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there are out. there. america's national security agency is accused of listening into you know conversations of thirty five world leaders further complicating relations between the u.s. and its allies. leave notes on the man we don't see we don't want to be apart from the n.s.a. spying scandal is also faced with the flow of illegal immigration from war torn countries which has been plaguing a number of european countries. and american protestors rage against police brutality as a notorious pepper spraying cop walks away with cash compensation all was equal to what his victims received.
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live from moscow this is r t you're with me to bomb would say it's good to have your company with us and is going to be with you let's take a look at our top story. the n.s.a. have been spying on thirty five world leaders that's according to the most recent revelations from the agency leaker edward snowden european leaders have lashed out against washington's practices calling them and unacceptable breach of trust artists are reports of the latest document that edward snowden that provided the guardian we do see some some more insight into the process of how this global surveillance was actually working and the fact that it had spied on the thirty five world leaders is one side of the matter on the other hand it would also encourage a senior officials belonging to departments such as the white house the state department or the pentagon to share their contacts with them encouraging them to give the phone numbers of these people that they wanted to spy on and put them on
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this surveillance list and also what's interesting that came out of this document is also the fact that it was a knowledge that the eavesdropping the listening in on these hundreds of people of thirty five world leaders actually did not produce much it produced quote unquote little reportable intelligence and also it's had some very real consequences already going up to the legislative level in the e.u. for example would be a parliament backing a new rules to restrict the flow of data to the united states and also every piece now calling for a suspension of a u.s. bank deal talks very angry leaders coming from europe for example you know the leaders would be germany said chancellor angela merkel having called the u.s. president barack obama to ask for an explanation because of the suspicions that her phone was being monitored we also know that french president francois lot had that asked for explanations on why seventy million french citizens were being spied on.
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the recent revelations i have said washington into another spin of damage control u.s. government officials reported reportedly now have to let foreign intelligence agencies know what further information edward snowden might possess foreign relations and security expert benoit can bog points out how the whistleblower has brought the spotlight on the issy's of the surveillance state this is the classic fire wantin to on the one truck. you know trying to plug a particularly recontacted on the other turned also disclosing to a certain extent how much the. other powers and i think this is the classic double bind so washington is finding it so that at the moment a lot of this is embarrassing and i think at the end of the jury also made it clear that he's very sensitive to the security implications of what do you also discloses that he's trying to demonstrate the problem of the surveillance state rather than
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the more sensitive material that might be arising instead of that intelligence gathering procedures the place on a daily basis. we're closely watching all the developments are related to the n.s.a. scandal log on to our website at r.t. dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis. america's spine practices are not the only is he on the minds of the european leaders gathered in brussels for the summit but as a flow of illegal immigrants is said to be discussed two weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean dollar bill went to discover how those who are hardly welcome build a new life away from home. we have feed we are not anymore we have feeling we all want to be jobless homeless and thousands of kilometers from home this is the reality for refugees who were forced to flee violence in libya and twenty eleven
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there is no option not even allowed to work in germany since i've been to germany i just slip and it's what i do they arrived in europe through its early however the italian authorities told them they couldn't stay and sent them packing with five hundred euros and give me some money i should go bank and collect the money i have the right to go anywhere what i want to go soy just to leave it like yeah to live it to live because it leaves disaster on the european law it's really shouldn't have done that it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away it's left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is getting next friday and the five hundred year is finished can't go back i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my documents. fall far for over a year more than five hundred from all over sub-saharan africa being packed into
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this camp in the german capital i don't. know how you put it if they'd been working in libya when colonel gadhafi was toppled in the nato backed war the documents these people have gives them access to basic medical care nothing else mentions it in now in berlin and it's up to germany to find a solution to their problems we're trying to get them residents grammont so for now there is no long term solution they have no right to work no right to social housing and a force to live on handouts there's a feeling in the camp that e.u. members who took part in the twenty eleven action against libya have a responsibility to help i see this is the problem of order to appear you do because this italian it lol. that you did you. are distributing we. have bigger you want to die as germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a city park these people came here because they were fleeing violence but in
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running for their lives they found themselves stuck in limbo here in the e.u. peter all over r.t. . right coming up on r t turning upside down. genocide watch. right now we're the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killing stories fall in south africa fears of a reverse apartheid on the rise among the what we're going to that shortly. followed rage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality has spilled onto the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators vented fury and allegedly racial profiling and excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as artie's marine about my report says some police officers even
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cashing in on controversies they spot. the next u.s. law enforcement official to face off against unarmed peaceful protesters may easily get away with brutalizing them and even be rewarded afterwards remember that horrifying video of a university police officers spraying pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground will that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars in workman's compensation john pike sued the university of california davis claiming he suffered from depression and anxiety was brought on by death threats against him and his family following the two thousand and eleven incident last week a judge approved the thirty eight thousand and fifty nine dollars worker's compensation award settlement between pike and u.c. davis now initially pike was placed on paid administrative leave after pepper spraying u.c. davis students during
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a protest in support of occupy wall street he was fired eight months later however an internal university investigation concluded that he acted appropriately a u.c. davis student we spoke with expressed shock over the lucrative award doled out for police brutality. what the pepper spray led to was not following orders and they wanted us to be an example for what you shouldn't do as a student and they wanted to put fear into people and it pretty much worked i remember after the pepper spray happened i went home and was deeply afraid of ever protesting again the police a slap on the wrist maybe for a moment awarded later if people are like we got money like that was a good thing when really he would stop putting like trauma and fear and weapon on other incidents of police brutality extend from the west all the way to the east
