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protests against housing policies and with clashes in rome as activists vent their anger at the government over the on the fordable cost of living. syria successfully destroys all of its chemical weapons production facilities and. the reports continue to surface about rebel fighters using toxic elements. what looks like a spot for a tropical beach holiday. here for others is more like a living hell on earth. report from inside guantanamo bay prison we look at the allegations of torture and abuse as officials try to convince you that the inmates are doing just fine plus. one
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was called. nine eleven. in the wake of nine eleven twelve years after a tragedy american officials are told to keep using september the eleventh as the justification for expanding surveillance home and abroad. with the twenty four hours a day of fierce clashes in the attorney capital of left at least six people injured police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters gathered in central rome to demand better social housing and in this money. the demonstration things the protesters have decided causing trouble is the only way to get heard. what i saw is that there were some people are among the protesters who came to the demonstration
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with the helmets and agues so i think their intentions was really to start a fight with the police and not to have a peaceful protest well i think the police and the situation correctly they're only hostile to was to throw the smoke bombs but only because they are being attacked by the protesters and i think what happened today is very symbolic of what is happening right now in the nation the government isn't really much caring about the progress because i think they have bigger issues like the survival of the government itself and the full report from the very heart of the rot is a valuable to online on our website you can log on to r.t. dot com for all the details. snowden's revelations about the n.s.a. have seen u.s. intelligence bosses 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 politicians are happy to follow that advice
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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 well asia times correspondent pepe escobar thinks this approach cannot be justified because it's mainly intelligence on the ground not electronic surveillance that helps prevent terrorism. nowadays we have this electronic mule filled the lism. built in the george orwell orwellian
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optical complex where the piece of it has a start it's always nine eleven justify buying on virtually every citizen in the world from sub-saharan africa to western china this is completely absurd because they are not for any loss because of electronic surveillance on top of it we cannot believe it is seeing a general keith alexander chief of n.s.a. says he is an orwellian functionary you know defending you pretty realistic myth of all the g. fact it's complete it's beyond surrealism because it doesn't make sense if you don't have the ground tell you cannot fight what was called the war on terror and the obama administration started to call overseas contingency operations all c.e.o. you cannot do all see go with without boots on the ground in terms of the tell if if you watch whole the american seriously you know that more details on the
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techniques used by the n.s.a. are being revealed a report in the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge amounts of data from google and yahoo by breaking into their communications links this leak to sketch 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 code named muscular and the n.s.a. engineers enjoy what they're doing if the smiley faces anything to go by. well the man behind all those leaks is now earning his keep three months after being brought to the silent here in russia edward snowden finds a job the details coming our way just a few minutes from now. but first an american based human rights organization filed what it calls systematic violations at guantanamo bay prison is calling for the immediate closure of the facility even though washington insists everything there is fine. and i went to the infamous prison herself to see what it's really like and
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is the latest in her series of reports. guantanamo 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 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 here j t f you know 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. furnace and water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here
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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 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 agent. area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients
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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 have experienced at one time or 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 places 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. tied. to the chair legs to the ground.
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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 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 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
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the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now outside two active camps at guantanamo camp five single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials do. 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. cuba. victim status to one of the detainees who was allegedly captured by the cia and abused on polish territory and there are other similar accusations already spoke to james cole the lawyer for a man who's accused of aiding the nine eleven attacks and he says he's now suffers
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from major health problems after being tortured by the cia. immediately upon being transferred to guantanamo bay mr abu cheek 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 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 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. while we're trying to shed
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some light on what is actually going on inside guantanamo and every week has a new report from inside the detention center we head live twenty four hours a day based in moscow more stories coming our way off to the breaking pleading a positive development from war torn syria. well. it's technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we. covered.
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more news today boylan says once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. if we look at the history of the o.p.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 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
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that we say we don't do you know without our illegal base in guantanamo. the un said don't invade iraq. anyway so we we do what we want to do like so that's where american exceptionalism comes and so full play is that 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.
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economic down in the final. deal and the rest. will be if we. use continues here in r.t. all the feet facilities used in syria to produce chemical weapons have been destroyed a day ahead of schedule is 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 fourteen. 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 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 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 a yellow smoke they also say that they are suffering from symptoms of chemical in hell ation and nor 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. the syrian government is pleased to rid itself of chemical weapons because it means they could be used as an excuse for foreign intervention that's the view of middle east and others to show me no honey. the chemical weapons like scarves and cluster munitions and you know things like this have been narratives to hype up the conflict and draw international intervention on different levels there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons with the syrian government has for some time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their
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hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to read them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists just to remind you always more stories on our website including taking on how we got the story of why officials in one russian city a tried to scare people off the spooky holiday the full details in the news section also the. afghan interpreter who saved the life of a u.s. soldier finally gets an american visa is of troy because you can see the taliban seek revenge you know the store the money made it possible right now. that you're a little bit like. this or you. could
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have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. germany's thriving economy may well be dragging the rest of europe down a us treasury report suggests the continent is suffering from a trade imbalance caused by a flood of exports from germany but 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 or smith explains. with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron for all his fall prefer to negotiate with the e.u.
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the need it all together and germany. 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 and and in return in 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 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 belgians. it's milk
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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. the road to the austrian economics and to each year 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 memoir run on a directive scale out every month by brussels and they harm the national economy is they harm the national competitiveness one size fits all
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politics that's 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 american this is what we see now it finally becomes clear that this big picture of big brussels definitely hurts the national interests. by corporations and striving to survive in the modern economy well today's cars report is just for you you know it takes all the running you can do to keep it in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you could do to keep it in the same place so the banks are to bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the neo feudal fax to the chumps we 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 exploring and dying shaking breaking and taking to stay in the same frickin place isn't that right stacy.
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because a report later today here in r.t. edward snowden is no longer an employed in a say whistleblower who's got to produce and i'm here in russia may start a new job as early as tomorrow just like the previous one it will make use of his computer skills but there will be no state secrets this time you got to spin off has the details. lawyer who has also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a. contractor will start working for a major russian web site in november so possibly even as soon as tomorrow in this department of technical support mr bush didn't specify which web site exactly we do know that earlier russia's largest social networks contacts he 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
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unknown due to security reasons. time now for some other world news now and this is pakistan's restive province of but not just stand has been rocked by a deadly blast four people have been killed and injured after a bomb ripped to a bicycle went off in a busy area in the city not known who carried out the attack but the region is known for deadly sectarian violence with militants often targeting members of the shia minority. the u.s. state of california hundreds gathered for another protest over the recent killing of a thirteen 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 of an assault rifle just as demanded the officer responsible a war veteran be brought to justice and called for a transparent investigation. of the life here in moscow coming up in just a few minutes from now kicking through the gender barrier we take you to a ukrainian motionless training camp with a difference after that more news with minute team from at.
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the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used to the official e-mails or discussion 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 a politically correct insanity land these words are obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely like 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 and they
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block 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 a 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 the old states join the team but that's just my opinion.
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