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many questions but no one is. going to get some information that. the e.u. delegation looking into us in europe comes away empty handed. view into american surveillance activities does go on. it is laughable it is just about as laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves. torture accusations keep piling up on the guantanamo bay prison officials inside the camp try to convince our crew the inmates are fine and some of them actually enjoy force feeding you stay with us for the. secret deal to water down regulation going. to mollify upset bankers and those of industrial john.
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good morning from moscow is now just after. me and the entire news team welcome to the program today why do you spy an e.u. delegation is might have america's intelligence officials face to face to hear their firsthand explanations of the us national security agency was apparently not only taping the phone calls of tens of millions of europeans but intercepting the communications of world leaders as well for the missions members were clearly disappointed by the response they got as a teacher can reports from washington. the e.u. delegation came to get answers from the n.s.a. and they got nothing keith alexander told members of the e.u.
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delegation that they were not spying on european citizens on a massive. tracking it i caught up with some members of that e.u. delegation says this is sort of like trying to give some figure some information. don't clarify. the situation does. it say we are lies the master of violence cannot be based on the question against the terrorists and of course not to do to have information about telephone or fungal or medical it cannot be justified in the fight against terrorism here to the figures we have seen the europeans have helped him to collect information about other regions of afghanistan yemen and so on not overall. figures. in terms in germany did you mean to the french if you german authorities to observe it would have done them. fiat so kids alexander told them whatever intelligence
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european agencies are sharing with the n.s.a. is from war zones again no way of checking any of that so was that just a symbolic gesture on the part of the e.u. delegation to ask those questions well they definitely need to show european citizens that their representatives are not completely new so they came to washington expressed reserved indignation quite reserved and agreed to cooperate further we've seen it before in the meantime a special intelligence committee has launched a review into the u.s. surveillance activities overseas and may even try to restrict them although this is something the n.s.a. chief has been trying hard to prevent listen it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beatings. it is to give up a program that would result in this nation been attacked well this obviously shows there is little chance the u.s. will give up the wiretapping that's according to american geo political analyst
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eric draitser. to intrust the scene bureaucrats like clapper and others who have been caught lying publicly on the record to congress and to other policymakers and officials about the nature of these programs about what the united states is doing about its very operations in the most public sense of the word and so we are to intrust these people with some kind of an internal review it is laughable it is just about as laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves and more details on the techniques the n.s.a. use is being revealed a report in the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge troves of data from google and yahoo by simply breaking into their communications links this leak sketch from an internal presentation shows how the n.s.a. intercepts google traffic by tapping into the company's data tables millions of records are collected in this way on a daily basis it's part of
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a program code named muscular and as you can see the n.s.a. engine is assumed to enjoy what they're doing if the smiley face has anything to do with it. we can get more impression on what these are doodles mean at dot com right now the syrian conflict another story we're addressing today here on r.t. it's forcing millions out of their homes. most of them can't go far away of interstate in a country torn by war and under constant threat of terror attacks we meet one such family in just a few minutes. and ireland takes issues step towards pulling out of its economic doldrums saying it will be bailout free by december. speech to the irish prime minister later in the program. no matter how hard the u.s. government is working on mending the shattered image of the guantanamo bay camp the flow of criticism continues to pour down the infamous facility a new report by
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a u.s. based human rights group has found quote systemic violations at the site and called for its immediate closure is an associate went to guantanamo bay to see what it's like for herself as her report. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the base that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release
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but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water in the science there's nothing really bad and i hear just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around all the other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is
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a agent who will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this they will describe which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even
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believe in what they're saying anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint
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patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees behave better there will be boarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and r.t. . cuba. prison last week james connell
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the lawyer of a man accused of aiding the nine eleven attacks has now claimed that his client suffers from major health problems after he was tortured by the cia he told this to us here abouts. immediately upon being transferred to guantanamo bay mr obuchi went to the medical staff and complained that he had suffered a head injury while in cia custody. nothing was done to follow up on that there's no investigation into someplace else told military commissions there's no investigation into the possibility of a federal civilian court there are still a significant number of people who are on hunger strike or guantanamo bay who are being force fed and sometimes hospitalized the most important question is the silencing of the defendants that they can't tell anyone whether that's the un special rapporteur on torture or members of congress and their staff who are investigating the issue they can't tell anyone about what happened to them in cia
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custody that's what we're challenging because if we can break the silence on that question there could be real movement on guantanamo bay and there are more reports from guantanamo on our website also what i called for you right now there's about a toxic. japanese government plans to take on the cleanup of the fukushima nuclear disaster from the upper right about means expenses could now fall on the shoulders of taxpayers. and of lot of may put in hopes barack obama as forbes most influential man of the year albeit praised comes with a liberal dose of ready made dictator cliches. if we look at the history of the l.p.c. w. and its impeachment past with the united states there is a history of let's say intimidation on many relation to whatever you call it if
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the. economic ups and downs in the final. and the rest. will be if we don't all. imports came from. the european union is taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. but. they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for.
