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israeli troops are under fire for roughing up foreign diplomats and preventing them from delivering aid to palestinian bedouins through an entire community was demolished. syria keeps up with its chemical disarmament obligations by submitting an inventory of its toxic stockpiles to the international watchdog. and those germans prepared to vote in sunday's parliamentary election despite the almost certain return for uncle a merkel disillusioned remains over the growing income gap and tough job market.
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you're watching our team live from moscow and lindsey france thank you for joining european diplomats and foreign activists have accused israeli troops of manhandling them as they tried to deliver aid to the west bank security forces also seized a truck carrying tents and emergency supplies meant for palestinian bedouins whose homes were demolished by israel earlier this week artie's polish lawyer has more on the incident that has caused quite a stir in israel and abroad. most particular incident happened on fine day from the information we have a group of european diplomats were driving in a truck when they were fired at by the israeli army now they say that they were targeted by some grenades that a french diplomat was literally yanked from the truck before the army drove away the diplomats had inside the truck tents as well as emergency supplies that they were trying to deliver to a bad one community that earlier in the week had seen its homes its kindergarden
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and its stables demolished by the israeli army now we've been unable to get any kind of comment from either the israeli police or the israeli army what i can tell you is that this is one of three they've been communities that in the last six weeks has been targeted by the israeli army for this particular community that comprises of some one hundred twenty people in the west bank they want to hold given a court order given by the israeli high court for the army to demolish their homes saying that they were illegal but it does point to a much bigger problem that you have here in the west bank among beverly communities and that is that the communities themselves say that they need the land for the grazing of the cattle that the families have lived here for generations and that they simply have nowhere else to go in this particular community there were two attempts earlier in the week by the european community to try and reach the bad ones they did many. up some tents before these were forcibly taken down by the
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israeli army now the european diplomats who come from countries such as bush and so on spain ireland and australia as you can well imagine are furious they say that there's been a complete disregard for the diplomatic community and they are calling on the international community to apply and pressurizes role to that hearing to international human rights activist peter tatchell explains why he thinks israel's actions qualify as a brazen violation of international law. every aspect of this incident is in defiance of both israeli and international law the starting point of course is that this incident happened in the occupied territories which the global consensus is that israel is illegally occupying since they were seized in the one nine hundred sixty seven war so israel shouldn't even be there but if it is going to be there as the occupying power it has a duty to safeguard the welfare and interests of all the people in that territory
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and quite clearly denying a two destitute palestinian families who've had their homes demolished by the israeli military that is quite clearly not fulfilling their obligations under international law to safeguard people in the territories they control. syria's made a step towards implementing the chemical disarmament plan brokered by russia and the united states by starting to detail its toxic arsenal chemical weapons watchdog has received partial data on the stockpiles with more details expected within the next few days. as more. well under the deal a brokered between washington and moscow in geneva last weekend to syria has until saturday to disclose its arsenal of chemical weapons and the process has begun the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or o.p.c. w for short a spokesman for that organization says we have received part of the verification
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and we expect more that's what the spokesperson was quoted as saying it's believed that the initial declaration outlining syria's chemical weapons program has been handed over however when contacted by our take p.c. w. did confirm that a meeting on syria that was settled for sunday has been postponed no reason was given and no future date has been set now it's believed that syria has one thousand tons worth of chemical weapons dotted around the country making it logistically difficult for this process to be carried out president bashar al assad was quoted in that made week saying that the process could take over a year just about over a year of course under that deal struck in geneva syria has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen to complete the process for the united nations are set to discuss a possible u.n. resolution in new york next week on the syrian crisis that will give a legal backing to the deal struck in geneva however the two sides have slightly
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different views on the wording of that possible resolution with the united states britain and france king for the threat of military intervention to be on the table to remain on the table if damascus fails to comply with the u.n. resolution russia saying that any threat of military intervention is counterproductive i'm not needed in the initial. resolution russia says that only if damascus fails to comply should the then be taken back to the united nations well those discussions are due to take place in new york next week but the early signs are that damascus is keen to comply with the deal struck in geneva last week and. later this hour we'll also look at how progress in disarming syria might affect the region particularly in iran where there are fresh hope for nuclear talks after the new president held out an olive branch to the west. germans had to the polls tomorrow to vote in a parliamentary election that looks like a foregone conclusion chancellor merkel is almost certain to remain in power
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despite growing discontent with the ruling party's policies as artie's peter all over found out the climbing wages and growing inequality are among the things the germans are most concerned about. it's billed as europe's economic success story but german voters feel the country is split between the haves and the have nots germans are rich yeah ten percent of germans are only fifty to sixty percent of all the capital and the gap is getting bigger. our society is divided there are places in germany like here in both homes that are so poor the streets are industry pair and the theaters have to shut down this town is broke. for most people the financial situation isn't good which isn't the image many of germany's european partners have of the federal republic. and i think if you were to ask someone from spain they would tell you germany is an economic land of milk and honey with that