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coast of the united states. month here in new york city police officers attacked students who were protesting visiting professor position given to axe cia director david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were hunched slams on the ground and six students were arrested jailed and arraigned on charges of obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct however there's been no reports of the officers involved being penalized or charged with misconduct according to the latest confirmed figures there are close to one thousand four hundred federal civil rights cases pending against the new york city police department reporting from new york. r.t. . well the issue of saurian police brutality is also breaking the said that the team takes a closer look into in just under twenty minutes. that's right john
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pike the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars in worker's compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june filed a claim with the university seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate releasing an entire can of mace on a group of students can really give you a case of pretty bad p.t.s.d. in fact maybe we should start giving all the cops who participated in occupies a brutal crackdown on protesters comp money watching old ladies cry and dirty hippies bleed from their head as a result of your actions can really take a toll on one's mental health so make sure to give a shed a tear for john pike today and let's go break this. the country that overcame the ugly era of a party atmosphere by some to be sliding back into the dark parts and south
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africans white population that's not to be becoming a victim of racism policy it investigates. is preparing for genocide against his people his plans are in place his community is ready to flee but we've been planning for eight years it started simple the idea was to give people an option we've divided the country into twenty seven provinces and divided those further into groups each group has its own plans. since one thousand nine hundred four when south africa elected its first black government with nelson mandela to home into power more than three thousand white farmers are said to have been murdered relatives claim finding and prosecuting the culprits has never become a priority of the south african police. when south africa's president jacob zuma sang the song last year many off economists saw it as another nail in the coffin sealing their fate there are some
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three million afrikaners who live across south africa descendants of primarily northern europeans who arrived in the country three to four centuries ago genocide watch. right now we're the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killing stores cost of more land his team are afraid they will seven could start any moment a form intelligence office in the south african army it was easy for good stuff to read the warning signs. we have believers and in our bible it says if you notice warning signs you must convey it if you don't you will have blood on your hands. as head of the movement gustav has established a countrywide operation with more than one hundred safe areas the idea is that when the alert is given people will be notified by islamists each will drive to a meeting point from where they will travel in convoy to pre-designated safe areas one of the main centers is here in south africa's fourth oldest town craftsman it
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the death of nelson mandela is a risk scenario he's a political icon and his passing could see violence flaring up again from a legally sanctioned economic discrimination against whites to the thousands of far murders targeting afrikaners the problems are only getting worse according to the safe lenders as many as eight hundred thousand white mostly offer konstantin south africans support the movement many have already begun collecting blankets and other emergency provisions wendy macfarlane is a mother who worries for her son's future she joined us eight hundred because it gives her some control of a situation she'd otherwise feel powerless about on the breaks are there is a place i can go where i can be safe i joined to give my son and myself a place to go likely forefathers' the safe and as well to fight for their country and while the south african government is aware of their efforts it hasn't commented policy or r.t.
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half when it eastern cape south africa. where you see me clinton and still see a spokesperson for the south african a party says the problem lies in an entirely different area. at the moment so that because one of the most politically stable countries in the entire world take into consideration that we are able to maintain. political stability with the things that cause wars in other countries so i don't think that there are any tensions except in the economic sense the african national congress government has just me appreciate it. racialized forms only sheep and the. qualities unemployment and sought the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people. will always have plenty more stories for you on our website including until one.
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russian arms manufacturers have unveiled a new machine gun capable of firing both in the water and on land hit r.t. dot com for the full story. so new region town deprived of sunlight during the winter has plays giant mirrors on top of surrounding mountains that will be more light into the literature of the locals on our website we have all the details . right to see. her street. and i think. on a record. low
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people are worried and they will be worried if when we looked to islamic leaders such as when we saw the different islamic leaders iranian president said in the. your freedom for the woman's womb is that this is not things that we say and you can just go in knowing you can listen to even shelagh malik in this country he was a like he was the second in charge of gordon brown in a speech he says in two thousand when we had one mission in paper in two thousand and two mr matthews in two thousand. and six thousand to ten muslim in peace he says within twenty years every m.p. in this country would be muslim and in between saying these things he says inshallah which is ally with choice and his allies were allies within the. government and then he says he is a prime ministership prime minister of this country the chair off right now that's what he said in the way of what they say. deliberate george is on a big journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through
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to remember the cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand coming. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others made. a living torch relay. on our. phone to stay with us here on r.g.p. from all new ten years ago so one of the memories publicized arrests in russia that of type tycoon off scheme he's been tried by the media as both a model and a villian is going up as he had to cut through the spin. you go i'm odd and a villain take us through that story well she was the richest man in russia and one
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of the wealthiest in the world while his oil company you gross was one point you was just in the country because of course he was also involved in different business other business projects. youth projects as well then suddenly in two thousand and three he's arrested and then found guilty of fraud sentenced to nine years behind bars then in a separate criminal case against him along with his former business partner but on the video for that of course he is found guilty of money laundering and embezzlement and his sentence is extended to two thousand and seventeen and up to this the. remains one of the most controversial figures in russia his fierce criticism of the kremlin gained lots of supporters and critics here in the currency while in the west he is widely presented as a victim of political repression for more on the western image of russia's former will take on here's a report by my colleague. today major media outlets in the west portray me.
