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the latest diplomatic marathon over syria results in unilateral approval of the resolution at the u.n. security council outlining the country's next moves on chemical disarmament. claims of state slavery are fired at qatar as a football community teams up with rights activists over deal building its world cup dream adding legal costs to immigrant workers. a massive police operation is underway in greece running out leaders and members of the far right golden dawn party a first since the nine hundred seventy s. . and faced with a war averse public the u.k. eyes on man drones expandable mercenaries and propaganda to fire up the national
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spirit. is there as you come to life from the russian capital with me josh in the hague based watchdog says the syrian government should destroy all chemical weapons facilities by vampyr and it has also given damascus until the middle of next year to get rid of the poisonous substances it has already developed now it's after the u.n. security council unanimously backed a resolution requiring syria to eliminate its arsenal as moscow insisted to the document does not authorize the immediate use of force if it doesn't comply the details from our new york correspondent. 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
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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 something that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov explained in detail while addressing the security council in your book but the movie was that the resolution does not fall under chapter seven is more un charter and does not allow for the automatic use of force with which we have verbs the agreement is that the russian american meeting in geneva regarding violations of the use of chemical weapons by anyone will have to be carefully investigated by the security council of the united nations as mr that it's a bit more than the council will stand ready to take action under chapter seven of the u.n. charter any incident which is considered to be a violation of the resolution would have to be proved one hundred percent before any action is taken. the resolution also calls for the convening
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of the geneva two peace talks which u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon says could happen as soon as november geneva two is where the syrian government and opposition are supposed to come to the table together to negotiate 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 care to council resolution used in this is. the responsibility for implementing this resolution lies not only with the government of syria according to the demands of the u.n. security council the syrian opposition will have to go a break with u.n. experts. 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
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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. r.t. and speaking of the u.n. general assembly before the vote for mr lavrov said the world is now multi-polar and there is no place for unilateral action against other states without collective approval it's in contrast to president obama's theory of american exceptionalism which he to found it on the same stage a few days before or just kevin owen discussed that with political with geopolitical analyst eric draitser let's first of all listen to what a bomb had to say at the u.n. general assembly if we would before i believe america must engage 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
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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 long standing 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 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 that no no we are moral we are just and we are righteous r.t.o. spoken to syria's foreign minister on the sidelines of the un general assembly and
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he says damascus is willing to comply with the chemical disarmament roadmap by it is worried about possible provocation from rebel forces. we control and we can see but we are worried that the terrorists the group also has chemical. and they want to use it. to show the west that syria is not going to get to. see the entire interview with serious top diplomats on our website r.t. dot com. the capital of qatar is growing in leaps and bounds and gearing up for the two thousand and twenty two world cup but it's coming at a tragic cost of dozens of lives the football community and the royals groups accuse the government of treating migrant construction workers like slaves forcing them to work in humiliating and simply inhumane conditions are just boyko met some
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british fans with their thoughts on the whole. the choice of cast for the twenty twenty two world cup has raised more than just a few eyebrows while football fans wonder how they'll avoid alcohol restrictions if they attend the tournament and players raise concerns over the desert heat an investigation by britain's guardian newspaper has uncovered an altogether more serious control of the city for the twenty twenty two host nation according to the publication nepalese migrants working on major infrastructure projects for the world cup convinced objected to forced labor that they'd been denied water in extreme heat and they were dying a slow rate of almost one a day joining the summer half of football fans in london the news merely adds insult to injury often pray to spread to host the twenty eighteen world cup was rejected so i've come to london's soho where football fans regularly flood the park to find out what they think. forty four people died in two months you know that's a higher ratio than had almost of
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a dam you know back in the what it was the twenty's and thirty's the job was first world war standard you know there's a lot of people dying and it sounds like there's not a great deal of governance going on if that's what's happening john who was brought round on the big gamble for china having been the olympics. was that they could be encouraged to feel that. the same goes for people because so many brought the game to the world. the only way to really make the global is to bring question rule countries into the fold in terms of harlowe to see the world be atrocities that are going on trying to turn those around they don't think it's a good thing because you could hollow because it's opposed to chastize twenty twenty two supremes committee which is responsible for the organization of the tournament that has said that is deeply concerned by the allegations and has vowed to investigate them but the next police ambassador to canada has already said that abuse of migrant laborers that is so entrenched in the emirates. that it might as
