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i don't think. we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid u.s. secretary of state kerry responds to israel's criticism of proposals offered to iran during talks over its nuclear program that ended in argument and no agreement . britain is accused of using its berlin embassy as a listening post to spy on the german government revelations like these are pushing us some to take up the cause of privacy. the don't share our information about our customers but if you don't have a warrant you meet the owner of a tiny tech company resisting the far reaching operations of u.s. surveillance agencies also this week. a space walk starring the olympic torch russian cosmonauts take the winter games symbol into outer space for the first time in history.
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in moscow i mattress to bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news the breakthrough that never happened iran and six world powers failed to reach an agreement on tehran's disputed nuclear program france refused to accept any short term deal stalling discussions with iran's supreme leader accusing paris of open hostility you know sheesh and scheduled to resume in nine days while american willingness to work out an agreement was sharply criticized by its ally israel or his policy reports well a delegation of high ranking american officials is coming in jerusalem where they will be up to date hundred prime minister netanyahu government on these talks that happened over the weekend in geneva and the progress that was made and wasn't made now the israelis are particularly interested in the gaps that remain these many prime minister and. a new minister now who says that the impending deal is bad and
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dangerous those are the words that he used the agreement was still due to be reached this agreement of course coming between iran and the united states russia france germany and britain they're trying yahoo however saying that the proposed deal will lift the pressure of sanctions which have taken years to put into place and at the same time it leaves iran with its nuclear program and its enrichment capabilities intact in a hinted response to the israeli criticism over the looming deal between iran and western powers the us secretary of state john kerry has said that the united states is not stupid he has said that netanyahu does not know exactly what is going agreed on and the what the terms of this agreement in fact are what is being proposed now . is that in which iran read all of this capacity i'm not sure that the prime minister or great respect to or knows exactly what the
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amount or the terms are going to be because we haven't arrived at the mall yet that's what we're negotiating and listening to the rhetoric coming from these two leaders asserting does point to tensions between these two allies the united states and its allies have said that they have narrowed their differences with turan in the talks that took place over this weekend the main difference comes from the objection from four months with france object in strenuously that the proposed deal would be would do too little too could iran's uranium enrichment program or stop the development of a nuclear reactor that would be capable of producing plutonium the french foreign minister said that he could not accept what he called a fool's game in other words a weak deal with iran the big obstacle appears to be the future of iran's puto new reactor at a ruck which could provide a nother route to
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a nuclear weapons capability and this facility which is currently being built is due to become operational next year the talks will resume in some ten days and then we will see a fresh bid to end this common standoff there are there we get international experts who share their thoughts on the nuclear talks in geneva. leave that to the current french government has very close both israel and the saudi regime and that they have a great deal of influence they are playing good cop bad cop with the americans obama is suddenly being much more reasonable and exactitude with the iranians the french are out there on the flank saying oh you must agree to easily israel must be protected and so if iran says we're going to be more cooperative we're going to be more transparent. at the same time and wants the out of sight to be more serious that is they have to start lifting the genocide of sanctions those sanctions are
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killing ordinary iranians hopes were high add of the talks with iran's new president hassan rouhani adopting a softer stance than his predecessor. the hard line conservatives back home and not at all happy with iran's attempts to engage the u.s. find out more in our online report at r.t. dot com. britain allegedly operating a listening post in the heart of the german capital targeting parliament and the chancellor's office it's believed the ease dropping equipment is hidden in a tent like structure on the roof of the u.k. embassy just steps away from the bundestag it's apparently capable of intercepting calls and long distance communications across the city revelations are based on leaked documents hit a raw nerve in berlin has been trying to get washington to explain its tapping of on the americans phone london said it won't comment on intelligence matters but yen stomper from the german pirate party says the country knew its allies were listening in. the german government of course didn't notice what was happening on
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the roof top of 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 l a's and this is simply because germany right now is such a class pot now of the b. of the u.s. and the. government is simply selling all of privacy and their own privacy to climb up the ladder in the face of the n.s.a. is far reaching surveillance program hardly any tech company can guarantee one hundred percent privacy barty's marina porton i met the owner of a small provider in the western u.s. who has managed to so far stave off government eavesdropping. we decided to open a data center and here we're taking an exclusive tour through one of the few data companies standing up to the u.s. government in the name of privacy i think we do residential actually very well pete ashdown is the owner of x.
