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a limp the torch relay. on. the fifth of november which many will remember scuffles in london between police and mass protests is the anonymous movement draws anti corruption rallies worldwide . georgia signs up its military to more years in afghanistan to boost its chances of nato membership we speak to both supporters and troops family seems say their loved ones have already paid in blood. and reaching for the stars the sochi winter olympic torch prepares to lift off and it's.
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morning it's nice to have you company watching with me andrew farmer. guy fawkes night took on a worldwide flavor the she activists in more than four hundred cities turned out for the million mask march it was a global show of anger against online privacy breaches corporate greed and corrupt governments. first london on a bonfire lit outside the gates of buckingham palace with crowds wearing white masks involved with scuffles with police there were similar scenes near parliament to sarah firth was there. oh yeah we were trying to first run the prototype of the lithium ahmad the other car got really mean a lot of resistance from the protesters yet there were a lot of those are all the people know more of us but mostly even more than that of
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the laws. but basically very very ugly right at the lovely cried clear the right thing no please ruin the whole movement look i know exactly that that it would be a. book rather unexpectedly the million mom march here in london has paid. the fees that me from the houses of parliament where they were protesting and they won't write down all of them out here in london if you look behind him they're all walking down the hall with buckingham palace. oh. well the man must protest this here in london have ended up outside buckingham palace. and then them even making it across the day we seeing clashes break
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outs and i between police and protesters and some of the groups then saying often as he says coming over way down here of course this may be missing taking place in cities around the well tonight but here in london protesters ending the evening outside buckingham palace serafin oxy longer than there were similar scenes across the atlantic to hundreds marched outside the wire ties to many of them have links with the occupy wall street movement born two years ago here's more now from our washington correspondent he any cheek yet. here in washington you have different protest groups marching under the umbrella of be anonymous they protest different things they protest what they see is a police state they focused against the persecution of whistleblowers they protest against wall st told the world's biggest producer of genetically modified seeds so generally speaking they see themselves as a movement against the government and corporations taking advantage of the people. who are. so we're standing next to the white house what do you want president obama
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to hear you want president obama to hear that five years after the financial crisis the banks being bailed out we're still suffering people are still struggling they're drowning in debt we live in a country that's fundamentally unfair we no longer have the rule of law from the n.s.a. to edward snowden to chelsea manning all over the world people are speaking out whistleblowers are speaking out regular people are speaking out and saying enough is enough we want justice we want to know and people ask if the decentralized mass movement like this can achieve anything other than just making noise well last year they were instrumental in informing people about this but legislation that would provide legal protection to internet giants that funneled private information to their users two thousand pages and now in light of edward snowden's revelations they demand a drastic overhaul of the n.s.a. well the movement rolled out in almost every continent france's were among the e.u.
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countries which saw the protests nelse where there was a canada mexico and brazil demonstrations also drew crowds in japan australia and new zealand now with the face of guy fawkes more popular than ever abby martin looks at its significance. really hard pressed to not find this mascot a recent protest but ironically every time the mask is purchased time warner gets a cut just because of time turners movie review from the company also trade. mark the mask but despite this disturbing contradiction the mask still serves a very noble purpose its help to give activists immunity and identity to anonymity . as they previously campaigners stood their ground another edward snowden it turns
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out that it's not just the us that might have been prying into germany's classified affairs the british ambassador has been summoned by berlin over in spying report it's playing the u.k.'s intelligence agency g c h q ran a top secret listening post an example say in the german capital and apparently together with america's n.s.a. it's been running a global network of so-called nets to harvest confidential data previously washington even bugged chancellor merkel's phone. and germany's pirate party things in is not an innocent victim. the german government of course did notice what was happening on the roof top of the u.s. embassy and the u.k. embassy because it's clear for everybody who looks at that building what's going on there but i think that the german interior secret service they are not allowed to investigate on the las and this is simply because germany right now is
