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we're not psyched to active camps. where patients are forced to monitor a mouse or strike their turn world's attention to the ways that some. of our minds . eavesdropping on allies the latest data say to me shows u.s. intelligence has been tapping the german chancellor cell phone for over a decade adding fuel to europe's frustration also this week here in our teeth. a suicide blast on a bus claimed the lives of six people and left dozens more injured and the russian city of volgograd. america's unmanned killing machines draw a condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch to conclude that
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drone strikes in pakistan yemen should be classed as war crimes. and the syrian government submitted its plan to destroy its chemical weapons to the hague while nineteen opposition groups refused to attend along the way to peace conference in geneva. it is four pm last you're watching r.t.l. marina josh welcome to the program. the german chancellor has been a target of u.s. surveillance for over a decade courting to leak and it's a document obtained by german media that follows earlier reports of american spies tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders in a phone call to president obama merkel said the monitoring would be a breach of trust if confirmed she also said that spying among friends does not
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work obama reportedly claims to have had no for a knowledge of such practices however germany's build newspaper goes as far as suggesting he actually encouraged the bugging of merkel's phone documents now show that her number was on the n.s.a.'s watch list since two thousand and two three years before she became chancellor former french prime minister dominic divil pound says he never expected american surveillance to go this far. we knew that. some practices were existed but to such an overall system this came as a surprise for everybody in fact what we've seen today is credible privileges of the u.s. administration over the control of the world system we knew that the u.s. were controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks. the dollar currency reserve currency but controlling
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internet controlling the formation you know well this is a privilege and monopoly if we are going to follow up in the same direction then confrontation might be the. e.u. leaders are demanding explanations from washington and france and germany are pushing for a new deal on transatlantic surveillance angered over the reports that i say has been tracking the phone calls of thirty five world leaders an atheist statement warned a lack of trust could harm its partnership with washington and germany is also teaming up with brazil to push for a u.n. resolution restraining u.s. surveillance sashimi ross from the new american foundation saying tag the spy scandal is dealing a huge blow to america's image this has. created a massive reputational crisis for the united states the entire populace is now in essence on edge about what is the united states government doing what is the n.s.a.
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doing what is being surveilled and so in essence what we're saying is everyone's a suspect everyone is being surveilled and this is probably not just france and germany and mexico and brazil this is probably globally certainly we've lost a lot of credibility as an ethical internet steward while domestic shock waves are being felt as well sounds rallied in washington d.c. on saturday van in their anger against the ana say and demanding reforms of federal surveillance laws the protests was billed as the largest for a privacy demonstration in american history or just get it she was there. 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 a false one people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just
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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 dows 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 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
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actually one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers but the question is is it 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. what. president obama has ordered a review of u.s. intelligence gathering methods however it's not we are watching just who wants to see charlie mcgrath from wide awake news things that the spied all the public anger and protests from our allies the n.s.a. is on like. to be restrung. that people will not be hurt we had a complete destruction of a constitutional republic in this country just like vigilant franklin all those years ago and warned the people of the united states if you're going to train your freedom for safety you're going to end up with neither god bless the people of stop stop watching this us or stop watching us rally i'm glad they're out there doing it
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i'm glad they got five hundred thousand signatures but we need a hundred million two hundred three hundred million people to wake up and realize that we've turned into. a police state and congress congress is seems to be interested in nothing more than collecting the revenue that they need in order to maintain their position of power by the same military and security industrial complex that is watching the people this country in the world illegally. so had to r.t. dot com for more details and updates on the battle for privacy as well as x. bird analysis of the ne same leagues and the outcry there triggering. a powerful suicide blast rocked russia's southern city of all grad on monday six people were killed and dozens more injured when the bomb went off in a packed bus i just lands in france retrace the events of that day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in boca gras people woke up with places to go and things to get done heavily using bus stations just like this but
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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 from morning till afternoon it's a one person got on board thirty year old guy 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 stayed true to life it was the real truth when the boss who did 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
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responders thought it was perhaps a malfunction of the bus fuel systems but aside from the shop they felt to ask themselves if this was a gas explosion was the fire. and that that was the safety record in the car 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 let out of my car and i saw a 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 shrapnel t.n.t. and a grenade the accident site became a crime scene while edgy hottest from 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
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a ticket to moscow and boarded an intercity boss that passed through volgograd when the bus was almost at the city limits i see all of our god oh and went back to downtown belgrade right now investigators are trying to find out whether this move had been planned in advance or are over altered the plan along the way looking for a place packed with as many people as possible also under suspicion are 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 husband dmitri sokol 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 a 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 still to come for you here on r t one home becomes
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a war zone. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and build them again are to reports from the devastated syrian city of your money and meets the families who are here you said ban and their houses. america's on going on man aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to reports released this week by the human rights group amnesty international that's despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the civilian a death toll from its drone campaign well let's now take a look at some numbers here so. it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims soared dramatically in two thousand and six when almost one hundred people were killed another escalation came in two
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thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost the toll in two thousand and nine reached one hundred sixty two the year brock obama took office and a record number of strikes from men jets were recorded over the next twelve months and one hundred twenty two and the drone war continues the obama administration is responsible for about ninety percent of all the strikes carried out since two thousand and four almost a thousand civilians have been killed including up to two hundred children according to some estimates the total number of drone fatalities in the region tops three thousand are often of looks into the latest report from amnesty international . the predator drone remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's undeclared 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 then 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 an imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international in 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. first it was so then i heard that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. but her grandmother's
