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israel's prime minister prepares for a rhetorical button bomb and against iran as he begins his mission in new york to for any possible so in ten rounds relations with washington. britain's prime minister hayden's become tree may pull out of the european convention of human rights saying rulings that bond the deportation of runs a call is learned and allowed jailed killers to vote can't be tolerated. on the right wing flexes its muscles in all stratas parliamentary election but the centrist coalition is poised to squeak back into power by the narrowest of margins .
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in russia and around the world this is all see with me thanks for joining us. these really prime minister isn't the you are us and he says to tell the truth in the face of sweet talk and lot of smiles which is how he described the iranian leader's recent speech at the u.n. then him in the town yahoo is concerned about the consequences of a historic phone call between honey and bronco bomb a middle east correspondent policy explains why. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the united states where he will be meeting with the american president barack obama and also addressing the united nations general assembly the focus of that address and his meetings will be on iran and here the israeli prime minister's message is quite simple don't trust the rain ians netanyahu has ordered his government members not to give comments regarding the
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recent phone call between the radian and american presidents in fact he's ordered them not to talk at all regarding the whole issue of iran and this is presumably to avoid any kind of embarrassment while natanya who is in the united states and also for israel to seemingly present a united front prior to leaving israel for new york netanyahu said that he was going to use this opportunity at the united nations to show the truth about to rant particularly now while all these plays in trees are being said last week when the rainy and president rouhani addressed the united nations general assembly netanyahu criticized that addressed severely saying that was full of hypocrisy and cynicism at the time he ordered the israeli delegation to boycott the station and warned the international community not to be fooled by signs of so-called moderation by the way in government we will not be fooled by half measures that merely provide a smokescreen for your rants continual pursuit of nuclear weapons. and the world
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should not be full. understanding the israeli internal security vission bit announced that it had a wasted a built in citizen with a rainy an r. region for allegedly spying against israel now the incident happened already three weeks ago but the information has only now been released while netanyahu is in the united states and of course questions are being asked about its timing many are suggesting that it is to store up ammunition for netanyahu his position at position that he's going to be putting across in the united states it also kinds at a time when the first time in decades we see a warming in the relationship between the united states and iran now rouhani in his address last week also called for a new creek middle east it's highly unlikely that these radios will ever agree to this israel has never admitted having nuclear weapons but at the same time it has never denied that it does policy on our team tel aviv. unless you get more
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perspective on this and professor sayyid mohammad marandi from the university of tehran joins me now live professor marandi welcome to aussie great to see here so is it possible you're saying that president rouhani is a diplomatic channel could possibly create a gap between obama and netanyahu just six months after the u.s. president's reconciliation visit to israel. well remains to be seen when the effect it has on the american political establishment i think it has had a major effect. in other parts of the world and it has had an effect i'm sure on parts of the american population despite the fact that. the corporate media and the political establishment is very close to the israeli regime but with regard to the accusations that hamas has been made by the israelis the iranians
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have in fact been saying for a few weeks now we're expecting something some fabricated story from the israelis to disrupt any potential for a rapprochement with the iranians have been saying for many years now is in fact that it's in the interests of both the united states as well as iran to improve relations based on mutual respect but that the united states is not so far it has not been pursuing its own interests rather it's been sacrificing the interests of its people for the interests of the israeli regime right and this latest u.n. general assembly has also proved the rain and us presidents can actually talk without resorting to threats or mutual accusations do you think that israel should be concerned. well israel should be concerned in the sense that it has been dishonest for two decades now mr.
