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we've long live video for your media project free media gogarty dot com. a female suicide bomber killed six people on a bus in russia said. a report from the sea on monday. more revelations from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden with reports claiming germany's chancellor has been spied on for over a decade thousands of protesters gather in washington united and the country is a global surveillance program and. syringe limits find themselves on the rebels' a hit list for post coverage of the spiraling conflict plus. we've found at least in some crisis they clearly killed civilians in some of these cases but people across an amnesty international musician told so r.t. about the bodies in new damning report on america's so-called decision strikes in
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pakistan. live from moscow you're watching this week's of the week with me to bomb would say let's take a look at a story on monday a powerful suicide blast hit a bus in the country's southern city of killing six and wounding dozens many witnesses were unable to understand what had happened describing the scene as a warzone artie's linsey friends some of the survive us. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in boca gras people woke up with places to go and think to get that heavily using bus stations just like this. but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident
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from morning till afternoon it's a one person got on board thirty year old why you don't see all of that is when things took a tragic turn and it starts to the very end of all it was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was in the middle of the bus which say trade life. when the boss hid everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on the recall being thrown onto her window then suddenly finding myself on the street and in a panic i realised something had happened to my hands i was covered in blood. it was right here at about two pm local time that a blast ripped through bus twenty nine filled with about forty people first responders thought it was perhaps a malfunction of the bus fuel systems but aside from the shop they fell to ask themselves if this was a gas explosion what was the fire. in that that was sitting right there in the car
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everybody in the blast was touching their faces and heads asking what happened what happened there was a lot of blood on them and a lot of flesh everywhere i was very afraid i got out of my car and i saw the head lying there i mean my friend took a young boy and his father to the hospital the remnant of an explosive device told the tale shrapnel t.n.t. and a grenade the accident site became a crime scene while a jihadist from the republic of dagestan became the central focus of the investigation and then the story took another twist the attack wasn't meant for volgograd at all as the all of a had apparently taken a detour. she had purchased a ticket to moscow and boarded an intercity boss the pass through volgograd when the bus was almost at the city limits i see all of our gado and went back to downtown belgrade right now investigators are trying to find out whether this move
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had been planned in advance or r.c.l. over altered the plan along the way looking for a place packed with as many people as possible also under suspicion or three men believed to have helped in the plot to attack the russian capital two from dagestan wanted for twin terror attacks there in two thousand and twelve were said to be waiting for her in moscow on his way there was an aussie all of us has been to meet her circle of an ethnic russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve some reports suggest the couple had an argument shortly before the attack which may have caused the last minute change in her deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. and a larger cache of suicide belts and explosives was discovered in russia's southern republic of dagestan that's after police detained a man carrying a grenade and several blocks of t.n.t.
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on a bus going to moscow you can learn more about these and other and to tell parishioners here in russia on our website r.t. . jones law angela merkel has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade that's according to the leaks of published by germany's a despicable magazine the surveillance goes back even before merkel became the country's leader and this week it's been revealed that thirty five world leaders have also been closely monitored by america's national security agency europe as voices anger complaining that it's trust in washington is not undermined from a french prime minister dominique de villepin says that if the u.s. continues to strive for world dominance it could lead to conflict. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and overall system this came as a surprise for everybody in fact what we are seeing today is the incredible privileges
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of the us administration over the control of the world system we knew that the us were controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks through the dollar currency as a reserve currency but controlling internet controlling the information in our world this is a privilege in monopoly if we are going to follow up in the same direction then confrontation might be electable. president obama has ordered a review of the country's global surveillance operations promising changes in the meantime thousands have gathered on capitol hill to display the discontent with what they called infringement of their privacy archies then you can has the details thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is
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a false one people here say that they are tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he would sure be in jail by now people at this rally thousands of people in fact demand a meaningful surveillance a long way for him they came with a petition signed by more than five hundred thousand people demanding congress
