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britain restores diplomatic ties with despite world powers struggle to reach a nuclear agreement with israel and france say the proposed deal doesn't cut it also. you can go to jail because i find you annoying new legislation. hefty fines or even a jail sentence that's simply being. kids adopted in the us of being really homed online and underground markets. and people everywhere we talk to a young man who narrowly escaped tragedy after his online re adoption.
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from a studio center in moscow this is with international news and comment. high profile talks on iran's nuclear program ended with no deal last weekend but progress is being made on other fronts britain is diplomatic ties with iran appointing a new representative two years after a storm the u.k. embassy in tehran. reports now from london. with another round of monday named new envoys to each other's countries that's seen as a continuation of the reestablishing of diplomatic ties and coming on the back of course of the meeting this weekend in geneva. two rounds nuclear program by and large actually considering the u.k. of course traditionally a very staunch critic over on seemingly very confident in their way of saying that
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there is going to be a deal reached i'm convinced that the agreement we were discussing would be good for the security of the entire world and we will pursue it with energy and persistence but of course those talks also not successful we've seen the finger of blame pointed by the front that's largely attributed to the french foreign minister quite publicly making it known his concerns about the proposed agreement saying that he wanted to avoid a food game now we've seen the u.k. and u.s. foreign ministers we try and play down these differences saying that the differences between the western powers are actually very narrow first being said by some experts to be a basis saving exercise here and of course as we said you kate certainly much more positive start surrounding the talks looking forward to november the twentieth when the. foreign secretary william hague saying that he is confident that further
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progress will be made despite the failure of last weekend's talks being largely blamed on france the u.s. insists major powers were more or less united on an agreement john kerry says it was a wrong that richard to the deal something to iran has denied or honey chizik head of britain's parliamentary group on global security and normal proliferation says there's no point in playing a blame game. i do not myself think that it is sensible to blame anyone at this stage in a very delicate negotiation the french nor the iranians nor the americans that sort of blame game leads absolutely nowhere and clearly this is on a knife edge and i think there are a lot of reasons for hoping that a deal will be struck of course only at this stage an interim deal and i think one of the important things now is to do as little as possible to disturb the atmosphere around the resume talks on the twentieth of november on monday iran
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agreed to let the u.n. nuclear watchdog have broader access to its atomic facilities and we spoke to barbara slavin she's a senior fellow at leading u.s. think tank the atlantic council and she believes tehran is hopeful of striking a deal as soon as possible it's iran that's changed its attitude toward the talks most radically let's face it this is foreign minister zarif who came with a new proposal at the last round of talks and who is very serious about wanting to get an agreement for him for rouhani this is a second chance that's what we call a do over they didn't manage to improve iran's relations with the united states and get a nuclear deal the last time they were in power and i think they're determined to do it now. causing a nuisance in britain could get you two years in jail or an unlimited fine if new laws are pushed through and it could even apply to children as young as ten which is really worrying civil liberties groups. has more. anti social behavior towards
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or as close as they shorten to here in the u.k. have been the brunt of many a joke for quite some time now namely because of the quite bizarre things that police have reprimanded members of the public for in the past now examples include a deaf child being given and as though for spacing in the street or a thirteen year old girl being banned from saying the word grass for saying it too many times i'm tired of people getting as close to begging in the street but that's being replaced with a new injunction to prevent nuisance and annoyance which is called and. these orders require only that an individual might engage in behavior capable of causing annoyance now the wording of this law is now much vaguer the punishment is much harsher it carries a penalty of up to two years in prison now i don't know about you but i personally
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know a lot of people both adults and children above the age of ten who can be extremely annoying at times and that is precisely the problem that a lot of human rights campaigners are having that this law at the moment they say that the lines between simply being annoying which many of them will see as a fundamental human rights and being a criminal all those lines are now being beloved and it's not just human rights campaigners that have taken issue with it police officers have been coming forward to say that they're worried that children are going to be needlessly criminalized with these new orders and also for them dealing with things that people deemed to be nuisances well that's a royal nuisance for the police because they are going to have to divert their attention away from fighting real crime and now another part of this draft bill that's causing a lot of concern are public spaces protection orders which could theoretically be used to stop public protests from gathering now human rights campaigners of even