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just isn't the case perhaps thirty years ago but after reunification and the pressure is of staying competitive globally those days are gone. one of the ways germany has stayed competitive is by trying to keep wages low i know plenty of spain year isn't greeks who come to britain looking for work they're scandalized by how low it's not enough to survive. in the run up to this election the main opposition has campaigned on a platform of introducing a minimum wage of eighty euro fifty per hour the current german government has dismissed those calls i believe merkel's party insists that the introduction of a minimum wage would destroy job creation however these people here are saying they just want a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. we need a meaning which has to be of a level that people can live on to provide for their families i mean there are so many jobs around that barely enough so you can survive i think eight fifty proposed
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by the s.d.p. is too low i think it should be closer to twelve per hour. so called many jobs have also grabbed voters' attention ahead of sunday's ballot almost a quarter of the workforce are employed in these part time and often low paid jobs . but he needs a million jobs are no good you can't contribute to a passion with four hundred these days everyone in the family has to work i sit with my roommate and we realize i make too little money it's a case of either we give up our studies and find more work or lose our flat whoever comes out on top from sunday's ballot is going to face the continuing task of keeping germany's economy on track while at the same time trying to please a workforce which feels underpaid and under appreciated peter all of the r.t. germany. want to know what's really going on in the european and global economy watch the latest episode of the kaiser report later today when max and stacy take
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a look at what's behind the great uncertainty autumn day financial system here's a short preview. the collapse of lehman or was a markets that suits should have alerted the government and everyone participating in these markets that their massive reform was needed but instead they interpreted that market saying well as a way to make the situation much worse again i made the comparison to theocratic fanatical religious extremists who misread their fundamentalist texts and everything they read suggest that they should blow themselves up and other people same thing as lloyd blankfein and warren buffet everything they read says i should blow everything up i should commit mass terrorism that's the message that they get from the threat from the price signals that they receive it's a breakdown in capitalism unfortunately and that's predictable because unfortunately the price of money is close to zero and access to money is ubiquitous by the stock receiving america ruled by the least qualified not to mention the
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kleptocracy on wall street. so had after the break up the united kingdom scotland prepares pro independence rallies of it with almost a year before the referendum are to look at the arguments of those standing for and against separation from the rest. we'll talk about language as well but i react to situations i have read the reports but. no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your minor point. to secure your car is on the job. no. thank you no more weasel words. when you direct question. for a change when you. be ready for
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a. critical speech. on the freedom to. right on the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on. the. war is probably the most complex human activity.
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still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. to kill a bunch of people you don't know if they're on the premises there are a us people. reading. this some of the shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was ny times four in the morning even the best even the belch soldiers. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood an author and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. the interview.
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welcome back you're watching r.t. lives on the difference. academics at the city university of new york have called for all charges to be dropped against six students arrested on tuesday they were protesting after former cia chief david petraeus was given a teaching position at the school but he of footage has emerged showing police
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using heavy handed tactics while detaining the protesters artie's merino porton i reports four star general and former cia director david petraeus recently began his new career here in the big apple as an adjunct professor for the new york city public university known as kuni but his attendance has been met with broad criticism from students faculty and staff members who say they don't want their college to host the man who oversaw wars drone strikes and alleged torture tactics in the middle east now for the past few weeks this anti professor pre-trained his movement has been gaining traction recently activists tell me that they're on their campaign has been met with heavy handed tactics from the new york city police department though earlier this week about seventy five people were marching right around here across the street from that building where professor betrayers was allegedly attending a fundraiser and that's when
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a fight broke out between new york city police officers and protesters cops who videotaped trying to barricade the activists who then spilled out onto the streets witnesses say students were punched slammed against vehicles and onto the pavement by the cops eventually six people were arrested and have been charged with obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct twenty four year old denise ford is among the six students that were arrested during the protest and spent twenty eight hours in police custody she joins me now to talk about her experience denise tell me what led to you. arrest i believe some of us were to be targeted by the police already you know. and then i mean they pushed us into the streets and it just started from there where they grabbed one of my palmer about like seven to fifteen cars slammed his head against
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the car and would just fall on top of him so then i went to try to help him out and . fall in between two callers. to the back of my head then i proceeded to get up and then when i looked to the back of me there's another about like. cars on top of the car. and which they picked up his shirt. and a plain clothes officer just takes. to his kid and then the cop just came and grabbed me for me. and then just. i believe this is also an intimidation tactic used by the n.y.p.d. why is it that so many people are so odd. with his new position as a visiting professor what he thinks is what we're getting it's not these characters
