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those it's all been talking about the official says this is just. believe the outrage is real do stay with us for the full. the world's top headlines. this is. a welcome to today's program a key gas pipeline in syria has been blown up leaving much of the country without power for several hours the government accused the rebels of sabotage middle east correspondent. as the very latest on. well we're just hearing. in damascus who says that power has been restored to the

country but this follows a night of panic in which need capital city damascus was plunged into darkness there were also huge parts of aleppo in the north and the west of the country that were in blackout after rebels hit a gas pipeline not far from damascus that supplies power to the south of the country by all accounts this does seem as if it was a well planned orchestrated effort that had been in the making for quite some time there was also a military checkpoint in the west that came under fire there were casualties there there was also a church in the town of dumas that was bombed this in addition to the two main squares in damascus these are the squares of my yard and other c.n.n. and they were also hit by mortar shells not i visited the town of young walk which is on the front line from where i filed this report.

and this is the on more cell to damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today ten percent remain the price of room discounts acutely here where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. lee betrayed us we cannot trust them anymore eight days ago and his wife came home for ten long months they'd lived on the streets not once giving up the hope they'd return this is what way to be and the will come we are coming to kill you bashar scribbled on the walls whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and build them again it could not be worse than this. for one year syria's palestinians managed to stay out of the conflict but the infiltration of foreign fighters with big dreams and even bigger promises of money forced the residents of young men to choose sides and take up

arms against people they've known their whole lives. and i have some friends fighting on the other side we're not friends anymore the ones we displaced those from our house and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with more each day a bomb only leaves to fight them but not before he struck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these political little boys is as dangerous as it is outside his two sons as vulnerable as their mother every time the father walks out the door but it's always a painful farewell all movie carefully helps her husband prepare for battle she knows he needs to go but each time he leaves behind the same an onset question. every day when he says goodbye i wonder if you will come back or not like when he

got injured he didn't come back i want to find him in hospital there are a lot of men like him and women like me but not a lot of fighters have bought their families back to yarmulke the snipers are in shooting range and three days earlier shrapnel from a bullet blinded up to maurice left eye but the thirty three year old doesn't have a choice he has nowhere else to move his family and while the southern part of your milk is still in the hands of the rebels his home or what remains of it has been freed by palestinians who like a bomb or we are fighting alongside the syrian army and. when i go to the battlefield my mind is always with my family and i hope i will come back safe to them to take care of them and i pray that if i get more teared they will find tender people to look after america. the frontline is now two streets away but and he's come maids the battle hits closer to home each time they take aim to

secure the streets for the families often it's a neighbor friend and sometimes even a brother who is pointing a gun back at them twenty c r t. syria. and international inspectors are in syria at the moment overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and the facilities designed to build them some are wondering whether the nationwide power shortage could be an attempt to try and undermine their work the attack in damascus today the shutdown of damascus the power outage this is a terrorist act and right now john kerry's very happy chuck hagel is very happy president obama is happy this is what their policy is is to fund and finance and coordinate through the joint special operations command and the cia this kind of terrorist actions against the people of syria they may be partly designed to carry out a disruption of their weapons inspections because other weapons inspectors have had all kinds of trouble getting into areas that are under the rebels control where

chemical weapons we nisshin seem to have been used there's been lots of near misses mortar attack shell means and other kinds of military. disruptions of the weapons inspectors program and much of it and i think almost all of it is coming from the rebel side because perhaps they have something to hide like from moscow it's r.t. it was the most maligned jail on the planet guantanamo bay keeps its affairs and scandals on the ropes and r.t. found out just how far they'll go to make sure nothing gets out as artie's and as i see it the rest of our camera crew visited the facility they sent us this report but only after it was heavily censored by kuantan imo bay prison stuff. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions