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a subclass partner of the of the u.s. and they want to become a first class partner so our government is simply selling our privacy and their own privacy to climb up the ladder. the u.s. senate has its own vision for resolving spy scandals once and for all by plugging the leaks with dollars lawmakers have approved the annual intelligence authorization act that includes funding operations to prevent revelations similar to those made by edward snowden the director of the n.s.a. will also have more powers to investigate employees with security clearances. coming up shortly a resurgent al qaeda is reportedly libya's vulnerable uranium stalls. these potential could be used in the a radiological explosive device or just used to terrify people. and
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a former british military chemical warfare commander explains to us the potential dangers should these new concrete units fall into the wrong that's coming up. the saatchi twenty fourteen winter olympic torch relay is approaching the story checkpoint final preparations are being made to send it into space martin andrews is at the cosmodrome where the launch will take place. up up and away yes the countdown begins it's now less than twenty four hours until the olympic torch makes this moment in history this fascinating journey up to the international space station it will be approximately eight more in moscow a launch we also see. in london eleven pm of course this is a moment in history of course not only the fact that it's the second time that three soyuz spacecraft have docked with the i assess and will be
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a total of nine crew members on board so be quite a party of four hundred kilometers in outer space of course is good to know the timing of the actual space walk they'll be taking the specially modified torch because of course you can't have a naked flame in the vacuum of space out of the i s s on the ninth of november scheduled to come back here down to earth on the eleventh of november lots of press here from all around the world the friends of excitement here in baikonur of course there's lots of military the heightened security is in full places going to be almost children military here of course this is now part of the exciting pan russian school for the olympic torch it's already been to the north pole where it was on nuclear powered ice breaking ship it will make its way to lake baikal how the largest freshwater lake in the world will go to the very very bottom of that lake and it will also make its way to the tallest mountain in europe to the peak of
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elbrus before its final journey to the olympic opening ceremony on the seventh of february next year insult you on the black sea so a lot so look forward to but of course at the moment for the next twenty four hours all the eyes on the olympic flame and the torch his journey to more to the i assess what's to look forward to in a moment that's promised to be literally out of this world. because we are following the torch in its epic journey around russia and beyond and you can keep tabs on it to. after a decade of war in afghanistan georgia's declared that it's game for more nato operations there even after next year's troop pullout tbilisi wants to prove itself to the lines which it desperately wants to join and as marie ivanovna reports leaders are accused of being willing to pay them blood to do so. these georgian
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woman suffered a tragic loss the hardest thing for a new mother her son is a rob was sent to have get his son and came back in a coffin. his body was frozen the coffin was full of ice when we opened it i saw many scars on his head i remember woman in military uniform had come to my place she told me that my son had died in an explosion at the barracks but that he is a hero. rob had planned to get married in september he signed up for military service to get a salary of seven hundred dollars a month so he could start a new life. what all these medals these owners if he is no longer live what should i do now. georgia under president mikhail saakashvili made joining nato a national priority. as a nonmember the country has been involved in collison operations in afghanistan
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since two thousand and four georgia has sent around eleven thousand troops there making it the largest known alliance contributor. around thirty georgian soldiers have died in afghanistan. and the new leadership seems likely to stick to that course they use old keys to raise their ratings on the world's arena really has a more prime minister because surely there has a more why don't they send them to have canister why should we pay. our head georgian military expert says the country needs to join nato to protect itself from russia. in two thousand and eight tbilisi launched a large scale assault on its rake away province of south a settin in violation of a truce to regain control over it dozens of russians living there were killed the russian military intervened fending off the georgian forces in a five day conflict georgia's new authorities have already pledged to bring south
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assertive back into the fold. if we become a nato member then chapter five will protect us and we'll be able to rely on nato as help in the event of any military conflict and we send our children to afghanistan to show our bridges to cooperate this is the price we pay yes nicko also has kids two daughters by asking whether he had sent his son to have denniston if he had one it's a very difficult question but i'd be honored for him to become a hero they spoke of two hundred pages as cold heroes twenty nine stories of young georgian men who died in a military mission in afghanistan fortunately these tragedies have not been repeated since the book was published several months ago but as the country expands its contribution to international mission it's easy to imagine more similar chapters unfolding. otty from georgia.
