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tara tag partner of the n.s.a. leaks reporter accused of espionage and terrorism in britain for trying to carry documents from edward snowden with him through an airport. digital discontented big money n.s.a. facility that set to open in utah drawing the anger of privacy activists. we're never going to be able to reverse this if we don't speak up. protestors trying to bring attention to privacy concerns by picketing in front of the new data center which is said to be able to store enormous enormous amounts of personal information . every single hour of the day people. feeling unsafe to do anything in iraq october is record high death toll over the last five years causes baghdad to ask the u.s. for additional help to combat insurgent violence. and
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peace at stake in pakistan summoning the u.s. ambassador accusing washington of scuttling attempts to get islamist militants to do go sheeting cable after a u.s. drone strike killed the leader of the taliban in the country. it's four am in moscow i'm mad as a very good to have you with us our top story this hour british police say they detained the partner of reporter glenn greenwald this summer because they thought he promoted a political or ideological cause on top of that david moran has been charged with espionage and terrorism since he tried to take a leak snowden documents with him through an airport are reports. now the document was put together it was read pardew's the legal action that david miranda has
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launched against the british government that's according to the documents that were taken for him to be returned and questioning indeed the legality of his detention if you close 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 these documents seized from him sheet that 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 u.k. security interests big long greenwald reportedly responding saying that they are absolutely explicitly now equating terrorism and journalism and of course that is going to be causing huge concern this is part of going to bait 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 they'll threats towards newspapers saying that if they didn't show some restraint
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in 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 you take government try to steer the topic and the debate away from this much surveillance this year and home to the issue of national security it runs illegally challenges orders detention with the key court hearing on it scheduled for next week digital rights activist jim toward the new accusations against miranda journalism is being equated with terrorism. actually saying that this bloke is a terrorist and that's why they're able to arrest him on the terrorist laws of multiclass just absolutely insane is equating the journalistic practice of taking leaks documents and looking at them and potentially telling the public about
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certain things in it with terrorism and you can't do that british authorities launched a criminal investigation against miranda after his august detention but he was never charged after those fifty eight thousand documents that he carried were examined killick says it's an example of u.k. terror laws being misapplied we've been seeing in the u.k. for many many years terrorist laws being written in ways that could be abused the governments of the day have always said no no they won't possibly abuse them of course they will only ever be used against terrorists and here we see somebody with leaks material who's been very responsible these part of they were miranda's and the guardian to be extremely responsive handling of this material nobody's been able to say here you endangered national security genuinely people or have their lives at risk and nobody's been able to show you that there's been accusations but there's been nobody actually saying that's happened so instead what we've got is
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the police abusing their powers in order to intimidate these people. in germany meanwhile want to un resolution on n.s.a. surveillance which will call on all countries to protect privacy guaranteed under international law but the u.s. agency is about to open a new one point five billion dollar facility in utah to collect and store more personal data artie's marine important went to meet some of the people running against 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. but then garfield learned his lesson on independence day when police prohibited more than a hundred were store the fourth activists from protesting in front of the n.s.a.'s
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one 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 the highway we can come in we can clean up in the coming weeks a big 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 an reasonable 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 you talk 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 after buildings back there the secrets inside the data center are heavily protected by the national guard and countless warning signs that overlooks the whole valley and kind of is almost like
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a symbolic overwatch of the populace that makes you paranoid. r.t. you top the n.s.a. leaks have been piling up for nearly a year now on our website r.t. dot com we're asking what you would think the impact is that they'll have so far sixty percent of respondents think there will be more talk but no action from politicians nearly a quarter forecast more discontent from the public including protests a little more than ten percent think nothing at all will happen and four percent think that real steps will be done to increase security what do you think can r.t. dot com and cast your vote. october was iraq's deadliest month since two thousand and eight the country seeing surging levels of sectarian violence that forced the prime minister to ask the u.s. for help in fighting terror or he's got a sticky on reports from washington. we know that the rocky leadership has made a request for u.s. assistance in the fight against terror we don't know the details of that request the leaders wouldn't elaborate on that the iraqi prime minister called al qaida
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a scourge for iraq and the middle east the iraqi prime minister has 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 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 six carry on 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 it specifically spoke about syria and the situation there of course even though iraq's nouri al maliki knows what the u.s. invasion has left to his country he can't be too critical of washington because after all in a way it's thanks to the u.s. that he's now in power take a closer look at the numbers according to iraq's interior defense and health
