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tonight is expected to see rare unity of the u.n. security council as its members could vote on a syria resolution which has been allusive for over two years. a living child to bring the beautiful game to human rights groups sports fans of footballers call on feet to move the world cup after revelations of a rift conditions using daily causing daily deaths rather among laboring. under the anger among russian journalists is a photographer's remanded alongside the greenpeace arctic oil rig protesters for two months.
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on friday evening here in moscow one is kevin now in our top story then tonight there's been a much needed break through the u.n. security council as its permanent members agree on a draft resolution overseeing syria's chemical weapons design movement and as russia has long been insisting it doesn't contain any threat of outside military action in this and now is more of the deal which seemed to be impossible from the outset. this is a major break for her when you think about how less than a month ago it looked like russia and the u.s. would never agree and obama was rallying support and getting ready to bomb damascus the resolution vote on syria's chemical weapons is expected friday and outlines a legally binding compliance but no threat of sanctions or military action and the five permanent members of the u.n. security council reached an agreement on thursday over the exact wording of binding and enforceable tax to eliminate stockpiles of according to the geneva according to the geneva agreement put forward by russia and the u.s. now the resolution doesn't allow for immediate chapter seven action of the u.n.
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charter in the case of noncompliance but it would need to be reviewed and put to a vote if that does become the case in the future here is russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov it is a signal to the resolution includes an agreement that was reached in geneva stating that the security council can go back to reviewing the resolution only in the case of a breach of its proceedings by any of the sides including the opposition or in the case of chemical weapons use by any side is not happens on the council can act on those cases under chapter seven as well only in accordance of the degree of that violation and if it is one hundred percent proof so the resolution also calls on the opposition to assist in the disarmament process this is an important point for russia that both sides be held accountable for violations of the resolution also fully of course as the geneva communique which was outlined in june and supports a transitional government which would have full executive power and not be closed
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off to members of the current government because for a meeting with all syrian sides as soon as possible now the vote comes as u.n. chemical inspectors have resumed their work in syria they're investigating seven cases of the use of illegal agents and hope to deliver their findings by the end of october is breast foreign minister sergei the pro will be addressing the u.n. to. assembly on friday he will also be meeting once again with his u.s. counterpart john kerry the u.n. envoy to syria and i think they do have a lot of reason to be a little more optimistic that there could be a way out it might be a bit of a different atmosphere at meetings this friday a way out of this two and a half year deadlock over the syria crisis. meantime back in syria itself media reports suggest that at least thirty people have been killed in a combo when the damascus observers in a nearby town said the explosion took place near a mosque soon after friday prayers spoke to antiwar company and says the fury of
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chemical weapons in syria shouldn't take attention from the rest of the fighting that. it shows that we're turning towards a diplomatic solution least on the issue of chemical weapons but the other issue that still remain outstanding is what will happen outside of the issue of chemical weapons will diplomacy be pursued by the united states or will they continue to find as they have the opposition are in the opposition so that they that happening and trying to deepen the conflict over there was another way i think certainly the security council reconvenes and this chemical weapons agreement is off track we could be you know we're going to happen again but i would like. syria far more willing the rebel forces to make gauging the pharmacy on many issues if you remember it was the syrian regime that accepted the russian and american proposal for the geneva two peace talks and the rebels that rejected it so i certainly think that despite what we hear in a lot of united states media there's no reason to think that syria won't hold up here is a good bargain particularly if it is so enthusiastically pursued the russian proposal
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very diplomatic solution. to speak at the u.n. shortly when he does we'll cross to it next iran's president expects a draft plan by october and working with the u.s. and international community over his country's nuclear program as sound of his comments came as he gave a news conference in new york in the past hour the spirit of diplomatic optimism at the u.n. also extended to a rare encounter which saw the u.s. secretary of state meet his reading counterpart for their country's highest level talks in decades their meeting centered on to iran's atomic program and it fell within the framework of the seven nation to go see a shift in tone is one of the big welcome both sides remain cautious though saying actions will speak louder than words international law professor middle east expert told me iran is trying to win the hearts and minds of people worldwide. around fields in a fairly comfortable position and they felt that the policy of ahmadinejad the pre-disaster of mr rouhani was not helping at all from
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a legal standpoint iran feels that it has done everything it could and if there is anything you want to gain public opinion it knows that the media is has waged a war against it it has verified it is that devilish it and it has portrayed it in a position of a threat to the international community now it is trying to make a case to the international public opinion and they have changed the tone. coming up should barack obama go on trial for crimes against humanity well that's what the president of bolivia is calling for exclusively tells r.t. what's behind these accusations coming up. next the almost daily deaths people crammed into filthy shacks and long work days in torrid this is the dark side of bringing qatar's football world cup dream to
