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never turn world's attention to the place that some gulag of arts minds. syria successfully destroys all of its chemical weapons production facilities a day ahead of shadow perforce continue to suffer as about rebel fighters easing talks and call them. all to my sleep like a spoiled for a tropical beach holiday so i is there's nothing really bad about here if god knows it's more like hell or not as. they. struggle to make forced into a tube into our noses you know he's the latest report from inside gone tanabe prison of the allegations of torture and abuse as officials try to convince the outside world that the eight mates not doing just like. all the. nine eleven. nine eleven in the wake of nine eleven. tragedy
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american officials are told to keep using september eleventh as the justification for expanding surveillance and aboard. international news live from moscow this is the with me you know. and welcome to the part all of the facilities used in syria to produce chemical weapons have been destroyed a day ahead of schedule it's being seen as a major step under the russian american brokered deal to rid syria of its stockpile of toxic arms by the middle of twenty four seen policy a houseful. what we're hearing now from an official inside the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is that damascus has destroyed all equipment that
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is used for producing mixing and filling chemical weapons this comes a day ahead of the agreed november first deadline and it is a major achievement in an extremely tight and ambitious disarmament program the foreign inspectors who have been inside the country for several weeks now have visited twenty one of twenty three chemical weapons stockpile sites now the reason given as to why they could not go to two of those scientists because it was simply too dangerous there's been no commitment from the rebels fighting that they will ensure the safety of these inspectors but we have been told that these stockpiles at those two sites were moved to sites that the inspectors did in fact investigate the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it is extremely satisfied with the way this disarmament program has gone ahead and that all is on track for the final deadline which is the middle of next year by the way in syria would have destroyed all of its chemical weapons stockpiles we're receiving reports
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that earlier this week rebels carried out an attack in which they allegedly used chemical weapons in the north east of the country near the turkish border now it happened near a check post of kurdish defense forces and according to those forces immediately following the explosion of a shell there was a yellow smoke they also say that they are suffering from symptoms of chemical in head nation and noisier now the russian foreign ministry is calling for an urgent investigation and says it is extremely worrying that this incident is not receiving why disparate coverage. and joining us now live from the hague is michael spoke sponsored by the international chemical weapons watchdog mr lieutenant welcome to you for joining us here so this is just one step ahead to rid syria of chemical weapons the next one. well this was an extremely important deadline and. milestone that we've reached that all of the chemical weapons
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and chemical weapons production facilities and mixing filling all of that is now first of all under international control everything that hasn't been destroyed or put out of operation is under seal and cannot be tampered with without that being known to us secondly the syrian government as we announced today we confirmed that they have what we say functionally destroyed critical equipment which is needed to run their production of. chemical weapons production facilities on the overcalled nixon. all of that has now been rendered in a hurry so what happens now is that the syrian government is also complying with another deadline. submitted to us last year. an initial declaration of their entire program and its components and as well as a general plan for destruction so between now and the fifteenth of november that
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plan of destruction is going to be scrutinized and discussed by our states parties are executive council and by the fifteenth executive council will have to approve a plan that will ensure that the entire chemical weapons stockpile and the remnants of those chemical weapons production facilities and so all of that is irreversible destroyed by the thirtieth of june two thousand and fourteen rights but they can say that the syrian government has been fully call for a stay with the mission. we have gotten all of the cooperation from the syrian government authorities that have been required for us to conduct our verification activities. and at the same time we also want to acknowledge the invaluable support that we've gotten from the united nations nations mission. in damascus without which we cannot operate in countries it's the united nations is looking after the safety and security of our inspectors together to soon. and which is enabled us to
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be registered as. is it possible to fulfill your mission in conditions of a civil war because you know that fighting has already prevented your colleagues from visiting the chemical weapons sites does it look like you'll be able to go on with the mission despite all the dangers that there was a lot of skepticism that we would be able to reach the the point that we've reached today putting out of commission and those chemical weapons production facilities and mixing phone lines so so we're doing a lot better than a lot of people would have expected. and right now it's a little bit early to speculate on the arrangements that are going to be made to get on with the destruction of the stockpile as it's been speculated on publicly some of that stockpile may have to be moved out of the country to a safer location where it can be destroyed using you know incineration or hard over
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the zation some method that's used to destroy chemical weapons agents but we're not there yet we'll have more details on after the fifty from the number one this one this plan of destruction and provided. rights michael lee house spokesperson for the international chemical weapons watchdog mr lu have thank you very much indeed thank you. the tough task of chemical design element is discussed later this hour in worlds apart on a boy who talks to a renowned expert on chemical weapons and asks whether the ambitious goals in syria are achievable and here's a quick preview. he think the c.w. as an organization is strong enough to defend the process that it just embark upon in syria and that it can ensure that this is indeed this process it is indeed completed in a responsible way even if it means that deadlines are extended because at this
