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an attempt to curb the press national security worries the britain's prime minister wants publishers of n.s.a. leaks to be careful with their reporting all be ready to face court proceedings. the president of aquittal speaks exclusively to r.t. on his visit to moscow rafael freire explains his outrage at the revelations of america's worldwide spying assets also. my mother and my children were injured we have no idea what i. was talking to a pakistani family is on the doorstep of the u.s. congress demanding answers to why they. held by an american drone strike. so we report on the year of small the trillions shadow economy of black markets so massive it's costing some states a third of their revenues in
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a few minutes we'll tell you why ordinary europeans and businesses are turning to the financial underworld for refuge. also coming up here on our do you russia's olympic club strikes one hundred days until the games the olympic committee says it's happy with the preparations and present the world everyone is welcomed regardless of race or sexual orientation. life from our headquarters there in moscow you're watching r t with me to bomb was a top story. britain's prime minister is threatening the u.k.'s guardian then other newspapers with court action unless the what what they say david cameron referred to the reporting of lead to data on america's overwhelming surveillance program are
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to surf earth has more from london well it's reported that he said on monday that if newspapers don't demonstrate some social responsibility then it will be difficult for the government to stand back and not to act now he also made reference to injunctions and dino atheists these are measures that the government has to prevent the disclosure of certain types of information by the media particularly if it would impact u.k. military or intelligence operations now he did go on to say that his preference was not for heavy handed tactics but it will be worth reminding viewers that back in july we saw u.k. government officials enter the guardian newspaper offices that's the newspaper that's being at the forefront of publishing the edward snowden leaks and destroy hard drives containing some of that sensitive information the u.k. government has also detained journalists and partner of claim greenwald david miranda under terrorist legislation many people would say those are extremely heavy
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handed tactics indeed responding to the reports of the prime minister's statement glenn greenwald's the journalist it's been primarily reporting these leaks said that this was shocking that this happens in a country that tells itself it has press freedom while our g.'s a video agency ruptly said with glenn greenwald himself and he shared some of his thoughts on what the real goal of the n.s.a. spying is. brazil germany can find. the course in the states is going to repeat itself continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world is quoting from ordinary expansionism this map seven very clear objective of the answer is to not just throw this but to keep it for as long as they can into the big time. if you're
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a citizen of spain or anyone else or everything they've been doing in terms of. the god in the had its hands are full trying to sift through leaks and has teamed up with others to make sense of the documents and at least one partnership with online and to secrecy website time is a bearing fruit right now this map they've put together shows you the outstanding extent of americans a surveillance every country in the world has a cause intercepted ranging from thousands to billions all central asia as well as the middle east appear to have been the chief targets but all fall from the only ones in euro america's a close allies found themselves under intense surveillance with three hundred sixty one million calls intercepted in germany in total in the united states monitored one hundred twenty four billion calls around the world now in just one month this year it says hans of christophe a. former u.n.
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assistant secretary general believes the u.s. should try its best to win back trust. well european problem in our. government do with the german government no doubt we're. no longer. here that we are strong. useful for. repeat. of the. euro they were to come our way where. reassurance and great you're going to rebuild for a very wrong. reaction to the flood of questions over n.s.a. spying the white house has said it will review the security agency's programs and may narrow its research and search but there's already a strong
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a lobby against any scaling back among the u.s. political elite and as a director general keith alexander has become one of the first officials to join the ranks of all those challenging the initiative saying he believes extensive spying was entirely with the security americans gained from it he was a backed by diana find stain a senior senator from california who expressed confidence the there was nothing in the n.s.a.'s actions and finally to follow vice president of other us former vice president dick cheney said actual knowledge can always come in handy in the name of security it seems are for now if these washington is getting off lightly with the scandal that's the view of president rafael correa the socialist leader an outspoken critic of the u.s. is on an official visit to moscow. is following it for us.