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life the gulf states being hit with criticism for human rights violations it turns door into what some describe as a miracle city government boarded a raft of immigrant workers to get the capital ready for the twenty twenty two event but the investigations now reveal that labor has been dying at a shocking pace because of atrocious conditions where so far the authorities are your response is to bring in reinforcements and to promise to look into the playing rights activists football fans and players those banerjee three for the strip cutter of the world cup host title international trade union confederations but at the forefront of a campaign to stamp out these labor abuses its general secretary has been talking to r.t. . part flight state that. extreme thing to say i know in the twenty first century but that's the reality workers exploited from the moment they are forced to pay money to recruitment agencies in the pool of india philippines other right general african nations they sign a contract they go to off in the context for not only four hundred dollars
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a month. many of them field work but they are forced to leave the one nobody thinks of those like that where you have high and sometimes more. fit than certainly no c.e.o. would accept this from living in those conditions then of course they are often abused and by the work he's dangerous more than one worker a day will dying. and yet aid. if they want to leave they can't leave the country because they have basically the oh no that they were owned by the employer who had to find an exit or in data transfer of working right help their passports are often held against the law it's appalling it's appalling and frankly it could be fixed we've offered the government solutions but have no political will to fix it dr wright mcquade's from the slavery international he says he hopes the scandal will
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trigger a reaction in catherine to force the government to improve its rights record now that would like to see the world cup being used as a mechanism to change in our country i think what part dog simply would say is that the abuses which are going on in qatar are of such magnitude that the qatari certainly at the current point in time don't demonstrate themselves as worthy of the system which facilitates forced labor and slavery we think that part is the legal system of our particular. migration immigration law there that needs to be from them and. i would prefer to see rather than it being the tar tart changes i think if qatar does not change it certainly should be taken away from it but it will be much better to see the system of can follow which facilitates forced labor right across the gulf region is broken fundamentally qatar in relation to the world
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cup could be a mutual change in relation to the whole region much more to come this hour an hour to including why russian journalists furious over the prolonged detention of tokyo for working amid the recent greenpeace protests. the inevitability of blowback and the perverse logic of terrorism ever since the us . acts of terror networks of political. deadly massacre in kenya is a case in point so is washington strategy that is worse than the disease. to build a new. mission to teach me. this is why you should.
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economic ups and downs in the final month the london deal. shanghai and the rest of life became everything. to. slow down russian journalists protesting against the detention of the photographer who took pictures of the greenpeace activists a time to scale an oil rig in the on to go should be held on remand with the environmentalists most of whom will remain in custody for two more months pending an investigation going to chicago has more on the story the court in the russian city of mormons decided to twenty two people were on board the arctic sunrise will remain in jail for the next two months says investigation teams and that's not a sentence that's basically time that the board gives for investigators to do their
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job and set the pace there will be another hearing on monday as we understand and the court in the city of sochi for months will decide what to do with the other eight members of the crew it would be safe to assume the same decision will be made with regard to those individuals russian investigators explained that the activists will will not necessarily have to spend exactly two months in jail they could be released earlier it all depends on how fast the investigation goes the judge decided against releasing the individuals on bail citing the concern that they could leave the country before the investigation is over we know that the detained activist refused to answer investigators questions evoking their right under the russian constitution to remain silent and not to testify against themselves on board the greenpeace ship they were thirty people citizens of eighteen different countries among them was a russian photojournalist denise singapore he was detained with everybody else on board the ship a number of fortune media outlets have blacked out all photographs on their
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websites this friday in protest against evolve. three thousand russian media workers mr innocent have signed a petition with least the photojournalist saying he was doing his job the one russian online news outlet let the dart you claim sinew falls on board the ship on their assignment to the green peace activists were detained last week at the border russian authorities warnings while trying to line the clock for the world greenpeace says the gap to the peaceful protest against oil drilling in the arctic russian authorities believe whatever their intentions are the activists technically for the long version of stories maintained that is international editor or maybe. moving on now to the restricted ordering seat and that a decision was made to detain the activists when they started to climb the russian oil pot for using ropes and grapples of course having carried out this protest greenpeace has drawn
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a lot of attention to their causes some suggest they probably knew what to expect given multiple warnings so but the activists went on anyway possibly knowing how much public attention the action would generate an aid has generated a lot of attention especially ahead of the arctic conference this week where the leaders of the arctic nations together with experts from one industry were discussing ways to explore the resources in the arctic as well as ways to minimize the damage to the environment and the russian president was asked during a conference of fog the detained activists and he said obviously they are not tyrants but greenpeace has clearly violated international law by sending activists from the shipping inflatable boats to try to board the ship or the president suggested that the activists cheat trues other forms of dialogue ishmael anything you can britain's got mud there that says some military make believe will make wars look less less lethal the food ministry of defense hopes using drones most results
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in the curbs losses among soldiers will come. it's there for the public and supporting conflict curious i did read it more about that online and mars really could be the way planet it seems now said curiosity rover has now found water on martian soil in it and on it and off to fill a couple of bottles from a cubic foot of dirt the party's big step forward if that's really the case for the rest of the planet. barack obama must go on trial for crimes against humanity says bolivia's president at the u.n. general assembly in new york of a morale has blamed his u.s.
