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this is our deadlines for elimination of syria's chemical weapons the said country to take and destroy the talks. proving more challenging than expected. a warning for whistle blowing u.s. hackett gets ten years behind bars after breaking into a private company spying database which revealed the white house was keeping an eye on human rights activists nationwide. and. promised to return all evacuees to their homes. despite alarming radiation the well outside the exclusion zone. this is close to the average level of the. only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living.
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very good even if you just joined us just after nine pm here in moscow when is kevin i mean this is r.t. international our top story this hour most of syria's toxic arsenal will have to be taken out of the country by the end of the year according to the newly adopted plan by the chemical weapons watchdog but the most pressing question where more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials will go next remains unanswered still so far it looks unlikely that any country is set to volunteer as a 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 party to this now 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 a very strong partner with
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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 its shores no way 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 options on the table but no indication as to what these options are this is a very ambitious time frame that has been saved 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 battle not least of all with the decision as to whether in fact to destroy these
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weapons. or from some belgium another big target is possible alternatives to take syria's chemical weapons one of those journalists north a robot harness you straight to be why you would probably have to agree if you'd have to agree if asked. the reason why france is a fierce candidate is that france has a considerable program running all the time disposing of chemical weapons left over from the second world war which keep being uncovered so they have the technical capacity to deal with the problem there are political reasons why they might not want to get involved because it's a sort of recognition of the basher al assad government which france is but the last government to want to do so they may try and wriggle out of it but they may also be under pressure of the americans to be helpful my guess is that france will say yes because they'll want to look positive the trap for the french apart from the fact that they have here to be recognizing bashar al assad who they have spent months and years decrying on every possible ground is that says the public may well
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say that if france minded his own business in the first place they would be in this awkward position of now and to be helpful over chemical weapons. but he doesn't host syria's chemical weapons the e.u. has become an increasingly tangled up in the conflict european spy chief so warning of a rapid growth in the number of citizens going there to fight alongside the islamist opposition one reason official site for the surge of support muslim europeans promoting jihad on social networks across the continent. side of the story. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do not subscribe to any religion. who guided me. nicola knuckles and so. on having found islam on the internet in two thousand and nine in this video he's urging muslims to join the fight in syria his younger brother john daniel was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo. alone for.
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it will save your soul from hell fire. to the. world and this is just one of many such videos online of young europeans calling 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 you radicalize these individuals estimates of the number of europeans fighting 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 passive even though seen for afghanistan.
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many of the media joining groups. and groups which not only wants to work through assad but the global jihad rhetoric and share fully the project many of them will get back in europe much more radical for the french the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mama morale that killed seven people is still fresh heightening fears of a repeat of one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people are native french people travel to again stand in pakistan da we were able not to arrest him. on the grounds that he had been fighting in afghanistan or at least training there this summer germany's interior minister suggested a temporary ban on fighters returning home belgium on the other hand had been working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back to overestimate
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europe have already been named but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the e.u. sandy terror chief says or could there be the difficulty remains. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't just there is still there are thirty paris. thousands of people who are evacuated from their homes of the fukushima disaster may never be able to return but some are a group of japanese officials who want the government to give up on the promise that it will make those homes safe to live in again instead though the government decided to change the definition of safe no ideally the radiation level should be one millisieverts per year but what they're planning on doing the japanese government is hoping to second acceptable exposure level twenty times that to be able to return evacuees back to their homes and if she were in some of the worst affected areas the radiation detected show measurements around fifty times the recommended amount that's about halfway the experts think the cancer causing levels
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. traveled to the nuclear exclusion zone. 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 aware now well within. the we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these hours as ravaged by the tsunami twenty eleven still standing here nowhere near to being with toward 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 is concentrated stored it is almost
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impossible to find out all the hot spots. removed. 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 brazil 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 to 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 and a 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 only took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the goes down in the shallows zone only with one
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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 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 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. we're sending our data to government and tepco officials every day and we get no reply i don't see an action from them as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are already suffering from fairish is. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco a 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 perform it anti-nuclear protesters in tokyo 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 served eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. reporting from japan. cost me turn to figure she was operate. there's in the process of removing those has of the spent nuclear fuel rods from the crippled power plant but it recently emerged that some of those rods have been damaged decades before the twenty eleven tsunami and earthquake caused leaders on that and other nuclear developers in japan on a website article called. how to expose the u.s. government's espionage and human rights groups has been sentenced to a decade behind bars jeremy hammond was found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of the private intelligence company strapped for as well as law enforcement
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and government service and this is a church reports next from the quarter somehow it's being seen as a warning shot to whistle blows. 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 firms stratfor and leaking this information to transparency organization we q leaks 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 whistleblowing 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
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destruction was incompatible with that jeremy's stated political goals and. we disagree with that and some of hammon supporters have dubbed him the robin hood of our times the defense team inside the court room 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 whom here do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not you know i'm a dell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive human this is the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference if we don't have jeremy hammond if we don't have edward snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning baron brown's we don't have
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a free press this sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a. 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 stacy. new york. well how to support his claim that he was stage managed by the f.b.i. which manipulated him to carry out attacks from several foreign government websites david stevens a u.s. journalist has been keeping close tabs on the high tech snooping story he believes the activist was led by 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.