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korea is now in moscow the very same city where edward snowden their whistleblower now resides on his political asylum the breaking revelations of who infuriated the leader of ecuador back this summer and judging by what he said but judging by what i said to our very own our spanish channel even before he went. to an exclusive interview he is still pretty much angry especially in the light of the latest revelations on high profile politicians in europe being wiretapped by the n.s.a. let's have a listen. but at least they said it was necessary for fighting against terrorism and i don't know if i'm going to merkel is a terrorist i think it's clear the use of agents programs for economic reasons for helping the transnational companies can you imagine what could happen if the program was carried out by been cuba russia it could or argentina they would have cooties dictators and criminals and we could be judged in the international court
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has not. even the fact that. the economy of ecuador largely depends on the united states it's not by no means an obstacle for mr korea to come with open criticism of washington's actions i remember when i covered the huge international scandal involving the visit to moscow of another latin american leader the president believe you ever more or less want to use a plane was denied airspace in europe and had to spend twelve hours at vienna's airport so back then i quoted a very explosive words from the ecuadorian foreign ministry which said that if something like this happens to us president then it would have been a good reason to declare war so of course the economic and military cooperation will be on the table at the talks between putin and korea but there's no chance that the fate of mr snowden will escape their attention in this conversation. for the first time in its history the u.s. congress is to hear directly from the family of survivors of an american drone strike in pakistan the main question is why they grandmother was been to pieces
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while looking off to have gotten. to the fam. why do you think your grandmother was . not money or that. i don't know but one of the reason why we came to believe i have no idea why my grandmother was killed and. what did you do when it blew up did you run with what were you doing the mind that when eternity and outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run yet when i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand had not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running and. my deepest condolences to your mothers for the for your loss isn't their fault i am very much of it. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america we have no idea why our village in my
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house was targeted and this is going to be the first time when the u.s. congress that generally approves of drone strikes will hear from innocent victims of those strikes the rayman family from pakistan are going to tell their story and they hope to hear answers where this is all going why do they have to live in fear every day and why was their grandmother killed in washington r.t. i'm going to check out. a report by amnesty international has condemned to us trying to warfare going as far as saying some strikes may be classified as crimes against humanity arjun's damages you can caught up with robert greenwald who's just premiered his documentary highlighting the human cost of the unmanned attacks also telling the story of the remand family. people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading that the drones were killing only high value targets represented an imminent threat
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it doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which is part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter as important is that you know the family is speaking to all kinds of americans people who have a mother or have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying a drone and we have to change all of that. and as a u.s. keeps its guns a trained on parts of pakistan it's also funneling billions of dollars to neighboring afghanistan coming up later this hour serious questions are raised over whether the u.s. will be able to keep tabs on where the money's going as it takes troops out of the country.
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as of asserting rising poverty and joblessness weren't enough they is facing another crisis from his own shadow economy and spain alone up to thirty percent of businesses now hidden from government and tax inspectors and as artie's attests also you have found out across the block it's getting worse. for millions of europeans who find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place in times of the steerage staying in the shadow is increasingly seen as a viable option to making ends meet far from the tax man and the grip of governments the shadow economy is a blurry area of cash only economic activity deliberately hidden from will forty's such as undeclared work in wages soar under reported business transactions if not the international organization the only cd predicts that by two thousand and twenty the shadow economy will employ up to two thirds of the world's workers that sounds rather pocalypse let's just look at the use data for twenty two well there's about
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one trillion euros in potential tax revenues lost in the total budget deficit for the entire block of five hundred fourteen billion euros and this shadow economy makes up to a fifth of the g.d.p. of the bloc now in times of crises the shadow looms larger in fact most of that activity takes place in some of the largest economies in europe such as france germany italy spain and the u.k. and spain is known to have a very robust underground economy amounting to about twenty nine percent of its g.d.p. the chief has taken money and should be in the stage of the voicing of turkeys and the cost of the big expenditure there's an increasingly high number of people who are having to work in the black market because the coast of living goes up and living standards go down as a result. i was so related the rise of this phenomenon to crises and its like goals that governments in turn are trying to play catch up some of tried to limit the circulation of five hundred two hundred the euro notes or encourage the use of