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counterpart for his aggressive foreign policy the spanish channel spoke to him shortly afterwards this is what he had to say. the. i want to remind john that when obama was elected president his said lizzie aim was to end all wars but during a time of his presidency the number of words only increased libya for instance the us organized an outrageous military intervention that was followed by the killing of the country's president and after that libya's oil wells have fallen under their control the finance rebels would fight against the rulers and don't support imperialism and capitalism on top of that they run a worldwide surveillance network what we need to establish acord world powers and international human rights organizations take the judges we need to file a collective lawsuit aimed at putting an end to this genocide i think that the threat exists for any country with vast natural energy resources especially when gas i understand this is a direct threat to venezuela in order to secure energy resources for his own
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country obama will invade any other country but he's not the leader of the world or world news exactly ninety minutes past eight moscow time clashes erupted between israeli police and palestinian protesters in jerusalem's old city also the west bank and gaza the violence broke out after friday prayers a list of the militants and called for an uprising after a number of jewish groups were allowed to visit the al aqsa mosque on the police escort the area's an important holy place for both muslims and jews. the number of people killed in the pakistan earthquakes now risen to five hundred fifteen with thousands waiting to be rescued the seven point seven magnitude quake hit the southwest on choose day it was felt more than a thousand kilometers away in new delhi too it also led to the formation of a small island which is admitting flammable gas just off the coast. figs of used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters in sudan's largest city angry at a deadly crackdown by authorities the rights groups say security forces have killed
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at least fifty protesters during nationwide demonstrations they say many died by gunshots to the head and chest the rallies began in. this week against fuel subsidies but have since widened with calls for sudan's president stepped down. a residential buildings collapsed the india's financial capital by its killed at least six people sixteen others were rescued including a toddler but many more are still believed be trapped under the rubble and it's being blamed on poor construction of problems caused several buildings to come down in the area amid a high demand for housing. the terrorist group that sort of more than sixty civilians through an all out assault on a shopping mall in kenya has struck again al-shabaab says it's now killed three kenyans after attacking two villages near the somali border at nineteen thirty g.m.t. tonight he's crossed looks at what sowed the seeds for this latest violence i think
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we have to look at this in two ways first of all there's a somali issue going on here and then there's an international issue if you look at the statement made by al-shabaab about the westgate attack one thing was kenyans you better get out of somalia or else you'll face more than this and the second thing was the international community you've got a superstar supporting the kenyans and supporting the others in fighting in in somalia we are meddling and somalia targeted assassinations air strikes drone strikes all of us active to billions there. they've scattered. groups but also created new ones and clothing al-shabaab so yeah the idea of blowback here is a surprise we are we are seeing. the remnants or the outgrowth of what our policy the united states' policy is spend in the last twelve years there. peter but to me just over three hours' time
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french president is this week that he'll go to fifteen billion euros from next year's federal budget from already facing mounting pressure from the right of france's relationship with europe as the economy shows precious little sign of an up to the reports from citizens already glow of the grim outlook to. this you know where your promises are among the round. the boiling over frustration caught on camera priority is employment we need to eat but at this point the bad news no longer come a surprise to many french popular self-styled mr normal condemned for having no power to stop economic uncertainty from becoming the new normal at the research this possible with only eleven percent of the french thinking their economy will improve over the next twelve months running out of economic admission that home
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alone recently unveiled a three point five billion injection into thirty four key sectors hoping to spur a third industrial revolution. ordinary people have managed to survive the crisis because france has been a rich country for the past ten twenty thirty years and older generations have proportionally more money than the younger ones so in the family the transfer phenomenon is common meaning the grandparents are helping their grandchildren finances studies but we can't go on like this for much longer. and there's your skepticism it's rises reflected not just in opinion polls but increasingly in the election outcomes as well. the referendum in january two thousand and fourteen the french do they want to stay in the european union do they want to stay with. do they want european lula's to be stronger than national laws. it is right here the decisions on everything from public finances investment unemployment are debated
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and made the problem seems to be that there are more debates than decisions prompting the french foreign minister to say that this place needs a boss but france cannot afford to stall as french president francois hollande is still under great pressure from berlin and brussels to deliver on his economic promises in a draft text in april along. the socialist party attacked merkel and her selfish intransigence and called for a confrontation with germany over policy reforms and it was if the economic situation in france dramatically worsens compared to germany it will take france on a different political course that will diverged from the german one this will create a complicated conflict inside the e.u. if that happens tensions will get worse a collision course that will rock it's already unstable boat as germany itself is dealing with growing add to your frustration over having to bailout the naturally on healthy neighbors so we seem to stick to germany only because an anglo merkel
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never said publicly the frogs belongs with southern europe. not yet at least to us or so you r.t. paris. over the next thirty minutes from new york where the russian foreign minister lavrov is expected to speak to the u.n. says it happens we'll bring it to you live or break into a program talking of which that program on air after the break one of bill clinton's former labor secretary tells larry king about social inequality and the american dream larry see it very soon. the interview.
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he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take back. to lay out the problems the potential solutions that explain why sometimes things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film.
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