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launched a petition in parliament because they say that this is the biggest threat to freedom of protest in modern history but i better go because i have been speaking pretty loudly in our news room and in case any of my colleagues think i have been too annoying i could be slapped with an epic now. public protests which are deemed harmful to the quality of life for those living nearby could fall victim to this law that's just one concern for carrying those are a blogger and activist who is campaigning against this bill. attempting to do is give the police. to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because i quote this directly from the legislation may has always likely to cause nuisance or annoyance and as you can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause nuisance and annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their
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ordinary daily lives so that you can have them focus on and otherwise ignore or issue which is really important what's even more unnerving about this piece of legislation is it also allows the police to then bar people from what they call a pallet see locality hasn't been defined so it could be a city or county a country. nobody really lays out again with the intervention of a court of law. jailed greenpeace activists are on the move in russia or they've been sent to st petersburg to stand trial for trying to board a russian alric in the arctic allegedly putting the crew at risk a correspondent has followed the transfer from the details ahead. but first a leaked afghan security report says the country's intelligence services have abandoned an investigation into the alleged murder of civilians after the u.s. refused to cooperate some two men disappeared after being detained by american
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forces the bodies of ten were later discovered near a u.s. base. can she is in washington going to tell us more about the story behind this leaked report. first of all where the accusations come from the afghan translator who had worked with the u.s. army special forces said the soldiers were involved in the killing of the group of afghan civilians now as you said seventeen men disappeared when they were detained in u.s. raids in the ward proper. twelve on february twenty third team and bodies of ten of the men were found by residents in shallow graves near a u. was base which hosted the special forces unit afghan authorities have repeatedly asked the u.s. to allow them to question the soldiers at the base but the u.s. repeatedly rebuffed the request u.s. forces are immune from afghan law but not for long the immunity issue is the very
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stumbling block on the way to an agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan under which some u.s. troops would stay in afghanistan past twenty fourteen and that's what the obama administration wants immunity for the troops so that they can't stay beyond twenty fourteen the same agreement that the u.s. wanted with iraq but iraq refused to grant u.s. forces further immunity from justice incidents like the killing of civilians in the word out province make it that much more difficult for the afghan government to justify such an agreement with the u.s. in front of afghan people going to thanks very much indeed for that live update there from washington d.c. he's going to. be. adoptive parents in the u.s. so really hoping unwanted children online and investigation has exposed an illegal underground market where vulnerable kids one hundred over to people who have been refused the chance to adopt those aunties marina porter from the majority of
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foreign children. animal owners may be familiar with the term private real homey typically it refers to those seeking to give their pet away but today the practice is reportedly being used by parents looking to give away the child they adopted from overseas and no longer wants an investigation conducted by reuters found that this type of child trafficking is happening largely in cyberspace where parents allegedly advertise their unwanted children through yahoo and facebook groups the lawless atmosphere allows internationally adopted orphans to be passed on to strangers without government scrutiny or even a paper trail as a result many of these children can end up in the custody of criminals sex offenders or abusive adults that would have never been allowed to legally adopt according to the reuters investigation many of the children advertised online for
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private re homing range between the ages of six to fourteen and had been adopted from abroad including from countries such as russia china ethiopia and ukraine some of the kids don't even speak english experts say in this expanding underground market of foreign orphans innocent kids are being treated like cattle given away without any legal oversight it poses huge risks right because some of the families into which these children leave home they're probably perfectly good and the children are doing better perhaps and some of them are not so that the risk is that it's not being done right the risk is that the child is not entering a better situation and certainly as a legal matter again whether that child is yours biologically you are quite up to that however that child died in your family we want a legal process in place so that the rights of those children are protected the lack of oversight and protection of foreign orphans adopted by u.s.