under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garner we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media or local media or whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talk to on the ground we as journalists access to detainees aside are asked to be very careful about the shots we filmed all the backdrops and at the end of each day videos are reviewed and any shots deemed unacceptable are deleted this one will be ok because palm trees are not too controversial remind you of any frowned upon seaward like censorship it's in this

series the program established to our. program accomplished within regulations sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones are banned from camps we're not supposed to put anything on facebook or anything like that or you know even worry about talking about it over the you know anything over the phone this said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of getting the operations of the detainees you know make it their mission so we try to photograph them to take down we are warned violations of media ground rules may result in restricted access denial of future visits and or removal from guantanamo bay if people just kind of mislabeled it and i have a call that a call for be just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is os and the detainees and getting the detainees side of what goes on and get most apparently just couldn't be done after an extensive explanation of how exactly we are to film the prisoners the amount of detainee face

time we get a total of one minute and five seconds through a dark glass window the reason we're given out of respect for them and not using them is as you know. you know. making them some kind of curiosity you know on film a thing like that we don't want to do that despite our requests to not even film but at least witness more real prison or life a high ranking guantanamo admiral convinces us that we actually have a lot more access than we think you're seeing what there is to to see you know. given the amount of time that you have here to to see if we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up i think i mean they they were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things run their will since we're not really being allowed to close to the detainees this might be the closest glimpse of their life we might be

getting today we're being told the that these are the meals that they're offered on a daily basis. we're also taken to the only local radio station all made up like zombies in the audience military personnel serving at the base do you do any news related to the time of detention camp. like. that. public media because. you know there's enough journalists over there covering that music sports and talk radio pure infotainment rains here. and so we learn there we're not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. and you've now seen what it's like for journalists visiting guantanamo but it's about lawyers representing inmates so it's much harder. represents a number of detainees she says regulations leave her unable to even mention the alleged torture of her clients the walls and regulations that are governing the

military commissions are incredibly confining for defense counsel they're subject to very strict protective orders that require them to keep classified information classified so for example the lawyers representing the men accused in the notes or the men now call the nine eleven five. they are seeking to disclose facts of their client's torture to various international tribunals and they're unable to do that right i mean there's there's no doubt that the u.s. government the gauged in torture it's a it's it's publicly known it's right and there are unable to do that because they can't share with their clients have told them with these outside decision makers and fact finders. well i. should say to tell you exactly what happens in guantanamo bay prison the allegations of torture physical and legal

mistreatment all the cover ups as well the findings online right now at all it's a dot com a lot of news still to come for you in this program for example trade with the west and the east the ukraine's attempts for the best of both worlds trouble. also the american media gets its teeth. a russian diplomat based in the u.s. something he's labeled as. and the echo of the cold war. this is the media leave us so we leave maybe. potions to cure. the.

shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politic you . couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. videos for your media project free media. i. thought for moscow it's odds he the car is a report soon but for now it is being reported in america the head of

a russian cultural exchange program is being investigated by the f.b.i. the security agency reportedly looking into his alleged spy activities a short while ago i spoke about it with the reno excuse me on tuesday we're not going to go at this point we know that there are several outlets and american news outlets which are saying that the f.b.i. is looking into the hundred thirty people roughly who have gone there to russia on the cultural exchange program over the last twelve years the head of the exchange program you decisive is now being investigated as a man who have who have been viewing these young up and coming americans as possible intelligence assets the man himself the results of had this to say on the subject matter it's some kind of witch hunt we pursue young boys and girls that have gone to russia demanding to be told to watch the hows and whys they're trying to instill a fear of russia in american society there is no concrete evidence of misters eyes of guilt presented by the f.b.i.

