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deadlines for the elimination of syrian chemical weapons said but finding a country to take and destroy the stockpiles proving far more challenging than expected. warning to whistleblowers the u.s. hacker getting ten years behind bars after breaking into a private companies spying database that revealed the white house was keeping an eye on human rights activists nationwide. japan who won't back down on a promise to return all evacuees to homes near fukushima despite alarming radiation levels that well outside the exclusion zone. is close to the average level of the goals down in the chernobyl zone only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living.
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seven pm in moscow as a very good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story this hour most of syria's toxic arsenal will be taken out of the country by the end of the year according to the newly adopted plan by the chemical weapons watchdog for the most question press and most pressing question where will the thousands of tons of highly poisonous materials go that remains unanswered so far it looks unlikely that any country will volunteer as our middle east correspondent reports. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has laid out a road map for the removal and the destruction of syria's chemical weapons the problem though is that there were banking on albania to take these weapons in and albania has since indicated that it will not be pointing to this decision in this announcement by albania came as a shock to the united states and the european union of the union is seen as
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a very strong partner with a so-called unshakeable alliance to the waste it is also a very poor country but there were wide scale protests in albania with people saying that they refuse to allow their government to be party to taking in the weapons from syria now the problem is that only a norway also indicated that it would not allow these weapons to be brought to norway however saying that it will send a ship that will help with transferring the weapons to wherever they are taken but this is the problem it's not yet clear where in fact they will be taken and the latest word from the united states is that it has other. as to what these options off this is a very ambitious timeframe that has been stated by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons it says that by the end of march next year most of syria's chemical weapons will have been destroyed and that by the end of june all of them will have been destroyed but again it seems as if it's facing an uphill
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battle not least of all with the decision as to where in fact to destroy these weapons political analyst chris bambery from the international socialist group says it should be wealthy european countries you should step up to implement the ambitious elimination plan. my understanding is that they will go to france and i think it's really the onus is on britain or france in terms of the western european powers to deal with this because as i say they do have chemical weapons a little we don't advertise the fact that britain and france have stockpiles of chemical weapons they do have the ability to do that the french and the british have the facilities were you can dismantle these things safely they have the expertise surely that's the best option has abided by this deal the west should really put its money where its mouth is here up to this deal it's sending ships in this case norwegian ships to deal with this but the norwegians claiming they don't have the expertise to dismantle it you can see why chemical weapons see the will not to take them in and i think it kind of smacks of resentment over the fact that
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really in the end this deal has come or. brokered a deal. and no syria has abided by the agreement of it and i can't hear but feel there's a sort of resentment in european capitals that actually the deal has worked. even if it doesn't hold syria's chemical weapons the e.u. becoming increasingly tangled in the conflict european spy chiefs who are of the rapid growth a number of citizens are going there to fight alongside the islamist opposition one reason officials say for the surge of support muslim europeans promoting jihad dewey social networks across the continent are these tests are so you take a look. i am french born to french parents my parents are atheist and do you know subscribe to any religion. who guided me. all our knuckles himself. having found islam on the internet in two thousand and nine in this video he's urging muslims to join the fight in syria is younger brother john
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daniel was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo. it will save your soul from help. secure the. border and this is just one of many such videos online of young europeans holding their peers to arms french and western intelligence services have intensified their warnings and europeans heading to syria to fight nowadays they've noticed not all the extra rise in the number of individuals heading over there but also in the kind of people who are joining the fight they say that more and more they are more committed to the struggle and upon their return to europe there's still no clear cut way to do radicalize these individuals estimates put the number of europeans in syria between five hundred and seven hundred most of whom are from the u.k. and france and france is the more newspaper quotes of french intelligence sources saying these levels are passed even those seen for afghanistan.
