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to the point that some. of our. journalism or terrorism the partner of a newspaper reporter who revealed intelligence leaks is accused of espionage and breaching britain's national security. america's huge soon to be opened new spy complex is the target for the authorities failing to keep the public away from what was supposed to be a secret facility. they put inside of the middle of an army base so you can protest an army to protest. activists to seize the already notorious data center which will host super computers able to store the millions of phone calls emails and internet searches that have been harvested. and peace in ruins. the american ambassador saying washington talks with islamist
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militants after a u.s. drone killed the leader of the taliban in that country our top stories. live from our studios and here in moscow was just ten ten pm this is. british authorities say the pull of a newspaper reporter who's been publishing edward snowden's leaks was involved in espionage and terrorism. was made in a scotland yard document which is being used as evidence in a london court hearing. closely following the case. now the document was put together it was read part of the legal action that david miranda has launched against the british government that's calling for the documents that were taken
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from him to be returned and questioning indeed the legality of his detention if you cast your mind back to the end of august he was detained when he arrived from thailand at heathrow airport question for nine hours and had those documents seized from him that she was read in court saying that the intelligence indicated that miranda was likely to be involved in espionage activity and that had the potential to act against the security interests big langley was reportedly responding saying that they absolutely explicitly now equating terrorism and journalism and of course that is going to be causing huge concern says parts of going to debate here in the u.k. surrounding press freedom at the moment and causing a huge amount of concern just earlier this week we reported on the prime minister david cameron seeming to issue a belt threats towards newspapers saying that if they didn't show some restraint in
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publishing information that action would be taken although he said he didn't want to get heavy handed but of course the detention in the first place of david miranda a journalist carrying that information much of which that's being published already having been shown to have been in the public's interest unveiling this information about mass surveillance but consistently we've seen the government try to steer the topic and the debate away from this much surveillance this year and all see the issue of national security at the hearing for david miranda his legal challenge is for next week and jim killer conspirator little early he's executive director of the open rights group he thinks any suggestion that he's been involved in a terror plot is just absurd. actually saying that this bloke is a terrorist and that's why they're able to arrest him under terrorist laws and i think that's just absolutely insane is equating the journalistic practice of
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taking leaks documents and looking at them and potentially telling the public about certain things in it with terrorism you can't do that. well there was no reason given for the investigation launched against miranda after his detention in august the u.k. authorities said only that reviewing the items he was carrying which include fifty eight thousand documents from u.s. and u.k. intelligence or james cook says that they're breaking their promise not to take advantage of the laws to combat terrorism the governments of the day have always said no no they won't possibly abuse of course those will only ever be used against terrorists and here we see somebody with leaks material who's been very responsible these part of the guardian to be extremely responsible in the handling of this material nobody has been able to say here dangerous national security genuinely people are have their lives at risk nobody's been able to show that said what we've got is police abusing their powers in order to intimidate these people or germany
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and brazil want the u.n. to do something about excessive electronic surveillance and illegal personal data collection and by revelations over the n.s.a.'s activities they submitted a draft resolution to the general assembly this comes as the u.s. plans to open a huge data warehouse to store the millions upon millions of e-mails and phone calls it's collected what is more important but some americans fighting to stop it . known for its desert wind. and picturesque mountains utah has long been home to the nation's largest population of mormons today it's also home to america's soon to be biggest spy complex they put it inside of the middle of an army base so you care about be protesting the army to protest the n.s.a. . damn garfield learned his lesson on independence day when police prohibited more than a hundred restore the fourth activists from protesting in front of the n.s.a.'s one
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point five billion dollar data center. shortly thereafter the group thought of a way to claim a two mile long stake right next to the n.s.a. they keep on trying to kick us out for being here why don't we just adopt a highway we think of and we can clean up in the coming weeks of the peace sign will be placed right here that says restore the poor you tom and for each day that employees report to work at the data center they will pass by this sign reminded of the public distrust of the n.s.a. and its ever expanding surveillance programs r t four members will be required to clean the highway at least three times a year but many activists like lorraine a potter plan on being outside the data center much more often armed with an anti n.s.a. picket sign they believe that it is their place. to take in harvest all of our information the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be