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mission and independent internet service provider based in salt lake city utah this tower here handles most of our e-mail unlike most power players in silicon valley x. mission refuses to give the n.s.a. backdoor access to its networks since nine hundred ninety eight x. mission has rejected a judge in the u.s. government for more information stored on private servers like these we don't share our information about our customers if you don't have a warrant the majority of law enforcement requests ashdown says he's received and refused have been subpoenaed his lack of accountability and necessary approval by a judge this is actually an amiga since launching his company in one thousand nine hundred three ashdown says he's filled no more than two customer data requests from the federal government. on the current climate of america's unrestrained surveillance matrix has been facilitated by
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a corporations who have spent years secretly working with the n.s.a. regulation government contracts and. monetary. compensation are in my opinion the three reasons why they're cooperating ironically utah is probably the most unlikely home for a privacy champion roughly twenty seven miles away from x. mission. is the n.s.a.'s newly constructed one point five billion dollar data center i think it's a stain on the tech industry of utah all the n.s.a. activities are a stain on american internet businesses ashdown has vowed to face jail time if that's what's needed to protect his customers from being monitored what surprises this fourth amendment advocate is that big data companies like google won't promise to do the same marina port r.t. utah. record breaking torch relay out of the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics has successfully completed sturrock first on saturday.
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flight. after travelling up to the international space station the torch was taken into space by two russians for the first time in history and while in orbit the pair took pictures of themselves with the symbol of the games using their helmet cameras but it's not the first time the torch has been in space it was there before nine hundred six in two thousand but had never been previously taken outside the spacecraft. curren are reading for the long journey back to earth where the capsule will reenter the atmosphere after the main chute will be deployed and bring the craft smoothly in for a landing in kazakstan aboard astronauts karen nyberg from the u.s. italian luko parma nato from italy and a russian cosmonaut if you order your each kid who has completed more than their five dives completed their more than five month long mission don't miss our live coverage of the landing at three g.m.t. . later in the program we visit a place where you can put a price tag on human life. fun fact about guantanamo apparently the life
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of an os here a little more than a life of a detainee if you run one of these babies over the fine and ten thousand dollars you will guantanamo's military personnel if you having a good time far away from home watch r.t. special report from the inside of the detention facility. you've got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances spectacled and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports. city people regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example. c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i see you have a new i think. is is bought and paid for.
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dramas the truth be ignored. stories others through a few posts in those. places changing the world. to picture posted days. from around the globe. twelve minutes past the hour now two people were killed scores would in the saudi arabia's police dispersed an immigrant protest this amid a crackdown on illegal foreign workers a launch by the government last week they're being rounded up by the thousands following the end of an amnesty deadline adam kugel middle east researcher for
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human rights watch things that employers in the kingdom have unchecked power over their workforce problems with the foreign labor center the radius really the way that in which the country regulates the presence of workers on its soil. all one workers in the country are governed by was known as the sponsorships system whereby they are under one direct employer employer has an inordinate control over they have to beside you it is a difficult country to convert so isolated rarely access to the international. rational human rights we're going to patients and the like and i think it is difficult to to get information out of it that being said i mean the crackdown that we're seeing right now is wide sweep. i think that this is just the beginning of what's going to be a long series of frankly are stories emerging from the culture. typhoon
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haiyan may have left up to ten thousand people dead in the philippines according to local officials all the government says that number can't be confirmed yet. named now that we are here if these two are going to be ok storm the fourth most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded the strongest to hit the region central city of top club on iraq by the disaster is drawing thousands of homes the red cross has confirmed around twelve hundred deaths so far but the number of casualties will rise many of the worst hit areas remain cut off from rescue operations that i phone has already reached the vietnamese coastline forcing six hundred thousand locals to flee coastal areas is expected to move on to the southern to southern china where a state of emergency has already been declared we ask meteorologist robert coral what should be done to minimize the consequences of such disasters in the future the intensity the energy in the storms in the pacific have gone up by fifty percent
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over the last thirty years or so and this is largely due to a warmer ocean warmer atmosphere so we're going to see more of these very severe storms so-called three four five category storms now in some cases when the communications systems are very active we can give good warning to other people in other cases when those are not there are not as robust it's very difficult for everybody to know it's such a severe storm is coming so preparation is going to be absolutely essential and the countries are clearly going to have to make the kind of decisions about how they're close or populated in order to minimize the impact. keep up with latest developments on the devastation caused by the storm on our website our t. dot com where you can find updates pictures and reports from the scene also a click away right now. motorists in belo routes getting something of a medieval surprise at a crossroads when an unexpected. powered vehicle slammed into his car watch the