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parents has faced ongoing criticism as of this. here u.s. citizens are banned from adopting russian orphans since nine hundred ninety one thousand russian children have reportedly died at the hands of their american adoptive parents according to the u.s. state department nearly eight thousand seven hundred orphans were adopted from foreign countries last year what we don't know is how many of those kids are still living with the american parents that brought them here and how many have been given away reporting from new york marina were nial r.t. . the only line re homing poles the authorities boy but the media revealed eight internet groups where this was happening all of these this woman a young man who was given away to a family that never should have had the chance to adopt dimitris stuart was five years old when he and his brother were adopted from an orphanage in a small town near moscow it would be a rocky road living with his adoptive american parents they really feel like you
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know i was there when he was a young teenager after years of strained relations and after his parents had biological children of their own the stewarts decided it was time to find him a new home and that's when they turned to the internet is that i go underground groups where people want. their destructive adoptions and eventual leave the internet search led the stewarts to meghan axon axon moderated a website to help find new homes for children that's how dimitris parents found nicole isa in easten advertiser saw it as an aspiring mother that ran a home school to major found out that this was far from the truth this is a little tiny. died out as they can now hear me it was clear that his new home was no home school there was an even desk there had to deal more here he didn't even make you go to school. to go to school and then
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you had a biological kid that was taken away from them from the stay so they want a lot to have any more kids and that's where they're going there's underground underground then the living situation didn't last long a month after being dropped off axon was shocked to learn more information about who the easton's really were nicole had been married to a man who was a pedophile and that she could not get a homestudy due to her finances traditional adoption agencies are becoming a thing of the past you both have to have lawyers you have to do things legally this is not an easy way to adopt these days private adoptions are far more common it's unclear how many of them were facilitated on the internet where it's harder to regulate the transactions between family it's after the traumatizing ordeal dimitri moved to this group home outside atlanta he feels safe with his new guardians in this quaint home in a nice suburban neighborhood today he has words of caution for families turning to
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the internet to adopt us never know who's who's going to. be out there looking for kids and there's people out there everywhere and marietta georgia liz of all our. alarmed by the revelations of the underground a child market he u.s. lawmakers are calling for better safeguards for adopted children really posed from the organization against child trafficking says children from foreign countries are the most vulnerable and should be the main cause for concern. intercountry adoption when detailed and arrived in the u.s. already europe is not considered a child protection measure it's a private matter between you adopt a family and the child and nobody is following up the children from foreign countries are not under their normal child protection measure if you adopt a child from u.s. foster care i can imagine that you as a child protection service are still the first while keeping an eye on that and people know where to turn to kill them from from foreign countries come from this
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this what we call the child markets it's commercial agencies who are dealing with providing children to adoptive parents and there's absolutely no oversight at zero . still to come virtual money provides real help. people this is my face for my name my family my village and this is what we need can you please help us we talk to those making the digital currency bitcoin what the charity has its value souls to a new record that is ahead after this break. playing . little. league.
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digital currency bitcoin is climbing to a new record its value is now approaching four hundred dollars now the latest surge has been fueled by strong demand from chinese investors let's remind you what bitcoin aims to achieve well there are two main features of traditional money one there is real value behind it and secondly currencies are under centralized government control what bitcoin aims to overturn those principles versus not backed up by national assets but mind from a digital code and it's free of all government oversight and critics say this encourages criminals however as peter oliver has been finding out it also offers the opportunity to do good. in the headlines it's betrayed as a vehicle for drug dealers and potential assassins these people see big coin in a different light god will only help you if you have both of so we could do charity to get the possibility to have them for all we have to do to start thinking and
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make this possible is for is a mixed school and it's already being seen in uganda where supporters of using recording for charity hope to see one hundred percent of the donation reaching those in need something that other charities can't offer the reason that bitcoin can benefit charity is that every penny of what you donate ends up with those who need it no middleman no admin no cut for anyone else if somebody in somalia has access to the technology and to the hardware. and he needs a shovel for his acre he can put up a charity project that just says i need this is this is my acre i need to grow some food there i need a shovel will cost me two euros and can put that up there getting those in need access to the technology is one of the main challenges that those behind the crypto charity say things are moving along quickly there you've already got i'm on my boat
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find there's already people doing it corn payments farm i've often all of this is kind of working itself out just one click in the right place on the website and your donation is there however those that work with established charity say they are convinced all of the kinks have been worked out in this system just yet this is so it's very difficult to control if the money is being spent in the way it was intended at this point i'm skeptical in the future we'll see bitcoin advocates are determined to push charity as a use for the cryptocurrency it's peer to peer formats are in a personal edge you can show people this is my face my name my family my village and this is what we need can you please help us it's being portrayed as funds without borders if bitcoins twenty first century philanthropists all right it could help some of those most in need peter all over r.t. belin. well later on here on r.t.e.
