mr record just said is that russia does not believe the accusations and claims by the united states and several western countries that the chemical weapons were in fact used by assad's forces in fact of course. definitive proof of rebel forces using the chemical weapons were handed over first to the u.n. inspectors some some time ago two weeks ago and this was not taken into the
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inconclusive as he described it reported by the united nations inspectors now this evidence and this is not we're not talking about some. gases or just you know inconclusive evidence this is according to records factual evidence by your samples and documents proving that the chemicals were in fact used by the rebel forces now they've been handed over to the russian side and all they're waiting now for is these documents to be completely translated from arabic into russian before moscow can fully assess what's in this proof and make it completely public but definitely of course has been very regretful about the fact that the u.n. inspectors are not taking this kind of evidence into consideration let's listen to what mr report had to say. we have indeed received additional evidence collected analyzed and concluded up on by the syrian authorities on what they believe is proof for use of chemical weapons by.
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insurgents so-called insurgents both in eastern on august twenty first but also on august twenty second twenty third and twenty fourth incidence this is nothing new this is not something that made headlines. this evidence was earlier handed over to mr orcutt sellstrom who was here in syria. leading the group of experts from the un. those experts as we all know departed syria several days ago and this evidence is with them and we are disappointed bad there is no due attention paid to this evidence in the report which the group presented in new york earlier this week. so according to mr rep
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cough this kind of evidence can actually change the whole course of negotiations can actually change the whole geneva two concept this basically what he said today in large way reiterate what his boss the foreign minister of russia mr lavrov said earlier let's listen to what he said. and you we have a lot of information about the august chemical attack in good or we'll examine all of this of the security council along with the u.n. chemical weapons report we still have to figure out who's behind the attack but let me just reiterate that we have a great deal of information to work with we're going to switzerland and other very important point made by of course is that russia will still continue to insist on holding the geneva two conference which is the only peaceful solution to the syrian conflict as moscow sees it and hopes to have this conference in the nearest future with its no set date for the conferences as to s. so far ok thank you alexia sassy's alexy you have a share of skin let's get more reaction to this we can now speak to journalist and
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author robert harness. i think you can hear me thank you very much. if you were able to listen to that press conference today it's very clear that russia wants the u.n. security council to examine. the syrian rebels in the chemical attacks do you think they'll be willing to examine it considering it has come from the syrian government . well i think sooner or later. we're really not talking about the united nations security council we're talking about the west france britain and russia the united states take a half to this and the evidence that is coming out. of their state city could only have been the syrian government to do this are frankly nonsense you've got evidence that the rebels had sarin gas in turkey there was a court hearing only two days ago on the subject they were arrested by the turkish police you have. reports from journalists who are saying that actually it was the
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syrian government and now you have this growing body of technical evidence. it's very difficult to prove anything of this sort of atmosphere but it seems to be becoming very difficult for the west to pressure within the united nations security council to continue to be effective. well another interesting point that came out of the press conference is that russia says the u.n. was handed plenty of data to examine yet it wasn't reflected in their report why do you think it was ignored. well. i'd like to start from a slightly different point professor sellstrom who who led the mission to deal with the question that spent a short time in syria has is a person who. some people believe is not as unbiased as he might be and that is he's too close to western. nations and too close to data is irrational is on the
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other hand are being very circumspect yes they did say what you say but that they're not actually being as rude as they could be but it's quite clear that they are not impressed by. the busy amount of bias that they feel this shown has asked the u.n. inspectors to come back do you think they will. i think they'll have to i think you'll be too embarrassing not to one of the this whole issue has gone off at a tangent i mean it what is weird is in the background the syrian civil war continues and yet these huge noisy debate about chemical weapons also goes on i think the united nations for its own credibility will have to send people back and with regard to the u.n. security council we hear that russia will now give this information to the security council. do you think they will examine it. don't have to yes i can't see how they could possibly refuse to examine it. and in terms of the response that would come
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out what do you anticipate because it is it is actually very difficult because it appears that everybody has given their argument and sided with either the assad government or the rebels so it would require people wouldn't to go back on what they thought initially. are you asking me whether i think that. president obama is going to stand up saying oh sorry i got it wrong no i don't think that's going to happen but i do think you'll hear a diminishing volume from the west on this subject quietly back away from the issue as the evidence becomes clear and clear clear as it this was a publicist who started it wasn't what we were told in the first place i want to create this means for the syrian opposition that. well it was very interesting what the egyptian foreign secretary said he was very keen to emphasize the russians are willing to talk i want to talk to responsible elements of the opposition who
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represent syrian society. which is an issue like another side of the coin of saying the west is saying we're only giving guns to nice people but it is interesting that the russians emphasize the need for negotiation they're not saying oh we're not going to talk to any of these people they're saying we want to talk to sensible people and the only real solution is negotiations ok we do have to leave it there but thank you very much for your thoughts on that that's journalist and author robert harness thank you thank you. brazil now wants to go it alone from the global web and create its very own cyber space the decision comes after the n.s.a. spy scandal angered the latin american country even prompting president zuma who to perspire in her official meeting with barack obama in the u.s. and this rena portnoy and i reports brazil is determined to ensure its online security. as the n.s.a.