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full video online. not a right royal welcome is the dutch king is pelted with tomatoes during a visit to moscow by the outlawed national bolshevik party find out what was behind their anger at r.t. dot com. more than a dozen detainees remain on hunger strike at guantanamo bay protesting indefinite detention and alleged use of torture at the facility i mean other side of the barbed wire though it's smiles and sunshine is our. reports. despite misconceptions give lho is not just a geo to be or not to be shot it's also a forty five square mile military base with no plans of going anywhere full of signs of the stablished american life it is a navy base and we just happened to have the camps in here home to the only mcdonald's on cuban soil a subway sandwich shop a starbucks and a taco bell vested financial interests that you go to starbucks and. all of these
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other places that help to set up a logistical support for the troops that are all over the there are about five and a half thousand people living and working on the base roughly half serve the actual detention center the u.s. government has been leasing this territory since one thousand nine hundred three for just over forty five hundred dollars curiously that is still the price today but it's said that the cuban government has been refusing to accept this money for decades the castro government said you know we don't want this lease anymore in the united states' position was that it's a binding lease and in the lease it actually says that it can't be broken unless both sides both countries agree to that that strikes me as a very odd contract server and territory that the u.s. has occupied against cuba's wishes since one thousand fifty nine most officers come here for short term of up to nine months or longer deployment of two to three years far from a whole life isn't put on hold and you can't date certain people wait and certainly
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have if it's away from your like rank system then you're allowed to you know there's the downtown and open air movie theater playing all the hottest hollywood blockbusters and a ticket bar to let loose after a hard day's work even though most say schedules aren't that intense anyway we actually get quite a bit time off like a decent man and linger to be an end of year as our activities for people m.w. are stands for morale welfare and recreation. almost every sport known to man is available to team get well on state of the art facilities. i love it it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do. being in a remote location doesn't even have to affect eating habits and all you can eat lunch costs just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof or due to a lot of the t.v. programs broadcasting here are army focused. and internet is almost nonexistent the
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base dubbed no stream a stand by some soldiers even so we're told those serving here are banned from looking at websites like wiki leaks for example once classified always classified. even if the information has long been made public there are other strict regulations in place to fun fact about guantanamo apparently a life of an costs here a little more than a life of a detainee if you run one of these babies over the fine is ten thousand dollars. there's a very strict speed limit in guantanamo and it's a very slow speed limit and people say that that's that's all about the quantised somewhat ironic at a place marred by human rights scandals officials make a point of showing journalists how well prisoners two are kept and thirteen here when i wanted to call so for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books have a piece here some head and shoulders shampoo the less compliant ones have to wear
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the orange uniforms and get only two books at a time who's going to the other side so you can see the books detainees can't come in here but the prisoner library lovingly displays the best of their art for t.v. crews to see a lot of pre-selected books to avoid certain topics violence sexual milicz and religious stuff controversy shelves packed with magazines d.v.d.'s and video games plenty of ways for legit prisoners of war to pass the indefinite time they're kept here without charges and party guantanamo bay cuba egypt deposed president mohamed morsi along with fourteen other muslim brotherhood members are brought before court on monday only to see proceedings postponed until the start of january country's former leader accused of ordering a deadly crackdown on protesters around his presidential palace in cairo last december this footage is from the opening of the hearings the first video of morsi since his arrest four months ago he refused to wear the mandatory what you. a form
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for defendants and rejected the courts of florida insisting he's still the legitimate leader during his transfer to prison police were confronted by angry problem or seen mobs in the capital in other cities or his belt true gauge public opinion on the prosecution of egypt's first democratically elected president. is known as the sting of the revolution the popularity of his pro-democracy song saw him badly tortured by the military and now despite fighting to bring down both hosni mubarak and mohamed morsi romney has little hope for egypt's future as mostly goes on trial for incitement to kill protesters. for the revolutionaries and now in the worst scenario we have ever been since two thousand and eleven morsi should be tried but his comment that mubarak trial should be held up at every turn while the morsy trial is moving along so fast what shocks me is that the authorities never seem to have the will to push through the court cases of remnants of the former
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regime to risk where once the heartbeat of the revolution has become just another busy roundabout in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen people came here demanding bread freedom and social justice but after the military ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsy hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested eating some to fear the freedoms and justice will never become a reality admits this violence rights groups have little faith that the trial of mr morsi and other missing brotherhood leaders will be fair this coming at a time when there is a general crackdown against the brotherhood a very selective prosecutions on the part of the justice system looking only at brotherhood members with impunity for security services meanwhile the retrial of egypt's other ousted president hosni mubarak drags on the feeling the security apparatus continues to shape court decisions means egypt's future is hard to predict the military is in transition and so on and forth and so on interest again and again the problem now that we need to sit down and agree on