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as a victim of politics but back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the same albums presented a different picture of the former oil tycoon. that of a man who used dodgy and elaborate schemes designed to evade taxes and stripped his company's minority shareholders of their profits be used every trick in the book in one thousand nine hundred nine u.s. outlets were writing about how low russia fell letting the yukos oil company operate the way he did about yukos his actions being a major of french to foreign investors they were asking why isn't the russian government stepping in to her because he's played this game i mean at the moment he's crying out of the rule of law but in the ninety's when it suited him. he ignored it or manipulated the system to his advances but around the year two thousand cut off started working to repair his tainted image abroad he invited
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international auditors started pouring millions of dollars into lobbying in london and washington former secretary of state henry kissinger it became an honorable trustee of the open russia foundation set up and financed by the scheme and from the bad boy of russia's bandit capitalism in the eyes of the west transformed quickly into a man who the world could do business with around the time of his arrest in two thousand and three the tycoon was in the process of selling a quarter of you closest oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron sensually all of the wealth of russia's oil and raw materials resources would have been transferred to western shareholders of which carter kosky was a major shareholder. russia could not afford this. and here in the us the attitude of the media towards mikhail from the books he seems to have changed to win. the realisation that the west benefitted work could have benefited from his
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actions in washington i'm going to show. more news from around the world now a blast at a suite of factory in northern mexico has killed one person and left at least forty others injured of around twenty people are still missing it's all the explosion happened on of the second floor of the building and cause the ceiling to collapse rescue teams are now at the scene searching for survivors. reason students are clashing into the spanish capital madrid thursday night after a day of mass demonstrations across the country several people with said to be arrested and injured that's after a thousand poured onto the streets protesting against austerity cuts by university fees and education reforms over half a year of young people in spain are unemployed as a cash strapped government has cut public spending across the board. saying in
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madrid crowds of ride wing protesters were demonstrating against the release of a convicted militant innocent del rio a member of the basket separatist group etta was sentenced to almost all for four years four thousand years in prison or four years in prison or after taking part in twenty three murders but she was free this thursday after spanish authorities upheld a ruling against had attention by the european court of human rights the spanish government offices dozens of other convicted at a members could be eligible. in the us been taken into custody after a shooting near navy base in the state of tennessee two soldiers were wounded but not critically security forces are briefly put the base in lockdown but later we opened it officials say the suspects believed to be an army recruiter who had earlier been relieved of his treaties. as bahraini authorities
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continue their crackdown on dissent over a wide control tactics are being experienced the u.k. based human rights group has leaked documents revealing the government's plans to have a huge amount of tear gas shipped into the country now according to the documents the ministry of defense has placed an order for almost one point six million tear gas canisters but this number exceeds the number of the entire bahrain population which is one point two million our government has been extensively using the gas to suppress the opposition with reports of people's homes or even places of worship been hit since the start of the uprising in two thousand and eleven tear gas has been responsible for almost forty deaths that's according to the human rights activists now it's also importantly to blame for miscarriages blindness and serious breathing problems human rights activists are. it's no surprise the governments are running out of the tear gas. bahrain's been leading
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a campaign of spiral spiraling repression since two thousand and eleven and the number one technique or weapon but they've been using for the with for us in is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised it's starting to run out because they've been firing. an estimated one hundred shots a night on villages civilians on civilians on protesters men women and children under the same boat like you said we've recorded over thirty nine deaths from the excessive use of tear gas and part of these deaths are direct body shots on the head and neck. coming up next breaking the sat with every mountain to stay with us here on our team.
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. i just want to keep building in saudi arabia and iran to find millions of millions of pounds. in this country. where we have a. sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these woods which is encouraging complete non integration within the society. with economic downturns in the final months. and the rest.
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will be. a. good lover touring. to build a new. found anything mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. woods good folks welcome to break in this is that i'm filling in for abby martin i remember the viral video that came out of the height of the occupy movement you know the one showing a cop at u.c.
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davis pepper spraying a line of students. i . don't have it right. pretty brutal right well good news justice is finally been served that's right john pike the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars in workers' compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june pike filed a claim with the university seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage ok i can totally relate see releasing an entire can of mace on a group a lazy students can really give you a case of pretty bad p.t.s.d. in fact maybe we should start giving all the cops who participated in occupies a brutal crackdown on protesters comp money watching old ladies cry and dirty hippies bleed from their head as a result of your actions can really take
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