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unity on syria the u.n. security council adopts a resolution to rid the war torn country of its chemical weapons after weeks of intense talks the first major diplomatic breakthrough in years. that's right to host the twenty twenty two world cup he's questioned following reports of the abuse and deaths of migrants working to build new facilities in conditions some care into slavery. and selling war to the british public weary of coffins returning from the battlefield the government seeks ways to win support for future campaigns without reaching the nation.
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twenty four seven this is. the un security council has unanimously back to resolution requiring syria to eliminate its chemical weapons and documents put together by russia in the us imposes binding obligations on all parties of the syrian conflict but does not authorize immediate use of force for noncompliance. reports. and the right diplomatic breakthrough. this breakthrough marks the first time the united nations security council has agreed on a binding document concerning syria the resolution unanimously adopted by the council requires the verification and destruction of syria's chemical weapons stockpile however while it doesn't mention chapter seven towards the end of the document it does not indicate that immediate use of force would be allowed this is
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something that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov explained in detail while addressing the security council is that it's in your book but the. resolution does not fall under chapter seven of the un charter and there's not a lively automatic use of force it reaffirms the agreement reached at the russian american meeting in geneva regarding violations as well as the use of chemical weapons by anyone will have to be carefully investigated by the security council of the united nations the cancer will stand ready to take action under chapter seven of the u.n. charter any incident which is considered a violation of the resolution will have to be proved one hundred percent before any action is taken. the resolution also calls for the convening of the geneva two peace talks which un secretary-general ban ki moon says could happen as soon as november the geneva two is where the syrian government and opposition are supposed to come to the table together to negotiate
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a peaceful path towards their future and an ultimate end to the two and a half year civil war taking place in that country russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says that the syrian opposition as well as the government is applied to comply with all measures in this carry council resolution that's used in the zoo bill knew that the responsibility for implementing this resolution lies not only with the government of syria according to the demands of the un security council the syrian opposition also have to cool the u.n. experts. the council adopted the resolution after the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons approved the russian u.s. brokered agreement on syria's chemical weapons the organization known as the o.p.c. w said it would begin inspecting syrian sites by tuesday part of an expedited schedule for eliminating all of syria's chemical arsenal by mid twenty fourteen now
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until then the security council will receive monthly reports on the implementation of the syria the syrian chemical weapons resolution in the meantime u.s. secretary of state john kerry said the precedent setting resolution shows that powerful diplomacy can peacefully disarm the worst weapons however during his address to the security council secretary kerry reminded members that the use of force against syria is an option that u.s. president barack obama continues to keep on the table reporting from new york marina porter r.t. . well speaking just before the vote at the u.n. general assembly russia's foreign minister called for connect to the global leadership is comments came off to president obama just a few days before on the same stage spoke about what he called america's exceptionalism explaining why washington felt compelled to interfere in other states affairs and my colleague kevin owen discussed this with a do this without a list and. let's first of all listen to what a had to say at the u.n.
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general assembly if we would before have a chat i believe america must remain engaged for our own security but i also believe the world is better for some may disagree but i believe america is exceptional in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest but for the interests of all well obama says the u.s. has quote a responsibility to act but of course it begs the question does not guarantee it's always going to responsibly think that we should be very cautious about this so called american exceptionalism what obama is asserting is a longstanding principle not only within the political establishment of the united states but within the very psyche of the american people that somehow we're better that somehow we're exceptional and obama is attempting to use that rhetoric as a way of putting himself on a moral high ground above putin above the chinese above any of the so-called
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troublemakers in the un security council so while it looks to the rest of the world that the united states is a belligerent actor when it comes to syria obama is essentially asserting. we are just and we are righteous. on the margins of the u.n. meeting r.t. spoke to syria's foreign minister walid. shared his concerns over the chemical disarmament agreement. that we can see but we are worried. the terrorist group also has chemical weapons and they want to use it. to show the west that syria is not committed to its commitments. what share the whole interview with syria's top diplomats on our website r.t. dot com. twenty twenty two world cup hosts
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qatar is a modern scandal it's under far following reports of migrant workers on construction projects being abused the mistreatment being compared to slavery has led to dozens of deaths football's governing body fever has expressed concern at the revelations and the u.n. agency said qatar is violating international ban on the use of forced labor this coupled with the prospect of the qataris switching the world cup to winter because of the summer heat that's triggered calls to strip the gulf country of the event together. general secretary of the international trade union confederation that's leading a campaign against migrant worker abuse. deterrent slave state that's the 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 paul or india philippines other a general rafiq a nation they sign
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a contract they go to often the context torn up and they paid as little as four hundred dollars a month. many of them skilled workers they are forced to live in squalor nobody has been to those labor camps where you have i tend to. sometimes mortal roun would accept and certainly no c.e.o. would accept their son or daughter living in those conditions then of course they are often abused underpaid the work is dangerous more than one worker a day will die in guitar and yet even if they want to leave they can't leave the country because they're basically the owner they are owned by the employer who has to sign an exit visa or in data transfer of working right help their part 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 they have no political will to fix
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it right mccain from n.z. slavery international says he hopes the prospect of the well being taken away could force the qatari government to improve its human rights record. i suspect the core issue here is risk. truly the government of qatar doesn't care about those who are in so it's appalling situation and that's at the core of a lot of contemporary slavery issues just like salmon i don't want to see a boycott i don't want to see qatar being stripped of the world cup i would like to see the word cult being used as a mechanism to change not country know that the world cup imperative is upon feet and indeed upon the rest of the world and to insist that this world cup is not constructed on slavery and it's relatively straightforward to change that system which facilitates forced labor and slavery we think at heart is the legal system of qatar particularly in relation to migration immigration law there that needs to be
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fundamentally changed its own way and actually some of the best people who nepal produces brith as people for themselves and their families and yet it's those those really human attributes was the thing that would render them vulnerable to this sort of exploitation so if there's freedom of association of those workers i think you could see them establishing much better working conditions on the for themselves but if qatar does not introduce the fee for should walk away. well coming up the leaders of iran and the u.s. talk directly for the first time in decades and off the radar to you looks at the likelihood of compromise between the two nations over the nuclear issue who wants to stop it from happening. in europe may have a common currency but there's no common opinion about it after the break when a new political party in austria. simply doesn't make sense.