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point of time in a certain western powers and says that the deadlines have to be observed i think deadlines are important and obviously as you mentioned previously every single declared possessor state of the chemical weapons convention has missed their deadlines to date so deadlines are important in this particular case because of the civil war in the urgency that none of these weapons be lost or diverted or stolen by rebel forces or anyone else in the region syria is a poor country it needs financial support and it needs technical support from the countries that have long experience doing this now russia the united states japan china so we all need to pitch in and the o.p.c. of you is only as strong as the member states and so what i've said many times is we need at this point to support the opi stub you in the united nations.
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an american base human rights organization of sound what it calls a systematic violations of gone time away prison it's called for the immediate closure of the facility even though washington and says everything bass fine and is this a trick and went to the infamous prison herself to see what it's really like is the latest in a series of reports. 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
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charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. furnace and water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here 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 lubricated and we give the patient
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a choice do they want to have the key which is agent it will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using olive oil they seem to 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 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
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might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing 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. tied our hands to the chair they shackled our legs to the ground they. struck 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 a at 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
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harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint 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 you 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 outside 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 to be 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. one ton of cuba
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poland has granted victim status to one gets mowed detainee who was allegedly captured by the cia and to be unpunished have a tree and there are other similar accusations he spoke to james cornel the lawyer for a month he's accused of aiding the nine eleven that's honks he says his client now suffers from major health problems after being tortured by the cia. immediately upon being transferred to guantanamo bay mr absolutely 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 is 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 at 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
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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 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 we're trying to shed some light on walter's actually going on inside gone time about every week he has a new report from inside the infamous descension sent. out of a snowden is no longer unemployed the n.s.a. whistleblower temporary asylum here in russia may start a new job as early as tomorrow and just like the previous one it will make he's on his computer scales but there will be no trade secrets this time. the details are putting john i thought he could should you know lawyer who's also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a. contractor
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going to work or would he be doing it from home since his exact location is still unknown due to security reasons snowden's revelations about the n.s.a. has seen the u.s. intelligence services go to great lengths to justify their activities officially they've been told to use nine eleven as their main argument according to a document leaked in the media and some want to titian's are happy to follow that advise. what i want to tell you about is how did we get here nine eleven prior to nine eleven we had no way of connecting those dots what section true fifteen does
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is allow the government to connect the dots these should and likely could have been connected to prevent nine eleven many of these reform proposals run the risk of recreating the type of cumbersome over lawyer pfizer regime that proved so inadequate in the wake of nine eleven one incident was called nine eleven that should never happen again the attitude of the u.s. intelligence community indicates a reluctance to reform says american political analyst eric draitser. bridge 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 entrust these people with some kind of an internal review it is laughable it is just about as
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laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves. the techniques seized by the n.s.a. are being revealed a report from the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge amounts of data from google and yahoo by breaking into their communications links they say leaks as catch from an internal presentation shows how the n.s.a. intercepts google traffic by tapping into the company's data cables millions of records are collected in this way on a daily basis as part of a program called named muscular and the n.s.a. engineers enjoy bad to it with a smiley face is anything to go by. and to get a clearer idea of all of these doodles mean check out our. site dot com. more news and creating a look at the shady side of the e.u. economy is coming up in just a few moments. well
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. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has
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been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporation to rule the day. if you will ching i'll see you live from moscow welcome back on. germany's thriving economy may well be dragging the rest to europe down a us treasury reports address the continent is suffering from a trade imbalance caused by a flood of exports from germany but the talk of berlin orchestrating the e.u.'s policies is nothing new it recently persuaded brussels to delay a limit on car emissions to save the revenues of its own auto industry. explain. with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron for all his bluster would fall prefer to negotiate with the e.u.