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are. many of the may be joining the groups. in groups which nobody wants to are true i said to the global jihad river rick and the projects of many of them we get back in europe much more radical for the french and the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mohamed merah that killed seven people is still fresh heightening fears of a repeat of one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people all native french people traveled to afghanistan and pakistan we will not do arrest him. said he had been fighting again against an auto training zero this summer germany's interior minister suggested
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a temporary ban on fighters returning home belgium on the other hand had been working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back less than europe already been named but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the e.u. sandy taylor chief says nor could there be any difficulty with me. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't just there is still there r t paris. thousands of people evacuated from homes after the fukushima disaster may never be able to return that from a group of japanese officials who want the government to give up the promise that it will make those homes safe to live in again instead the government decided to change the definition of safe ideally the radiation level should be one millisievert per year japan's government hopes to set an acceptable exposure level twenty times higher to be able to return evacuees to their homes near fukushima but in the worst affected areas the radiation detectors show measurements around fifty times the recommended normal limit that's way to cancer causing levels artie's
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alexei reports. it's hard to say what gives you a creepier feeling the trail of destruction left by the twenty eleven tsunami all the houses untouched by natural disaster but abandoned after the nuclear accident walking through the deserted streets of the fukushima exclusion zone we can see plenty of both technically we're now well within the goes on we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami twenty eleven still stand here nowhere near to being restored you'd be surprised to learn that radiation levels here are in fact lower than in some of the european cities and this prompted the decision by the japanese government to allow the people to return to their homes. but scientists say that suicidal because radiation migrates and because it exists in hot spots scattered all across the area. in the hot spots there is a huge amount of the radioactive material it's concentrated stored it is almost
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impossible to find out all the hotspots. from their houses we actually stumbled upon this process radiated material from personal belongings to contaminated soil is put in plastic bags and buried the radiation meter when even from a considerable distance imagine our surprise when we found similar levels in an area which had never been included in the no go zone. i've traveled through the church noble exclusion zone more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we put a radiation meter on the ground in the layer of loss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong hands per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here sixty kilometers took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the ghost town of prepacked in the chernobyl zone
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only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. mrs morey's ono is one of them she bought a radiation meter and now patrols the area looking for hot spots as we had after school classes for children at our house but had to close it because of high radiation. in her short life this girl has already got used to seeing a lot of radiation meters just like mrs moore her mother joined an ngo group of ordinary women united by fear for the future of their children and distrust of the government's actions and we're sending our data to government and tepco officials every day and we get no reply i don't see an action from the un as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are all. it is suffering from fire. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima dai ichi. we have it under control it's
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a challenging process but we have the equipment to. anti-nuclear protesters and talk you say no one should be allowed back into the fukushima area until it's completely safe which in truth may not happen for centuries their peak it has just eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. reporting from japan. in the process of removing the hazardous spent nuclear fuel from their crippled plant but it recently came out that some of the rods had been damaged decades before the two thousand and eleven tsunami and earthquake more details on that and other developments in japan on our website our team. who exposed the u.s. government's espionage and human rights group sentenced to a decade in jail cherami have been found guilty of breaking into computer systems or private intelligence firm strat for as well as law enforcement and government
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servers and i started churkin reports. after two hour hearing in a packed courtroom in the federal courthouse in lower manhattan twenty eight year old activist and hacker jeremy hammond was sentenced to one hundred twenty months behind bars he's going to spend the next decade in jail in march twenty twelve hammond was arrested for breaking into two hundred gigabytes of five million e-mails of information of private security firm stratfor and leaking this information to transparency organization. in these e-mails it was revealed that the private security firm was spying on human rights activists upon the request of corporation and the u.s. government earlier hamad had pled guilty to one count of the computer abuse and fraud act this was a classic case of whistle blowing where. criminal activity by a private corporation on behalf of both corporations and the government was exposed to the government and the judge felt that the idea of causing mayhem or causing destruction was incompatible with that jeremy's stated political goals and.
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we disagree with that and some of hammon supporters have dubbed him the robin hood of our times the defense team inside the courtroom argued that he fought for the better good trying to bring about real change to the system and shed more light on what the u.s. government was doing the prosecution however said that he stole the numbers of sixty thousand credit cards causing a damage of one to two point five million dollars to businesses and individuals if people who have influence and people who care do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not you know mendell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive humanist as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference if we don't have jeremy hammond's if we don't have had word snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning barrett brown's we don't have a free press this sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a.