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illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. the team from the world looks at the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you. to find out more visit. joining us here on the kaiser report. it has emerged that germany and the u.k. deep in talks behind brussels back what about watering down. in return for helping
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weaken environmental regulations britain wants aid in safeguarding the leeway enjoyed by bankers it's all drawing accusations of cynical disregard for the public good. sheds some light. with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron for all his. preferred to negotiate with the e.u. the neavitt all together and germany. holds the entire project together and yet these two countries that are reportedly cutting a secret deal to protect their main industries again e.u. regulation it's a tit for tat britain's proposing to support germany's to delay the introduction of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions which will harm b.m.w. mercedes and and in return britain seeking germany's help to protect the banking sector from the brussels regulations the proposed deal may also include
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germany's help. on bankers' bonuses something the tory policies controversy points against the tide of public opinion but it's not just germany and britain practically every member has something to complain about belgian. pricing policies spain is unhappy with fishing reforms others criticised sky high budget contributions red tape and bailouts whether it's contributing to them or punishing economic regimes after receiving them all combined to undermine the project but now that two of the union's most powerful members appear to be commuting to defy the rules of the organization it looks like dissatisfaction has hit a whole new level. so there are actually growing
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signs of economic hope that the irish government will soon leave the bailout program forced upon it when it came close to bankruptcy that was five years ago. with the prime minister. says the terms of the exit are worked out by political leaders not by heads of financial institutions like that of the european central bank. well officials might have a few political leaders have got to decide in the interests if you are and that's the decision that was made it's very clear it's referred to in all of the meeting since and it still stands and we walk after christmas and i'll start this we will be the first your own country to exist below the number one priority would be to make a decision that is based on what is the best and most curable and sustainable exists for our people for economy island was was the force country having to deal with the scale of borrowing to support to recapitalize banks and not have the facilities that are available from the european perspective that we have negotiated with our colleagues like banking union supervision new regulations and the possibility of
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recapitalization. or at a washington now where the iraqi prime minister is asking the u.s. to bring all its airborne might to his country in a desperate move to finally tackle snowboarding tara and sectarian violence more than four hundred people have been killed in the state this month alone and my colleague bill daughter spoke with karen and. she was in the u.s. air force and believes that more weapons will only worsen the situation. airpower is not the solution to the kind of security and strife that you're seeing in the urban areas. all it's going to do is what it's done for twenty years it's going to destroy buildings and people pollute the environment it doesn't work very well and you mention collateral damage well that's the rule that's kind of the rule when we use air power we expect and we get plenty of collateral damage and you can't you can't really make up for that by saying i'm sorry you said earlier that only pointing the finger of blame at the political system that the prime minister there
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but just how much is the u.s. responsible for the situation now in the wrong oh my goodness i mean you know twenty years you know nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety one we've been the bombing the dozen years of on between then a second invasion then we put in place puppets who maki amazingly is still there one of the guys we've been working with for a decade these people do not have the credibility that they would need to be true leaders political leaders of a unified iraq and they're facing problems that are well beyond their capabilities . from iraq to egypt now to open up the ante world updating their students and so forth the former egyptian president mohamed morsi sparked protests a university in cairo on wednesday demonstrators smashed windows through chaz and covered walls and graffiti insulting the current military backed government as security forces stormed the compost after staff requested their intervention to end