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ministries the number of deaths in october reached nine hundred sixty four ninety percent of them of civilians the government says it's the highest death toll in a single month since april of two thousand a more than a thousand people died however the numbers don't line up with u.n. data which suggests that july of this year was equally bad if it isn't gone a kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime says the ongoing bloodshed is forcing people to live in fear. they live from morning until night every single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything whoever they don't know i mean doesn't know whether they come back safely or not. distrust of the regime. mostly targeting innocent people the government is quiet squabbling among the alliance is formed off. some forty some
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parties most of them got maybe she is so this intense fighting is causing a lot of the. horrendous violence against the civilians still to come in the program another country battling insurgency could be losing its transfer peace talks are u.s. drone strike killed the leader of the pakistani taliban but do you rail the government's negotiation plans plus. rabies is a killer we must keep rabies out old fears over a disease that's a disease that's potentially deadly to humans could make a comeback europe trying to prevent a new outbreak while the u.k. though recently oarlocks to its controls this story and more after a short break. do you think your argument about turkey being prevented examples of muslim democracy
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that was able to separate that it's really just from its economy still can be applied to these day that's a spear point when i spoke about in the book was how he had done some being accompanied by asking you to go away. so it seems so much economic success and i think that was great but the problem there is of course they do want. to do it has changed you know has become much more to talk to do yes. this dog any criticism and bad annoyed. what you're dealing with here is that a few years tell you. our children will just be. on the internet media that that's the future if you don't have a safe environment. we're going to face big problems.
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talk rules and if it doesn't you can jump in anytime you want to. live. delimit torch is on its big journey to such. a one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen people. or sixty killing. in a record setting trip. numbers for the. olympic torch relay.
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thanks for staying with us fifteen minutes past the hour pakistan's foreign ministry some in the u.s. ambassador following the killing of a pakistani taliban leader by a u.s. drone strike is all about accused washington of sabotaging attempts to hold peace talks with the taliban the group vowed to avenge the death of their leader it's been claimed several times before that hakim will most suit was killed only for him to turn up yet alive but he had expressed willingness told serious talks with pakistan's government and said he was waiting to be approached masood apparent demise comes as pakistan's government sent a delegation to start peace negotiations soltani mohali a journalist and former pakistani air force officer says it's people of pakistan who may suffer the consequences. the prime minister of. b.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 we. had made a precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the
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dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so i knew what he was going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any of taught it. always plenty more news for you on line including this because they got high at least seven hundred cannabis workers who attended marijuana fields in an albanian village of sought medical help after serious intoxication from the plant like an r.t. dot com for the details there plus. calling all the hipsters these fellows mustache you a question but they're shaving it for the world beard and moustache championships that have just been held in germany more than three hundred people competed in categories ranging from best daily mustache best freestyle moustache the most fashionable beer and when others full story on our website.
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ukraine in the e.u. expected to sign a landmark partnership deal by the end of the month to agreement will include the creation of a new free trade zone that's being touted as highly beneficial for the eastern european country but it appears that some ukrainian industries may lose rather than profit from it or has more. entering the association agreement with the e.u. is being sold to the crane in 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 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 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 is shut down having failed to compete on the european market it's now reopened only to export small shipments of buses to latin
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american countries and repair older 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 new sim motors 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 who were so keen on your integration that it blocked roughs last ditch attempts 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 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 max kaiser he can make
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a metaphor out of anything this time around he says the british banking system is a functioning is functioning our financial slop explains the analogy in his latest edition of the show coming your way on r t two g.m.t. here's a preview. it's all in a day's work for this woman she opens up a manhole cover and sounds just much slower because she can buy what she finds as you see she was pulling the gutter oil straight out of the sewer and then processing in giant vats of toxins and chemicals in order to create the gutter oil there's an analogy here between converting these sewer garbage slop into reprocess to bits available as the polls are and yes on the street with the slop in the financial system so they take credit they take collateral that's been abused and it's 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 me in the