but we do know at this point that they have found it suspicious that those who have gone on trips to russia again on a cultural exchange program i must remind you that those who have gone on these programs have stayed in comfortable hotels have gone to various russian cities such as moscow and st petersburg and have on occasion even met with some people from the mayoral circles we do have this reaction from the russian embassy in the united states let's have a listen. such horror stories a reminder of cold war days it's a blatant attempt to distort the two parties of the russian cultural center whose goal is to develop trust and cooperation between the two countries but so far all this hype is coming just from news outlets f.b.i. themselves are neither confirming nor denying these reports and as we all know really the man in question mr. hudson put been proven guilty and he should remain innocent unless of proven otherwise. all right another day another excuse for the

n.s.a. spying activities fresh from having to make an apologetic phone call to france barack obama has now had to speak to germany's angela merkel to explain the report suggesting that her mobile phone was among those under surveillance artie's peter oliver has more on the latest revelations well it just keeps on coming when it comes to who the u.s. allegedly spying on now the latest allegations around the personal mobile telephone of german chancellor angela merkel now there were allegations made that the united states were or had hacked into and was spying on her personal communications now these allegations were taken seriously enough by the german security services the b n d under german chancellor angela merkel herself to prompt or to put a phone call in to president barack obama directly from the white house what we've heard is a statement saying that the united states is not and would not spy on the german chancellor's communications notably from that statement did not say whether

they had done in the past but if you look at the record and what's been coming out about the united states spying program you can see why the german chancellor would be taking this very seriously we've seen allegations of an extensive spying campaign taking place in brazil also likely sheens that over seventy million phone calls we'll listen to in france also when you add to that video communications were apparently being looked at inside the u.n. general assembly and it doesn't seem like there's anybody who is out of reach of the n.s.a. spying program deutsche telekom announced just recently that they would only use internal german servers for german to german e-mail communications to try and cut off any kind of outside access to information it was being to being bandied around within germany to try and stop all trying to assure its customers that it was going to stop the n.s.a. from from getting a hold of their. from a should know we've also seen political action taken the european parliament has

suspended the swift agreement with the united states and that was an agreement that would share banking data it was supposed to try and tackle terrorism to try and stop transfers from one bank account to another that were being used to fund terrorism around the world now it emerges that the n.s.a. may have been using not to spy on european citizens personal data so that's been suspended there is fallout heading the united states is where you as these allegations mounts up that they're watching just about everybody's every move. to you we spoke to christophe forestall a government and business consultant who thinks that even though germany's reaction looks like it's nothing but a joint performance with the u.s. . i don't believe a bit that they were not listening into the mobile phone off german chancellor merkel everybody who is officially german you know who was there when ever he uses the phone when he uses e-mail when it really uses

a cell phone or fixed line doesn't matter what. it is also everything will be listened in that will be recorded is open to spying also our governments will do the same is the other many others down especially of course with him it took a little silly not to accept that that's unacceptable and please americans make sure that this doesn't help them and this is all blah blah you know it all the time count on it this is happening everybody knows it it's all been talk about. this is just for them. and washington's our main justification though of the n.s.a. spying program is that it helps to thwart terror attacks on our website right now you can read a report suggesting the agency's activities were nowhere near as a collective as officials would like the public to me. twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital two to near zero we go where a raid by security services on a house about two hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital has now ended in

a bloodbath after a gunfight broke out with islamist fighters six policemen and one gunman killed in the fighting another officer died in a separate clash with militants north of tunis authorities are cracking down on fighters it says are taking advantage of under arrest in neighboring libya to import arms and launch attacks in tunisia ongoing protests have forced the government to announce it will resign but talks with the opposition on when to hold new elections have been pushed back certainly to the end of this week because of the violence the prime minister of tunisia told r.t. his government's doing all that can do deal with social problems before the new elections are held. handedly led. since the beginning of the revolution in twenty eleven when we were done with the despotism of the heads of state our country started to focus its efforts on democracy after a lengthy dialogue we had successful and legitimate official elections the current constitutional institutions will be temporary until we accept the new constitution