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for the first time in over thirty years that the it is of the u.s. and iran has spoken directly to each other following a conversation the phone that president obama expressed hope a solution could be reached of a nuclear ambitions well he said success was not guaranteed and the u.s. will continue to work closely with its allies including israel but israel is skeptical about iran's less confrontational approach at the u.n. general assembly prime minister netanyahu urged the west not to trust terror saying it's softening starnes is a smokescreen to pursue nuclear weapons some excerpts also believe the path to a settlement could be blocked by a strong and. then america friend in storage old horn told r.t. that their influence on the president might be decisive. the united states needs iran to help it pull out successfully from afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen
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recall that in two thousand and one the iranians were very helpful to the then u.s. president george w. bush in terms of helping to dislodge the taliban from power iran can also be helpful with regard to the crisis in iraq with bombings at a level not seen since two thousand and six and two thousand and seven the problem is that the israeli lobby in their own states is very powerful not least in mr obama's own democratic party coalition and it is no secret that mr netanyahu the prime minister of israel is itching to launch military strikes against iran nuclear facilities given such pressures it's unclear how these diplomatic talks will turn out and while the u.s. president might be suggesting a compromise with iran he's officials are not giving up on the house just yet but on to our website amanpour dot com to find out why the u.s. military is accusing iran of being behind the just sign for america meeting.
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in the name of public security sometimes in the name of love employees from the scandal head n.s.a. have been using their position to keep an eye on boyfriends and girlfriends and the details on mine. mercenaries drones and commando forces ukase apparent solutions to make war more popular the military has come up with a list of recommendations to ease the nation's war fatigue and joint support for more military campaigns what is the us with looks at the methods being proposed. how to sell a war to
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a british public that's not buying that's the topic of the latest study by the ministry of defense reacting to what the paper calls a wrong assumption that the british people has become risk averse in a nutshell the paper says it's not the people don't want war it's that they don't understand how it will benefit them so in an effort to explain war better the think tank makes some recommendations to make a large investment into drones suggesting that if people in foreign countries they killed at arms length the british public mind so much second use more contractors aka must raise rather than british soldiers to lessen worries about casualties. use more special forces soldiers because apparently the last of elite soldiers doesn't have such an impact on the public because their role is perceived as inherently more risky and full something military families are already calling disgraceful reduce the profile of repatriation ceremonies for sessions of hearses
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carrying coffins straight to the union jack when bodies are brought back from afghanistan. but a war weary british public isn't keen on having its opinion swayed and is particularly adamant about keeping repatriation the ceremonies in the public cause i think there should be respected for what they've done and we should be aware that it was just more just the. only thing they can do is. publish to write possible news before you think basically they should be going to war so it's really trying to avoid war rather than try to make it sound it makes an interesting way the paper appears prescient as it was written before the british parliament voted against getting involved in syria under the immense weight of public opinion but. it seems unlikely that the public will be manipulated into
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supporting conflict quite easily and even the ministry of defense admits that the current to burgeon into war is the result of a people that's better informed and an opposition that's more sophisticated. world news in bahrain the largest anti-government protest in months from a largely peaceful despite some reports of clashes between police and demonstrators tens of thousands joined the fresh protest self to arrest a prominent opposition figure in the. charges for inciting violence majority shia gulf states ruled by a sunni monarchy has been plagued by all the rest since an arab spring uprising was crushed by the government. or anti government discontent has been sparked by fuel price hikes in sudan because getting louder for the president to step down the country's capital khartoum police used tear gas to disperse the crowds after being attacked with stones hundred seventy arrested according to human
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rights groups at least fifty people have already lost their lives due nationwide on grass that started earlier this week. russia's between muslim brotherhood supporters and residents in egypt's second largest city an examiner left dozens of people injured people threw stones at brotherhood members demanding to be. the group was recently banned by the courts following a military coup overthrew the country's isn't government. rescue troops in pakistan's earthquake hit southwest are struggling to reach some areas because of militant rocket attacks on helicopters officials have called on insurgents fighting for independence from pakistan to stop their souls and food and supplies and be provided to the quake victims and five hundred people for darn it. austria's elections are something of
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a rarity in europe because they're being held against the background of relatively stable economy even say with some still believe the nation should give up the euro polls suggest one third of austrians could vote for parties who want to break up the currency union it's all of us spent the head of one of those parties which has received person indorsements with likes of former u.s. president bill clinton the latest polling information ahead of sunday's election here in austria suggests that the country will see a return of the so-called grand coalition between the social democrats and the conservative people's party however this election has seen a rise in the amount of people turning towards euro skeptic parties now to talk a little bit more about that i'm joined by the founder of one of those euro skeptic parties mr frank thanks very much for talking to me why has your skepticism caught the imagination in austria we are not get this for me. i'm very much for european unity and so on which is always thought that come with currency doesn't