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max keiser takes on the economists in the mainstream media who are trying to whitewash the world's financial troubles. after the post war period. economists writing in mainstream media outlets trying to convince the public that what they see is not true don't believe your eyes listen to what we have to say on the pages of these editorials describing what the truth is even though people in their gut and in their heart know that they're being alive to the difference today is you've got other media outlets you've got other social media outlets that are confirming what people know in their hearts they're being frank hard and they want recourse they want answers. because a report coming our way later today here in despite widespread condemnation all of its drone program the u.s. military is operating a brand new concept of brookport which can fly swim and even hop market from top to
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dot com for more details on that. american taxpayers find out the billions of dollars being paid to maintain afghanistan's war torn infrastructure is ending up in the wrong hands find out what a recent government survey reveals just a click away on our web site. so two members of the greenpeace crew who tried to storm russian drilling platform in september of arrived in some pieces but that's where they will now face trial. has the details on a rival to. train station they were the carriage was one of the carriages was separated from the actual trainer we believe we believe that that is the carries that was holding the thirty activists we know that men men had said that they were moving thirty activists because of the fact that the charges now way out of the jurisdiction we also know that you know moving them to send means that
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they'll be able to see their family far more easily twenty eight degree. peace activists including journalists away on board the sunrise a vessel that vessel let itself. with the team be boiled rig. then are snarky to go on board to the oil rig up on that so they continue to go they were then arrested and the vessel was seized we know that they were charged with a fiery scene which holds a minimum of fifteen years in prison but that piracy charges had been downgraded to will again is them hold up to seven years in prison not only has it become an environmental issue but it's also become a political issue tensions have definitely been running high between the netherlands and russia the dutch since responded by taking russia to be married
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time tribe you know to. activists and it's now up between the two governments to see how they will work this one out. look at some other world news making headlines dozens have been injured in violent clashes of. thousands of close workers took to the streets demanding hard protesters threw stones at security forces who responded with the roses also attacked factories in industrial terms conditions are a major issue in bangladesh which is the second largest garment manufacturer. is appealing for hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to help the stated philippines more than one thousand seven hundred. but it is feared the real number is more than ten thousand troops have killed two. people in the worst hit regions to search for food and medical supplies a massive international relief effort is underway with rescue teams making their
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way to cut off areas. students blocking and areas. a protest against corruption to change the doors of the country's largest university causing lectures to be cancelled major demonstrations started on sunday with thousands demanding the socialist backed government resigned to make way for elections. i'll be back with news two with more useful in just over half an hour from now in the meantime as i promised not long ago it is time for a cause report next guys that calls out government economists seeking to talk up their statistics. president obama despite being king liberal loves to flatter the troops he loves
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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 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 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's 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.
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i am x. kaiser welcome to the kaiser report in ireland this past weekend a group of protesters gathered outside the door bell with a simple message don't sell out by forcing us to work abroad in order to achieve the allegedly falling unemployment numbers which have to impress the troika occupiers the irish government has been sending letters to the young unemployed citizens of ireland suggesting that they leave town go overseas scat scram pound
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sand get out of our statistical sites get down beat get out of here our choice get don't want to see your poor face in our national accounts no mo. oh bugger because we've traded you for some ghost ships of debt from and the collateral call has come in so generation emigration get the freaked out of here you know we don't want you no mo stacey is this true max we were in ireland over the weekend of course we did see the representatives of the go ship of death fraud represented by the troika congratulating ireland for cutting unemployment low and behold though you look down below and you see that the young unemployed have been receiving letters from the government suggesting we move overseas he says get out of down well there's to just x. and then there's economics and unfortunately the troika because they're guided by academic theory.

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