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obama i think and other american leaders have been hearing and previous presidents have been hearing for almost two decades now netanyahu claiming that the iranians are going to develop a nuclear weapon in two or three years this two or three years has been going on for almost twenty years it's like. a record player that started just keeps repeating in this itself reveals the dishonesty of the prime minister in this raving regime. obama i think and the american political leaders know quite well that iran does not have a nuclear weapons program iran never had a nuclear weapons program the international atomic energy agency has never made any accusation directed towards iran about how iran having a nuclear weapons program in fact we all know that the only country in this region that has nuclear weapons is the israeli regime the only country that practices apartheid is the israeli regime and the only country that will have chemical weapons in a year's time from now is the israeli regime whose attorney on his visit to the us
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a well timed from your point you need to try and win back some political points. well obviously. his obsession with iran is. quite deep and his when president rouhani was initially elected he called the iranian president wolf in sheep's clothes so that he sort of language is what is to be expected from israeli prime minister i don't think it's going to be very difficult for him to persuade some people because in the united states. the corporate media is very much in the hands of the political establishment and congress in the senate is very close to. the regime but i think if american political leaders take note of what happens during the syria issue and how opposed
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the american people are now to confrontation in military attacks. then they will choose a more reasonable approach when it comes to iran because after all they couldn't convince their own people about syria iran is a much much stronger country and on the other hand the americans have isolated themselves internationally over syria so it would be best for the united states to really think a different approach to treat you one with respect to recognize iran's rights as an independent country its right to enrichment for peaceful purposes and to ignore israeli provocations right professor said now on in iran to from the university of tehran professor thank you very much indeed for your time and your perspective thank you think. i'll step back in time on our web site see dot com to see how a year ago netanyahu angered iran with his explosive address to the u.n. general assembly to go to see dot com. and i during the school is turned into
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a bloodbath by some of africa's most radical islamic and coming out were for holding terrorists within the continent and discuss how these networks are interlinks globally. europe and britain are at odds over how free people are to live their lives the u.k.'s prime minister has hinted as the country may pull out of the european convention on human rights saying it's simply too restrictive instead they pan says britain may make a list of its own probably stricter standards and more now with gerard button and their piece for the united kingdom independence party mr boughton welcome to r.c. good to have you with it so your country ratified the european convention on human rights in one thousand nine hundred fifty one why is it too much to bear now. well first of all we conventions actually modeled on english common law so we weren't
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standing up to anything that we didn't already but we now come under the jurisdiction of the european court of human rights which is the response constable for many decisions the british people are unhappy with like our inability to get. foreign terrorist suspects for example and i've said that we have to give christmas the vote of sense that we cannot have life sentences for criminals they must be reviewed so our worst and most approach killers will now have the rights to have their life sentences reviewed now that's all true and the british people don't like it what mr cameron has said is actually well i can't make up my mind whether it shows he's incompetence or he's dishonest because he is saying that our sense of the interview or not i'll just quote what he said here. you know. he was asked if we would withdraw from the european convention on human rights he said well it may be that that is where we are in the quote but he's fundamentally dishonest in this
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. it costs the euro here you cannot be a member of the european union without being a member of the council of europe and you can't be a member of council here unless you've signed up to the european convention on human rights that's one point the second point is that in two thousand and eleven i was writing to the prime minister concerning the e.u. zone a session of the convention under the lisbon treaty because mr cameron was even then making you know noises about the convention and how bad it was the tory party might take written out and i pointed out to him that he had a solution around because for the e.u. to cede to the convention in its own right then it needed a unanimous vote in the council write that letter we're trying to it says understand it. isn't that it would have stopped this in its tracks right and there isn't any other way for the u.k. because it contributes almost hard the budget of the e.u. court of human rights surely a compromise can be found well you can't have your court you know you're justice
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system in a country it's over written by the european court and. your sovereign country knocks. how. should it be in making it increasingly unpopular with the british people so the only solution is to actually leave it to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the european court of human rights and you can't do that and be a signature to the european convention and be a member of the european union so if mr cameron was genuine which he's not he would have the predicate means that we have to leave the european union as well as remove ourselves from his jurisdiction in a matter aren't you afraid that britain's withdrawal might have a knock on effect sparking more to leave what would then happen to one of the world's most respected courts. is it well respected when it reaches the kind of decisions that we've had which it's a completely anti commonsensical you know he hasn't done us any favors we had a person a good legal system before we. signed up to this and as i said the convention