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the disorder. around five thousand people had to be evacuated from a town in mexico or for a major leak in a gasoline pipe a fuel spout off over a field just meters from some homes officials say thieves tapping into the pipe caused the rupture of the energy minister said that some four point seven billion dollars worth of fuel has been stolen in just the last five years. and government forces have taken control of the main base of the m twenty three. the democratic republic of congo since the rebels seized a large part of the eastern congo at least eight hundred thousand people have been made homeless by the rebels leader was reported to have crossed into uganda to sign a peace deal and this comes after talks collapsed last week and led to very intense fighting. and al qaeda linked militants of allegedly killed at least thirty civilians and mortar shelling in the syrian province of easily local said the
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survivors showed signs of chemical poisoning meanwhile the long awaited talks on peace in syria may come a month later than planned stalled by a split on the rebel representation so the syrian national coalition says it wants to be the only voice of the multi factions opposition now the syrian conflict has already caused more than two and a half million people to flee yet about twice that number have had to leave their homes but stay within syria and it's their plights that often get overlooked as artie's paullus live reports. to high but mark live is a refugee in her own country forced from her home by civil war she and her daughters are hiding some two hundred kilometers from the village in a three room apartment they share with another family their crime supporting president bashar assad. the terrorists want to kill me they broke into my house to find me they looted everything they kidnapped six members of my family all because
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they are looking for me. a lot has been said about the desperate situation facing refugees who fled across the border to neighboring countries but most of those forced from their homes by the spiraling violence are displaced within syria itself these internally displaced people remain extremely vulnerable and their numbers continue to swell. i've been told many times to stop supporting assad and everything will be fine but i won't change my principles and they'll. win we will fight his first got hold of too high but she was eight months pregnant they keep her so badly she lost the baby but she refused to change her politics. i ran away with my children my mother is very dear to me it is now the second age faster all that has passed without me being with her my mother has god by her side. he will not abandon her they are kidnapping young people sixteen year olds and they're cutting them into pieces when asked if she'll give herself up for family
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sake through high back in fashion pieces no. if i die i want my daughters to continue in the same way everybody is going to die my mother may die but she wanted their last victim i may die to. syria's death toll stands at more than one hundred thousand with no sign of fighting a beijing for many internal refugees home remains a distant dream for those like through high but it's only their ideals that gives him the strength to carry on policy r.t. damascus syria or to start to go after the money makers of the financial establishment that make most of the world well into slaves where the industrial civilization we live like skies or the kaiser report just a moment. old
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may live. the. if you look at the history of the lp c.w. and its engagements in the past with the united states there is a history all let's say intimidation on many collation of well whatever you call it if indeed though we find that president assad is lying or cheating and i. 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. everything that we say we don't do illegal base and watch part of mo you know the un said
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don't invade iraq. anyway so we we do what we want to do and all men like so that's where american exceptionalism comes and so full play as i we're going to do. things that make united states better or make our corporations in a better situation in the world economy and that's just the way it is and when if that happens to agree with other countries frosting on the cake but if it doesn't it's not going to stop us from doing it. marginalize the polish face.
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a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you could do to keep in the same place so the banks are too bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the neo feudal fax to the chumps who have to work for a living but i say not only does it take all the running printing working but it also takes all the bombing stealing and the fraud exploiting and dying shaking breaking and taking to staying the same for complacency is not right stacy
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well in fact says we you mentioned we have to print print prints and we're printing printing printing just to keep even on g.d.p. in fed and how many now think inflation helps the fed has worked for decades to suppress inflation but economists including janet yellen president obama's nominee to lead the fed starting next year have long argued that a little inflation is particularly valuable when the economy is weak rising prices help companies increase profits rising wages help borrowers repay debts and inflation also encourages people and businesses to borrow money and spend it more quickly well this is stupid because. in other words the fed the quote the program of quantitative easing and there's been one two three and four in japan and in america in the u.k. the whole point of it the design of it the reason we have it is to in.
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