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taking the bread out of. terror tag the 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 discontent a big money n.s.a. facility 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 amounts of personal information. as a single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything in iraq tobar is record high death toll over the last five years causes baghdad to ask the u.s. for additional aid to combat insurgent violence. and
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peace at risk pakistan summoning the u.s. ambassador accusing washington of scuttling attempts to get islamist militants to the negotiating table after a u.s. drone strike killed the leader of the taliban in the country. is five am in moscow i match reza 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 miranda has been charged with espionage and terrorism since he tried to take a leak snowden documents through an airport r.t. sara for a thousand more. now the document was put together it was read pardew's the legal action that david miranda has launched against the british government that's according to the documents that were taken for him to be returned and i'm
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questioning indeed the legality of his detention if you call to mind back to the end of august he was detained when he arrived from thailand and he through airports question for nine hours and had these documents seized from him. 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 the glow green was that it was cool to be responding saying that they absolutely explicitly now equating terrorism and journalism and of course that is going to be causing huge concern is part of going to play 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 threats towards newspapers saying that if they didn't show some restraint in publishing information that action would be taken although he said he didn't want
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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 they link this information about mass surveillance but consistently be seen u.k. government try to steer the topic and the debate away from this my surveillance vishy and all see the issue of national security it. legally challenges august attention with a key court hearing on it scheduled next week digital writer or do the digital rights activist jim killer thinks these new accusations against miranda journalism is being equated with terrorism. actually saying that this bloke is a terrorist and that's why they were able to arrest him under terrorist laws and i think that's 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 you can't do that. british authorities launched a criminal investigation against her as august detention but he was never charged after those fifty eight thousand documents in his possession were examined killick says a savings in a bill of u.k. terror was 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 there's a lot of you have a b. use against terrorists and here we see somebody with leaks material who's been very responsible is part of they were under the guardian to be extremely responsible in the handling of this material nobody's been able to say here a danger to national security genuinely people have their lives at risk nobody's been able to show that there's been accusations but there's been nobody actually saying that's happened so instead what we've got is the police abusing their powers
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in order to intimidate these people germany and brazil meanwhile want to un resolution on the n.s.a. surveillance i will call on all countries to protect privacy guaranteed under international law but the u.s. agency is about to open a new one and a half billion dollar facility in utah to collect and store more data artie's marina porton i reports are known for its desert wind. and picturesque mountains utah has long been home to the nation's largest population of mormons j 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 can be protesting the army to protest the n.s.a. . then garfield learned his lesson on independence day when police prohibited more than one hundred percent or the fourth activists from protesting in front of the n.s.a.'s one point five billion dollar data center. shortly thereafter
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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 can come in we can clean up in the coming weeks a big sign will be placed right here that says restore the work you tom and for each day. 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 harvests all of them from. the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure. r t four was born into
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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 acts 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. kind of is almost like a symbolic overwatch of the populace that makes you paranoid. are
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you tough. and it's a leagues have been piling up for nearly a year and a half now on our website we're asking what impact you think they'll have so far sixty percent of respondents think they'll be lots more talk about little action from politicians nearly a quarter say they'll be more discontent from the public including protests just more than ten percent think nothing will happen at all. in the minority four percent think there will be real steps taken to increase privacy what do you think click on r g dot com and cast your vote. tobar iraq's deadliest month since two thousand and eight the country seeing surging levels of sectarian violence that force prime minister or a force the prime minister to seek u.s. help for fighting terror or he's got egypt reports we know that the iraqi leadership has made a request for u.s. the systems 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 minister's arrived in washington in the month that turned out to be the deadliest in the last five years
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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 rocketed 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 he specifically spoke about syria and the situation there of course even though you rox nouri al maliki knows what the u.s. invasion has led to in this 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 now or according to iraq's interior defense and health ministry as the number of deaths in october reached nine hundred sixty four ninety percent of them civilians the government says it's the highest death toll in
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a single month since april of zero away when more than a thousand people were killed but the numbers don't line up with u.n. data suggesting that july of this year was equally bad guy in a kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein says the ongoing bloodshed is forcing people to live in fear. it is affecting daily life from morning until night every single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything whoever goes out they don't know i mean doesn't know whether they come back safely or not. this thrust of the regime. mostly targeting innocent people the government is quite busy squabbling among the alliance is formed off. some forty some part these most of them got maybe she is so this intense fighting is causing a lot of. horrendous fireless against the civilians still to come another country
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battling insurgency could be losing its chance for peace talks or us a drone killed the leader of a top pakistani taliban but do you rail the government negotiation plans in the process. is a killer we must keep rabies out old fears over a deal over over a disease potentially deadly the humans may make a comeback europe trying to prevent an outbreak while the u.k. recently relaxed its controls some more after a short break. approximately sixty percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action.