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make sense it's economically not viable and all the science at that doesn't work now do you think that brussels currently has too much say over the sovereignty of nations like austria well it doesn't work. for the same perrie's in. each country because each country has a certain culture for hundreds and thousands a year as each country must. govern down destiny. but on the other hand the european unity would be that people can move freely around and products could be moved around freely but again the currency just doesn't work now how important to the rest of the e.u. is they selection taking place in austria. well. i don't think we will get a majority at this time but we have set principles and tax
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reforms and parliamentary reforms. in the parliamentary form so we hope to reduce the power of politicians and. citizens representatives will have more say in government thank you very much for talking to me frank stronach there the founder of team stronach policy running in this year's austrian elections. well you can catch up with netas financial headlines today in the kaiser report is a preview of what's to come. ben moshe c.e.o. of a i'd seen the insurance giant which took eighty five billion bailout money from the american taxpayer said that congressional outrage at the ensuing bonuses paid to these executives in a failed fraudulent phony financial products unit was quote just
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as bad as the deep south lynching. that cracker on wall street sees a kinship with the way blacks were lynched you know here's what i think black america should do in light of this revelation they should demand reparations for having built the united states of america they are owed by some calculations and this was an issue a few years ago five to seven trillion dollars in cash right now black america this cracker thinks you're not worth it is suffering of taking billions in bonus money is equivalent to you building the entire country that he now profits from i'm a victim i was i'm a force of billions of dollars a bill this is a meal of victim i can't stand it and be lynched. well soon i'm bastards ukraina says a number of ukrainians are fighting alongside the rebels in his country it's
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reported that some are members of his but turn him a global islamist movement that wants to unite the whole muslim world lets you know she has been to ukraine to take a closer look at the activities of the organization that. alice in the town of book she said i all that's left as a reminder of the crimean tatars glory days built centuries before the towers were deported by joseph stalin in the one nine hundred forty s. and repaired did with the u.s.s.r. still apps are half a century they spent in exile the crimean tatars are savage inhabiting the crimean peninsula for more than sixteen hundred years at some point they even had a powerful state of their own part of the osmond empire and there are those who are clearly unhappy with the current state of things. has the information office of the his party in ukraine which officially opened in june he points at the global research action of islam and says the time has come to rebuild the global islamic
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state the early front. we as an organization work on establishing islamic states only in muslim countries like turkey pakistan syria cetera in ukraine russia and european states were not working on changing governments there are calls in our books to establish the callee fought but we always stress it must be done in a peaceful way. but not everyone seems to be buying that in several states including russia and germany his book is considered a terrorist organization and its biggest on for example authorities claim the party was driving force of the bloodletting two thousand and five on these on riots recently he's been to showcase their expanding following in ukraine at several thousand strong rally in crimea a former member of crimean majerus says thanks to such sites the muslim community in crimea is now split and they fear for their lives. they say if you're a muslim you must join us and fight infidels and infidel governments ukraine russia
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the usa if you're not with us then you'll be worse than the infidel and must be killed to their goals and not the enlightenment of muslims their goals geo political and many unemployed young people fall for their ideas they have already been presidents of underground terrorist cells uncovered and busted by ukraine security service during the most recent grade explosives and extremist books were discovered some of those had come directly from current war zones as authorities have evidence of at least four hundred fifty crimean tatars fighting in syria on the rebel side investigative journalist says this spells trouble not only for crimea but for the whole region it was either put up with english we knew they used to go to the turkish part of cyprus to supposedly study but in reality they went through combat training now they have syria as a perfect boot camp and after they return they will be so skilled they could explode a powder keg here crimea is like
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a breeding ground for such movements from here they are exported to russia's caucasus turkey bowl garia and romania and we've got all sorts of radical sects here. nowadays there's still no lower ukraine property regulating religious sects and there is no legal definition of extremism there are worries now that if the authorities continue to earning a blind eye to escalating religious activities in the peninsula one provocative spark like an international glass could easily to night a melting pot right next door to europe a look see russia have ski reporting from crimea in ukraine. but up ahead a big find then send a different perspective for the world economy not on the money stay with us.
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