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itself was modeled on english common law you've got countries where the it's it's human rights blake who blatantly. ignore it and then you cloak at countries like greece rumania hungry the way they treat their prisoners markets first experience of this with my own constituents so i cannot agree as prisons and when we the lawyers in a court said that you know it's it's obvious that our clients human rights are going to be abused under the prison systems in those countries the english court has decided well we can't consider that because news countries are signatories of the european convention on human rights therefore it cannot happen even though we know perfectly well it is happening so i don't see how that kind of thing benefits anybody countries will either observe civilised values or they were many countries in the not quite up to that standard get it right and all this is done for us as actually mean we've had all these kind of idiotic you see asians that we're obliged
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to do that here it's are ok to enter our button and they pay for the united kingdom independence party thank you very much indeed for your time your welcome. this central coalition legs to have a squad to back into power in sunday's parliamentary election in australia but a right wing party has had a field day scooping up a quarter of the oval and as i say space on our reports now from here now it's part of a strong movement towards the rice that is so we think you are. but it looks likely that the coalition of the social democrats and the people's party will continue to rule here in austria however the most interesting thing to come out of sunday's vote was the rice and popularity of the far right freedom party they come paying by saying that they wanted to see an end to bailouts of failing economies in europe using austrian taxpayers money also they wanted to see a restructuring or even
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a and a but i getting rid of the the single currency to all of those things appealing to the the austrian votes are right now but it's just one of the right wing parties across europe that have been gaining popularity across the european union we've seen in norway a right wing government there coming to power based on immigration promises promises to cap immigration in the country also in sweden the rise in the right wing we saw just earlier this year riots in the region of stockholm they were based on the on the immigration mostly we've seen politicians there campaigning hard on all the anti immigration stand point also in hungary we've seen the the rights of right wing parties what we are seeing is an increase in the right wing parties in countries in europe becoming the legitimate third party pushing the the established political status quo all of these though showing that across europe as
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the eurozone crisis doesn't seem to be going away any where traditionally the working classes who perhaps would have voted to the left or the center left and now turning towards the right. and barbara cohn from the austrian a konami center believes people are sick of their hard earned year is being wasted outside the country. well there trust the politicians in brussels any more they don't trust our austrian to the decision makers what they do there they don't believe they find the right solutions when after all it's just. a redistribution on a supranational level it's austrian tax euros that go to other countries and are just washed down the drain i think you just said a couple of politicians thinking and over walk their past solutions that after all it has only prolong the problems this is definitely what the people see and it has not come to any solutions as
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a matter of fact that that's grew bigger and bigger and higher so the next generations will suffer and this is what those twenty five percent obviously have in mind. and coming out but united in hardship on ash fall should be is go in search of a means to survive moving to rule areas and forming communities to help each other deal with the economic fallout. a bloodbath at a college in nigeria saw up to fifty people executed during the night with gunmen walking down to dorm as panic students ran for their lives is believed to be the work of nature is dominant islamist terrorist cell the group has increasingly been targeting schools and is believed to have killed up was stopped a see people last week alone and move and african conflicts analysts who's worked with the un says they wave of attacks on the continent can be traced back to saudi arabia. i think we haven't tackled the central or the terrorism central which is
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derived from saudi arabia the ideology and the logistics are all coming out of saudi arabia and unless the world wakes up to the fact that we have to go and tackled this at the root of the problem then we'll see an increased offer tax across africa like we've seen recently in kenya and now in nigeria they are different groups they probably don't cooperate within africa but they they are being supplied logistically in terms of training and finance by by a central group in saudi arabia including members of the monarchy i might add. convictions accidents and bar res says it is them who are victims not the state coming out bush has to say they were brutally tortured in confinement and all the government one says to break the oppositional strangle. green peace process at a russian oil rig in the arctic is ruled a real threat to workers on back with him and the latest on the legal battle coming
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up shortly.