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investigate the n.s.a. spying programs through the senate judiciary and intelligence committees planned hearings on those programs so they want to make sure that their voices are heard actually one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers but the question is is there really possible because so far any light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers in washington i'm going to check on. oh man solomon founding director of the institute for public accuracy says and the words coming from the obama administration have little in common with its actions president obama is extremely adept at dancing through this kind of a firestorm and saying that he's willing to disclose and willing to be more forthcoming and he's willing to re-evaluate frankly he said earlier this year when there was a big speech he gave in washington about the use of drones and yet we saw almost no
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change in actual policy once it could be measured so i think one way to put that in context is that after secretary of state kerry arrived in paris he told a news conference that he would not discuss intelligence matters so there's a lot of fog coming from the white house and the state department not a lot of substance made well russia is pushing ahead with mediation efforts to bring all sides of the conflict to the negotiation table in geneva next month the u.s. and its allies met this week to reiterate their support for the syrian opposition which moscow calls a one sided approach us defense analysts ivan eland says the backing the rebels essentially a monsoon helping the radical islamists. the al qaeda groups are dying now dominating the opposition they're the most ruthless and oftentimes when you have a big civil war a chaotic civil war the most ruthless conning people rise to the top and i'm afraid
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that the west is in an illusion that these rebels are going to be some sort of a democratic force and i think oh obama now he's wised up to that i think and he's always been a bit reluctant to get involved in this with heavy amounts of u.s. aid and i think even the turks are now attacking some of the rebel groups they're threatened by some of them on their borders and they have been supporting the rebel groups and probably steer are supporting someone so the situation is getting very chaotic but i think that the rebels if the rebels take over you could have you know you could have an al qaeda dominated portion of syria. european leaders to solve the issue of immigrant influx wallie use economic troubles and deadly shipwreck seem to have no effect on the endless stream of refugees seeking shelter across the mediterranean some insight into that shortly. plus georgians to head to the polls to elect
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that's a saying with us here on our team america's ongoing drone strikes in pakistan should be investigated as a war crime that's according to a report by this week by amnesty international but getting to the bottom of a so-called precision strikes program could be difficult now it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration by two thousand and six was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost one hundred civilians away killed but
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since two thousand and eight the use of drones in pakistan has escalated reaching a peak after president obama became president and took office in two thousand and nine and the next twelve months of obama's administration so a record number of strikes at a hundred and twenty two and despite many damning reports the drone war goes on now the obama administration is a responsible for almost ninety percent of these strikes and out of the hundreds of us civilians killed up to two hundred which children many investigation estimate the total number all of these killings amounts to about three thousand to six half an hour looked into the latest report. the predator drone or remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's under cleared war in pakistan that's where the u.s. is believed to have launched more than three hundred strikes since two thousand and four the target suspected taliban and al qaeda militants the white house says
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better drones than boots on the ground and justifies the covert program as both affective and legal america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international and a damning new report the human rights group warns u.s. drone strikes could amount to war crimes documents recent. killings in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is a secret program in fact in our case we've found at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cases might be war crimes that really concerns us one such case is that of sixty eight year old man nama bibi killed by a u.s. drone last october she was picking vegetables with her grandchildren when that attacks took place a double strike the children miraculously survived. by first it was so then i heard
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that. the first hit us and the second hit my cousin. but her grandmother's body was pulverized these missile fragments are all that remain amnesty documents other such cases but its main point the need for transparency and accountability the us must explain why these people have been killed people who are clearly civilians must provide justice to these people compensation must investigate those responsible for those killings now in a separate report a un investigation looked at thirty three drone strikes around the world not just in pakistan that violated international humanitarian law and also resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties that report also calling for more transparency and accountability from the united states reporting from moscow i'm lucy catherine of on line for you to find now there's a new government ministry in venezuela created purely to make sure everyone is
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feeling more cherry more on the deputy ministry of supreme social happiness and how it's supposed to put a smile on people's faces three community programs. plus saudi women artificially banned from driving but getting behind the wheel there could get female drivers into a whole lot of trouble now some putting their foot down and up more power to dot com. east or west to which way is best for you queda the country's been there at a crossroads and since russia's warning that would have to give up any hope of free trade agreement with its former soviet republics to shouldn't pursue a similar deal with the e.u. and the stakes are high as are. reports. the funeral of independence this is how ukraine's movement but i'd describe the imminence 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.
