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e.u. leaders aside the lack of trust in relations with the e.u. was stopped at the national security agency was experienced listening in on the phone conversations of thirty five heads of state. of the i mean we don't really know you can be apart from the n.s.a. spying scandal either leaders are also faced with the flow of refugees from walking states which has been putting pressure on a number of european countries but also coming up here on our team. so why don't you put a period to people or and pretty much work on american protesters or reject games of police brutality as notorious happens spraying the cop walks away with cash compensation almost a call to what his victims receive. life
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from moscow you're watching are two you with me on wednesday let's take a look at the top story this hour if your leaders have admitted in a statement that a lack of trust with america could affect the fight against terrorism as follows the latest leaks by whistleblower edward snowden revealed the national security agency had been spying on thirty five world leaders are reports. the latest document that edward snowden there 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 also encouraged 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
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give the phone numbers of these people that they wanted to spy on and put them on this surveillance list and also what's interesting that came out of this document is also the fact that it was acknowledge 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 any piece now calling for a suspension of the us bank deal talks very angry leaders coming from europe for example you know the latest would be germany's 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 asked for explanations on why it seventy million french citizens were being spied on the
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recent revelations have said washington into another spin of damage control u.s. government officials reportedly now have to let foreign intelligence agencies know what further information edward snowden might possess foreign relations and security expert benoit mark says other surveillance state is not the one in the spotlight. this is the classic spiral of wanting to on the one capture or trying to plug a particular leader mcconnell tactic on the other hand 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 the world a lot of this is embarrassing them to avoid think this at the end of the day. also made it clear that he's very sensitive to the security implications of what he also discloses and he's trying to demonstrate the problem of the surveillance state
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rather than the more sensitive material that might be arising in standard intelligence gathering procedures that place on a daily basis. we're closely watching all the developments related to the n.s.a. scandal log on to our website at r.t. dot com for the latest updates and videos and expert and house. america's buying practices are not the only issue on the minds are the european leaders gathered in brussels for the east summit the message of illegal immigrants are said to be discussed a weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean that is key to all of our want to discuss and discover how those who are hardly welcomed build their new lives 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
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violence in libya and twenty eleven there is no option not even allowed to work in germany since i've been to germany i just slip and eat 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 in soya just leave it to livy to leave because it is disaster on the european law it's silly shouldn't of done last 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 expert 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 that 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 with trying to get them residents governments for now there is no long term solution they have no right to work no right to social housing and are forced 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 the guess is that it's a look at lord's. you did you get are distributing we because. the world today is germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in
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a city park these people came here because they were fleeing violence but in running for their lives they found themselves stuck in limbo here in the e.u. peter all over r.t. . outrage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality has spilled on to the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators vented fury at a leisure racial profiling and excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as our teens marion about my report has some police officers even 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 officer spring pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground well that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars
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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 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 ward doled out for police brutality that's 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
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remember after the peppered barry happened i went home and was deeply afraid of ever protesting again the police. on the wrist maybe for a moment awarded later if people are like we got money in a way that was a good thing when really he would still putting like trauma and fear and weapon on other incidents of police brutality extend from the west all the way to the east coast of the united states last month here in. new york city police officers attacks students who are protesting visiting professor position given to axial age erector david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were punched slammed on the ground and six today were arrested jailed and arraigned on charges of obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and
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disorderly conduct however there's been no reports of the officers involved to 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 soy and police brutality is also on breaking the scent the way the team takes a closer look at one particular case. john pike the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars and 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 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
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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 let's go break this. coming up on r. and c. turning upside down. like. a little six. little silver it's really a true story in south africa itself the reverse stop on the rise among the white population and we look into that shortly. also ahead we take a look at the many inconsistency in the portrayal of one of russia's most high profile prisoners to stay with us.
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they just want to keep building allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of building of mosques in this country where they have them addresses where government we have one hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who are being schooled in these were dresses which is encouraging completely on integration within the society. do we speak your language of the will or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries in spanish more matches to you breaking news a little tonnage of angola's kidneys stories. are you here. to try to alter the spanish find out more visit actuality.
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news just to washing our team the country that overcame the ugly era of apartheid is feared by some to be sliding back into the dock possed but now it's south africa's white population that's said to be becoming a victim of racism artie's policy that investigates. cooney movie 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 at their 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
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some packages 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 three million off economists who live across south africa descendants of primarily northern europeans who arrived in the country three to four centuries ago genocide watch. right now where the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killings stalls gustav mahler and his team are afraid they've all seven could start at any moment a form intelligence officer in a 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
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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 half an it 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 farm murders targeting afrikaners the problems are only getting worse according to the safe lenders as many as eight hundred thousand white mostly off the consulate in 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 the say plunders 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 for fathers the satan and his vow to fight for their country
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and while the south african government is aware of their efforts it hasn't commented policy or r.t. half when it eastern cape south africa. quinten and a spokesperson for the south african ear fair party says the problem lies in the entirely different area. at the moment sort of 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 other commission the congress government has just merely appreciate it. every show lies forms of ownership. the. inequalities unemployment and saw the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and
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redistribution that privilege white people on. on r.t. dot com a close encounter recently scientists who rang the alarm bell over an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting earth in twenty thirty true and now watch an astronomer find another celestial body potentially capable of bringing apocalypse to our planet later this century all the details on our website. plus. the no we gen town deprived of song lie during the winter has plagued giant mirrors on top of the surrounding mountains that will be new light into the valley to chair up the locals get on line to get all the details of the glitzy project. right. first street. and i think you're.