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leave. little. welcome back see she is sentenced by a bahraini court on sunday have accused the government of be saying and electrocution. but the authorities say they are all part of an illegal opposition group linked to terrorists twenty of the fifty people put behind bars were tried in absentia while those present plan to appeal and sayyid use of. head of the monitoring and bahrain center for human rights told aussie what that group discovered about police tactics. we as
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a human rights group we are appalled to go on a daily basis is the. message from security forces the house on a daily basis roky the. people inside the homes sometimes stealing money and also what's happening on the ground. in the city. center. and seven to give the building waterfalls going for all those people who are now. they are subject to this is not allowed to do you know not enough to talking to their family or. for many days something from a few hours to one week nobody knows about. before a reform movement has been alive in bahrain for more than two years now let's have
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a look at how it's been fairing and over that time almost one hundred people have been killed in violence and three thousand arrested the first major anti-government protests started back in february twentieth leben on the wave of the arab spring uprisings the authorities chose to break up with force apparently the rest was so bahraini rulers had to call saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to ask for military house in april the sunni led government ordered a demolition of mosques only fueling anger of the majority and new approach has led to the authorities banning all demonstrations in october two thousand and twelve also six people were arrested for insulting the king on twitter the opposition was also outraged by a decision to allow the return of the formula one grand prix race in bahrain accusing the government of using it as a cover up for abuses and more than one hundred of the most prominent accidents
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have been put behind bars in the country including now be seen as the main protest figure in the country and he called a three year sentence that. russian investigators will form a special commission to look into a greenpeace precious and they are this month environmentalist attempted to board a russian oil rig leading to accusations from there so it is that they were a threat to their lives a while because and training equipment and he's an exchange transfer now live with more on the story of how that exchange how's the legal battle unfolding that the investigation is still continuing we understand that specialists from the investigative committee of the russian prosecutor general's office are now on board the arctic's arctic sunrise vessel are searching the ship they've already seized documents and equipment on board that ship to determine what the intentions of the greenpeace activists were on september eighteenth when they tried to board the oil rig in the bar in the sea they also shed some light on what exactly happened then
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according to the security forces at the oil rig when the boat when the arctic sunrise breached the five hundred meter perimeter around the oil rig the security asked them to turn back and that they were actually breaching private property the arctic sunrise ship refused to do so and then the activists tried to get on board the oil rig with security had to use force and detain those activists then as it stands they are accused of piracy they are not officially charged with piracy yet it is a very serious charge in russian dealing up to fifteen years in prison. and when to stand at the greenpeace organization themselves they are still mostly denying any kind of accusations saying that this was a peaceful protest they were not trying to deliver any harm to the oil rig while the investigators have every reason to believe that their actions could have led to serious threat to the lives of the employees of the oil rig and to its equipment so eventually charges may be replaced with breach of private property and endangering
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the lives of the personnel of the oil rig well of course we'll see how that unfolds in the next seventy to seventy two hours this will be more or less clear meanwhile thirty greenpeace activists remain in detention in the mormon. the citizens of brazil the netherlands sweden the united kingdom and ukraine so it's an interesting story but of course we're keeping track of what's happening in the nor the russian will obviate our viewers with the latest details as we get. a lie with more details on that one falling story alexei thank you very much indeed. the decision to resort to austerity has returned to bite the coalition government of portugal who've suffered defeat in local elections that the country is likely to see a third consecutive year of recession and tax hikes and job cuts are forcing people to find new ways to survive as safir through paul. allen tasia a sparse beautiful part of portugal and one of the country's poorest regions the
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rural communities here are used to people moving out economic flights having been a reality here for many generations but since the crisis hit villages like campbell reyes has seen people needing in here a small communes formed. anna and her two children have been here for a year because story is one that will be familiar with many families not just in portugal but all across europe have lost. the money that. it's nothing to. unable to pay the mortgage on her house and sought help from a charity called gaia they put her in touch with this small commune he found her free accommodation in return for working on the house. turning the
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table trying another way around seven families are part of this group and all members of the commune chip in. and brick by brick and her family of building a new life here we're told the community here is based on a mix of free enterprise solar darity communal sharing and co-operative trade of a move from the city to here a couple years ago. so we are still like trying to find our place here we have well we have this little jobs of course it's very. it's not something you have a strong link to a source of income you are like. spring time to. get by growing your own things in living off the land might seem but that's the thing about this situation is that many of the people who have come here like our
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ordinary people he stated the extraordinary difficulties the euro quite is the presented them with so alternative ways of getting by and much like the euro crisis itself but showing signs of slow recovery the big question is is this sustainable it's clear this is no easy existence money's tight and children have to travel thirty kilometers each day to get to school the nearest hospital one hundred kilometers away remote regions like this have been hard hit by cuts to public services. like this. surviving not leaving me here and when i ask if she misses her old life and her job as a lighting technician in the theater yes because when i have the opportunity to make something near to my. aerial work.
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i feel that i can do it. well and i feel really safe and. to be able to preclude for me. this. works like this that the people who've. gone to me appear to do the singing for the their life more. so r.t. portugal's island takes you region. and coming out they'll see reports on the legal battles being fought in india for access to cheaper lifesaving medicine to stay with us for that. reason.

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