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secure from unreasonable search and seizure. r t four was born into a nationwide grassroots movement after whistleblower edward snowden revealed how the n.s.a. spies on its own citizens as well as foreigners world leaders and even the vatican we're never going to be able to reverse this if we don't speak up if we don't say something if we don't get people aware of what's being done so what's being done inside the utah data center according to reports the surveillance complex will be filled with servers routers and computer intelligence experts working to intercept capture and analyze vast quantities of the world's communication. or other apps or buildings back there if the secrets inside the data center are heavily protected by fences the national guard and countless warning signs that overlooks the whole valley. is almost like
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a symbolic overwatch of the populace that make you paranoid. r.t. you top. the n.s.a. revelations have been piling up and many believe more leaks are to come so what impact will they have that's what we're asking on our website at the moment and sixty percent so far believe that politicians will talk more about privacy but do nothing almost a quarter of predicting a rise in public discontent and more protests a little more ten percent believe they'll be no effect at all as everyone is already used to leaks a minority would see that just four percent hoping for steps to secure privacy in surveillance and good to hear from you have to r t v dot com to cast your vote. october was iraq's bloodiest month for five years the nation is struggling to curb the levels of sectarian violence and iraq's prime minister has been forced to ask washington to help him find tara he's going to check on his more we know that the
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iraqi leadership has made a request for u.s. assistance in the fight against terror we don't know the details of that quest the leaders wouldn't elaborate on that the iraqi prime minister called al qaeda a scourge for iraq and the middle east the iraqi prime is those arrived in washington in the month that turned out to be the deadliest in the last five years for those who are following the news it's becoming such a repetitive phrase the deadliest month in iraq for this many years said we hear it all the time the fact is that following the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three terrorism has skyrocketed in iraq the sectarian war that broke out as a result of the invasion has created a great environment for terrorists the iraqi prime minister says it's getting worse because he says as a result of the so-called arab revolutions there is a power vacuum in the region which extremist forces take advantage of is specifically spoke about syria and the situation there of course even though iraq's nouri al maliki knows what the u.s.
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invasion has led to in his country he can't be too quick all of washington because after all in a way it's thanks to the u.s. that he's now in power. going to check on their let's take a closer look at the numbers according to iraq's interior defense and health ministries the number of deaths in october reached nine hundred sixty four ninety percent of which were civilians the government says this is the highest death toll in a single month since april two thousand and eight back then more than one thousand were killed over the numbers don't correspond with the united nations data which suggests july this year was equally as bad as i'm going to who's a kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime says the ongoing bloodshed is forcing people to live in fear is affecting daily lives from morning until night and every single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything whoever the gods are they don't know i mean doesn't know whether
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they come back safely or not. distrust off of the regime. terrorists more slowly targeting innocent people rather than. other forces. and how you fizzing and also told us there's no agreement within the iraqi government and that's leading to more violence against civilians. government is quiet this squabbling among the alliance is formed off alliance of some political parties most of them got militias and they are very busy fighting each other so this internal fighting is causing a lot of their horrendous violence against the civilians. another country struggling with a wave of violence could have lost a chance for peace talks is numb about plans to start negotiations with the taliban the railed off to a u.s. drone strike killed the militants leader the details coming up just
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a little later in the program plus plenty of other news. zachary what happened i don't. build. years later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because
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there's been this is like no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. he's continues her naughty pakistan's foreign ministry had summoned the american ambassador a day after the leader of the pakistani taliban was killed by a u.s. drone strike is not about is accused washington of sabotaging attempts to bring an end to violence through peace talks with the taliban the group has vowed to avenge the death of ellida. been claimed several times before that the suit has been killed. but only for him to turn up still alive he had expressed a willingness to hold serious talks with the pakistani government and said he was
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waiting to be approached his apparent death comes just as the pakistani government sent a delegation to stop peace negotiations so i'm hardly a journalist and a retired pakistani air force officer says it's the people of pakistan who are going to suffer the consequences the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because with america taliban pakistan had made it a precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so anybody who is going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any authority. now to some disturbing footage for you at r.t. dot com all websites.