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well be called an open jail so for those watching from the sidelines here in london or indeed from pubs like these it raises questions over whether or not cats are should be afforded the privilege of hosting the international tournament reporting from london. the golf resort turned human rights watch told r.t. that qatar has a long history of neglecting workers' rights but the government's job to respond to the oh you should know you've got a geisha and are very credible though everyone knows what the problem is this is not rocket science this is not a question of money it's a question of enforcing the good laws getting rid of the bad laws. for prosecuting offenders and the car can do that it's just a question of whether it's willing to go the extra mile and to be caught up. in the region where we are you know my coworkers rate is a real serious issue it has been for a very long time so there is a computer if you put employees many of them most of our county about as old as the
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referee abuses which have been reviewed again and a story phone call by it's no guarantee the presidents of the u.s. and iran speak directly for the first time in over thirty years we hear later how this long awaited thaw in relations could be drowned out by the loud voices of america's and tehran allies. greek authorities are conducting a sweeping crackdown of the far right golden dawn party arresting his leader and a dozen senior officials and members it stems from the murder of a prominent and i sasha's two weeks ago allegedly by a member of golden dawn the party has become greece's third largest and its best known for terrorizing immigrants and attacking political rivals researcher george seagal us from me hello nic european affairs think tank told us what is driving the government's. the main objective of the government is to show to the greek public
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opinion that there may. be simply with the sas the neo fascist organization and at the same time to persuade public opinion that it's not the best choice for them to vote for sats on their own as a war they because party and i would like to see their government to follow another policy within the context of preemption and they haven't seen something like that because i can tell you that for the first sentence of this parting they lection of two thousand and nine was only europe going to wild enough of the one in three years it went out to approximately seven percent so it does not suggest that the greek society has become the fastest land there are other reasons relate to the ongoing crisis which explains that are meant to support for at least part b. and it was a government has it says the war so it's the direction and mainly building with unemployment. over the first time in over thirty years the leaders of iran and the u.s. have spoken to each other directly following the rare a phone conversation barack obama said he hoped the stalemate over tehran's nuclear
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ambitions could be solved soon buddy said there was no guarantee of success and there is still some serious obstacles america's top ally israel remains skeptical about the softer approach iran voiced at the u.n. general assembly which prime minister in a little labeled a smokescreen and said tehran can be trusted analysts believe the toughest hurdle to a solution is a strong and tehran lobby with any u.s. author and historian gerald horne told r.t. that their influence on the president could prove decisive the united states needs iran to help it pull out successfully from afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen recall that in two thousand and one the iranians were very helpful to then u.s. president george w. bush in terms of helping to dislodge the telephone 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
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is that the israeli lobby in the united 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. these storage phone call has cost us on rouhani some public support back home and he was greeted by hardline protesters on arrival into iran some even threw eggs and shoes at least car angered by the apparent softening of the president's stance on washington. well he's got billions in the bank hates the euro bought as a fan of the death penalty made frank strong who looks set to edge his way into austria's parliament on the back of a surge of three skepticism r t talks to him later in the program. and
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a radical bringing full on europe store staff and is the most movement outlawed in russia and most of the e.u. spreads to ukraine reportedly luring young muslims to join the syrian rebels details are had here in r.t. . due. to small technologies the name in aviation is the game which is late he still tries to take a leap into the monks a noble poet still springs innovations new plates and don't look grown the green knight shaped looks are. going to be updated year on a. move to the center. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has
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been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. mercenaries drones and cyber warfare may be the only way forward for the u.k. military according to a study put together for the country's ministry of defense it turns out that army chiefs are worried that the british public just won't be sold on war anymore so they're looking at how to reinvigorate the warriors spirit as laura smith explains
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. how to sell a war to 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 for us 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 a.k.a. must raise rather than british soldiers to lessen worries about casualties. use more special forces soldiers because apparently the loss of elite soldiers doesn't have such an impact on the public because that role is perceived as inherently more risky and full something military families are already calling disgraceful reduce
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the profile of repatriation ceremonies for sessions of hearses 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 opinions 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. thing they can do is. publish the right move possible before you think basically fish 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 because 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 as easily as they even the ministry of defense admits that the current a version to war is the result of a people let's better informed and an opposition that's more sophisticated. perhaps unpiloted drones could be an idea for britain's civilian aircraft at least they don't fall asleep mid-flight unlike more than half of the u.k.'s pilots those admitted dozing off at the joystick at least once before and out on our website. also their suit for science and us christian group once the kansas education board and court for teaching children about of illusion and global warming saying it violates pupils religious freedom the genesis of the stories at r.t. dot com. right from the scene. first street view and i think the church.