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electronic payments but unless the official economy significantly rises from the doldrums the effects may view limited as more and more europeans get dissolution then all becoming distrusting of their governments believe or an appeal of the shadow economy may just be too appealing to turn down. texas and cuts to bennett says believed to be the predominant causes for the growth of the shadow economy and the problem is getting just as professional trader felix. given just how oppressively some of europe's work has a text. punish workers i'm not talking about rich work is some talk about minimum wage workers are paying almost fifty percent of the total remuneration almost a third person social security payments and almost another twenty percent goes in this different income and the eighty taxes to work is a paying almost half the salary to the government and they're not getting much in return and they're having to pay more with the tax increases and getting less from
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all the cutbacks to oversee the very angry annoyed and they're looking for alternatives and they don't trust the politicians anymore because we can see that the politicians are the first ones to cook the books mr moore and i did a cover also explained why in this case spammy ends have so little trust in their government and its its ability to put their taxes to did. spain's popular party is now in the news in a major corruption scandal in which politicians are accused of having received underground economy payments cash payments. the socialist party is also involved in a very similar scandal and the receipt and confidence in your own cattle and regional party is also involved in a similar scandal that he says scandal so all the main spanish parties right now caught up in major illegal financing scandals in which they've been receiving cash payments how can they expect people on the street in spain who are suffering have
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been suffering this crisis for over five years not to do the same. signing off for the family silver way down there by massive debt to the italian government poses some fine pieces of real estate on the market including a castle set for a pope. i'll say in a few minutes so we hear how hard line of the turkish government has become on protests and to how it's newfound intolerance this is what the public. one hundred days remain
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believed that may be. one of the scenes motions to truly value quality there's an. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. to. choose your language. could make it with zero in federal custody still some. choose the consensus. choose to continue to. choose the stories that impact the. truth except to. welcome back of a calm down to the school she went to a lympics is about to hit the one hundred day mark the game's official clock in the
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russian capital is keeping exact track of the time ie how does paul scott isn't. as the countdown continues in earnest the final preparations are being made ahead of twenty forty two boys there's going to be no lavish ceremony to celebrate one hundred days until the start of the games as you can see the iconic olympic rings how pre-installed equally as iconic sochi train station and it's all been about public transport really over the last twenty four hours or so the monday president putin was in town where he greeted the new president of the international olympic committee thomas back in the drawer opened a new transformer just further down the coast from. conforms to the sporting venues all of them will be or should be ready on time they're almost complete now which is the finishing touches that have being made on top of. these one hundred days of going to be the busiest for the organizers and president putin also took the opportunity to try to lay some fears concerning russia's so-called anti-gay law of
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course banning the promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minus we'll do everything to ensure that competitors and guests at the winter olympics in sochi too comfortable regardless of race or sexual orientation and every sporting venue has been built from scratch but despite the scale of the undertaking the message from the organizers is clear the sochi will be ready. and as the countdown approaches the hundred days mark of the olympic torch relay still has quite a way to go now the totals overall route is sixty five thousand kilometers long reaching more than two thousand nine hundred towns and cities it's traveling by car plane train and helicopter as well as some less usual means like radio sleigh and hot air balloon as at the moment the torch is in russia as the west and most region approaching the city of culling got. us. well with one hundred days to go to the top she's making its way across the kaliningrad region the first word
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of that is just started. which is just forty kilometers away from kaliningrad enjoying the day will make its way into the city where it's due to arrive late to be free if you can see there's a lot of commotion here this is actually the most westerly point of the relay that's because this russian spy. plane pilot. around about a million people if you can say hundreds have turned out today to try and cheer on the top through also dozens of torchbearers involved one of those include russia. which is. now it's hard to imagine that historic journey arrived in russia twenty three days ago from grace during that time it's. been up to the north think of the frost coming just over a month santore to go up to the international space station first by school the spotlight is on kaliningrad. region including grad just left the time to start with
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course and he's heading towards the city. this evening we'll be doing our best to keep you updated with the. one hundred days remaining. days of fleet. to show you. a scene of chaos erupted outside a turkish courthouse when police charged on a protest rally the demonstrators in ankara unhappy with an ongoing case that of a policeman accused of killing a protester during the summer you know from the turkish labor party says that the rallies against the government will continue. the actual government is during a part the turkish republic as it was founded it's tearing apart its bases and secular bases its unified bases the nation it is the state constructed