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spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget brazilian president dilma rousseff it has canceled her schedule. a month of pulling out of what was supposed to be the first official state visit of u.s. president barack obama's second term it would have also been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades in addition to breaking dates for cilia is also taking steps to divorce itself from the u.s. centric internet while seeking its own sovereignty in cyberspace president rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater brazilian online independence including storing citizens data locally to protect from n.s.a. snooping according to reports the brazilian government is also planning to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and also link to all south american nations currently most of brazil's global internet traffic passes through the
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united states now experts say if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps the us cloud computing industry which stores data remotely could lose tens of billions of dollars in business by two thousand and sixteen brazil's path towards internet sovereignty follows revelations that the n.s.a. intercepted president rousseff communications hacked into the network of the state owned oil company and spied on brazilians in trusting their personal information to u.s. companies like facebook and google president rousseff says she intends to push for a new international rules on privacy and security in hardware and software next week when all the heads of state gather in new york for the u.n. general assembly on tuesday the brazilian leader is set to open the u.n. g.a. debates and her u.s. counterpart president obama is set to take the stage immediately afterwards
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reporting from new york marina r.t. meanwhile the proposal has ruffled the of the internet giants a recent study from google said its main fare was not the violation of privacy and spying but the division of the global network however brazilian technology experts say it is too early to worry as the plans are far from complete. there is huge criticism here in brazil on this on this proposal the fact is the government wants to offer brazilian internet users a stronger protection for their privacy the government realized that it could be a way to do it that's a great opportunity not only for brazil but for many countries to really take a stand on internet governance and really try to understand how the future of the internet in communications as a whole will in the coming out of does huge scandal about the n.s.a. leaks so internet freedom has being like the flagship the trademark of all discourse from the u.s.
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government when it deals with and with internet governance well now that you have a situation like this one is clearly momentum that is building up for brazil for other countries in the global south and for other countries as well to really take a stand on that try to come up with forbearers solution in a way which you could in a truly moot stakeholder way discuss the future of the internet because it's clear that the way that we are going now it allowed a situation like this one that we had with the n.s.a. and that's certainly something that created a huge impact for a number of fundamental rights and it is definitely a good opportunity to discuss and to reflect upon a new way to do with internet governance. well it's not only in latin america where people are going offline from the u.s. it's all seeing eye but also its own citizens more and more facebook users are deciding to commit so-called virtual identity suicide by deleting their accounts from the social network excuse me i'll just call for one second now according to
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a survey facebook last seen million active users in britain the situation of the even worse in america with nine million people the network and for almost fifty percent the main reason given was concerns over privacy and the fading their data is being put under the microscope. now coming up for you later in the private america's debt time bomb concern grows in congress over the government's inability to curb spending but national debts reaching double pre-crisis levels the details just ahead. but. over. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. in
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fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america five ready to join the movement then welcome to. the. war is probably the most complex difficult human to.
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hold. on. to the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed a bunch of people don't know what their families there are to us people. right. reading. this summer shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because of it because it was night time or in the morning even the best given the batch children. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood and order. and camaraderie in the sense that was it in this context that has absolutely no place.