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on our reporters with their. instrument. to be in the know. when austrians vote in their parliamentary election on sunday it will be an unusual ballot for your because they are doing it while enjoying a fairly robust economy even so euro skeptic parties are polling strongly and could get a third of the vote peter all were caught up was a flamboyant billionaire a leader of one group. 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 amounts 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 here a skeptic parties mr frank thanks very much for talking to me why has your
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skepticism caught the imagination in austria we are nuts get this m e s. m d a very much for european unity and so on which is always thought that come with currency doesn't make sense it's economic and 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 while a candid. perrie's and because each country has a certain culture for hundreds and thousands a year as an each country must govern down destiny 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
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a majority at this time but we have set principles and dollars for p. tax reforms in parliamentary reforms and parliamentary reform so we hope to reduce 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 teen stronach policy running in this year's austrian elections austria might well be carving a safe passage through europe's financial turmoil but as you'll see in a kaiser report at seven thirty pm g.m.t. the shocks keep jolting the global world of business. ben moshe c.e.o. of ai g. the insurance giant which took eighty five billion of bailout money from the american taxpayer said that congressional outrage at the ensuing bonuses paid to
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these executives in a failed fraudulent phony financial products unit was quote just 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 where 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 year about what it is suffering of taking billions in bonus money is equivalent to you building into our culture that he now profits from i'm a victim i was a big feast of billions of dollars of bait in the middle of victim oh i can't stand it. and i was
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equal to some other world news angry crowds in bahrain have clashed with security forces in protest at the arrest of a prominent opposition figure former m.p. how to mars who was taken into custody charged with inciting terrorism police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the thousands who were trying to get to pearl square the cradle of bahrain's long running unrest the opposition is demanding human rights reforms and accuses the government of conducting a ferocious crackdown. security forces in sudan have opened fire on demonstrators killing another four people in protests which raged all week the address is rooted in the kind of fuel subsidies approved last week by president bashir rights groups believe a total of fifty four people have been shot dad driving anger over the police's increasingly lethal crackdown calls are growing for bashir to andy's almost quarter century in power. a massive people trafficking network in
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china has been smashed in a major nationwide operation police rescued ninety two abducted children and made over three hundred arrests the group kidnapped mary children and women and sold them as workers or wives to families across china or forced them into prostitution trafficking is a major issue for china as blamed on the strict one child policy. number of people killed after a residential building collapse in mumbai on friday has risen to forty two more than forty six people have been pulled free including young children two people were rescued on saturday although several are still sought to be trapped a decorator has been arrested accused of altering the building's basement which may have caused the block to cave in. coming up top notch gadgets the most advanced vices and other twenty first century gizmos and r.t.s. technology update.
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the mcmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one thousand nine hundred the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a parent i have some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen the technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front
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of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information about any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic but now is your time because anyone who has the will to learn can learn you know i don't come from money with a. the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably be worshipping at the feet of rush limbaugh deluded by the mainstream media modern technology can make your mind with information or break it with cat videos and dumb trendiness but that's up to you and this is just my opinion. choose your language. we can we know if you.
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choose to use the consensus. choose to get to. choose the stories but if you. choose the access to. hello and welcome to this month's special edition of technology updates where we look to the skies to see the peak of russian innovation on today's show we cut to a glimpse of his latest stealth fighter. we find out that's a cross between a battery and a combustion engine isn't just a load of. up and down the ground we learn about the mysterious night.
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but first let's take a look at some of the highlights of this month's show. the international aviation space show is the highlights of the calendar not just for aviation enthusiasts but for anyone who enjoys a good day out there show started off in one thousand nine hundred ninety three when the focus was mainly on entertainment since then it's evolved into an important business event given the high flights of the aviation industry a chance to sell their wares this year marks smashed its own attendance record with over one hundred fifty thousand people braving the elements to visit the event in just one day business also proved with companies signing agreements and contracts with twenty one point two billion dollars which is significantly more than last time believing this has wider implications than just the aviation industry. the aircraft manufacturing industry always drives innovation throughout the world because to be competitive in this industry you have to excel in
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a number of different areas that's why this industry receives so much investment but some people say that for every ruble invested in new technologies for aircraft manufacturing you get a return of seven rubles because of the positive effect this provides for all the other industries. i'm sure. the flight program. this is especially important. is the perfect place for. the most efficient. difficult condition.

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