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that's a bitter pill for some doctors in the united states the report reveals that some help torture prisoners instead of giving them treatment the details on that still ahead for you this hour and britain's construction industries building at its fastest right since the credit crisis hit the problem is the skilled workers have gone we'll look at why. there's a medium leave us so we leave that maybe. by the sea pollution see your. play your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests but you deserve answers
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from. politics only on our team. well for british scientists it's time to. go back to. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. was a report on our. welcome back now the netherlands is taking russia to court for detaining greenpeace activists in the arctic sea in september hearings are set to begin at the international tribunals for the law of the sea where the dutch are demanding that moscow lets the environmentalists. tell us more about this not
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only. russia's response also far said that it's going to basically boycott this these proceedings it is not going to take any part in the whatsoever in fact before the loans have even threatened to go to this tribunal russia had already said that they actually have a lot more questions to the dutch authorities than that authorities have towards russia moscow actually has downgraded the charges which it has brought against the thirty people who are on board the arctic sunrise that initially those were of piracy but very recently those have been dropped down to charges of who are going to zoom with of course significantly smaller punitive measures you can say can calm compared to piracy at the same time there's also has been talk coming primarily from greenpeace in russia saying that the activists actually could be transferred from the jail in mormons coaches in northern city the arctic. the
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activists actually those who are in jail could be transferred to st petersburg however russian authorities are keeping mum on that so we do not know whether that indeed is going to take place. well there are two authorities they're hoping to to bring out of the international tribunal is the basically to have at least a provisional ruling from the courts so that the thirty activists thirty people who are aboard the greenpeace vessel could actually be released sometime in the middle of november that is their hope. the activists of course were on board the. were on board the vessel arctic sunrise they are actually have been apprehended after several of them have scaled and oil rig in the arctic sea the oil rig belonging to the to russia they were very soon as soon thereafter arrested and brought to jail the activists are saying that they were trying to protest drilling
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in the arctic because they deem it unsafe and russia was saying that as a matter of fact well first of all they were essentially. breaking the law and secondly the their actions could actually lead to more damages to the environment so we're watching the proceedings closely. thank you. dr is this supposed to hail not harm but some u.s. medics are being accused in an independent study of being complicit in the torture of suspected terrorists it is claimed they helped design inhumane and crew procedures when they should have stood up to cia associate professor of medicine doctor from new york university believes that doctors were often the driving force behind implementing abusive treatment was clear policy and practice of the department of defense and. that following the tragic events of september eleventh that torture was institutionalized and that
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health professionals not only protists it paid it passively but frankly led this led to this in terms of developing the abuse. torture methods that were used in kata following their use and in purpose petula adding a law i that these methods are safe and effective instant terry geisha techniques there is no question that they were torture they were dangerous they were abusive they're not effective in a listening accurate information and they are wrong. inmates at the notorious guantanamo bay prison know what it is like to endure intense interrogation and our t.v. crew has been given a rare chance to report from within they can see what we discovered in our series that our team column is a visual show off the equipment with the widely criticized force leaving procedure insisting it's really not that bad. but also the choking price of china's
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progress an eight year old girl becomes one of the country's youngest lung cancer patients doctors blame the small. below me standing at the u.n. over an unguarded uranium warehouse in the libyan desert controlled by a regional weapons dealer what's worse it's reportedly drawing the interest of. a former british military chemical defense command has told r.t. what might happen if terrorists get hold of this material it is not highly radioactive itself however we did see. in india some six months ago and if al qaida did get hold of this yellowcake. it is potentially could be used in easy a radiological explosive device or just used to terrify people it's not very toxic
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but it is radioactive and that would create a tremendous amount of terror if al qaida got it everybody is is is terrified of radiation and we hear the horror stories for a place like for. where accidents to occur and yellowcake is radioactive it appears to be held in you know a secured store. and although it wouldn't present a a health risk for very short periods but long exposure to it and certainly if yellowcake is ingested in uranium miners to suffer from a high degree of cancer from ingesting powders similar to yellow cake so certainly not a total surprise that concerned about it and not happy to have it in their community unguarded. meanwhile the rest of libya is still on a knife edge the capital erupted in battles between rival militia groups after the eastern half of libya declared or ptolemy establishing a new government but authority says it now rules the east which produces almost