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form of guilt which is then the collateral upon which the housing bubble in london is based and if you were to examine the balance sheet of the bank of england you would find the process pork slop and gutter slop and oil and all kinds of dog bar bit on the. you know fill in whatever it is it. has been of job pussy riot member in addition and says it's been almost two weeks since he's had any word about his wife's whereabouts earlier the russian prison service says she's being transferred to a new penal colony officials had promised to inform her family about the woman's location within ten days of her arrival in september to work on a couple went on a hunger strike against the detention conditions she was serving under asking to be moved to a different facility she along with another pussy riot member are serving
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a two year jail term for their band's controversial performance in moscow's christ the savior cathedral in february of two thousand and twelve. turning now to some other world news in nigeria seventeen people reportedly killed dozens injured in a stampede following an overnight church vigil local media says the number of victims could be as high as twenty eight preliminary reports blamed clashes between supporters and opponents of a local government candidate who visited the church another version says that the panic was caused by a false announcement about the outbreak of a fire. two french radio journalist have been found dead in the northern mali town of key doll they'd been reportedly seized in broad daylight by four men forced into a back of the truck that drove off into the desert doll is a hotbed of ethnic tensions between tara and separatists and locals duction happened shortly after reporters interviewed a separate is folks men and despite the presence of about four hundred french and u.n. peacekeepers in the town. and kosovo one local council candidates been killed another
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wounded in separate attacks the slain politician in this shot in the city of serbia by an off duty police officer the assailant later surrendered to police authorities report that the incident was triggered by a personal spat this comes as tensions remain high head of sunday's vote with more than five thousand police deployed around the area to guard polling stations. and. the french region of brittany as seen violent clashes between protesters and security forces over a proposed eco tax it was due to come into force in two thousand and fourteen and was to be applied to transport vehicles delivering goods around the country but was later indefinitely suspended still public anger continues with demonstrators calling for the law to be a no similar violent protest last week saw two people seriously hurt. police summoned shaikh ali solomon head of the main shiite opposition faction in bahrain for questioning the authorities provided no specific reason yet for the
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move but have been strongly condemned by solomons party the nation is seen unrest since two thousand and eleven with frequent protests calling for political reforms and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. france has issued a rabies alert after a kitten died of the disease that can be deadly to humans there is no known treatment security infection once it's taken hold european health officials are working hard to prevent further outbreaks but in the u.k. the government recently relaxed controls artie's polly boyko reports. now with. his can travel to the ek can you 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
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razor system these dogs have come a lot 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 a pet possible and a microchip. since the scheme started there has been seven hundred fifty one cases of rabies in animals or mania in three hundred ninety five in poland the latest case of disease was in holland it was known to the requirement for a blood test in a six month wait which means that the doc can be vaccination be within the u.k. three weeks which bears no resemblance to the integration period easy's to those who put 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
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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 pet possible looks like but campaign to say that mess so easy to forge the number of dogs being smuggled into the u.k. illegally has increased by four hundred percent since the rules were relaxed. that dog can be brought into the country going to a hot makes in a park with other dogs he thought that was a carrier they mix those policy known so other animals then you've got it out right traffic. it cools absolute devastation the department for environment food in who are left as says the risk of a don't leave babies entering the u.k. is still extremely low level charities disagree several have already said that that's stocking up on rabies vaccines in order to protect that. ati
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london us so the gun find out what happens when a filmmaker takes on a giant brood conglomerate that's after this short break stay with us. a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents and found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so this i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in the normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that
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when they have to fire every teacher with a handicap or abnormal appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when your spiritual teachers wound of so of the good stuff for money to play boy it is a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually very complex issue but all i could say is that you should really try to fight the. temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion. emission free cretaceous three destroyed churches three. richmond three. three. two three. the old three votes against plug in video for your media projects
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a free video done to our teeth on top. we have a media that is corrupted by the power mostly by corporate power. to go after your father was just a little tiny part of a big investment there with me. company because it's true they're hiring the very. thing to be a little bit naive if you think that you can take the. bait. and expect to move away without some sort of funny to me. it was beyond belief to think the bank could be done to a participant in
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a film festival. i think that told sixteen games long doubt about the credibility of the story. as a swedish filmmaker and journalist i always took the right of freedom of speech for granted. but as i came to learn it depends on the story you want to tell. in two thousand and nine i had made a film about a court case in los angeles where banana workers from nicaragua are suing gold food companies for the use of a banned pesticide that they claimed made them sterile along with other serious health effects and in november two thousand and seven the jury in the los angeles court delivered a groundbreaking verdict.

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