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to be in the middle. on. syria successfully destroys all of its chemical weapons production facilities at the day ahead of shuttle reports continue to surface about rebel fighters using toxic almonds. my salutes like a sport for a tropical beach holiday. is presently bad and i hear father's day is more like a living how long as they. struggle to make forced into a tube into our noses in all his latest report from inside gone tunnel bay prison will look at the allegations of torture and abuse as officials try to convince the outside world that the inmates are doing just fine that plus. one incident was called. nine eleven to prevent nine eleven in the wake of nine eleven.
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twelve years after tragedy and merican officials are told to keep using september the eleventh as the justification for explain expanding surveillance and a broad. brush under all the while the says he was me you know. and welcome to the problem. first let's start with a developing story this hour fierce clashes in the title of copper so have left at least six people injured police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters gathered in central rome to demand better social housing the demonstration turned violent after police officers tried to push back protest was attempting to break a police barricade demonstrators were throwing eggs glass bottles and smoke bombs
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at the police and attacked and on a vehicle that several protesters were arrested rallies for more social housing and against every actions have taken place in many cities across italy and of course work you keep you posted on this developing story here or not. all of the facilities used in syria to produce chemical weapons have been destroyed a day ahead of shadow it's being seen as a major step under the russian american brokered deal to read see where overt stockpiles of toxic arms by the middle of twenty fourteen fall asleep or has more now. 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 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
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foreign inspectors who have been inside the country for several weeks now have visited twenty one out of twenty three chemical weapons stockpile sites now the reason given as to why they could not go to two of those sites is 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 he 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 when syria would have destroyed all of its chemical weapons stockpiles we're receiving reports 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
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following the explosion of a shell there was yellow smoke they also say that they are suffering from symptoms of chemical in hell ation 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. on the tough task of chemical dissolve and discuss later today in worlds apart. renowned expert on chemical weapons and asks whether the ambitious goals in syria are chewable and has a quick. i would like to use your a technical expert. it is and i ask you this question how easy it is for non-state actors for rebel groups to produce those types of chemicals in an artisan the way the production of blistering nerve agents is actually not very difficult there are recipes on the web site on the web sites on the web. we know that in the.
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terrorist group in japan in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. they produced actually homemade we're going to do it yourself serenading very similar to what's being used in syria to the. an american based human rights organization sound what it calls systematic violations of gone tunnel of a prison it's calling for the immediate closure of the facility even though washington is says everything that is fine our season is to see a trick and i went to the infamous prison herself to see what it's really like there and here is the latest in her series of reports. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast 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 expected they enjoy being here you
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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 but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there's no water in the us 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 delta house is a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and
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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 in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent who will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described 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
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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 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. 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 journalism just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone
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was a at a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervene and try to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or end their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you'll ask 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 behave better there will be ordered by being allowed
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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. forty one tonne of cuba poland has granted victim status to one detainee who was allegedly captured by the cia and polish territory and there are similar accusations she spoke to james connell the lawyer for a man who is accused of aiding the nine eleven a time and 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's no
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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 of guantanamo bay who are being forced out 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 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 what is actually going on and find every week he has a new report from inside the detention center for least. address snowden's revelations about the n.s.a. has seen u.s. intelligence bosses go to great lengths to justify their activities officially
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they've been told to use nine eleven as their main argument according to documents and leaks in the media and some politicians are happy to follow that advice 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 two fifteen does is allow the government to connect the dots these dots should have 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. they and shoot of the u.s. intelligence community indicates a reluctance to reform says american political analyst eric draitser. intrust the scene bureaucrats like clapper and others who have been caught lying publicly on
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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 introduce these people with some kind of an internal review it is laughable it is just about as laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves. on the techniques used by the n.s.a. have been revealed and reported in the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge amounts of data from google and yahoo by breaking into that communication links and they say leaked scantron internal presentation shows how the n.s.a. intercepts google traffic by typing into the company's data cables millions of records are collected in this way on a daily bases as part of a program code named muscular and the n.s.a. engineers enjoy what they're doing if the smiley face is anything to go by
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and to get a clear idea of what these doodles mean check out dot com the n.s.a. chief of denies the agency is collecting data directly from yahoo and google and sandra also claim delegations of washington spying on europeans are false but his explanation wasn't enough for e.u. officials sounds to washington to demand some ounces. accounts spoke to some of the missions members about all the action at that. 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. delegation that they are not spying on european citizens on a massive scale obviously there is no way of checking it i caught up with some members of that e.u. delegation who said this is sort of like trying to get some information. don't clarify. the situation. we are lies
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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 germs in germany do you mean to the french if the german authorities to observe would have done them. yet so case alexander told them whatever intelligence european agencies are sharing with the n.s.a. is from war zones again no way of checking any of that so it was 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
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further we've seen it before. and also the man at the man behind all those leaks is not earning his keep three months after being granted asylum in russia edward snowden finds a job the details coming up in just a few minutes stay with. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build in its most sophisticated robots which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach me the creation and why it should care
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about humans in the world this is why you should care watch only on the dog. speak your language anything about the war not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news that will turn it into angles stories. here. altie spanish find out more visit eye to eye. teeth. you're watching aussies good to have you with us let's move on now i dos snowden is no longer unemployed the n.s.a. whistleblower has called temporary asylum in russia may start a new job as early as tomorrow just like the previous one it will make he said his
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computer scales but there will be no state secret base time around she's it work. cannot has that he's putting two on i thought he could sit in a lawyer who's also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a. contractor will start working for a major russian web site in the am or so possibly even as soon as tomorrow in this department of technical support mr katrina didn't specify which website exactly we do know about earlier russia's largest social networks contact you offered him a job as a security specialist so we don't know whether or not snowden will actually be going to work or will he be doing it from home since his exact location is still unknown due to security reasons and there are always more stories on our website for you including taking on halloween google the story of why officials and one russian city are trying to scam people on these fake holiday little details are now a new section and also that i'm going to have protests to save the life of a u.s.