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scandal continuing the debate on what should and should not. be kept secret in the u.s. and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information and r.t. new york and in his supporters claim everything was stage managed by the f.b.i. that manipulated him to carry out the attacks on foreign government websites david seaman a u.s. journalist who's been keeping close tabs on the high tech story thinks the jailed activists was led every step of the way. he was approached by an f.b.i. informant this came out an article in wired magazine this f.b.i. informant is apparently the one who quote unquote cheer lead jeremy into hacking into this organization this f.b.i. informant also allegedly gave them a list of other targets that jeremy should go after and which he did not go after and when c. once he received the information he apparently downloaded it to an f.b.i. controlled server at the request of this f.b.i. informant so if this was basically an f.b.i.
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operation they should have probably sent him a paycheck and sort of sending him to prison for the next ten years. caught up in the u.s. surveillance network europeans seeing their powerful ally in a new light in a couple of minutes we hear from former austrian chancellor how washington's eavesdropping is diminishing trust among partners and eating away at the team spirit stay with us. americans also came up with another reason to be democracy people wanting to be liberated people wanting to be free you reach is also you know part of the message of a revolution now is that we would. we need to use. these . wish you create the conditions. with the mass destruction. in the case of. this was
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a. good leverage. was to build a new it's most sophisticated group which on fortunately doesn't give a doing about anything to nj mission to to. only. seventeen minutes past the hour a terrorist killed along with other militants in a police shootout in dagestan admitted organizing last month's deadly attack in volgograd in southern russia during the raid details from. that confession by
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the by did happen during a one hour. between police and the gunmen for them barricaded themselves in the rest of the region. during the negotiation a mother was called in to try and come in and help with the negotiation and speak to his son and say you know i'd given yourself to the police this is when he then confessed to actually be. the equipment that helped propel what happened on the first to happen that bombing that happened on the twenty first they killed six people in that siege of a woman as well as a child were also. in that house with. a gun slides continued off of that three of the gunmen where killed and two of them are believed to have been killed inside that house they had been on the hunt hunted by the and with all of them in that house they accused of orchestrating terror attacks around
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russia so this really wasn't the end for them at this point in time. you going to have to go through and just stand could be taking root at a disturbingly young age take a look at this video of kids imitating militant videos sending threats to adults jokingly demand good grades in school others are far more sinister online or report on these figures or they were forty impressionable youngsters plus. a. lecture interrupted this guest at university of london speaker was heckled off stage by angry muslim brotherhood activists we'll tell you why online. and making the news make more sense in britain follow us on twitter for a coverage of an occupy b.b.c. protest in london accusing the corporation of ignoring the big story. and drawing rally in washington mark growing discontent among some americans with the
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country's unmanned air strikes protesters gathered in front of the white house claiming collateral damage as million killings are called is too high a group of yemenis who lost family members and one attack came to the u.s. to join the anti drone campaign following the footsteps of a pakistani family who testified before congress on the deaths caused by the unmanned aerial attacks. these drone strike victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear plan an end to the drone can. and they are asking also asking for the memos that justify the drone program to be released for those documents to be made public and for the breakdown to get station we've heard from a young man that says his brother in law and now if you were killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding getting cut to pieces by these missiles he says there is a brother in law was
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a very outspoken critic of al qaeda and thought if you were to be killed that it would actually be terrorists a member of al qaeda by. as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house as the longer here aren't seen renewed clashes in the suburbs of libya's capital between militias just a day after protesters tried to keep them out of tripoli it's now understood at least forty eight people died during a rally on friday campaigners shot at as they approached the armed groups headquarters. that only inflame the situation is some demonstrators drew their own weapons tripoli's long been a hotbed of violence since the assassination of leader moammar qaddafi friday's incident is the most bloodshed the capital seated in months militias there and elsewhere in libya are entrenched despite public discontent and the government calling for them to disband defense consultant moeen or roof things there just to talk to the government to handle. them who kept the nation united was the
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revolutionary moammar gadhafi yes the west and falsities i'm a tool they should be the member states this called me didn't you that would be chaos in the country because there's so many different factions and they call and seem to succeed so that the result to murdering each other they disbanded the military and the civil service there is in effect no central military rule to be played by anyone there is no security yes it's iraq's two point zero so the. militias coming from different and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes on. civilians in tripoli a train carrying oil exploded in western kansas town after smashing into a fuel truck it's thought that a lorry was passing a level crossing as the train approached causing the collision one of the drivers of the train killed another thought to be missing police say the truck driver tried