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to enter territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for a cure it. illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. choose your language. kill it we kill it oh if they're going to let us they still some of us. choose to use the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose b. access to your office. press and media freedom. when it comes to the interests of multinationals we have
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a media that is corrupted by power mostly by corporate. corporate ownership from the top corporate advertising coming in from the side we have a media this where advertising. and corporate influence is really the mother's milk a documentary filmmaker is being sued. for the truth is being told the private investigator. happens people. hundreds of million dollar industry needs to protect its reputation a few million being spent on a campaign to do just that. money well spent. so what will be the verdict. has. been my dream for. he couldn't hold on there is such
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a thing. now she runs her own factory. smoking and even coffee is forbidden they worship the earth. will he be able to. fifteen minutes past the hour now pakistan's foreign ministry was has our has someone at the american ambassador following the killing of the pakistani taliban leader in a u.s.
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drone strike islam about accuse washington of sabotaging attempts to hold peace talks with the taliban the group valid to avenge the death of their leader has been claimed several times before that hakim was killed but only for him to turn up still alive he had expressed a willingness though told serious talks with the pakistani government and said he was waiting to be approached masood said parent demise comes as pakistan's government sent a delegation to start negotiations holly a journalist and former pakistani air force officer says the people of pakistan who may suffer the consequences. the prime minister of pakistan was involved in d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama take him into confidence regarding the process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because we. 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 stopped big continued i knew what he was going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan not the
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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 a click away on our t.v. including because they got high at least seven hundred cannabis workers who attended marijuana fields in an albanian village sought medical care after serious intoxication from the plant like an r.t. dot com for more a plus. hipster parrot these fellows mustache you a question but they're shaving it for the world beard and mustache championships that have just been held in germany more than three hundred people competed in categories ranging from best daily mustache freestyle moustache most fashionable beard among others all that story and more on our website. ukraine and the e.u. are expected to sign a landmark partnership deal by months and the agreement will include the creation of a free trade zone that's being touted as highly beneficial for the europe eastern european country but it appears that some ukraine industries may lose out rather than profit
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or he reports 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 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 slight weakness and delivery buses were exported to over one hundred countries all over the world but in two thousand new sim orders and after a c. factories both vanished from the face of the earth after being purchased by dell
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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 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 the man can make a metaphor out of anything this time around he says the british banking system is functioning like financials functioning on a rather financial slop let him take it away and explain. 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 buy what she finds as you see she was pulling the gutter oil straight out of the sewer and then processing and giant vats toxins and chemicals in order to create the gutter oil there's an analogy here between converting these sewer garbage slop into reprocess tidbits 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 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 me in the 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.