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controlled server at the request of this f.b.i. informant so if this was basically an f.b.i. 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. point europeans are saying they're powerful ally in a different light these days in a couple of minutes we hear from a former austrian chancellor about how washington snooping is diminishing trust among his eating away at the. zesty what happened there i don't know but it killed. years later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why
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because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. 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 the details now from our top i would
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say. that confession by the by dimitri happened during a one hour standoff between police and the gunmen for them barricaded themselves. in the rest of region of dagestan 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 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 of that bombing that happened on the twenty first. six people now during the siege of a woman as well as a child were also. in that house and with the. continued off of that three of the gunmen where killed and two of them are believed to have been killed inside of that house they had been on the hunt hunted by the
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police and with all of them. accused of orchestrating terror attacks around russia this really was a for them at this point in time. to buy more to say well the gun happy culture in dagestan could be taking root or disturbing the young age they would have this kids imitating militant videos and sending the threats to our bills although somewhat jokingly demanding just good school grades others a far more sinister online report on the fears for these impressionable youngsters also to. cheer interjected this guest to university of london speaker was heckled off by angry muslim brotherhood activists will tell you why it out don't call. making the news makes more sense to britain follow us on twitter for coverage of the occupy b.b.c. protest in london which accuses the corporation of ignoring the big stuff. right
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. first. and i think that your. orders. and anti drone rally in washington is mark the growing discontent among americans for the country's on manned airstrikes protesters gathered outside the white house claiming that collateral damage as civilian killings and moan is to haunt a group of yemenis who lost family members of one attack came to the u.s. to join the anti drone campaign following in the footsteps of a pakistani family who really testified before congress on the innocent deaths caused by the unmanned aerial attacks well because of the latest round of. these
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drone strike victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear to put an end to the drone can i still enjoy them and they are asking also asking for the memos that. justified the drone program to appear at least for those documents to be made public and for the breakdown to get clark station we've heard from a young man that says his brother in law and nephew work killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding last night getting cut to pieces by these missiles he says there is a brother in law was 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 but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house as well. the renewed clashes in the suburbs of the libyan capital between militias just a day after protesters tried to kick them out of tripoli it's now destroyed that at
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least forty eight people died during that rally on friday the company's was sheltered as they approached the group's headquarters. but that only inflame the situation even more some demonstrators then drew weapons themselves tripoli has long been a hotbed of violence ever since his source nation of leader moammar gadhafi but friday's instant is the most bloodshed the capital seen in months militias there are elsewhere in libya are entrenched despite public discontent and government demands that they disband was put into friends console to avoid roads he believes just too tough to handle. the only person who could have kept the nation united was the revolutionary mama gadhafi so yes the western forces the nato nations member states saw this coming and they knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions in there they can't seem to succeed so they resort to murdering each other they disbanded the military and the civil service there is in effect no central military role to be played by anyone
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there is no security yes it's iraq two point zero so that they're all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli. around the world of brief a trade carrying oils exploded west in kazakstan after colliding into a fuel truck it's thought lorry was passing a level crossing at the time as the train approached causing the collision one of the drivers of the train was killed another thought to be missing police say the driver of the truck tried to escape he's now been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters attacked in a blaze which is believed now they say to be under control and the world these headlines a suicide bomber rammed his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan it's killed at least ten it happened they were next week told so in a controversial security group that the u.s. pacific plate i was just hours after the afghan president declared that the final
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draft of the treaty was ready if of dotted it will allow american troops to stay in afghanistan even after next year's withdrawal of international forces. supporting riots in children as italian students turned on police during an anti austerity march around two hundred protesters waved flags and it flares before clashing with offices in march as part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of cuts which will kick in next year in college protests all week crossed you when you've been through greece sweden and bulgaria. thousands of kurds from across germany and marched in berlin against the ban on the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. they also demanded freedom for kurdish political leader a delusional and was serving a life sentence in turkey the p.k. case fighting to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations nato and the e.u. . the atlantic feels like it's got a little bit wider lately since america was caught prying where it shouldn't be
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against europeans who considered washington to be a close friend peter all of spain talking to a problem austrian politician about how far the balkans a big stretch these days. 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 e.u. u.s. relations it effected the public perception more than in the perceptions among 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 for the public perception was completely different because of the public perception especially in germany is america is our friend and you should never spy
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on your friend like what good america you said the guy in 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 economic alou militarily but at the end we 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 find the key of course to 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
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equals better. well conscious of. this is out international makes news bulletin in thirty four minutes with me kevin i would next off the break caught on camera when the u.s. police go to fudge earing interrogations. you know i love these rare moments where action of something totally sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. 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 have 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
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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 weed is better for you than beer and that's the legal man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position isn't 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 a lot better than our current plan of bans some harmful things for some reason and a lot other harmful things because well they lobby better but that's just my opinion.
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with the economic ups and downs in the final months day the london sang i and the breath of life me a female being in frankly nothing. the crime is not to viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank sterling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and franks is thought to have wanted revenge.
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the police are relentless and press sterling until he cracks. eleventh of july nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact i drank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten off to serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i got released.

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