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to get christianity central place in british culture could be increasingly under threat of church attendance in severe decline meanwhile the nation's second largest religion islam is growing faster than ever with some studies suggesting it could eventually become the dominant faith. as the story. half of brits say that christians but you wouldn't know it glancing at this london service . this. new figures show that the u.k.'s official religion is declining faster than was previously thought worship as a raging one for the first time ever fewer than hoff under the age of twenty five described themselves as christian the decline of churches in the u.k. is a long term it just happens to be now approaching really rock bottom ninety five percent of people don't attend church on an average sunday while the church of england
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struggles the office for national statistics says that the number of muslims in england and wales has surged by seventy five percent and their young half of british muslims on to the age of twenty five i'm looking the same way men. they are today what is it the rules are that they did. this to be questioned much of. very very different for different people. very well and families really try to nurture young people in the in the full of islam we have to assume can get the young people because. they feel part of the mosque and religious think tank the pew forum estimates that if present trends continue the muslim population of the u.k. will swell to almost double within twenty years totaling five and a half million according to the speaker is it means that by twenty thirty britain
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will have more muslims than kuwait it's projects such as this community based muslim radio station that could provide a clue as to why the religion is flourishing in the u.k. in that period deejays who call themselves brothers and sisters talk about local issues in education from the point of view of islam inspire started out as a special transmission during the holy month of ramadan it became so popular that it was established as a permanent radio station it's actually a lot of pressure becomes an islamic ethos that we won't do anything which is deemed a non islamic on their hands the musical and one may question by the five top of the of the music that we play on the radio station we won't have your mainstream music playing on there because the majority of it isn't deemed islamic we would not have ties anything on islam in the sense that we would have a virtual call we want having i did was say for example gambling was one of things according to academics. that islam demands from it's followers that's made it more
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appealing to worshippers and converts from other religion islam says no this is no . people find no sense of direction in the because their religion over has lost not because that you didn't have it. they sort of became believe me and. in relation to the laws of the church. think it may be swayed it would make it more mellow. and i tracked more people into the church and. they've lost something that the church of england disagrees with the death of christian england has been greatly exaggerated despite a decade of naysaying and complaining by ses commentators and groups six out of ten people in england self identify as christians a figure which rises to more than two thirds when including people identifying with faith as a whole and yet there are demographers that say that if current trends continue
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islam could eclipse christianity as the dominant religion in the u.k. in as little as ten years' time. r.t. . well according to a study by an independent think tank there are at least eighty five shari'a councils operating in britain peter norris a communications manager the lobby group christian concerned believes the proliferation of sharia law in the u.k. could provoke clashes in the legal sphere the birth rate amongst muslims is significantly higher i believe and so those those children being brought up going to moscow and putting themselves muslims that there are many younger muslims that if shari'a law was going to be enacted which i believe it is in some parts of the country. that clashes with british law so british law most western democracies as one law for all but in shari'a there are three fundamental inequalities one of which is between men and women one is between slave
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and free and the other is between muslim and more muslim so there will be certainly a backlash in in the in the legal and i think most citizens of of britain would agree that one more for all is a much better principle a much fairer principle. and you can catch all the stories we're covering on much more on our website including racking up discontent the f.b.i. is accused of routinely abusing its power and actively misleading congress for more than a decade you can find the whole story at r.t. dot com and it's a very near miss for one issue look at this footage we've got more i catch in videos on our billion channel on you tube dot com slash our take. now u.s. congressional budget analysis analysis say the country's national debt has now reached seventy three percent of g.d.p. the figure is nearly double the average pre-crisis levels and the highest since world war two and despite
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a projected decline of federal debt in the coming years the nonpartisan budget office is warning debt could still increase to one hundred percent of g.d.p. in twenty five years time gerald cilento a publisher of trends journal says costly military ventures are partly to blame. we're squad during our resources fighting all of these unwinnable wars that never end and so the nation is going down economically ninety seven percent of the jobs that have been created this year ninety seven percent are part time jobs you're looking at this so you know we even saw the war will make a very bad situation much worse they're going to keep taxing the people just as they did as the roman empire and they tax the people more and it's not only the states by the way look what they did throughout europe they call that austerity
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measures you know they cut your pensions benefits they raise your taxes so it's a way of keeping it going until the people revolt. to some other news making headlines this prominent iranian human rights lawyer and socket of prize winner today and so today has been released from jail along with at least seven others she was arrested in two thousand and ten on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security so today has two years of his six years in jail international groups criticized her imprisonment calling it politically motivated. a passenger trains collided with a city bus in the canadian capital also were during the morning rush hour six people have been reportedly killed in the crash and thirty one injured the train derailed after hitting the double decker bus at a level crossing firefighters in ambulances rushed to the scene witnesses say the bus appeared to drive straight through a loaded crossing barrier. the e.u.
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failure to live up to its legal obligations is costing poor countries at least one hundred billion dollars a year at least that's according to a report put together by a group of european n.g.o.s they say tax evasion by rich states is causing developing countries to lose their fair share of tax revenues one of the authors of the report last left gregersen told us how he thinks the problems should be addressed. what we point out in the report is that they did this is basically a matter of political will essentially of course all the problems that we cover in the report. vary from the nature of the focus area ranging from financial regulation to cultural policy natural resources policy and so forth but in every policy area we've put forward to concrete recommendations and in the case we're speaking about here. there are certainly things to do for the european union first of all to clamp down on savings some of them even jurisdictions within the
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union itself and secondly it's about accounting legislation and financial regulation civil directives that could be changed in a way that the payments and and so forth on of multinational corporations richest in europe would be much more transparent and thereby allowing developing countries but also europe. citizens to benefit. from the profits they make here without a tonight so we're going to take a quick break now but i'll be back at the top of the hour the headlines. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some knots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close in for the truth and might
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visit. un investigators ignored crucial evidence potentially implicating syrian rebels in chemical attacks that's according to russia's deputy foreign minister the data which was handed over by the syrian government will not be given to the u.n. security council. to gas fired at protesters in greece with our correspondent caught in the. riot police clash in script nationwide strike against more. brazil pushes to unplug itself from a u.s. internet seeking its. america's national security agency was exposed spying on the brazilian government and oil company.
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