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upon the so-called judicial cases against opposition parties against journalists against the army the reach changing of media for some parts direct pressure for the other parts change of ownership the reach a ending of the i view a logical basis of the state from a nation state towards a more religious community. and this all led to politics and to a feeling in the. public in the society which culminated in the give the park protest and that will continue until the. fall of this government afghanistan gets about four billion dollars in aid each year from the u.s. and its allies and it's a huge job to make sure it doesn't fall straight into the hands of warlords or corrupt officials as u.s. troops send down it looks as though the civilian inspectors will only be able to
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check twenty percent of the projects kept afloat by the money journalists in afghanistan as specialist eric margolis a says of the vast sums i have achieved very little so far. but we've seen so for approximately ninety billion u.s. dollars of so-called reconstruction aid poor going to afghanistan most of this is just vanished with not much the to show for it and i can say that the situation will probably get worse not better a lot of the smart money from our most will go to supporting afghan warlords many of whom are war criminals human rights violators and more important who are running in the stands bumi bobi of industry. groups are going to get involved in those if they don't qualify. now for some international news in brief chinese for the two suspects in what's believed to be a suicide attack after
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a bus crash into pedestrians on a t. on a month square in beijing security forces think there is behind the incident to come from the rest of region in the country's northwest mostly populated by muslims five people were killed and thirty eight injured but it has yet been no official comment on the incident. egyptian security forces have resorted to tear gas to disperse a street in supporters of the muslim brotherhood to the campus of the university in cairo protesters have been defending the egyptian mystery of the hour said mohammed morsi within this edition really came a week before the trial of the former leader on charges of inciting america. more people out of work in italy than at any time since records began thirty five years ago and with the state coffers running low the government is pulling out all the stops to get out of the red and into the black as art is you've got this kind of reports that includes setting off buildings steeped in history it was built in the thirteenth century and was even the summer residence of pope make
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a lot further for hundreds of years the or sunni castle has been and still is the jewel of this italian town a jewel which is now getting a price tag. i mean the worst economic recession since the second world war and a massive debt the italian government is in desperate need of cash my sewing room at least fifty historical sites it hopes to raise nearly five hundred million euros but not all locals villages around the r.c. castle seem to be very happy with the idea. for us this castle is actually a symbol of citizenship it's a part of our history it's unique that's what it is for us these buildings are symbolic but local authorities assure private investment will only hope to strengthen the castle sturrock rule no matter who ends up losing it then. it's not only the castle which is being revaluated it's going to be transformed into an ancient style hotel with all of its territory as well this will enhance its
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cultural touristic and gastronomical you. the government doesn't plan to stop there more sales and leases will follow real estate specialist see if you're an investor it's time to strike while the iron is hot. it's a very good moment because there are some new assets on the market and you could buy them for a good price and then make them like resorts or at best change their destination to luxury resorts hotels or cultural places and then sell them again for a very high value. the government is already under fire from the public with youth unemployment at over forty percent and next year's budget only likely to improve that or increase the salaries of those who do have work it appears now when it comes to raising capital anything goes even if it means selling the family silver. you've got to go off italy. up next to the walton looks at whether america's
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homeland security department has declared war on whistleblower was breaking the set . a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents of found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction in the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so there's that i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in the normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that when they have to fire every teacher with a handicap or abnormal appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when you're spares teachers of so the good stuff for money to playboy it is
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a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually a very complex issue but i can say is that you should really try to fight the temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion. if we look at the history of the l.p.c. w.n. it's engagement say in the past with the united states best there is a history of let's say intimidation on many collation of whatever you call it if indeed that we find that president assad is lying or cheating and i doubtful that he will do that because his life is really on the line in the life of the whole regime then of course then i think a military strike could take place. what
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is going on guys i'm having martin and this is breaking news that so last week the daily caller broke a story that pretty much a pit in my eyes is this administration's war on journalism a detail the department of homeland security raided back in august on the house of washington times reporter audrey hudson according to the warrant the da just raided hudson's home to search for illegal guns the longer a husband but naturally agents can pass up that golden opportunity to seize hudson confidential files files related to a series of stories she had written critical of the federal air marshal program and wouldn't you know it the air marshal program falls into the administration of the d.h.s.s. what a coincidence according to hudson the confiscated documents included the names of multiple sources that had blown the whistle on.

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