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it's what he represents and serialism capital of. war. dozens of academics have signed on to a petition calling for all charges against the six cuny students to be dropped in the interim according to reports a growing number of staff and faculty members are also calling on america's former intelligence chief to resign from his position as a visiting professor reporting from new york. r.t. . the u.s. looks willing to test iran's recent change of tone in relations with the west the white house says it's ready to engage in talks in tehran nuclear program as long as the islamic republic is willing to prove its peaceful purposes joel rubin from the anti-nuclear pressure group the ploughshares fund says the entire middle east would benefit if the two countries could relaunch diplomatic relations. it's clear that there is time and space for diplomacy it's clear that the sanctions that the international community the united nations russia the europeans the united states
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have put on iran have really gotten the iranian leader's attention the deal recently between the united states and russia on syria's chemical weapons has demonstrated that diplomacy can work now it's a question of will it be followed through by assad the same can be said for ron if we can see these issues resolved diplomatically it's going to create a sense of stability in what has been a very unstable region now it certainly is in the interests of the people who live there as well as united states and russia and over at our website could the touch id option on the brand new i phone actually be your reason for security concerns as hackers smaller around the globe are racing to devise after being promised thousands of dollars and bounty and other prizes if they can't get that story on line. clash of the president's living is head of state lashes out of proc obama calling him a criminal and promising legal action for violating international law so that
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online to find out why. i think. pro independence supporters in scotland are preparing a mass rally on the streets of edinburgh ahead of next year's referendum the move for separation has been met with sharp criticism from the u.k. government the prime minister has warned of the dire economic consequences for scots but pat kane from the yes cotland campaign group says that's just scaremongering. you know if you take away the oil and gas in the scotia economy it's an obviously well performing european economy added to the economy is doing extremely well in fact you know i'm sure many countries many small countries in war
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would love to have the problem of volatility of oil and gas reserves so and no way would it be a patch of economy i mean three of the top universities in the world based in scotland edinburgh is one of the top twenty there's a huge sector and bio science has a great advantages and and food in textiles as some modern developed economies call in which is one of these is why independence is so attractive it's not a negative case it's actually a prosperity and progress case i think that's a pragmatic decision i think in general at the moment scotland would be part of the e.u. in any case because there's no provision for expelling a territory that has been subject to european laws for the last forty years that there's a there's a lot of thunder the noise about the spot i think eventually pragmatism would prevail. coming up we examine the causes behind the increasing amount of friendly fire in recent military fighting that's after the break.
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i got some angry but polite messages after i came out in favor of the foreign adoption ban of russian children by people in the usa this is not a dig on america i think russia or any country that respects itself should export any children to anywhere at all people tell me that i'm paranoid that the decision to stop the foreign adoptions punishes the children while a massive reuters investigation called the child exchange has exposed some dark secrets about adoption of foreign children they expose it often by using the term read homing which is normally about finding new homes for animals people are basically advertising adopted children they don't want like baseball cards on e bay reuters found out that on just one yahoo group of child a week was offered up to the public my wonder what kind of people want to
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discreetly get children off the internet the thing is that in the us adopting a child from overseas is hard but transferring them to someone else later on is a breeze all you need is a notarized power of attorney document to clearing the child is another adult's care so for those of you who think that i am a cruel nationals because i support russians doctrine ben then take a look at the child exchange and you might just start to see my point but that's just my opinion. mission. critic ation three. three three three three. three . three blood clotting video for your media projects a free media. tom. war
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is probably the most complex human activity. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probability extends back to the invention of gunpowder. to kill a bunch of people on the field there are families there are a us people. reading. this some of the shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was night times four in the morning even the best even the best soldiers. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood author. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place.
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thank. you. if. our army grieve the loss of every soldier. his mother father brothers and wife will forever read this loss. grief that was compounded by the failing of his army. we have a duty to all families of our fallen soldiers give them the truth the best we know as fast as we can. pass.
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your. it was a crazy one steve warning. my house will work midnights us home even prefers. we were good new carpet installed upstairs i was getting ready to babysit my grandson because my daughter had a whole point so it was a crazy crazy morning and there's a knock at the door i thought it was a and she forgot she forgot her key or have something. interesting why. the soldier standing. i just looked up or. i looked at amber and she said it's gone peggy and i want to open the door of slight. one open the door. get here something's wrong with.
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that i pull up and there is. a car out there with cover plates on it they said just cvs killed what happened. to the little paragraph and that's all you know. the family began hearing details about the circumstances surrounding jessie's death within days of the official announcement they had said that. just see. his humvee was struck. a dump truck had broke the checkpoint had a torch just his humvee hit just the tip just a humvee up on two wheels and jesse came out of the top of the turret and they think that he had broken his neck. that was it was a little small the guy now. within an hour.

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