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has been of jailed pussy riot member division and told a corner of us has been almost two weeks since he's had any information about his wife's whereabouts earlier the russian prison service said she's being transferred to a new penal colony officials promised to inform her family about the woman's location within ten days of her arrival in september tolokonnikova went on a hunger strike against detention conditions and asked to be moved to a different facility she along with another pussy riot member are serving a two year jail term for their band's controversial performance in moscow's christ the savior cathedral back in february two thousand and twelve. now to some other world headlines in nigeria seventeen people reportedly killed dozens injured in a stampede following an overnight church of visual. but local media say the number of victims could be as high as twenty eight preliminary reports blame clashes
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between supporters and opponents of the ombre state governor who visited the church but another version of the story says panic was caused by a false announcement about the outbreak of a fire inside. two french radio journalists have been found dead in the northern mali town is key doll they were portably season in broad daylight by four men and forced into a truck that drove off into the desert dolls' a hotbed of ethnic tensions between toward separatists and locals yet duction happened shortly after reporters interviewed a separatist spokesman and despite the presence of around four hundred french and un peacekeepers in the town. and kosovo one local council candidate was killed another wounded in separate attacks the slain politician shot in the city of by an off duty cop you'll sell it later surrendered to police authorities report the incident was triggered by a personal quarrel this as tensions remain high ahead of sunday's vote with more than five thousand police officers deployed to guard polling stations.
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the french region of brittany saw violent clashes between protesters and security forces over 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 later indefinitely suspended but public anger continued with demonstrators calling for it to be an old altogether similar violent protest last week saw two people seriously hurt. police some in shake alley solomon head of the main opposition faction in bahrain for questioning the authorities provided no specific reason for the move yet and have been strongly condemned by solomons party an arrest has been seen in the nation since two thousand and eleven with frequent protests demanding political reforms and establishment of a constitutional monarchy. finally in the news bloc france has issued a rabies warning after a kitten died of the disease that can be fatal to humans no known treatment for no
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known treatment to cure the infection once it's taken hold european health officials working hard to prevent further outbreaks but in the u.k. the government recently relaxed their controls as our kids probably boycott reports . now with days and his dog can travel to the ek can you imagine frightened of every friendly animal you meet. imagine the 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 says these dogs have come a lot from brazil them bob way vietnam and 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 passport and a microchip. since the scheme started there has been seven hundred fifty one cases of rabies in animals in romania and three hundred eighty five in poland the latest case of the disease was in holland there was no longer the requirement for a blood test on a six month wait which means that the doc can be vaccinated and be within the u.k. within three weeks which bears no resemblance to the integration period he sees to those who work with animals say that angry at the government's failure to challenge the e.u. directive and safeguard the u.k. and saudi. and everything europe that seems to say we seem to have to do we're not protecting ourselves we say it's a sudden the floodgates and ends with putting ourselves at risk this picture 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
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of dogs being smuggled into the u.k. illegally has increased by food 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 if that there was a carrier they mixed us policy no two other animals then you've got it out right traffic try 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 but animal charities disagree several have already said that that's stocking up on rabies vaccines in order to protect that. ati us coming up find out what happens when a filmmaker takes on a giant book that's still to come after a short break stay with us. a
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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 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 you're spares teachers one of so of the good stuff for money to playboy it is
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a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually a very complex issue. i can 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. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. it's not to say that your story isn't given the fan voice given fair coverage from your perspective but it's something that they have got better relationships with the press the new and that being stupid is not to be using those to their advantage to. i know understand that i'm up against the machine employing
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scare tactics media controlled p.r. spin and dirty tricks these lobbying and public relation firms provide a variety of services among the services that some of these firms provide is to actually plant opinion pieces or what we call op ed in american newspapers. they have people on staff who do nothing but sit around all day and write up an opinion piece then they'll go out to a think tank or to a university and recruit someone there with a big name to put their name on the piece and then they will plant the piece in an american newspaper when we got the opposition and saw this david ginsburg declaration i was personally surprised he's in the l.a. copyright society an organization i was president of one time and i remember when
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we admitted him into the society and and that's a group of people who are primarily defense oriented you know representing filmmakers defending against these kind of claims so so why did bring in. david ginsburg provided a declaration in which he basically summarizes the film and sort of agrees with dole's characterizations of certain aspects of the film being false there is a paragraph in here that is sort of startling where he compares heuer film to a world war two era propaganda film the classic example i will give here with. relevance to the film dramatically and he's talking about your film goes back decades to the nazi era anti-semitic film. the eternal jew so what he's doing here is he's equating your film to a propaganda piece that was trying to essentially justify the massacre of jews to go out in a list somebody and say we'll give.

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