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soldier to finally get an american fisa after years of trying because of concerns they turn it on my to seek revenge that i'm going to go the story of the man who made it all possible online for you. right from the street. first street to you and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on. germany's thriving economy may well be dragging the rest of europe down a new us treasury report suggests the continent is suffering from a trade imbalance caused by
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a flood of exports from germany but talk of berlin orchestrating the policy is nothing new it was simply persuaded brussels to delay a limit on current emissions to save the revenues of its own auto industry laura smith now explains. with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron for all his bluster would fall prefer to negotiate with the e.u. the need 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 industry again e.u. regulations it's a tit for tat thing britain is proposing to support germany's to delay the introduction of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions which will harm b.m.w. mercedes an audi and in return britain is seeking germany's help to protect the
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banking sector from the ways of brussels regulations the proposed deal may also include asking for germany's help to turn 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 a railing gates milk 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 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 directional the austrian economics center told
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us the e.u. is tightening a rope around its own 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 the national competitiveness one size fits all politics the to 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. are you decent 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
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it in the same place. it's all the birds and you could do to keep it in the same place as the banks are. its eggs are the working you can do to keep in the same place near futile 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 borrowing stealing of the fraud exploiting and dying shaking . taking to stay in the same place he is on the road stacey. and some other world news in brief like a stanza rest of province of baluchistan has been wronged by a deadly blast four people have been killed and nineteen injured after a bomb rigged to a bicycle went off and visit an area in the city of quetta it's not known who carried out that the region is known for deadly sick terror and violence was militants often targeting members of the shia minority. the bodies of
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ninety two migrants who'd been travelling from nice to algeria have been found in the desert they died from dehydration when their vehicles broke down close to the border more than half of the victims were children there part of the group did manage to make it back and inform rescuers every year thousands across this part of the so hard to reach the north african coast travel illegally to here up. to the u.s. state of california hundreds gathered for a not approaches over the recent killing of a setting year old boy by police and the lopez an eighth grader was gunned down last tuesday with seven bullets because he was carrying a replica want to sold rifle protests demanded the officer responsible a war veteran be brought to justice and called for a transparent investigation. and my colleague bill dawdle debacle with more news around thirty five minutes time from now and coming up next states i did not
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see them breaking this at. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limpet torch relay. on r t r two dot com. there's a media lead also we believe that maybe. by the sea pushes security for your party
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there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on r t. press and media freedom works nothing. when it comes to the interests of multinationals we have a media that is corrupted by power mostly by corporate who have corporate ownership from the top of corporate advertising coming in from the side we have a media that is where advertising and money and corporate influence is really the mother's milk a documentary filmmaker is being sued. for the truth is being told the private investigator. even if. it happens people buy and sell those kind of services all of the world when you've got hundreds of million
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dollar industry that needs to protect its reputation a few million being spent on a campaign to do just that just for me goods good money well spent. so what will be the verdict. big boy is going bananas. right. first. and i think that you're. on a recorder's. be and. everything that we say we don't do you know illegal base and watch part of mow. the un said don't invade iraq iraq anyway so we we do what we want to do
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that that's where american exceptionalism comes into play is that we're going to do . things that make united states better or make our corporations in a better situation and the world economy and that's just the way it is and when if that happens to agree with. other countries are still frosting on the cake but if it doesn't the soccer to stop us from going to. the the. polo all i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set you're get the feeling that u.s. policy is still running on a cold war mentality or maybe just the cold war grudge case in point tuesday's un general assembly vote to finally bring an end of the fifty year old economic embargo against cuba this is the twenty second year in a row the u.n. voted to condemn this blockade but this time the vote was especially in store in an
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unprecedented roll call the u.n. g.a. voted one hundred eighty eight to only two and a favor of ending the decades long embargo that is largely isolated the small caribbean island and guess who were the only two may vote yep none other than the good old us of a are inseparable partner in all things undiplomatic israel and even though the overwhelming majority has already been tallied twenty one times before every time it does the u.s. government knocks it down faster than you can say crippling economic sanctions following the vote cuba's foreign minister spoke out about the embargo to the general semele by saying quote seventy six percent of cubans have lived under its devastating effects since the day they were born it provokes hardships and is a mass flagrant and systematic violation of human rights the foreign minister also reminded the un that the economic damages have amounted to well over one.
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