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these pictures allegedly show california prison guards using pepper spray against a naked screaming mentally ill inmate forcing him to take medication at online for the full video plus. gathering intelligence and launching strikes and up to six times the speed of sound a u.s. company unveils plans to create a new supersonic drone war and that project right now on our website. and all you tube channel a triple halo illuminates the skies over china the sun shares the heavens with two smaller phantoms you can find out what causes this rare and beautiful phenomena. right to see. her straight. and i think you're.
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on a reporter's. instrument. the . ukraine is preparing to sign a landmark partnership deal with the european union at the end of this month it would guarantee the former soviet republic free trade access but is the country's car industry ready for the change. investigates. entering the association agreement with the e.u. is being sold to the public as a step forward and while indeed the country's farmers might enjoy better export deals with a projected four hundred million euros annual profit the machinery bosses are not so happy the country's factories might simply not be able to afford modernizing to use standards that would cost almost a staggering one hundred thirty billion euros and that would repeat the fate of the industrial giants who have already been caught in that trap hungary's bus factory
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it was the leader in public bus production throughout nineteen seventies europe producing more than fourteen thousand buses a year in two thousand and seven it shut down having failed to compete on the european market it's now reopened only to export small shipments of buses to latin american countries and repair all their models in the one nine hundred seventy s. poland's lightweight delivery buses were exported to over one hundred countries all over the world but in two thousand and f. a c. factories both vanished from the face of the earth after being purchased by dell and g.m. respectively lot to be as rough buses were well known in the year in the soviet union those were probably the most widespread public transport vehicles on the country's roads but in the one nine hundred ninety s. the company failed to meet standards and lost the eastern market as well regal was so keen on your integration that it blocked roughs last ditch attempt to save itself through a merger with a russian gas company in one thousand nine hundred the car factory was officially declared bankrupt there are more examples of such failures in central and eastern
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europe all united by one issue failure to survive in the european market as things stand it's hard to imagine which industrial enterprises in ukraine would be able to avoid the same fate more news in brief starting with the shooting at los angeles international airport. i saw him coming out and run by about ten feet away from me. he just grabbed the right ball like he knew how to grab it just you don't believe it's really it's like seeing something on t.v. police say the gunman who opened fire on friday sent a suicide text message to his father prior to the incident soon after a twenty three year old paul sincere stormed into a crowded terminal killed a security agent and wounded several others he was overpowered but the incident set off a panic and a stampede parts of the world's sixth busiest airport were evacuated and over seven hundred domestic flights disrupted you can get all the updates on the story right
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now on our website dot com. also the world at this hour a scrap metal yard blaze in east london delayed the beginning of strike action for more than one hundred firefighters and plans to help were put on hold while they attended the site contained as of this gas and as it is across the u.k. have decided on industrial action over salaries and changes to their pensions. through french radio journalists have been found dead in the northern mali town of they were reportedly seized in broad daylight by four men and forced into a truck that drove them away into the desert city is a hotbed of ethnic tensions between separatists and locals induction occurred shortly after the reporters it interviewed a separatist spokesman and despite the presence of around four hundred french and u.n. peacekeepers in the city. the british banking system is going down the drain well that's according to max keiser. it's all in a day's work for this woman she opens up
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a manhole cover and sounds just much slower because she can delight it by what she finds as you see she was pulling the gutter oil straight out of the sewer and then processing and giant vats of toxins and chemicals in order to create the gutter oil there's an analogy here between converting the sewer garbage that slop in to reprocess tidbits available as a combustible or on the street where the slop in the financial system so they take credit they take collateral that's better be used it has been sold down and resold hundreds of times and they put it on the balance sheet of the bank of england and the bank of england exchanges fresh slop in the form of a guilt which is then the collateral upon which the housing bubble in london is based if you were to examine the balance sheet of the bank of england you would find a process of pork slop and gutter slop and oil and all kinds of dog bar bit on the