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the nieve it all together and germany and merkel is the linchpin that 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. regulations it's a tit for tat thing britain's proposing to support germany's to delay the introduction of it on carbon dioxide emissions which will harm b.m.w. mercedes and algae and in return britain is seeking germany's help to protect the banking sector from the ways of brussels regulations the proposed deal may also include asking for germany's help to a cap on bankers' bonuses something the tory party is controversy fighting against the tide of public opinion but it's not just germany and britain practically every member has something to complain about belgian farmers the rail gates milk pricing
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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 imposed after receiving them all combined to undermine the project but now that two of the unions most powerful members appear to be commuting to defy the rules of the organization it looks like dissatisfaction has hit a whole new level. and barbara colm director of the austrian economics center told us the e.u. is tightening a rope around its neck. it could be definitely the beginning of a trend because brussels again has grown too far if we just look at how many regulations called as member run or directives go out every month by brussels and they harm national economies they harm national competitiveness
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one size fits all politics that have been tried to pursue do not work we have seen this during the so-called financial crisis the euro crisis obviously it does not work and this is what we see now it finally becomes clear that this big picture of big brussels definitely hurts the national interests. oh you down by corporations and striving to survive in the modern economy today's kaiser report is just for you that you know it takes all the running you can do to keep it in the same place. it's all the birds and you can do to keep in the same place the banks are. it's all the working you can do to keep in the same place near feudal facts to the chumps who have to work for a living but i would say not only does it take all the running printing working but it also takes all the bombing stealing of the fraud exploring and dying. and taking to stay in the same place as the road stacey.
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and there are always stories on our website for you including taking on halloween we've got the story of why the children want russian city are trying to scare people off the spooky holiday the false stories that are. also the former i'm going interpreter to save the life of the u.s. soldier and finally gets an american visa to gears of trying because of concern the tiny band might seek revenge because the story of the miners made it all possible online. the iraqi prime minister is in washington to try and bring u.s. airborne muscle into into his fight against sectarian violence there he even appeals to all americans for help from the pages of the new york times but many believe it's the prime minister and his policies to blame for causing
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a bloodbath which has taken more than seven thousand lives this year my colleague bill told spoke with current critic who used to be in the u.s. air force and she believes resorting to u.s. weapons will make the situation even while. 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 the 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 but only pointing the finger of blame at the political system that the prime minister there 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 week been the bombing the dozen years of wrong between that second invasion then we put in place
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puppets who marquis 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 . and some other world news in brief now pakistan's west of province of balochistan has been wronged by a deadly blast four people have been killed and nineteen injured after a bomb a route to a bicycle went off in a busy area in the city of quetta it's not known who carried out that time but the region is known for deadly terror and violence with militants often targeting members of the shia minority. in the u.s. state of california hundreds gathered for another protest over the recent killing over thirteen year old boy by police and. an eighth grader was gunned down last
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tuesday with seven bullets because he was carrying a replica of an assault rifle protests and demanded the officer responsible of all their tryna be brought to justice and called for a transparent investigation. up next on a boy who is joined by this year's nobel peace prize winner to examine the issues surrounding the destruction of syria's chemical weapons stay with us. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when
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a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the word blanket because they gave the native americans disease still blankets to kill them i and they bought their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see the lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion.
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right on the scene. first. and i think you're. on our reporters. instead. of am a little. i've . a lot of welcome to.

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