and hold elections under it at the same time since the revolution so far we're solving social and economic problems we managed to achieve some progress in this however these problems have become more complex and require more time but all of africa expert with is rather skeptical the prime minister will go through with his promise to resign despite the increase of often deadly violence the arab spring has obviously failed i mean it's been an arab nightmare really they haven't resolved anything the islamists been strengthened by arms flowing out of libya into the region and we've seen molly's been sucked into this as well a lot of terrorists coming out of libya have been carrying out operations in tunisia and the prime minister has promised to step down which is probably something he doesn't intend to keep a promise he doesn't intend to keep. the youth have had enough of the years of ben

ali's misrule and now these people are delivering the same or before we get to the world update for now it could be the last chance for ukraine and russia to avert a trade war that threatens to sink exports eastward and the leaders of both nations meet today in belo roost ukraine is edging towards a trade pact with europe despite opposition both at home and a from its neighbors artie's alexa chefs he reports on what's at stake. the funeral of independence this is how ukraine's movement but i'd describe the him in signing over an association agreement between kiev and the european union. our government doesn't tell the truth about what will really happen with our economy how it was g.d.p. relies on export and half of it almost evenly split between russia and the european union agriculture bosses are happy believing their goods will be in demand in europe but other vital sectors of industry like machinery are under threat say

economist a railway. can be sold to the european union because the technology is different because the different european union can be substitution for the serious market. goals employed you're probably you can close the spectrum some enterprises in ukraine export up to seventy five percent of what they produce to russia vladimir putin made it clear if key of aligns with the e.u. moscow will take protective action but judging by political course potential economic risks are not worth the sweat there so it will be joining a unity of different values were human rights are protected you will help ukraine sort out its human rights institutions bettors like these are part of longstanding national wide conveying to persuade ukrainians their future lies within the

european union in fact according to the recent opinion polls more than half of the country want to be part of the e.u. and more than forty percent say yes to the association agreement but it will not become a e.u. member anytime soon says ukraine's only recognized you are a skeptic the. association backed would bring only one way benefits no. we are not a human we won't take part in decision making but will have to carry out someone else's decision as ukraine tries to sit on two cheers same both the e.u. and the c.i.s. are regarded as strategic trade directions. refusing that ukraine could enjoy a trade privileges with both the e.u. and russia at once it's very cold the country would feel makes this leap of faith at the eastern partnership summit in view on the remember the twenty eight. reporting from kiev ukraine. now in pakistan secretly supported u.s. drone strikes on its territory despite publicly condemning a top secret cia document obtained by the washington post outlines an agreement on

the program between two thousand and seven and two thousand and eleven islam about received intelligence gained from the strikes with everyone being hailed a success which only killed terrorists despite an unofficial count of almost a thousand civilian lives. and mourners clashed with police at the funeral of a seventeen year old boy capital protesters say the boy was shot in the head by security forces police claim however he was killed by an explosion and wanted for previous attacks office is closed at the main highway and resorted to tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds your position accuses the government of violent crackdowns and have been demanding human rights reforms for the past two years. a plane that was fighting wildfires in southeast australia has crashed causing another blaze a wing is believed to have snapped off the aircraft in the body of the pilot has now been recovered despite the flames hampering the search and rescue efforts to

shoot bushfires in the region are still out of control but an improvement in weather conditions has eased the concerns of a single blaze from forming. quite as i promised. both of them discussing how western countries selling off the state assets just to stay afloat the kaiser report it's coming your way. new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take

a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it's fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at walmart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just my opinion. right

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heading east because for taking down empires stacking is the new sacking oh if only the united kingdom weren't such a second rate nation they'd be more successful like the can do an optimistic chinese so said the u.k. chancellor george osborne while on a trade visit to china of course i was born wasn't referring to his class i.e. the banking class for in china banks caught committing fraud are not hailed by the state as heroes but met by a hail of gunfire from the stick no when george osborne suggested that brits are second rate he was referring to those in the jumper class the sort that jumps off apple factories after months of hard low paid labor now that's first rate to a new liberal potentate right stacy herbert yes max even george osborne is kind of a fair weather friend.