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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 it must investigate those were sponsible 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 coming up in the program refugees get a cold reception in europe hundreds of mine grands to flee their troubled home once finding that europe's increasingly tough asylum policies give them little choice
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from the streets of canada. showing operations are old today. the so. welcome back this is r.t. every cent surge in my grandad's has spread alarm through the european union hundreds of people have drowned in the mediterranean this month alone trying to reach european shores in over a crowd of boats this map shows the made words taken by asylum seekers and many of them come from countries gripped by a long running conflict including syria well some reach europe through italy
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southern islands others make it to spain or france which are top destinations for immigrants along with germany and the u.k. at a summit in brussels leaders promise to revamp the blocks asylum policies and take active measures on the issue are just bitter all over met some of the refugees who made it to berlin. we have feed we are not on the money 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 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 to leave it like yeah to live
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it to live because it truly is a disaster and the european law it's really shouldn't of done less it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is get an expert and the five hundred year is finished don't go back i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my document why did you 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 and nato backed war the documents these people have gives them access to basic medical care nothing else mentions it here now in berlin and it's up to germany to find a solution to their problems with trying to get them residents permits 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 discuss this but it's a look at lord's. that you. are just happy we. did not do what you did 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 running for their lives they found themselves stuck in limbo here in the e.u. peter all of a see. now the cryptocurrency bitcoins battle for mainstream acceptance is gaining momentum the first savva a.t.m. allowing customers to turn their bitcoins into hard cash is about to be launched in
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canada for all the details head to our website r t dot com. plus their profits may be skyrocketing but they're managing to steer clear of the taxman find out what tools the richest corporations in the us are using on our website. chemical experts who have been know receiving syria's chemical disarmament have said they are mission will be completed on schedule meanwhile nineteen opposition groups are refusing to take part in an upcoming geneva peace conference which was supposed to bring all sides to the negotiating table the talks were proposed by russia and the u.s. and are scheduled for next month america and its allies met this week to signals their support for the syrian opposition and approach that moscow criticized as one sided foreign pentagon official michael maloof says backing the rebels essentially means supporting the radical islamist. the united states cannot be caught in the
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position of giving arms to the moderate so-called moderates when in fact most of those weapons would go to the opposition they they just take them away in the out the extremists already control about seven of the eleven palestinian camps already and. in syria and they're using them as a base of operations and they're intimidating the moderates in the moderates of course are can't stand up against the more extreme elements and they just don't have the the capability in the fight and the fighting fighting power to do that meanwhile there is no let up in syria's civil war which is increasingly pitting ethnic and religious groups against each other kurdish gunmen have seized a key crossing on the border with iraq fighting back islam is groups are in the war torn country and has been investigating the plight of another minority of palestinians whose own homes have become
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a battle front line this is young will sell to damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today ten percent seem to remain the price of work now it's acute care where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. the betrayed and we cannot trust them anymore eight days ago abu movie and his wife came home for ten long months they've lived on the streets not once giving up the hope they'd return this is one way to be and there 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 us 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
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bigger promises of money forced the residents of young to choose sides and take up arms against people they've known their whole lives. i have some friends fighting on the other side we're not friends anymore the ones who displays those from our housing and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day abu movie leaves to fight them but not before he struck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these bullet riddled boards 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 on maury 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
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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 your mork 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 other more 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 tears they will find tender people to look after them. the fun time is near two streets away but for other movie and his comrades the battle hits closer to home
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each time they take aim to secure the streets for their families often it's a neighbor friend and sometimes even a brother who is pointing a gun back at them point of c.r.t. yarmouk syria now some other stories making headlines around the world series of car blasts across the rocky capital have killed at least fifty four people and wounded dozens more most of the bombs were planted inside parked cars and hit predominantly shiite muslim districts the deadliest explosions were in the city of mosul killing twelve people iraq is in the midst of its worst ethnic blodgett in years almost sounds and people died in violence across the country last month alone . an apartment in brooklyn became a scene of carnage when five people were love dead after a stabbing attack the identities of the victims four children and thirty seven year old woman have not been released one suspect has been arrested.
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rival activist groups have clashed in berlin leading to twenty arrests in the trouble started when a right wing group began protesting against a new refugee shelter but account a rally by left wing activists or riot police deployed to keep them apart the shelters generated much smoke on rest since it opened in august. in india at least five people have been killed in a string of blasts before the start of a political rally over seventy have been injured explosions ripped through bahar state a half of an appearance by opposition politician the rann drawn mahdi who is a candidate for prime minister in next year's general election bombs went off at a train station and later near the venue of the political gathering no group has claimed responsibility so far. sounds of opposition activists are marching through central moscow the rally has been called
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in support of those arrested at a similar gathering that turned violent last year back than a thousand strong protest on the eve of the presidential inauguration ceremony turned violent parties are in english to reports from the scene. people have been gathering for the last hour or so and marching just across the just along the boulevard in the center of moscow we're talking about several thousand people as of now although the permission they got that they got from the mayor's office of moscow says they could bring up to twenty thousand people out on the streets as a matter of fact to the people that are supporting those who have been arrested last year during the may sixth protest twenty seven of them have been charged with either side inciting civil unrest or attacking or style taking out police personnel but it's sort of also turned into. a way for the opposition to remind about its existence of that at least that's seem to be a good opinion of a lot of people out on the social media people who are active in russian political
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life they're saying that the russian opposition especially moscow was all but dead and this is a way to remind everybody including themselves that there is still existing. ukraine on the crossroads between east and west a report on that is coming up in just under twenty minutes time for that week's business news in venture capital. to the. city for good but don't believe. between the need to keep them talk so much fuel to sell something peaceful to front the trouble in search of the sun. we've got the future. plug mission and free liquid intake should be free look for chargers free.
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