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sixty percent of libya's oil but powerful warlord backing the breakaway government has seventeen thousand troops under his command he shut down nearly half of the country's all exports this summer and there's a weak central government in tripoli which is struggling to rein in the militia groups one defense analyst told us that he thinks the country's division was helped from broad. the central government in tripoli has no control over the country at large and the militias have sidelined tribal leaders and taken over power and this this was doing turned into consequence from the beginning the nato. intention was never to do niger libya remember let's look at the splits from sudan because of the oil rich region and they're doing exactly the same here the big guards the area or the big part of libya is always rich so they're going to split
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it so that they can control the oil directly they're. desperate to avoid following in libya's footsteps as egypt today's cross-talk focuses on a cairo in crisis and that is feeding the unrest. the trial of mohamed morsi what is this trial all about constitutional legitimacy or political retribution could more it even get a fair trial for the military backed government the trial is key to showing its plan for transition towards democracy how sound of a plan is this and what message does this trial send to the muslim world. now being a builder in britain meant good well paid work and plenty of it when the crisis struck they would hit construction hard today firms are doing more business though in that any time in the last six years yet attracting the skilled workers back
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onsite is proving to be tough where the industry is pointing the blame. it's supposed to be a bellwether for the economy as a whole but britain's construction industry has been crippled by the financial crisis literally this central london site was surprised to house a skyscraper called the panic oh but those cranes a vba have been lying idle for almost two years off the financing for the office tower dried up now instead of the pinnacle those in the business preferred to call it the stump instead while commercial buildings lack private funding government budget cuts have hit public projects hard hundred fifty thousand skilled construction workers in the u.k. are out of was and on the dole the welfare payments a costing the government over two billion pounds a year if this government invested when that kind of power and the continued with various plans such as building schools for the few. building new hospitals we would
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have actually been prime building workers to produce for the country on the other side for all its experts have advised the government that if they invest just five percent of those two billion pounds on funding public building projects such as affordable housing they'll create thousands of jobs there's been a big pool of government investment. projected for continuing to the next thing is there are things that government can do to get this industry believe me again and i think what we're saying is that government is to get on and do that and not allow the stagnation to carry on for the next five years while sites are abandoned the workforce has been losing skills to paper over the cracks all those have been stepping in there are a lot of modern workers working on construction saw the british were close saying to baby the more elderly workers on saw i think that is probably caused by the lack
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of apprenticeships and the lack of trying in this type of blogs in our industry economic recovery tense just. with the construction sector beginning to move and the good news is that after years of stagnation in the u.k. the only way from here is. for the boys i think a. quick look now at some other news in china receipts of suspected bombings have hit a regional communist party headquarters killing one person and injuring eight explosions rocked the capital province four hundred kilometers southeast of beijing it's not known who's behind the blast just over a week ago two tourists died and dozens more were injured in a terrorist attack when a car rammed into a crowd on channon main square. scuffles in mexico city between police and farmers fighting for a fair price for their produce one protester was tackled to the floor and kicked after running from offices only some farm products the suburbs are subsidized by
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the government leaving others to claim they are an economic disadvantage. india has launched its first spacecraft bound for mars the rocket will be near all but over the next twenty five days before gathering enough speed to pull free from the earth's gravitational force if the mission is successful india will become only the fourth space program to make it to the red planet after the soviet union the us and europe. the thailand government's plan to grant amnesty to politicians is seen angry crowds rally in bangkok many believe new legislation would pave the way for a disgraced former prime minister to return to thailand and take part in politics again thanks to was convicted of corruption in two thousand and eight and faced two years in jail before going into exile. up next the second part of our look at life after time behind bars in guantanamo.
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well. british science it's time to write let's go. to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars a report on. clean . plays
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margi dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq plain we want you to know. in a blow to the u.s. government the super even cold rule today that the prison as it went on the open road to legally challenge their detention in us schools. what we want is an immediate cessation of conditions that are cruel inhuman or degrading or they constitute torture like growing chain skill human rights law enforcement the among most grueling is now demanding the release of food to take the names so that they can include the government has so far refused to release the name slips why do you .

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