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gonna reply. twenty years ago today i saw one of the mays publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon mikhail had that whole ski he's been portrayed by the media as a martyr and a villain i does it obviously mother has been cutting through the spin for us it was the richest man in russia and one of the wealthiest in the world while his or company you guys at one point was the waters in the suddenly in two thousand and three make of that of course he was arrested and then found guilty of fraud and sentenced to nine years then in a separate criminal case against him along with his former business partner but only a bit of that of course he was found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering worth millions and now is expected to be free from jail in two thousand and fourteen to lose the because of it of course he remains one of the more scars of
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racial figures in russia's fierce criticism of the kremlin giving him both supporters and critics here in the country but in the west despite the serious crimes he was found guilty of he's mainly presented as a victim of political repression for more on the western image of russia's former altar call him here is that this report well my colleague in there. today major media outlets in the west portray me. 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 companies 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 they did about yukos his actions being a major affront to foreign investors they were asking why isn't the russian
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government stepping in to her because he's played this game i mean at the moment he's crying over the floor but in the ninety's when it suited him. he noted it or. manipulated the system. his advances but around the year two thousand cut off ski started working to repair his tainted image abroad he invited 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 qatar. 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 christmas oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or
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chevron consensually all of the wealth of russia's oil and grow materials resources would have been transferred to western shareholders of which khodorkovsky was a major shareholder. russia could not afford this. and here in the us the attitude of the media towards me call for the book's key seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefitted world could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to go. the olympic flame has shown it slide on the north pole as part of a special stage of the sortie twenty four team relay something that never has been done before it's also been a record breaking journey in terms of speed and the series that it's ok to nuclear icebreaker exactly eight ninety one hours and twelve minutes to reach the world's mall know the race point in complete darkness during the polar nights knowledge
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team of torch bearers including members from all the arctic nations and if you can follow the relay to you by logging onto our r.t. dot com. more news from around the world now a blast at a a swede factory in north. in mexico has killed one person and left at least forty others injured with many people still missing it's a thought that a boiler exploded on the second floor of the building causing the floor to collapse or three hundred people were inside during the incident and rescue teams are searching for survivors. police and students a clash in the the spanish capital madrid thursday night after a day of mass demonstrations across the country and several people were said to be arrested and injured that's up to a thousand caught on to the streets protesting against austerity cuts higher university fees and education reforms over half of young people in spain are jobless as
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a cash government has cut public spending across the. german police have arrested a thirty six year old man who barricaded himself inside a fast food cafe with twelve other people about the suspect to use of kurdish origin called the police as saying he wouldn't be able to attend a court hearing on a drugs offense then shot himself in the cafe with the relatives and friends stand of loss of for several hours with security forces may go shooting with the men and till he gave himself up. as not raymie authorities continue their crackdown on dissent the wire control tactics are being exposed and you could base human rights group has lead to a documentary reading the government's plans to have a huge amount of tear gas shipped into the country now according to the document the ministry of defense has placed an order for one point six million tear gas
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canisters now the population of the whole way is only one point two million the government has been extensively using the gas to suppress the opposition with reports of people's homes or even places of worship being hit now since the start of the. uprising in twenty eleven tear gas has been responsible for almost forty deaths that's according to human rights activists it's also reported to blame for miscarriages blindness and series of breeding problems human rights activists ahmed at least spoke to us about the warrior statistics orange's been leading a campaign of spiral spiraling repression since two thousand and eleven and the number one technique or weapon that they've been using for the repression is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised it's starting to run out because they've been firing. an estimated of one hundred shots a night on villages civilians on civilians on protesters men women children on the
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disabled like he said we 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. but it is a preserve of safety and care is just a few minutes away here on our t.v. i will see you tomorrow have a good day. 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
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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 is 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. closer
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to being selfish ever not saying migration has always been seen as a way to find a better. money plea from the troubles of your homeland conflicts and economic. migrants talking about stirred up stronger. than your neighbors leave in peace and what should be done for the. spring time. an unprecedented population wave exposing fortress europe's policy failures immigration is changing its challenge in europe polarizing its politics and unsettling its societies how to extremism be
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sidelined and the fear factor eliminated from the european front lines. our guest today is tony robinson who used to be the face and leader of the english defense league street protest movement known for its strong anti islam stance tony it's great to have you on this program today now your recent departure from the english defense league surprised if not shocked both your supporters and opponents looking back are you proud of the india leadership or disillusioned with it. proud of forming completely. for three years in this country working class people been ignored and no one to listen to voices from within for years with some people around the world have heard what we're signing that heard how we feel how we're living down at the bottom there's a massive gap between how people live in and what politicians don't speak about my politicians are none of our political elected leaders who dare to criticize.
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