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a specific group of transition. justice either you're turning everyone on meaning controllers were actually taking the route to the south africa who mean many of them but the truth of it was station that seems far away as pre-move protests and clashes with security forces continue to rock the nation the fear is move trial will not deliver much did justice to egypt the brothers set the stage for the instability and ten more oil. kyra. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines this hour in vogue area around a thousand people took to the streets in protest at government plans to open a refugee center in the northern town of teles demonstrators initially tried to block our well with. no clashes reported country's interior minister met demonstrators reassuring them the shelter will not pose any threat by. disturbing images from the heart of the russian capital where a performance artist nailed his private parts to the cobblestones of red square
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a painful act of defiance part of a protest coinciding with police state that was held in russia sunday. he is known for his self harming antics last july he sold his mouth shut in support of jailed members of the protest punk band pussy riot. burdens aristocrats may live in luxury as homes but all the splendor comes with some crushing maiden's bills in some cases the landed gentry of yesteryear have been even taken menial jobs to make ends meet are so used to test or so it takes a look when one speaks of the british aristocracy be traditional a landed gentry or noble little what would imagine lavish lifestyles the grand states as it would have been centuries ago but the reality today is not quite up to par as it would have been in the past. with what we called the job seekers allowance so i have to support this couple almost single mums loans. so each of us gets five pounds
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a day my wife and i this isn't what one would expect to hear from an earl heir apparent to the marquess side of aylesbury the estate has been in the family for a thousand years but he's now in a fierce legal battle with the state's trustees with no access to his money i have no money to heat the house there is the horten with us so when my wife and i want to wash we get on the public both of them over the financial times reports high court cases of beneficiaries challenging trusts doubled from two thousand and ten to two thousand and twelve coinciding with the financial crisis cost of looking after a large house is staggering on a yearly basis this stately home in norfolk was built in the late nineteenth century and while much of this state remains intact parts of it have been left to wreck and ruin and restoring it to its full glory could cost up to three million pounds add to that gas electricity water maintenance the list goes on around sixty percent of british historic homes are now open to the public and use for various
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purposes such as weddings conferences and tours and this one in particular used to be used as a wedding venue and the reason for such diversification is to be able to generate some income for properties that are very expensive to keep growing the reality is that the cost of maintaining these has this is so great their stock received tend to be a very sad rich but cash pool something that holds very true for this girl even finding a job that didn't quite work out for him because through the great unemployment because the recession. i'm not i don't have many skills that i can so i come across drives so i've had a few part time jobs as a driver. delivery driver van driver lorry driver i don't know what my peers think they must think. i shudder to think what they must think of what's going on. and it seems
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a title can only mean so much when cash is still king tesser cilia r.t. . up next action star steven seagal talks politics with oksana boyko in worlds of our stay with us. president obama despite being king liberal loves to flatter the troops he loves their courage selflessness and teamwork as he said in his state of the union address but what he doesn't love are their expensive injuries which the troops are going to have to pay three times more for according to yahoo news the president's administration wants to force military retirees to get out of tri-care their current plan and added to obamacare the plan calls for them to raise premiums from up to ninety to three hundred forty five percent within five years one example
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provided by the free beacon estimates that a retired army colonel with a family currently paid four hundred sixty dollars a year for health care would have to pay around two thousand dollars make you pay even more for your war injuries apparently that's what obama is actually planning well he is reading those lovely speeches off of teleprompters people who are against the post nine eleven war against who knows what are often told that they don't support the troops well to the people who say bring the troops home never advocate tripling their health care premiums no they don't all of the chicken hawks who send the troops off to die in questionable wars are the ones who want to make them pay even more for their injuries but that's just my opinion. alone and welcome to all of the parts it's a plan that seems unrealistic even by
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a hell of a plan that it's russia and the united states get so frustrated. that that diplomatic communication has caught so that many of them until one famous actually makes a couple of polls here and there on souths everything in motion of steven seagal play that ball in real life and he joins us now on worlds apart mr seagal thank you very much for your time now one of the first guests on the show was dana rohrabacher senator from california our who came to moscow in june he was investigating suspects looking for information about suspects and their boston marathon bombing but he told me back down that that trip won't have been possible without your participation how did you become such an unlikely cultural ambassador for the two countries i think the data and i have been friends for a long time and. he knew my relationship with russia for
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a long long time he knows that i go back in russia a long time in that i have a lot of friends here some of whom are very powerful and influential but he also believes that i have insight into the culture the heart of russia and the people who are running the country in some ways that's his opinion anyway. who we were those concerned about not only the boston bombings but anti-terrorism or terrorism in general and you asked me if. i had any opinions on this and i said well i believe that really. the face bad and spirits nuts. are some of the world's leading experts on. on terrorism and i believe that. there's a reason for that. and it's because you know from from before beslan through beslan .

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