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to escape he's been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters are battling the blaze which is now to be under control. you know out of some other global headlines a suicide bomber smashed his car into a military vehicle out of afghanistan killing at least six it happened near where next week's talks on a controversial to be agreement with the us will happen and just hours after afghanistan's president declared the final draft of the treaty was ready if it did that will allow u.s. troops to stay in afghanistan even after next year's planned withdrawal of international forces. issue a sectarian fighting killed at least eight people in pakistan and wounded dozens witnesses say it started after students at a sunni seminary shouting insults at a passing shia religious or session several of the students were dragged into the street and beaten to death the taliban threatening revenge while the government imposed a curfew in the city. riots interring words try and students
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turned on police during an anti austerity march around two hundred protesters wave flags and lit players who are clashing with officers in large part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of cuts that will kick in next year for many college students protesting all week across the e.u. including in greece sweden. and let it seems like it's gotten a big bit wider since the us was accused of b.c. of prying a where it shouldn't have been against europeans who consider washington a close friend and ally peter all has been talking to a prominent austrian politician about how far the bonds of been stretched. public relationship between the european union and the united states seems to have hit something of a rocky patch of late and that's why i've come here to vienna to meet with a former european leader and gauge his opinion on the current situation just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal been for you u.s. relations it effected the public perception more than in the perception among
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politicians everybody who is a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information and information is the fact that the currency in the political area arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception especially in germany is america is our friend you should never spy on your friend and it will get america you said the skate guy or me that this cannot happen and should not happen is it possible or even healthy for an idea of american exceptionalism to exist in the modern age i don't think that someone is exceptional that of course some think they are exceptional but they are not everybody is exceptional or we are equals we are brothers and sisters and you can be larger or you can be more powerful economical or militarily but at the end we
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are no longer individual builds on the notion we are on the same ship and we have to steer this same ship we have to find common rules we have to fly and be clear cause for the future this is the important thing and exceptionalism this is a rather dangerous think is a little bit outdated by the way to a concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals better. that does it for me hours bulletin kevin owen will be here and a half an hour's time with more international stories told then our he takes a look at the news you know and the stories you don't stay with us. you know i love these rare moments where action of something at least sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a.
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is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones and beef and gitmo is being produced why does this band have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you but dude we deserve better for you than beer and that's the eagle man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position is it really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route and let it be everything be legal let people make their own choices or do what i think would be much much better actually really ban all the things that are destructive to our health both of these paths have positive and negative effects but they are
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a lot better than our current plan of bans some harmful things for some reason and a lot other harmful things because while they lobby better but that's just my opinion. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's paying. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear of. women the familiar target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody with you would do this with her. i'm noticing more and more is this really scary marketing tactics
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which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. we're clearly not the safest. the the. what's going on guys i'm happy martin and this is breaking the set so here's some interesting news coming out of ten downing street the british prime minister david cameron is taking heavy criticism of the purging of a decade's worth of speeches and videos from the conservative party's websites that's right i think there's a wave of historical revisionism sweeping cameron's government after all it's hard
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to prove that you haven't lived up to any of your initial promises if they're completely expunged from the public record now of course party members are defending the move saying that purging the content is a campaign strategy aimed at replacing old messages with new ones but cameron's former speechwriter in burrell disagrees that this is just a campaign strategy that quote the use of sophisticated software to ensure search engines do not stumble upon these archives slightly just slightly undermined this claim is term the. the party went as far as instructing websites such as an internet archive and google to fully remove deleted pages from their databases pages that these websites often keep for posterity usually went away until politicians died out of their history or advised but now it looks like if you have the money and if you have the power it's as easy as getting divorced from the royal family.

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