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. you know fill in whatever it is. cause report coming away a little later today on. the husband of jailed pussy riot member tolokonnikova says he hasn't had contact with his wife for days russia's prison service says she is being sent to a new penal colony official say have family will be informed about and you know cation within ten days of arrival she serving two years after being part of the controversial protest performance of moscow's christ the savior could feel she went on a hunger strike to protest against have detention conditions in september and in october the prison service said that she would be moved. france has issued a rabies alert after a kitten died of the disease which is potentially deadly to humans there's no known treatment to cure the infection if it has taken hold european health officials are
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working hard to prevent further outbreaks but in the u.k. the government has recently relaxed controls as obvious explains. nowadays and his dog can travel to the u.k. imagine frightened of every friendly animal you meet. imagine rabies in britain back when this public information video was made westminster's fear of rabies was so high that any animal coming into the country had to enjoy six months in quarantine first rabies is a killer we must keep rabies out but the rules were relaxed last year when britain was forced to join the european union's pet travel scheme. it's really like the razor system these dogs have come in from brazil them bob way vietnam in thailand they all need to be quarantined upon entry to the u.k. but pets coming in from europe and some other countries are exempt all they need is
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a pet possible and a microchip. since the scheme started there has been seven hundred fifty one cases of rabies in animals in romania in three hundred eighty five and poland is the latest case of the disease ridden hall and there was no longer the requirement for a blood test on a six month wait which means that dog can be vaccinated and be within the ukraine three weeks which bears no resemblance to the integration period easy's told those who animals say that angry at the government's failure to challenge the e.u. directive and safeguard the u.k. saudi. and everything europe seems to say we seem to have to do we're not protecting ourselves we seem to side in the slot sights and sounds we've put ourselves at risk this approach is owners take her in and out of the u.k. on a regular basis this is what her e.u. pet possible looks like but campaign to say that less so easy to forge the number of dogs being smuggled into the u.k. illegally has increased by food hundred percent since the rules were relaxed.
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that dog can be brought into the country going to a mix in a park with other dogs if that was a carrier they nixed us policy you know so other animals then you've got it out right travel are qualified it cools absolute devastation the department for environment through denver left fast says the risk of a dog with rabies entering the u.k. is still extremely low animal charities disagree several have already said that stocking up on the rabies vaccine in the water to protect the. us about ten brings up today for the moment i'll be back with more with the news team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime. it is time for no mercy for the mainstream media in breaking the sets with abby martin that is after the break.
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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 and discussions according 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 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 give the native americans disease till blankets to kill them and they 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
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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 of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. so i got heated and this is breaking the set so it seems senator dianne feinstein had a change of heart this week and she went from being a cheerleader for the n.s.a. to calling for
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a top to bottom review the agency in the wake of the spying on allies leak and just yesterday feinstein put forth a bill that will lead to the reform the spy agency surveillance practices that then i read the fine print the bill basically leaves the bulk metadata collection untouched and codified is the practice is already put in place where they need sen and i three sixty are not one looks like the same old dianne frankenstein to me happy belated hall that we never won let's go back to that. it was a. very hard to take. place that had sex with her big hair belief.
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system. so a lot has changed since the world learned about n.s.a. spying foreign leaders are outraged public protests are growing but there is one thing that hasn't changed at all and has a spine all day every day thankfully activists here in the u.s. are also taking it to the streets at a recent rally called stop watching us unique performance done by privacy advocates tar and christian iran so i asked him to come on this show and perform for you. and a breaks the law every day doesn't matter who you are or what you say they monitor
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your phone calls and e-mails any way corrupt congress and courts paving the way here's a lesson they want you to learn some day. watch what you say they stop by on your mind record your calls for posterity commit daily executive crimes with impunity there the authorities here to keep us safe until inevitably. it's the n.s.a. the first is the constitution we the people or the ones are abused that we can force any agency to make a new choice when we build up each raising of what's. the bands for private information gagging recipients of the first amendment to the patriot act national rules first we lose the privacy that enables speech then we let our government expand its reach into your bank account your medical records. your browsing history. library down the street if it was still open the bureau.
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