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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 economists railway. can be sold to the european union was a technology is different because the different european union can be substitution for the serious market. cloyd. 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. will be joining
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a unity of different values were human rights are protected e.u. will help ukraine sort out its human rights institutions banners like these are part of a long standing 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 skeptical economy the association pact would bring only one way benefits you know. we are not who you members we won't take part in decision making but will have to carry out someone else's decisions ukraine tries to sit on to cheers saying both the e.u. and the c.i.s. are regarded as strategic trade directions with moscow refuting that ukraine could enjoy a trade privileges with both the e.u. and russia at once it's vague how the country would feel after it makes this leap of faith at the eastern partnership summit in vilnius on the vendor of the twenty eight. reporting from kiev in ukraine. to some other news this week it is
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spied the horrors of recent tragedies in the mediterranean packed with immigrants and refugees continue to head for some other in the e.u. countries hundreds were rescued of sicily's craze this week by italy's close cut at a summit in brussels european union leaders promised to revamp the blocs asylum policies and take active measures on the issues after a plea for help from rome right now this murder shows are some of the roots asylum seekers are taking many said of for europe because of a fear for their lives of fleeing homelands from from the torn countries where there is war like syria where the civil war now more move to find work as well as make money and most north african immigrants enter the e.u. through italy's southern islands others attempt to make it to spray all france which is among the most popular final destinations along side germany as well as
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the u.k. but it is only and greece that bear the brunt as according to e.u. laws asylum seekers entering without authorization are obliged to remain in the country they first arrived in crete all of a mess some are some who made it to berlin but who now regret their choice. i feel we are not i mean 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 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
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to go soy just to leave it like yeah to live it to live because it is disaster on the european law it's really shouldn't have done less it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away and left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is getting next friday and the five hundred euros finish can go but 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 this camp in the german capital i don't. know how you think 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
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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 because this italian. actually you did your. are distributing. because yes i would do well today as germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a bill in 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. . more news a brief for you this hour police and health officials say a series of ten car bombs across the rocky capital have killed at least thirty seven people nine of the blasts hit a predominantly shiite muslim district the deadliest aspersions happened in
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a market south of baghdad iraq is seeing some of its worst ethnic bloodshed in yet the u.n. said last month alone almost a thousand people died in violence across the country. crowds of supporters of greece's extreme a right to golden dawn party took to the streets of athens to demand the release abyssinia party members golden dawn is under an investigation over its alleged connection to last month's fatal stabbing of a greek rep of singer the party's leader and two m.p.'s are being held in pretrial custody accused of being members of a criminal organization protesters are dismissing the prosecution as politically motivated. the controversial era of present and mikhail saakashvili is coming to an end as georgians take to the polls on sunday to choose their next head of state with twenty three names on the ballot atalissa expect they want a vote between three candidates but the winner will essentially take up a second reposed as key strings of power are being handed over to the prime
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minister's office actually is wary of a national report and circus with its legacy. they are among the maze determined detractors of georgia's outgoing president. they follow me how selfish really everywhere to leave him in no doubt of where they stand. circus really was the once popular leader of the rose revolution the first color revolution which saw power change in post soviet republics. in the last days of his near ten year presidency even former allies are on the attack. after his successes start of building an authoritarian regime the media was attacked one million people fled one quarter of the population went through the penal system they were either arrested or interrogated in two thousand and seven police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters wanting psyche shrillest government
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to resign. in two thousand and eleven they did it again. boudin i'm ugly well people were afraid to express or even have their opinions if they faced injustice they failed to report it more as it could affect their families. told me his brother used to run the state audit office and claims he was tortured in jail when he took his case to the human rights cauldron strasberg told nikki says he too was arrested over fabricated case becoming another recognised political prisoner. i got eight and a half years. if it wasn't for new premier vanished really i wouldn't have got out in just one week i saw they took out four dead bodies from jail they said those young men died from diseases but that's nonsense days before last october's parliamentary election videos showing young inmates being humiliated and beaten
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became the last straw for the georgian people second shrews party last year but this georgian media veteran says the public euphoria over circus will is defeat is tempered by how much the people had already lost individually and. promoted georgian people as del and a nation with history and we started believe in it we started moving away from our soviet past be our heroes of the hour genius who managed to convince the entire world and under the flag of democracy we got fascists as georgia's a left or it bodes for many here it's less about welcome in the future but saying goodbye to their past the law prevents macao circa srila from running for president again now has a mission is life far away from politics in the wine business but the public seems in no mood to simply let him fade into the background there is a strong desire georgia for circus related to big broad justice and it seems his
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detractors won't stop until that thirst is quite changed. even watching our teaser though we can you with me tom of they my colleague marina just she will bring you moneys in about half an hour say with. 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've 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 out and 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. fifty
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